Kate Moomaw trained in objects and modern materials at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, graduating in 2007. She has completed a graduate internship at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and postgraduate fellowships at the Tate in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC. Since 2011, she has been the Assistant Conservator for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, where she focuses on the conservation of modern and contemporary objects, variable media, and outdoor sculpture.