Jury members
Nicole J. Caruth is a cultural strategist and holistic health coach who examines the intersections of identity, place, and health. Caruth has worked with nonprofit spaces for more than 20 years to present exhibitions, develop community initiatives, and increase the representation of melanated and marginalized people in the arts. She has held positions at McColl Center […]
Denise Ryner is the Director/Curator at Or Gallery, Vancouver (2017-present), as well as associate curator in collaboration with Anselm Franke at the Visual Arts and Film Department of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. Her curatorial, research and writing interests include place-as-agent in exhibition-making and the cultural production of transnational counterflows of the 19th and […]
Julie Crooks is Associate Curator, Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). She received a PhD in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK, based on her dissertation Alphonso Lisk-Carew and Early Photography in Sierra Leone. Julie’s research focuses on […]
Sally Frater is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Guelph. She holds an Honors BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and an MA in Contemporary Art from The University of Manchester/Sotheby’s Institute of Art. The former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ulrich Museum of Art, […]
Lisa Volpe is the Associate Curator, Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She earned her MA at Case Western Reserve University and her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before arriving in Houston, she was the Curator of the Wichita Art Museum where she oversaw all areas of the museum’s collection. […]
Michelle Jacques is currently the Chief Curator at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (AGGV), where she is responsible for guiding a curatorial and education program that links contemporary practices, ideas and issues to the Gallery’s historical collections and legacies. Since joining the AGGV, she has curated exhibitions with contemporary artists Carol Sawyer, Rodney Sayers […]
Al Miner is the Founding Director/Chief Curator of the Georgetown University Art Galleries where he is also Associate Professor of the Practice in Museum Studies). Miner oversaw the final construction of the Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, establishing the vision, policies, and program for the University’s flagship exhibition space that opened in […]
Ryan Rice, Kanien’kehá:ka of Kahnawake, is an independent curator and the Associate Dean, Academic Affairs in the Faculty of Liberal Arts / School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) University (Toronto, ON). Rice served as the Chief Curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM) […]
Lisa Steele is the Artistic Director of VTape and professor at University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
Srimoyee Mitra is the Director of Stamps Gallery at Stamps School of Art and Design (Ann Arbor, Michigan).
Andrew Hunter is Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph.
Rhéanne Chartrand is a curator, creative producer, and arts administrator based in Toronto, Canada. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Anthropology from McMaster University and a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. Chartrand has over six years of experience producing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exhibitions, showcases, and […]
Dr. Nancy Campbell has been a contemporary art curator for the past twenty years. She has held positions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Guelph, the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and The Power Plant. In 2006 she curated an exhibition for The Power Plant of the work of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook […]
Melissa Bennett is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. She received a MA in Art History and Graduate Diploma in Curatorial Studies at York University, and a BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. She has held past museum positions at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary […]
Robert Enright, University Research Professor in Art Theory and Criticism, is one of Canada’s most prominent cultural journalists. He was the founder and is currently the senior contributing editor to Border Crossings magazine. He has received fourteen nominations at the National and Western Magazine Awards for his writing in that magazine, winning four gold and two silver […]
