Kitty Scott (photo by Craig Boyko)
Canadian curator, writer and arts administrator Kitty Scott has been named as the new curator of the Shanghai Biennale.
The fifteenth annual biennale will take place Nov. 8, 2025 to March 31, 2026 at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai.
Scott will be the first woman to curate the event since it began in 1996. The theme for the show will be “Does the Flower Hear the Bee?”
“I feel very fortunate to join my respected colleagues who have organized previous iterations of the biennale,” Scott said in an interview with Artnet News.
“Working in Shanghai, I’m reminded of the accomplished women from Asia and the Asian diaspora shaping the global art ecosystem, like Yuko Hasegawa, Mami Kataoka, Clara Kim, and Gong Yan, as well as artists like Yoko Ono and Haegue Yang.”
In May 2024, Scott was named curator at large, special projects, at Catriona Jeffries in Vancouver. Also strategic director of the Canadian charity Shorefast and its cultural program Fogo Island Arts, Scott has held many posts at Canadian and international galleries including deputy director and chief curator at the National Gallery of Canada. She was The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity's Director of Visual Arts from 2007 to 2012 and she was the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art from 2012 to 2019. In 2018, she co-curated the Liverpool Biennial, and in 2017, she presented Geoffrey Farmer’s project at the Canada Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.
Source: Artnet News, Fogo Island Arts, Shanghai Biennale
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