Our Founder & Creative Director
Natalie Urquhart
Cayman Art Week’s founder, Natalie Urquhart, is a Caymanian curator and arts manager with 20 years’ experience in the Caribbean cultural sector, where she specialises in developing creative strategies, programming and exhibitions. Having served as the Director of the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands since 2009, Urquhart has played a critical role in stewarding the development of the Caymanian contemporary arts scene and raising the reputation of Caymanian art locally and internationally. She is a former core committee member of the Tilting Axis Caribbean contemporary arts alliance (2016-2020), and a board member of the Museums Association of the Caribbean, serving as MAC’s president from 2017-2020.
As NGCI’s Chief Curator she has spearheaded groundbreaking exhibitions such as REVIVE: Contemporary Caymanian Craft, Persistence of Memory, Tidal Shift – Explorations of Contemporary Caymanian Identity, and Art of Fashion, as well as establishing the Cayman Islands Biennial, and initiatives such as NGCI Creative Careers, the Big Art Auction series, Business of Art, the Art at the Airport initiative, and the Sister Islands travelling exhibition programme. She is a leading authority on Caymanian art and has regularly published papers and exhibition texts on the topic, along with the country’s first formal art history, Art of the Cayman Islands, and the Caymanian artist sections of A-Z of Caribbean Art.