SAHA Talks | Kitty Scott

Visiting Istanbul as the guest of SAHA Curatorial Program, Kitty Scott will give a presentation at SAHA Studio on Saturday, 11 January 2025 at 2 pm. In her presentation, Scott explores the range of exhibition types with which she has worked over her career, from building national collections to curating biennales.

About Kitty Scott:

Kitty Scott is the chief curator of the next edition of the Shanghai Biennale, Does the flower hear the bee? and is currently Strategic Director, Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts. Formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada, she has also served as the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, Chief Curator at Serpentine Galleries and curator of Contemporary Art at the NGC. 

She has curated exhibitions of artists including Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Geoffrey Farmer, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ken Lum, Gordon Matta-Clark, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ron Terada, and Jin-me Yoon. She co-curated the Liverpool Biennial (2018), presented Geoffrey Farmer’s project at the Canada Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (2017) and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Scott also edited the publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (2010) and has written extensively on contemporary art for a variety of journals. Scott has contributed to numerous books on curatorial studies and written texts for monographic publications on the work of Matthew Barney, Peter Doig, Brian Jungen, Adam Pendleton, and Daniel Richter; and for the publication Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture (2010). Scott has taught at numerous institutions including the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts.