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Jade Foster is a British artist, curator and cultural strategist of Afro-Caribbean heritage based in Nottingham and born in Sandwell. Foster is a Trustee / Board Member of Nottingham Contemporary and they have worked as an independent and institutional curator with multiple visual art organisations and festivals such as Hospital Rooms, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow International festival of contemporary visual art, New Art Exchange, performingborders and Never Done, Primary, Two Queens, and UK New Artists.

Interested in performance, time-based media, and other contemporary art forms, they have worked with artists such as SERAFINE1369, Carmen Argote, Phoebe Collings-James, Nadia Huggins, Jade Montserrat, Ada M. Patterson, Maybelle Peters, and MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho).

Their long-term independent curatorial project, At Peace, had its first iteration in a group exhibition featuring artists Alanis Forde, Miranda Forrester, Sahara Longe, Cece Philips, and Emma Prempeh. In 2022, they went on to curate At Peace II, a group exhibition featuring practitioners from Barbados, Saint Vincent, UK, and the USA at Two Queens, Leicester.

They were a 2021 CCCADI Curatorial Fellow in Afro-Caribbean Art and is now currently a Fer-Garb Scholarship 2022/23 recipient for the MA in History of Art at UCL.