Fatoş Üstek is an independent curator and writer based in London. She is curator of Frieze Sculpture 2023 in London, author of The Art Institution of Tomorrow, Reinventing the Model, co-founding director of FRANK Fair Artist Pay and curator of Cascading Principles Expansions within Geometry, Philosophy and Interference at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford University in Oxford. Ustek sits on governance roles in the UK and Europe, she is Chair of New Contemporaries and serves on the advisory board of Urbane Kuenste Ruhr in Germany and Jan Van Eyck Academy in the Netherlands. Ustek acts as jury for art prizes and national pavilions, such as the Jindrich Chalupecky Award (2022-24), Dutch Pavilion in 2022 and 2024, Scottish Pavilion in 2022, Turner Prize in 2020. She is the founding member of the Association of Women in the Arts (AWITA) and a member of AICA UK, IKT and sits on the editorial advisory board of Extra Extra Magazine.