Ché Zara Blomfield is a curator born in Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2010 she founded The Composing Rooms, a project space in London, since then her curatorial work around the intersecting themes of globalisation, technology, and ecology, infomed over 50 exhibitions in eight countries and culminated in her book documenting a decade of exhibitions and their influences. Her work has been presented at institutions including the ICA and Goethe-Institut London, Berlin Art Institute, Kastela Arts Centre in Athens, and the Academy of Photography in Kraków.
Following an interest in artist books, she co-founded Baron Magazine in 2010, which recieved international critial acclaim, the first issues were acquired by MoMA for their permanent collection. During the pandemic she co-founded Manzana, an intersectional feminist community in Tāmaki Makaurau and produced Wiser Conversations, a podcast interviewing figures including Hinemoa Elder, Naomi Klein, and Pico Iyer. In 2022 she returned to London to help establish the Shoreditch Arts Club, joining as founding curator, in 2023 she joined Progressive International as Arts and Culture Coordinator, which led to founding Art Guides World in 2025. Her writing has appeared in Spike Art Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, Rhizome, Tagesspiegel Kunst Magazin and others.
Ché has lived in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, London, Berlin, and Palma de Mallorca. In 2026 she relocated to Zürich to complete an MA in Curatorial Studies at ZHdK.
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Projects and roles include:
Art Guides World Founder (Est. 2025)
Progressive International Arts and Culture Coordinator - Not-for-Profit (Est. 2020)
Shoreditch Arts Club Curator - Members Club, London (Est. 2023)
manzana.org.nz Co-Founder - Community Space, Tāmaki Makaurau (Est. 2021)
Wiser Conversations Creative Producer - Podcast (2020-2022)
The Composing Rooms Co-Founder - Contemporary Art Space, London, Berlin, Palma de Mallorca (Est. 2010)
Baron Co-Founder, Art Editor - Publisher (Est. 2010)
Select links:
2024 - Flying Geese - Article for Arts of the Working Class highlighting Maidu artist Tyler Eash's practice bringing attention to the Califonia genocide.
2024 - Indigenous Solidarity - Limited Edition Artworks for Progressive International by Sara M. Saleh x Mothanna Hussein, Varunika Saraf, and Tyler Eash.
2024 - FLUID KARMA - Group Exhibition at Sapling Gallery, LA with Petra Cortright, Hart Lëshkina, Estrid Lutz, R. Lord, Bryan Morello, and others.
2023 - Creative Resistance - Limited Edition Artworks for Progressive International by Kamea Chayne, Cibelle Cavalli Bastos, and Marwan Kaabour.
2023 - UNDERSTANDING RETURN - Exhibition Review for Arts of the Working Class of Khanyisile Mbongwa's Liverpool Biennial uMoya.
2023 - Programming - Shoreditch Arts Club, London - Collaboration event highlights: ArtReview, Progressive International, and Urania's. Artists included: Hew Locke, Nina Cristante, Ed Fornieles, Oliver Laric, Zethu Maseko, Peter Spanjer, Ndoho Ange, Matilde Cerruti Quara, and Tia O'Donnell.
2022 - Book - The Composing Rooms 2010 - 2020 documents over 40 exhibitions, with several contextual essays.
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