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 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 and the 2020 C Magazine New Critics Award. Her curatorial practice is interested in correspondence, mobility, and networks of communication. Current research looks at non-Western histories of abstraction, as well as the intersection of contemporary art with activist practices on housing and homelessness.