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Holly Chang
Winner of the 2023 Middlebrook Prize for the project The Third Scenario.

Winner announcement

Holly Chang is an artist based in Toronto/Tkaronto who has recently completed her MA in Communication and Culture at TMU/York University. Chang – as a second-generation Chinese Canadian – maintains cultural ties with her cross-cultural identity and draws on her hybrid background for inspiration. Chang makes use of a variety of media including textiles, photography and natural dyeing. She recently exhibited her work in her first solo show with Gallery 44 in April 2022 and participated in the Banff Artist in Residence program in Spring 2022.

Curator, Writer, and Researcher
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Holly Chang
Holly Chang is an artist based in Toronto/Tkaronto

The Third Scenario

Erin Szikora
Winner of the 2023 Middlebrook Prize for the proposed exhibition Outside In Inside Out.

Winner announcement

Erin Szikora is an emerging curator, researcher, and beadwork artist born and raised in Guelph and currently based in Toronto. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Visual Studies from University of Toronto and a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art, Design, and New Media Art Histories from OCAD University. Szikora has worked in curatorial and research roles at Art Gallery of Guelph, Art Canada Institute, Brock UniversityMcMaster Museum of Art, OCAD University, and University of Toronto. She currently works as Assistant Curator – Indigenous Projects at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery …

Curator, Writer, and Researcher
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Erin Szikkora
Erin Szikora is a curator and writer based in Toronto.
  • Contemporary Art | Art Criticism | Curatorial Studies | Art History | Performance Art
  • Homecoming

    For Catherine

    2021

    Mitra Fakhrashrafi & Vince Rozario
    Joint winners of the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for the project Collective Offerings
    Winner announcement

    With a background in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi is a mixed media artist and curator interested in placemaking, anti-surveillance, and border abolition. She is a co-founder of Way Past Kennedy Road, a curatorial collective that supports artists living at the margins to produce, exhibit, and profit from their storytelling practices…

    Vince Rozario is an independent critic, curator, writer, arts administrator, and community organizer based in Tkarón:to/Toronto.  Born in Bangladesh, raised in Dubai, and eventually settling in Canada, they attempt to map out trajectories of modernism, queerness, and decolonial futures across transnational axes with a specific emphasis on South Asian diasporas…

    Curator and Mixed Media Artist
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/mitra.fakhrashrafi" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Mitra Fakhrashrafi</a>
    Mitra Fakhrashrafi
    Mitra Fakhrashrafi (she/her) is an independent curator and mixed media artist indebted to border abolition organizing.
  • Community Organization | Canadian Art History | Writing | Curation | Art History
  • Curator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/vince.rozario" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Vince Rozario</a>
    Vince Rozario
    Vince Rozario is an curator focusing on issues of decolonizing the canon, multiple modernities, queer diasporas, and transnational futures.
  • Community Organization | Canadian Art History | Writing | Curation | Art History
  • Collective Offerings

    Maya Wilson-Sanchez
    Winner of the 2020 Middlebrook Prize for the project Grounding

    Winner announcement

    Maya Wilson-Sanchez is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She holds a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from OCAD University, where she co-founded the Journal of Visual and Critical Studies and co-directed the OCAD U Student Press, and an MA in Art History from the University of Toronto. She has published essays, reviews, and exhibition texts in multiple venues … 

    Curator, Writer, and Researcher
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    Maya Wilson-Sanchez
    Maya Wilson-Sanchez is a curator and writer based in Toronto.
  • Contemporary Art | Art Criticism | Curatorial Studies | Art History | Performance Art
  • Grounding

    Missy LeBlanc
    Winner of the 2019 Middlebrook Prize for the project Tina Guyani | Deer Road
    Winner announcement

    Missy LeBlanc is an emerging curator and writer whose curatorial practice is centered around care and kinship. With each exhibition, LeBlanc uses her position of responsibility as a curator to center the voices and works of marginalized artists while maintaining a strong relationship with them.

