Eliza Gluckman is Director of the UK Government Art Collection (Deputy Director and Senior Curator from 2018-21), overseeing a new direction in public engagement through collaborations and initiating inclusive collecting through Art X-UK. She conceived the Representation of the People Project, a ten-year commitment to assessing and addressing representation in the Collection. 

Previously she was Curator of the The Women's Art Collection (then New Hall Art Collection), University of Cambridge and a co-founder of A Woman’s Place Project (AWP), promoting cultural projects and advocacy where equality provides the contextual backbone. She has an MA in Fine Art and Curating Contemporary Art (Royal College of Art) where she developed a specialised knowledge of South East Asian art.  

Over the past 25 years she has worked in diverse arts environments including SPACE Studios, the RSA, Parasol Unit, Asia House, Victoria & Albert Museum and National Trust and programmed a central London gallery as part of an independent curatorial partnership, Day+Gluckman, for over a decade. She was a trustee for Block 336, an artist-run space in Brixton, South London for eight years, and the curatorial steering group for Intoart, a studio that works inclusively with adults with learning difficulties. She currently sits on the Advisory Board for Exhibitions and Acquisitions of Pallant House Gallery.