Kate Fowle

Former Director of MoMA PS1

Kate Fowle is the former Director of MoMA PS1. From 2013–2019 she was the inaugural chief curator at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she was the executive director from 2009–13. Previously she was the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing (2007–08). In 2002 she co-founded the Master’s Program in Curatorial Practice for California College of the Arts in San Francisco, of which she was the Chair until 2007. Before moving to the United States, Fowle was codirector 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 projects include Greater New York 2021 and Rashid Johnson: Stage, as well as solo exhibitions with David Adjaye, Rasheed Araeen, John Baldessari, Sammy Baloji, Louise Bourgeois, Marcel Broodthaers, Urs Fischer, Irina Korina, Robert Longo, Anri Sala, Taryn Simon, Juergen Teller, and Rirkrit Tirivanija. She has published extended essays on Ilya Kabakov, Sterling Ruby, and Qiu Zhijie, and numerous articles on curating and exhibition histories. Fowle has written three books: Exhibit Russia: The New International Decade 1986-1996 (2016); Rashid Johnson: Within Our Gates (2016); and Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo (2017).