Fatoş Üstek (born 1980 in Ankara[1]) is a London-based independent Turkish curator and writer, working internationally with large scale organizations, biennials and festivals, as well as commissioning in the public realm.
[6] The series of 50-week-long exhibitions showed works by artists Laura Eldret, Charles Avery, Rebecca Birch, Annika Ström, Beth Collar, Allison Katz, Tom McCarthy, Shezad Dawood, Suzanne Treister, Lynn Marsh, Jacopo Miliani, Kathryn Elkin, Marjolijn Dijkman, Ben Judd, Karen Mirza, Oreet Ashery, Eva Grubinger, Melanie Manchot, Bruce McLean, Vesna Petresin, Young in Hong, and duo Wright and Vandame, among others.
Since 2023, Fatos Üstek is curator of Frieze Sculpture, a major annual public art exhibition placing monumental works by leading artists throughout London's Regent's Park.
[12] Her first exhibition included works by more than 20 international artists like Ghada Amer, Angela Bulloch, Catharine Czudej, Ayşe Erkmen, Gülsün Karamustafa, Suhasini Kejriwal, Louise Nevelson, Hans Rosenström and Yinka Shonibare.
[13] In 2024, she presented artists Frances Goodman, İnci Eviner, Céline Condorelli, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Theaster Gates, Anna Boghiguian, Zanele Muholi and Leonora Carrington, among others.