Kathryn Wade

Kathryn Wade is the Director of Artist Relations at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. In her former role as assistant curator at the San José Museum of Art (SJMA), she organized Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun; Jean Conner: Collage; as well as solo exhibitions of artists including Sonya Rapoport, Jay DeFeo, Catherine Wagner, and Louise Nevelson. Kathryn was the author of SJMA’s digital collection catalogue 50x50: Stories of Visionary Artists from the Collection. She has worked for private collections in San Francisco and curated exhibitions for the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. She earned an MA in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts and BA at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.