Kate Wong 

Toronto, CA
katekmwong@gmail.com
@katekmwong
Kate Wong is a curator and writer from Vancouver, Canada who works between disciplines and mediums to create infrastructures of solidarity and belonging. Between 2021 and 2024 she held curatorial and leadership positions at the Museum of Contemporary Toronto and Serpentine Galleries, where she worked closely with artists including Tishan Hsu, Sondra Perry, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Roscoe Mitchell, and Jes Fan. She develops exhibitions, performances, programmes, and publications that emphasize new commissions—particularly of site-specific, multimedia, time-based, and socially-engaged work. 

As the Programme Curator at V.O Curations from 2019-21, she launched a residency for early-career artists and cultural practitioners from underprivileged backgrounds. This program supported artists with studio space, stipends, and research-specific mentorship, connecting residents to figures such as Pope.L and Margot Norton. The V.O residency received international attention for its bold and experimental approach, and alumni have since gone on to exhibit Tate Britain, ICA London, the Whitney, and other major institutions. 

Select recent projects include Greater Toronto Art 2024 at MOCA Toronto—a triennial survey exhibition co-curated with Toleen Touq and Ebony L. Haynes featuring 30 artists, 15 newly commissioned works, a transidisciplinary public programme, and 320-page catalogue designed by Studio Claus Due; But this is the language we met in, a screening programme for Images Festival exploring the notion of transcendence as a political act; and Park Nights 2022,  a live programme of newly commissioned performances featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson, Caleb Femi, Roscoe Mitchell, and Josiane M.H. Pozi that took place in Theaster Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion, Black Chapel. 

Wong is currently developing SITE Toronto, a research and co-creation project centred on arts institutions that serve artists, arts workers, and communities. 

Her writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in publications including frieze, AnOther Mag, e-flux, and Yishu Journal. Wong has contributed essays and poetry 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.
groundwork
July - September 2025
Mercer Union (Toronto) SITE Toronto is part of groundwork, an incubator for artistic and practice-based research. The inaugural edition of groundwork is collaboratively produced with seven Toronto-based practitioners: artist Luis Jacob, the working group EMILIA-AMALIA (Cecilia Berkovic, Annie MacDonell, Gabrielle Moser, Zinnia Naqvi, and Joy Xiang), and curator Kate Wong. Their projects consider the conditions currently impacting artistic and cultural production in Toronto, guided by differing prompts and senses of scale.Category
Exhibition
 Year
2025
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