Katie Lawson is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has  curated exhibitions for the Toronto Biennial of Art, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Images Festival, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, MacLaren Art Centre, City of Barrie, Art Lab, Y+ Contemporary , and RYMD Reykjavik. Lawson was awarded the Hnatyshyn Foundation Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency in 2023.

 

She is currently a SSHRC funded PhD candidate in Art and Visual Culture at Western University, where she works with the Centre for Sustainable Curating. She has taught Critical Curatorial Studies and Canadian Art History at McMaster University. Katie is a graduate of the Master of Visual Studies Curatorial program at the University of Toronto, where she previously completed her Master of Arts in Art History.

 

She contributes to a range of print and online publications. She was the Editorial Lead for the Toronto Biennial's double catalogue Water, Kinship, Belief (2022) and previously the Art Editor for the Hart House Review (2016-2019).