Touring Talk: Karen McQuaid

Karen McQuaid is a curator at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. In this role she has been responsible for exhibitions such as Fiona Tan, Vox Populi, London (2012) and Jim Goldberg, Open See (2010) and the gallery's annual graduate exhibition freshfacedandwildeyed, established in 2008.

She has commissioned and organised off-site projects with artists such as Virginia Nimarkoh and Lucy Steggals. As well as working on the exhibitions programme, Karen has worked extensively on the talks and lecture strands at the gallery. She co-organised the symposium Contemporary Vernacular Photographies with the Institute for Modern and Contemporary Culture in 2011.