Kate Strain is founding CEO and Artistic Director of Kunstverein Projects, Ireland. In 2022 she established Kunstverein Aughrim, a curatorial production office that accompanies artistic practice through creative production. From 2016–2021 Strain was Artistic Director of Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, where she curated a rolling programme of newly commissioned exhibitions and public projects. Prior to that she was Acting Curator at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; a participant of de Appel Curatorial Programme, Amsterdam; a participant of the Young Curators Residency Programme at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; and a graduate of MA Visual Arts Practice, IADT Dun Laoghaire and BA History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin. Strain collaborates on curatorial research and commissioning projects RGKSKSRG with Rachael Gilbourne and the Department of Ultimology with Fiona Hallinan. Strain is a member of IKT, the international association of curators of contemporary art, and regularly lectures in art history, curatorial practice and creative production.