A curator at Tate Modern, Valentine Umansky oversees the museum's time-based media programme, co-chairs the museum's photography acquisitions committee and its European acquisition circle. She previously held positions at the International Center of Photography and Museum of Modern Art in New York, at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, and co-curated the 2018 LagosPhoto Festival in Nigeria. At Tate, recent exhibitions and projects include the Ana Mendieta retrospective (opening July 2026), as well as displays of works by Belkis Ayón, Nikita Gale, Tourmaline, Cinthia Marcelle, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Rosa Barba. Since 2022, Umansky sits on the selection committee of the Villa Medici Film Festival, and recently co-curated the Gjon Mili Biennial in Prishtina, Kosovo and the Frieze Film x EMAP video biennial in Seoul, Korea (both 2024-25).