Francis McKee

Francis McKee (born 1960) is an Irish writer and curator working in Glasgow.

From 2005 to 2008 he was director of Glasgow International, and from 2006-2023 he was the director of the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. He is a lecturer and research fellow at Glasgow School of Art, formerly working on the development of open source ideologies and now researching for a survey of Irish traditional music recordings.

He co-curated Zenomap, the Scottish participation at the Venice Biennale, with Kay Pallister in 2003.

Francis McKee has written extensively on the work of artists linked to Glasgow such as Christine Borland, Ross Sinclair, Douglas Gordon, Simon Starling and other international artists including Minerva Cuevas, Matthew Barney, Pipilotti Rist, Willie Doherty, Joao Penalva, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and co-published books on the Icelandic Love Corporation and Salla Tykkä in collaboration with NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art).

Francis McKee worked previously as a historian of medicine for the Wellcome Trust.