Natalie Kates

Exchange Topic: How Gallerists Find Their Artists
June 2024

Natalie Kates is a curator, gallerist and event producer based in New York City.    

Natalie has established herself as a leader in discovering and promoting emerging artists. She has curated numerous exhibitions and site-specific art installations, developed close relations with artists, galleries, and museums in the US and abroad, and produced art events for both corporate and non-profit clients. In 2020 Kates-Ferri Projects opened a brick-and-mortar art space in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she looks to inspire and reimagine the future of art creation and collaboration while promoting a more inclusive and sustainable arts eco system.

Natalie's work and persona have been profiled in Art News, New York Times, Vogue's Style.com, Harper's Bazaar, Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Artforum, Art Nerd, Art in America, Paper Magazine, StyleLikeU, BlackBook, ArteFuse to name few.