
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 […]

2024 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 […]

2023 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators Awarded to Holly Chang
The 11th annual prize has been awarded to emerging curator Holly Chang. Her proposed exhibition, Outside In Inside Out, has been selected as the winning submission and will be presented at Art Gallery of Guelph from September to December 2023. The award was presented at a gala ceremony at the Soho House in Toronto on […]