    Curator, Writer, and Researcher
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/missy.leblanc" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Missy LeBlanc</a>
    Missy LeBlanc
    Missy LeBlanc is a curator and writer of Métis, Nēhiyaw, and Polish decent currently based in Moh’kins’stis (Calgary).
  • Contemporary Art | Indigenous Art | Curatorial Studies | Art History | Art
  • tina guyani | deer road

    Lauren Fournier
    Winner of the 2018 Middlebrook Prize for the project epistemologies of the moon
    Awards Ceremony | Winner announcement

    As an emerging curator and writer from Regina/Treaty 4 Territory, Saskatchewan. Lauren’s exhibition, epistemologies of the moon, is a group exhibition featuring work by six emerging and mid-career Canadian artists and one transnational contemporary feminist art collective. These are Canadian and Indigenous artists predominantly from Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, whose practices are indebted to ideas around intersectionality and the politics, aesthetics, and ethics of feminism today.

    Contemporary Writer, Curator, Artist, and Researcher
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    Lauren Fournier
    Lauren Fournier is a writer, curator, artist, filmmaker, and researcher of experimental feminist practices across media
  • Visual Culture & Theory | Curating | Filmmaking | Environmental Humanities
  • epistemologies of the moon

    Yasmin Nurming-Por
    Winner of the 2017 Middlebrook Prize for the project My curiosities are not your curios
    View the exhibition | Winner announcement

    My curiosities are not your curios examines what it means to collect objects through the work of artists for whom collecting is a creative practice. Nurming-Por has selected contemporary artists from across North America whose “collections” address the politics of display, exploring how these systems can also be used to present alternative narratives.

    Curator, Writer and Researcher
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/yasmin.nurmingpor" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Yasmin Nurming-Por</a>
    Yasmin Nurming-Por
    Yasmin is the 2017 winner of the Middlebrook Prize
  • Project Management | Education | Curating | Public Programming
  • My curiosities are not your curios View the exhibition

    Isabelle and Sophie Lynch
    Joint winners of the 2016 Middlebrook Prize for their project Blood Sweat Tears
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    Blood Sweat Tears tackles urgent, enduring questions of labour and the body. They ask: how can we re-think notions of work and productivity, and how bodies move and interact with space and materials?

    Curator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/isabelle.lynch" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Isabelle Lynch</a>
    Isabelle Lynch
    Isabelle Lynch has worked at McGill University, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
  • Art History | Contemporary Art | Philosophy | Visual Arts | Research | Fine Art
  • Curator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/sophie.lynch" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Sophie Lynch</a>
    Sophie Lynch
    Sophie Lynch has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada.
  • Fine Art | Art History | Event Planning | Media Relations | Creative Writing
  • Adam Barbu
    Winner of the 2015 Middlebrook Prize for his project The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow
    View the exhibition | curator’s talk | winner announcement

    Curator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/adam.barbu" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Adam Barbu</a>
    Adam Barbu
    Winner of the 2015 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators
  • Curating | Art | Design | Exhibiting | Canadian Heritage
  • The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow View the exhibition

    Natasha Chaykowski and Alison Cooley
    Joint winners of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize for their project I’m Feeling Lucky

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    Curator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/natasha.chaykowski" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Natasha Chaykowski</a>
    Natasha Chaykowski
    Natasha Chaykowski is a joint winner of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize.
  • Art | Art History | Curatorial Projects | Grant Writing | Contemporary Art
  • Writer, Curator, Educator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/alison.cooley" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Alison Cooley</a>
    Alison Cooley
    Alison Cooley is a joint winner of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize.
  • Art History | Museum Education | Contemporary Art | Curatorial Projects
  • Katherine Dennis
    Winner of the 2013 Middlebrook Prize for her project as perennial as the grass

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    Public Program Coordinator
    <a href="http://www.expertfile.com/experts/katherine.dennis2" target="_blank" class="clearfix">Katherine Dennis</a>
    Katherine Dennis
    Katherine Dennis is the recipient of the 2013 Middlebrook Prize.
  • Curating | Museum Collections | Art History | Public Art | Art Education
  • as perennial as the grass View the exhibition