Kate Wong 

Toronto, CA
katekmwong@gmail.com
@katekmwong
Kate Wong is a curator and writer from Vancouver, Canada. She recently completed a curatorial residency with Fogo Island Arts focused on the development of new models for ‘living’ institutions, and was a guest curator for Images Festival 2025, one of North America’s leading presenters of independent film and media art. Wong currently sits on the Board of Directors for Gallery TPW, one of Canada’s longest-running artist-run centres dedicated to lens- and screen-based practices.

Formerly, she was a curator and senior leadership team member at the Museum of Contemporary Art, associate curator at Serpentine Galleries, programme curator at V.O Curations, and director at Sadie Coles HQ.  At V.O Curations, she developed a residency-led programme supporting emerging artists and cultural practitioners including Rhea Dillon, Michael and Chiyan Ho, R.I.P. Germain, and Dala Nasser. Holding art as a site for critical discourse and solidarity-building, Wong cultivated a close-knit community of artists, providing an artist-led platform of resources, opportunities, and mentorship during a pivotal early stage in their careers.

Wong’s recent exhibitions and projects include Greater Toronto Art 2024—a triennial survey co-curated with Toleen Touq and Ebony L. Haynes featuring 30 artists, 15 newly commissioned works, an ambitious public programme, and a 320-page catalogue designed with Studio Claus Due—solo exhibitions with Tishan Hsu, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Sarah Lucas, and Park Nights 2022, a live programme of newly commissioned performances featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson, Caleb Femi, Roscoe Mitchell, and Josiane M.H. Pozi. 

Wong’s writing on contemporary art and culture appears regularly in publications including e-flux, frieze, AnOther Magazine, ArtReview, and Yishu Journal. She has contributed essays to recent books including Clay Pop (Rizzoli), Oscar Yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon (James Fuentes Press), and Donald Dahmer by Rhea Dillon (V.O Curations). She has been an invited speaker at institutions including Tate Modern and the V&A Museum, and a guest lecturer and critic at the University of Toronto, Queen’s University, and University of Guelph.

Curatorial Residency
April 2025
Fogo Island Arts (Newfoundland)
One month curatorial and research residency on Fogo Island.Category
Residency
 Year
2025
New Institutional Models
September 2024 - ongoing
A research and design project focusing on the development of new organizational, governance, and funding models for nonprofit arts institutions.  The project will be delivered as part of an exhibition at Mercer Union in the Summer of 2025.
Category
Research/Exhibition
 Year
2024-25
But this is the language we met in
April 14, 2025
Images Festival 2025 (Toronto)A screening that explores the notion of transcendence as a political act. With work by: Tao Hui, Theo Jean Cuthand, Sohrab Hura, Samia Elagoz and Z Walsh, Shen Xin, and Hassan Khan.
Category
Screening
 Year
2025
Curator in Residence
September 2024 - April 2025
Images Festival 2025 (Toronto)Curator in Residence with Images Festival, a leading presenter of independent film and media culture in dialogue with contemporary art.
Category
Residency
 Year
2024-25
Lotus L. Kang: Azaleas
September 21 - October 26, 2024
Commonwealth and Council (LA)Exhibition text/press release for Azaleas by Lotus L. Kang at Commonwealth and Council (LA).
Category
Writing
Year
2024
Tishan Hsu: Interface Remix
September 8, 2024 - January 26, 2025
Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto A solo exhibition of work made between the 1980s and the present, including a newly commissioned site-specific multimedia installation. 

Category
Exhibition
Year
2024-25
In Consideration of What Is Greater
Curatorial essay for Greater Toronto Art 2024. Written with co-curators Ebony L. Haynes and Toleen Touq.
Category
Writing
 Year
2024
Greater Toronto Art 2024
Published by MOCA Toronto A 320-page exhibition catalogue with newly commissioned texts by Camille Georgeson-Usher and Tiana Reid, curatorial essay, and “studios visits in print”. Designed by Studio Claus Due and edited by Jayne Wilkinson. 

Category
Publication, Editing, Writing
Year
2024
Hypericin Yellow Movie (GTA24 Live)
May 31, 2024
MOCA Toronto A performance by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger relating flowering substances to health, light, colour, film, and video. The artists were joined by special guest and AIDS activist Darien Taylor. 

Category
Live Programme
Year
2024