Mr Leslie Primo

Art historian, lecturer and broadcaster. Leslie Primo is a graduate of Birkbeck, University College, London with an MA in Renaissance studies. He has taught courses at Reading University and in London at the Courtauld Institute, the Bishopsgate Institute and Imperial College. He worked at the National Gallery, London, and the National Portrait Gallery for 18 years. He has broadcast for BBC TV and Radio 4 and was a contributor to the Oxford Companion Guide to Black British History and an art history consultant for the Getty publication, Balthazar: A Black African King in Medieval and Renaissance Art. His new book ‘The Foreign Invention of British Art’ is published by Thames & Hudson in 2025.