Kari Conte is a curator and writer focused on global contemporary art. Formerly, she was Director of Programs and Exhibitions at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York from 2010-2020, where she currently serves as Senior Advisor. Additionally, she is Residency Curator for Kai Art Center in Tallinn, Advisor for the 2021 Helsinki Biennale and co-founder of Rethinking Residencies. She has curated more than forty exhibitions. As a writer, she is interested in the intersection of art, politics, ecology and feminism as well as institutional and exhibition histories. She published Seven Work Ballets, the first monograph on artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (Sternberg Press, 2016) and has contributed to numerous other books and exhibition catalogues. Born and raised in New York City, she was based in London between 2007 and 2010, where she worked at Whitechapel Gallery and received an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. As a Fulbright Research Scholar, Conte has been studying feminist art in Turkey.