Kate Wong
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@katekmwong
@katekmwong
Between 2021 and 2024 she held curatorial and leadership positions at the Museum of Contemporart Toronto and Serpentine Galleries, where she worked closely with artists including Tishan Hsu, Sondra Perry, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Roscoe Mitchell, 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 focused on place-based approaches to building arts institutions rooted in 21st values of justice, equity, and sustainability.
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.