Katharine Stout, Director at the Focal Point Gallery and Associate Director and co-founder of the Drawing Room, has been Deputy Director of Institute of Contemporary Arts, London since 2017, and previously as Head of Programme since 2013.

Prior to the ICA, Stout was Curator of Contemporary Art at Tate Britain (1999 to 2013), curating exhibitions with artists such as Liam Gillick, Gary Hume, Eva Rothschild and Patrick Keiller, group exhibitions such as ‘This Was Tomorrow: Art & the 60s’, as well as co-curating the Art Now series, Turner Prize exhibitions and Collections displays. She was previously the Contemporary Art Consultant at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, where she inaugurated the contemporary art programme.

Stout serves on the Board of Artist’s Studios organisation, Tannery Arts, and has published numerous texts on contemporary art and artists in books, journal and magazines.