KATE WHITEWAY
Kate Whiteway is an independent curator based in Toronto. Her exhibitions include In & Out of Saskatchewan (Art Museum, 2019), Whispers That Got Away (SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, co-curated with Hera Chan and Thy Anne Chu Quang, 2018), and A Glass House Should Hold No Terrors (Montreal, co-curated with Yen-Chao Lin, 2016). She recently completed the Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto. She has worked as Gallery Manager of SUGAR Contemporary (Toronto) and as Publications Coordinator for the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She is the recipient of the 2018 Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award, the 2020 C Magazine New Critics Award, as well as a participant in the 2020 Momus Emerging Critics Residency. Her curatorial practice is broadly interested in correspondence, mobility, and networks of communication. Her current research looks at histories of abstraction outside of the Western context, and the intersection of contemporary art with activist practices on housing and homelessness.