MIDDLEBROOK PRIZE for YOUNG
CANADIAN CURATORS
Founded in 2012, the Middlebrook Prize is awarded annually and aims to foster social innovation and curatorial excellence in Canada.
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The Middlebrook Prize encourages social connectedness and a shared sense of community. The winner is a curator or curatorial team under 30 and receives a space for their exhibition and an honorarium.
We are pleased that Tristan Sauer has been awarded the 2025 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. Tristan’s exhibition, Soft Internet Theory, will be presented at the Art Gallery of Guelph from September 18 2025 to January 4, 2026. The award was presented at a gala ceremony at Gladstone House in Toronto on April 3, 2025.
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2025 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators Awarded to Tristan Sauer
The 13th annual prize has been awarded to emerging curator Tristan Sauer. His proposed exhibition, Soft Internet Theory, has been selected as the winning submission and will be presented at Art Gallery of Guelph from September 18, 2025 to January 4, 2026. The award was presented at a gala ceremony at Gladstone House in Toronto […]
2022 Middlebrook Prize Winner Appointed Curator of Contemporary Art at Art Gallery of Guelph
We are delighted to announce the appointment of 2022 Prize Winner, Erin Szikora, as Curator of Contemporary Art at Art Gallery of Guelph, commencing in early 2025. Erin brings a commitment to curatorial practice as a means of fostering both knowledge and connections between art, artists, and audiences. Of mixed settler (Scottish and Hungarian) and […]
2025 MPfYCC Call for Submissions
Founded in 2012, the Middlebrook Prize is awarded annually to an emerging Canadian curator who is under 30 with the aim to foster social innovation and curatorial excellence in Canada. Hosted and administered by the Art Gallery of Guelph, the winner is selected by a jury of arts leaders and receives an honorarium, an exhibition […]
2024 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators Awarded to Dallas Fellini
The 12th annual prize has been awarded to emerging curator Dallas Fellini. Their proposed exhibition, Some kind of we, has been selected as the winning submission and will be presented at Art Gallery of Guelph from September to December 2024. The award was presented at a gala ceremony at Gladstone House in Toronto on March […]
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Dallas Fellini is the winner of the 2024 Middlebrook Prize for exhibition Some kind of we.
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Homecoming
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For Catherine
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Grounding
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tina guyani | deer road
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epistemologies of the moon
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My curiosities are not your curios
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Blood Sweat Tears
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The Queer Feeling of Tomorrow
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I’m Feeling Lucky
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as perennial as the grass
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