Katrina Brown is founding Director of The Common Guild, Glasgow, which presents an international programme of artists’ projects, events and exhibitions, working across diverse locations. She was also Director of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art in 2010 and 2012, including the commissioning of major public projects by Susan Philipsz (‘Lowlands’, 2010) and Jeremy Deller (‘Sacrilege’, 2012).

In 2013, The Common Guild curated the ‘Scotland + Venice’ exhibition for the 55th Biennale di Venezia, with an exhibition of new works by Corin Sworn, Duncan Campbell and Hayley Tompkins. Most recent projects major projects with Sharon Hayes (2021) and Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme (2022) and exhibitions by Katinka Bock, live performance works by Simon Starling and Janice Kerbel, and a multi-site group exhibition for Lismore Castle, Ireland entitled ‘The Persistence of Objects’ in 2015. Katrina also served as Associate Curator to the major nation-wide project ‘GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland', taking place in 2014 and worked with Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art on a five-year collecting initiative, 'Art Fund International' to develop Glasgow Museums' holdings of international contemporary art.

From 1997 until 2007, she was Curator and Deputy Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts, which opened in 1999, where she curated major solo projects with Scottish and international artists alike and a number of significant group exhibitions.

Katrina has served on numerous boards and committees, including the jury of the 2011 Turner Prize; the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2011; the Comité Technique d’Achat, FRAC des Pays de la Loire (2005-11); the Board of Governors of The Glasgow School of Art (2004 – 2009); the Arts Council Collection (2007-09) and the British Council Collection (2013 - 2016). She is currently a Trustee of Art Fund.