Andrée Cooke is an international art and design curator whose curatorial practice has spanned both public and commercial spheres for more than two decades.

She has produced significant collections of work by designers Tord Boonjte, El Ultimo Grito, Studio Makkink & Bey, Hussein Chalayan and Susan Cianciolo, and key artist commissions by Lawrence Weiner, Mat Collishaw, Peter Friedl, Nigel Cooke, George Shaw, Gillian Wearing, Linder, Ming Wong and Liam Gillick.

 In 1993, Cooke founded The British Council Window Gallery in Prague, which she ran until it closed in 2003. During this period, her new commissions received global critical acclaim and recognition. She placed many pieces into museum collections globally, building the reputation of the artists she exhibited, who subsequently became the most recognised creatives of that era.

Andrée Cooke broke new ground in championing the combination of contemporary art and design curation, focusing on the ‘cross-over’ in these disciplines, giving Hussein Chalayan, Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades their first solo exhibitions, and providing the platform for their experimental work.

In the mid-2000s, Cooke was appointed by Spring Studios to create Spring Projects gallery in London. At Spring Projects she commissioned artists, fashion photographers and designers such as Sølve Sundsbø, Mat Collishaw, El Ultimo Grito, Jaime Hayon, Barnaby Barford and Studio Makkink & Bey. Her relationship with Spring Studios led to the development of their art and design collection and to furnishing their 220,000 sq. ft New York premises in Tribeca, USA. 

As Director of David Gill Galleries St James’s (2012), she worked with numerous designers including Zaha Hadid, Mattia Bonetti and Gaetano Pesce.

Her independent projects include the curation of sections at two biennales, in Lisbon (Experimenta) and in Stoke-on-Trent (British Ceramics Biennial). She was a selector for The Whitechapel Open and co-curator of Barnaby Barford’s touring retrospective that originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia, USA. She has curated national exhibitions at the South Bank Centre, Chisenhale Studios, South London Gallery and the Roundhouse as well as internationally in Shanghai, New York and Prague. 

Since 2014, Andrée Cooke has been the Artistic Executor for the Estate of Rose Finn-Kelcey, growing the recognition for, and placement of artworks by the late Rose Finn-Kelcey. She has worked on solo exhibitions with Modern Art Oxford, Firstsite in Colchester, and at the Tate. Group exhibitions at Kettle’s Yard, Tate Britain and National Galleries of Scotland, and has co-curated two exhibitions at Kate MacGarry with artist Simon Moretti in 2020 and 2025. In 2023, she presented the Estate at Frieze Masters with Kate MacGarry.

In the past decade, Cooke’s curatorial practice has expanded to include interior curation, placing commissioned furniture and vintage restored pieces into large-scale public and corporate settings alongside newly commissioned artworks.

Alongside her ongoing curatorial practice, she works for brands and magazines, including Mulberry and Family Style, to curate styled campaigns and looks for publication that promote contemporary designers alongside product such as Anton Alvarez, Marco Campardo and Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby.