Kate Warren is an art historian, writer and curator, with expertise in modern and contemporary Australian and international art. She received her PhD in Art History from Monash University in 2016, and her research interests cover film, photography, video and new media art.

Kate's current research investigates histories of how the visual arts and art history have been represented in the popular Australian press, with a particular focus on magazine and television coverage in the mid-to-late twentieth century. This project aims to construct a novel history of the visual arts in Australia via their presentation and reception in popular media, identifying models of arts engagement that have supported increased visual literacy and informed understanding of the visual arts.

Kate publishes extensively, including critical articles in Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Journal of Art Historiography, Philosophy of Photography, EMAJ: Online Journal of Art, Senses of Cinema, Persona Studies, History of Photography and Discipline, as well as dozens of essays and reviews in art and film magazines, and exhibition catalogues. She was a founding contributor to the Melbourne-based arts review website Memo Review, and is also an editor of Peephole Journal, an online journal dedicated to creative film criticism.

From 2007 to 2011 Kate was Assistant Curator at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, where she was involved in major exhibitions including Tim Burton: The Exhibition (a travelling exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York) and Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion (a collaborative exhibition with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery). She has curated independent exhibitions including: I don’t want to be there when it happens (2017) with Dr Mikala Tai, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Future Tense (2017) with Artistic Director Alicia Renew for Channels Video Art Festival; and Atong Atem: Come Home (2017) at Blindside Gallery, Melbourne.

PhD (Art History) Monash; FHEA; BA (Hons, Cinema Studies) Melb; BSc Melb

• Arts writing and criticism
• Art historiography
• Popular media
• Video and moving image art
• Photography and lens-based practices
• Film and cinema
• Contemporary Australian art
• Contemporary visual culture