Kitty Scott

National Gallery of Canada
Deputy Director and Chief Curator

Former deputy director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Canada, Kitty Scott is a freelance curator. Prior to the National Gallery, she was the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, where she worked from 2012 to 2018. Scott’s extensive resume includes exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater, Janice Kerbel, Ragnar Kjartansson, Scott McFarland, Silke Otto-Knapp, Frances Stark and Ron Terada. She was a core agent for Germany’s dOCUMENTA(13) in 2012, and has been named curator the Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and co-curator of the Liverpool Biennale (2018). Scott has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues, books and journals and edited the publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (2010). She regularly lectures at art schools and curatorial programs throughout North America.

Kitty Scott was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2018 when she was curator of modern and contemporary art at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Kitty Scott. Photo: Courtesy of National Gallery of Canada.