Catherine McCormack is an author, art historian, critic and academic. She has over twenty years’ experience teaching art history and has held positions at UCL, University of Oxford, Chelsea College of Art and Sotheby's Institute of Art. She has been a guest curator at Richard Saltoun Gallery in London where she curated an acclaimed two part show on contemporary art and motherhood in 2019, and curated a year long programme of events, interviews talks and performances around the topic of Radical Joy, with Unit London in 2022. Catherine is a regular critic contributing to BBC Radio 4 Front Row, and The New World newspaper and has convened numerous symposia and panel discussions in both academia and the museum and gallery sector.

Catherine is the author of The Art of Looking Up (White Lion, 2019), Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking (Icon Books and W.W. Norton 2021), and Defiant Women: The Art of Activism (Laurence King, forthcoming).