Marina Vaizey

Marina Vaizey

Marina Alandra Vaizey, Lady Vaizey CBE is an art critic and author based in the United Kingdom.

Marina Alandra Vaizey is a broadcaster, exhibition curator and journalist. She was educated at Harvard University and Girton College, Cambridge. She was formerly Art Critic for the Financial Times and Sunday Times and editor of the Art Quarterly and Review. She has written several books on art. She now lectures including at the National Gallery and British Museum. She was a founding Trustee of the Geffrye Museum and has also been a trustee of the Imperial War Museum and the South Bank. She is a current trustee of ACE Foundation. She has also been a judge for the Turner Prize.

Lady Vaizey was born in New York and moved to Britain in 1959. She married the economist, John Vaizey, Lord Vaizey who died in 1984. One of their sons is Ed Vaizey, the Conservative Member of Parliament and columnist.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.