Kitty Scott is an independent curator and writer based in Canada, and the chief curator of the 2025 Shanghai Biennale.
Until 2022, she was the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada. Previously she was Director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, Canada; Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, UK; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Scott’s extensive curatorial work 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.
Scott was a co-curator of the Liverpool Biennale (2018), curator ofthe Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and a core agent for Germany’s dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012. She 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.
