A warm welcome to CIMAM to Kate Wong!
“My curatorial practice is engaged in institution-building through site-responsive and self-reflexive critique; more than ever it is urgent to interrogate the structures of art and cultural institutions–the hidden power dynamics, biases, and exclusions that perpetuate systemic racism, economic inequality, and other forms of oppression. With a focus on moving-image, sound, and performance, my curatorial work prioritises marginalised perspectives and focuses on building solidarity from these margins. Through a sustained approach that centres process, people, and socially-engaged forms of artistic practice, I seek to forge equitable forms of institution-building that truly centre artists and communities".
Kate Wong, Independent Curator and Writer, Toronto, Canada.
“I am excited to join CIMAM and to be connected to a network of individuals and organisations to whom ethical museum practices are a priority. The industry is currently facing urgent pressures, in particular pertaining to funding and sustainability, and I am energised by the idea of being a part of the CIMAM community and contributing to important discourse around these issues".
About Kate
Kate Wong held the position of Curator at MOCA Toronto from 2022-24 where she led Greater Toronto Art 2024, the second iteration of the museum’s triennial exhibition featuring 25 artists and co-curated with Ebony L. Haynes and Toleen Touq. Other projects include Interface Remix, a major solo exhibition by Tishan Hsu, and Dancing in the Light, a large-scale exhibition of over 40 works from The Wedge Collection, Canada’s largest private collection of art engaging with African diasporic culture and contemporary Black life.
Previously, Wong worked at Serpentine Galleries where she developed ambitious exhibitions and live programmes with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Roscoe Mitchell, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Josiane M.H. Pozi. As the Programme Curator at V.O Curations she created an experimental series of artist residencies, exhibitions, live and public programming, and publications, working with artists and curators including Larry Achiampong, Angel Bat Dawid, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Patty Chang, Rhea Dillon, R.I.P. Germain, Michael and Chiyan Ho, Motoko Ishibashi, Dala Nasser, Emily Pope, Mohammed Sami, Tenant of Culture, Urara Tsuchiya, Reem Shadid, and Gray Wielebinski.
Wong's writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in publications including Yishu Journal, TANK Magazine, e-flux, Twin Magazine, Oscar Yi Hou (James Fuentes Press, 2022), and Clay Pop (Rizzoli, 2023). She is the founder of low theory and has edited numerous publications including Donald Dahmer by Rhea Dillon (2021), Educating Girls of Rural China (2021), Yiya by Richard Ayodeji Ikhide (2020), and exhibition catalogues for Greater Toronto Art 2024 and Ding Yi (2017). Wong has taught as part of the Sandberg Instituut and University of the Underground’s New Politics and Afrofuturism Master’s programme, and has been an invited speaker at Queen’s University, Tate Modern, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Wong serves on the Board of Directors for Gallery TPW, a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 1977.
About CIMAM
CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art – is an Affiliated Organization of ICOM.* Founded in 1962, CIMAM’s vision is a world where the contribution of museums, collections, and archives of modern and contemporary art to the cultural, social, and economic well-being of society is recognized and respected.
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Thank you, Kate Wong, for becoming a member of CIMAM!