Claire Shea is a curator based in Toronto. From 2022 to 2024, she was the Director of Fogo Island Arts, where she oversaw new exhibitions and programs, including ‘Meltwater,’ the Labrador Current Foodways residency and Liam Gillick’s ‘A Variability Quantifier.’ From 2017 to 2021, she was Deputy Director at Para Site, Hong Kong’s leading contemporary art center and one of Asia’s oldest and most active independent art institutions, where she co-curated the major group exhibition 'An Opera for Animals,' which toured to Rockbund Art Museum in 2019.
From 2008 to 2016, she was Curatorial Director at Cass Sculpture Foundation, where she curated ‘A Beautiful Disorder,’ the UK’s first major exhibition of outdoor sculpture by contemporary artists from Greater China. In 2014, she was Associate Curator for the 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial, ‘We Have Never Participated.’ Most recently, she was the managing editor of a new publication from Para Site, Sternberg, & MIT Press entitled ‘What to Let Go?’ (2024).