Kyla McDonald

Kyla McDonald is a curator and art historian. She is an AHRC funded doctoral candidate at The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. During her residency she will carry out research and writing for her PhD, which interrogates the rediscovery of previously overlooked women artists in recent curatorial trends.

In September 2018, Kyla curated Niki de Saint Phalle: Here Everything is Possible at Beaux-Art Mons, Belgium, for which she also edited and wrote in the exhibition catalogue. As Interim Director at Bonner Kunstverein, Germany, January–July 2018, she curated exhibitions and produced publications with Hayley Tompkins and Oliver Osborne. Kyla was previously Artistic Director at Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Scotland from 2012–2016 where she curated exhibitions and commissioned projects with artists including Zofia Kulik, Liz Magor, Nina Beier, Haegue Yang, Nicolas Deshayes, and Iman Issa, amongst others. From 2008–2012 she was Assistant Curator at Tate Modern, England where she was a member of the International Collections team working on acquisitions of international modern and contemporary art for the Tate Collection. She curated the exhibitions Haris Epaminonda, VOL. VI, 2010, and I Decided Not to Save the World 2011, and worked on the Unilever Turbine Hall Commission with Tino Sehgal: These Associations, 2010. From 2005–2008 she was Assistant Curator for Exhibitions and Displays at Tate Liverpool, England. She was a Jury Member for the Turner Prize 2015.