Kate Fowle

Kate Fowle is the director of MoMA PS1, New York City, New York. She was appointed in 2019 after six years as the inaugural chief curator of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, and director-at-large at Independent Curators International, New York. During her tenure at Garage, she oversaw the institution’s transition from art center to internationally recognized, public-facing museum. In 2014 she established Field Research, the first research-oriented program in Russia for artists, and in 2017 she established Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art.

From 2009 to 2013, Ms. Fowle was the executive director of Independent Curators International (ICI). She also founded ICI’s signature program, the Curatorial Intensive, the first itinerant, short-term international professional training program for curators. Previously, Ms. Fowle was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, from 2007 to 2008, and chair of the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which she cofounded in 2002. Before moving to the United States, Ms. Fowle was codirector of Smith + Fowle in London. From 1994 to 1996 she was curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Source: New York Academy of Arts