Kate ten Buuren is a Taungurung artist and curator interested in contemporary visual art, film and stories. She is a founding member of First Nations collective this mob who work collaboratively on arts projects and events in Melbourne, Australia. Kate is the 2025 Curator of the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards and has previously held curatorial roles at the Melbourne Arts Precinct, ACMI and Koorie Heritage Trust. 

Her recent curatorial projects include The Blak Infinite co-curated with Kimberley Moulton across Fed Square, Now You’re Speakin’ My Language - a program of experimental videos co-presented by NOWNESS Asia and the IMA, and exhibitions How I See It: Blak Art and Film at ACMI and Collective Movements co-curated with Maya Hodge and N’arweet Carolyn Briggs at MUMA.

Kate has exhibited in BETTER NATURE: A Sudden Release at Cement Fondu, Sydney, in James Nguyen’s Open Glossary at ACCA, Melbourne, at C3 Gallery, Melbourne, and in the Redlands Konica Minolta Art Prize, Sydney.