Kim McAleese

Kim Therese McAleese was born in 1983^[2] in Belfast.^[3] She took a one year course in Stockholm at Konstfack to study curatorship.^{[citation needed]}

In 2021 she was a member of the jury for that year's Turner Prize^[3] and Margaret Tait Award.^[4]

McAleese is the co-founder of Household, a collective curators who organise art projects in Northern Ireland. She worked as an associate lecturer at University of Birmingham and is the vice-chair of Outburst Arts.^[5]

She took over from Sorcha Carey in July 2022 as the director of the Edinburgh Art Festival.^[3]

She was on the jury for the British pavilion at Venice in 2024.^[6]