As the Deputy Director and Gail Engelberg Director of Education for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kim Kanatani is responsible for developing educational linkages within the Guggenheim Museum constellation and with other cultural institutions worldwide to work in synergistic exchange with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Active in the museum education field since 1981, she has co-produced several multimedia productions, educational installations and other public offerings in collaboration with internationally renowned artists including Vito Acconci, Matthew Barney, Daniel Buren, Cai Guo-Qiang, Rineke Dijkstra, Paul McCarthy, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, and James Rosenquist. She has also published articles on contemporary art and museum education as well as curriculum publications and resource materials on contemporary art and culture.

Honored with several professional awards, she most recently was a museum scholar in residence at The Getty Research Institute. Prior to joining the Guggenheim in 2001, she was the Director of Education at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which she joined in 1985. She holds an M.A. in Art Education with teaching credentials in both elementary and adult education.