Announcing 2021 Middlebrook Prize Exhibition
We are excited to announce the 2021 Middlebrook Prize Exhibition, “Collective Offering” opens tomorrow at Art Gallery of Guelph with special opening day hours from 5 to 8 pm. Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi and Vince Rozario, the exhibition responds to the compartmentalization and fragmentation produced by colonialism and deepened by this period of unprecedented political, ecological, and public health crises. Recognizing the particularly heavy toll exacted […]
2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators is Awarded to Mitra Fahkrashrafi and Vince Rozario
We are pleased to announce that tonight the 9th Middlebrook Prize is awarded to emerging curators Mitra Fakfrashrafi and Vince Rozario. Their proposed exhibition, Collective Offerings, has been selected as the winning submission and will be presented at Art Gallery of Guelph from September 16 to December 12, 2021. This year, the award was presented […]
2021 Awards Presentation
YOU ARE INVITED! Tuesday, March 30, 2021 | 7 – 8 pmFree | Online (Zoom) | Register here > Please join us on March 30th at 7 pm ET for the announcement of the 2021 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. Hosted by the Art Gallery of Guelph, the Prize is […]
2021 MPfYCC Call for Submissions
MIDDLEBROOK PRIZE for YOUNG CANADIAN CURATORS 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 […]
Announcing 2020 Middlebrook Prize Exhibition
We are excited to announce the 2020 Middlebrook Prize Exhibition, “Grounding” opens this month at Art Gallery of Guelph. Curated by Maya Wilson-Sanchez, the exhibition features artists Warren Cariou (Métis and European), Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peruvian), Dana Prieto (Argentine) and Tsēmā (Tahltan). Grounding includes artwork made from the ground – work that uses as its material basis the […]
2020 Awards Ceremony and Cocktail Party
In what was likely one of the last public events before the COVID-19 pandemic lock down, on March 5th, 2020 we returned to Gladstone Hotel in Toronto to award the 2020 Middlebrook Prize. Shauna McCabe, Executive Director of Art Gallery of Guelph introduced two members of the 2020 Prize Jury, Sally Frater and Lisa Volpe, […]