Grace Kook-Anderson is the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, where she oversees the Northwest Art Collection and Galleries, the APEX exhibition series, and the regional survey exhibition, most recently the map is not the territory (2019). Her work at the museum includes thematic presentations drawn from the permanent collection, such as To Gather Your Leaving: Themes of Diasporic Experiences in the Northwest, Mary Henry: A Long Unbroken Line, Picturing Oregon, and Isaka Shamsud-Din: Rock of Ages. She has organized exhibitions featuring artists across the region through the APEX series, including Sam Hamilton, Dawn Cerny, Avantika Bawa, Steven Young Lee, and Sharita Towne.

Kook-Anderson was supporting curator for Black Artists of Oregon (guest curated by Intisar Abioto, 2023–24) and coordinating curator for Art and Race Matters: The Career of Robert Colescott (2020–21). Prior to joining the museum, she taught at Portland State University and worked as an independent curator and arts writer. From 2008–2015 she served as Curator of Contemporary Art at the Laguna Art Museum, where she organized An Elongated Now by Lita Albuquerque for the Art & Nature festival and the Getty PST exhibition Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964–1971.

She holds a dual BA in art history and art practice from UC Berkeley and an MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts.