Kate Fowle

SENIOR PHILANTHROPIC ADVISOR

Kate has developed an international practice as a curator, writer, educator, and nonprofit director for more than 30 years. Most recently, she has served as a senior curatorial director at Hauser & Wirth; the director of MoMA PS1 in New York; the inaugural chief curator and artistic director at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow; and the executive director of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she founded the Curatorial Intensive, which is now the longest-running professional development curating workshop in the world. 

After moving to San Francisco from London in 2001, Kate cofounded the Masters program in Curatorial Practice for California College of the Arts, which was the first of its kind on the West Coast. Then she moved to Beijing to become the inaugural international curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (now known as UCCA). Before moving to the United States, she cofounded Smith + Fowle in London, an independent curatorial partnership that developed commission-based programming nationally. Initially, Kate began her career as a curator at the Towner Art Gallery and Museum in South East England after training as an artist, graduating in 1993.

Alongside her work with Fundamental, Kate is also the board chair of the Center for Art & Advocacy, which amplifies justice-impacted artists across the United States; a board member of Artistic Noise, which supports system-impacted youth in New York; a regional adviser for the Kadist Foundation (Paris/San Francisco); an adviser for the In-tangible Institute in Chiangmai, Thailand; and an adviser for the Drill, which supports training for creatives in Africa.