Fatoş Üstek

London
Independent curator

Fatoş Üstek is an independent curator and art advisor. She served as director of the Liverpool Biennial in the United Kingdom in 2019. She has curated mid to large-scale, not-for-profit exhibitions and festivals and contributed to several biennials, including the 11th Liverpool Biennial and the 10th Gwangju Biennial in South Korea. Üstek has been recognised as an influential thinker in the sector due to the projects she has curated, the books and monographs she has published, the guest writing she has done for various art magazines, exhibition catalogues, and academic publications (Curating Companion, 2020), and also the seminars (Miart Talks, 2018,) and training workshops (Art Fund Curatorial Workshops, 2015) she has organised for peers and colleagues. Üstek is currently working on a new model for art institutions, which will be published as a book in 2023, in addition to commissioning artworks for the Nine Elms area in London, curating international projects, and lecturing at international conferences and events. She is a founding co-director of FRANK Fair Artist Pay together with artists Anne Hardy and Lindsay Seers.

Fatoş Üstek was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2019 when she was director of the 11th Liverpool Biennial, UK.

Fatoş Üstekis. Photo: Bex Day