Kim McAleese is a curator originally from Belfast, now based in Scotland. She is currently working as a Director of Edinburgh Art Festival, and previously was a Programme Director of Grand Union, Birmingham.
Her practice is centred around sharing, listening, supporting, caring, conversing and exchanging. She is an alumnus of Curatorlab in Konstfack (Stockholm), and of the Independent Curators International Curatorial Intensive programme. She is co-founder of Household, a collective of curators who organise public art projects in Northern Ireland and previous co-director of Catalyst Arts. She was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, is Vice-Chair of Outburst Queer Arts Festival and has served on the board of New Art West Midlands and Visual Artist Ireland. In 2021, she was on the jury to nominate and choose the winner of the Turner Prize, and this year was on the jury to select the artist for the British Pavillion at Venice, 2024.