Jury members
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 […]
John Kissick is a painter and writer who has held numerous academic posts; most recently, director of the School of Fine Art and Music at University of Guelph. He is co-founder of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.
David Balzer is critic, editor and teacher in Toronto. He is a two-time National Magazine Award–winner and a co-founder of the Toronto Alliance of Art Critics. He has written a collection of short stories Contrivances (Joyland/ECW Press) and a non-fiction study Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Coach House Press/Pluto Press).
Erin Rutherford has worked in both collections management and curatorial roles at institutions including the Art Gallery of Ontario, The National Gallery of Canada, Vtape, The Art Gallery of Mississauga and the Dufferin County Museum and Archives. She works as a Fine Art Administrator for Waddington’s Auctioneers and Appraiser. [Photo credit: Joseph Fuda]
Jo-Anne Harder lives on a farm in central Ontario. For the past twenty years, she has worked exclusively in metal and continues to be drawn to the inherent unique qualities of steel and copper. Her work can be seen in public and corporate settings, private homes and gardens in Canada and the United States.
Ivan Jurakic is a visual artist and the Director/Curator of the University of Waterloo Art Gallery. He has exhibited his work in Canada and the United States at Art Spin, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Gallery 44, Woodstock Public Art Gallery, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Big Orbit Gallery, Artcite, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, McMaster Museum of Art […]
Crystal Mowry is an artist and a curator at Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.
Natasha Chaykowski is a Montreal-based writer and curator. She was co-winner of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize.
Alison Cooley is a writer, curator, volunteer, and teacher in Toronto. She was co-winner of the 2014 Middlebrook Prize.
Katherine Dennis is an independent curator, writer and researcher dedicated to contemporary Canadian art. She won the inaugural Middlebrook Prize in 2013.
Shirley Madill is the executive director of the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. She is also president of the Board of Ontario Association of Art Galleries and vice-president of the Canadian Art Museum Directors Organization.
Dawn Owen is Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Guelph (AGG). She oversees the AGG’s in-house and touring exhibition and publishing programs, authors scholarly essays and delivers public lectures, writes operating, capital, and special project grants, and manages and develops the permanent collections, including art acquisitions (purchases and donations). Recently, she oversaw […]
Jennifer Rudder is an independent curator and associate professor at OCAD University.
