For 30 years, Kate Fowle has developed an international practice as a curator, writer, educator,and director. Currently she is the senior curatorial director at Hauser & Wirth in New York, as well as board chair of the Center for Art & Advocacy, which supports justice-impacted artists across the United States. Kate is also a regional collaborator for the Kadist Foundation (Paris/San Francisco); an advisor for the In-tangible Institute in Chiangmai, Thailand; a board member of the Drill, to support training for creatives in Lagos, Nigeria; and of Artistic Noise, which supports system-impacted youth in New York. Over the last 15 years, she has served as the director of MoMA PS1 in New York; the inaugural chief curator and artistic director at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia; and the executive director of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, where she founded the Curatorial Intensive in 2010. She has also worked in China as the first international curator of UCCA in Beijing and was the co-founder of the first Masters Program in Curatorial Practice on the West Coast, at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Before moving to the United States in 2001, Fowle was co-founder of Smith + Fowle, an independent curatorial partnership in London. She initially trained as an artist, graduating in 1993.