Kate Fowle

Kate Fowle is currently chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York. From 2009-13 she was the executive director of ICI. Previously she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007-08) and chair of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice, which she co-founded with Ralph Rugoff in 2002 for California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Before moving to the United States, Fowle was co-director of Smith + Fowle in London from 1996-2002. From 1994-96 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Fowle’s recent curatorial projects include solo exhibitions with David Adjaye, John Baldessari, Sammy Baloji, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Urs Fischer, Rashid Johnson, Irina Korina, Robert Longo, Anri Sala, Taryn Simon, Juergen Teller, and Rirkrit Tirivanija, as well as extended essays on Rasheed Araeen, Ilya Kabakov, Sterling Ruby, Qiu Zhijie, and Althea Thauberger. She has also written on curating and exhibition histories for numerous publications and magazines, including Open Editions/de Appel, Parkett, Modern Painters, Mousse, Art in America, Manifesta Journal, the Exhibitionist, and Frieze. Fowle has published books on the history of Russian Contemporary Art, including Exhibit Russia: The New International Decade 1986-1996 and Access Moscow: The Art Life of a City Revealed 1990–2000, as well as the books Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo and Rashid Johnson: Within Our Gates, all in 2016.