Kate Bryan is a British art historian, curator and arts broadcaster. Since 2016, she has been the curator for Soho House’s global art collection which numbers 10,000 artworks. For over a decade she has regularly presented television programmes for Sky Arts including My Week With and is a judge on Sky Arts Portrait Artist of The Year.

She has maintained a distinguished broadcasting career, creating arts television programming since 2013. Her writing and presenting credits span Sky Arts, BBC4, and Sky Arte Italia, covering diverse subjects through specialist programmes on Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Raphael, Michelangelo, Vincent Van Gogh, Picasso, Hepworth, Gauguin, and Tintoretto.

Kate Bryan began her professional journey at The British Museum in 2004, contributing to the acclaimed Michelangelo Drawings exhibition in 2006 and helping develop the successful BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects, presented by Neil MacGregor. Her experience includes art dealing in London and Hong Kong, plus advising significant private collections. Her debut publication, The Art of Love, came out in 2019, exploring artist partnerships over the past 150 years, followed by Bright Stars in 2021, examining the impact of great artists who died prematurely.

Bryan has interviewed and collaborated with leading contemporary artists including The Guerilla Girls, Jeremy Deller, Maggi Hambling, Catherine Opie, Tracey Emin, Lubaina Himid, Jenny Holzer, Idris Khan, Judy Chicago, and Peter Blake. She received the arts category prize in the 2014 Women of the Future Awards and currently mentors young artists and curators from underrepresented communities.

Kate Bryan has recently written How to Art, illustrated by David Shrigley. Join both of them at Chelsea Arts Festival as they celebrate the launch of this new project.