PROGRAM

Mid-Career Awards

Past Adjudicators

  • Mid-Career Artist Award

    Mireille Eagan, Curator of Contemporary Art, The Rooms, St. John's

    Julia Paoli, Director and Curator, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto

    Felicia Mings, Curator, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

    Naomi Potter, Director and Curator, Esker Foundation, Calgary

    Dr. Curtis Collins, Director and Chief Curator, Audain Art Museum, Whistler

    Mid-Career Curator Award

    Marie-Eve Beaupré, Curator of Collections, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

    Greg Hill, Audain Senior Curator of Indigenous Art, National Gallery of Canada

    Zainub Verjee, Executive Director, Ontario Association of Art Galleries

    Dr. Stephen Borys, Director and CEO, Winnipeg Art Gallery

    Grant Arnold, Audain Curator of British Columbia Art, Vancouver Art Gallery

  • Mid-Career Artist Award

    Dominique Blain, Artist and Curator

    Linda Graif, Independent Curator

    Anthony Kiendl, CEO and Director, Vancouver Art Gallery

    Mid-Career Curator Award

    Crystal Mowry, Director of Programs, Mackenzie Art Gallery

    Shannon Parker, Curator, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia

    Christine Redfern, Director/ Curator, ELLEPHANT Art Gallery

  • Mid-Career Artist Award

    Jan Allen, Former Director and Curator, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Queen's University (Retired)
    Francisco Alvarez, Director and Curator, Ontario College of Design

    Dana Claxton, Artist, Professor, University of British Columbia, and recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Award for Artistic Excellence in Contemporary Art (2019)

    Brandy Dharouge, Director of Exhibitions, Banff Centre

    Maria Hupfield, Artist and recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Award for Artistic Excellence in Contemporary Art (2018)

    Mid-Career Curator Award

    Pamela Edmonds, Senior Curator, McMaster Museum of Art

    Dominique Fontaine, Curator and Founding-Director, Aposteriori

    Ann MacDonald, Director and Curator, Doris McCarthy Gallery, and Associate Professor, University of Toronto

    Chantal Pontbriand, Independent Curator and critic

  • Joséphine Mills, Director and Curator, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery

    Louise Déry, Director, Galerie de l'UQAM, and 2007 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art

    Melanie O'Brian, Director and Curator, Simon Fraser University Gallery

    Ivan Jurakic, Director and Curator, University of Waterloo Art Gallery

  • Brandy Dahrouge, Director of Visual Arts, Banff Centre

    Dominique Fontaine, Curator, Researcher, and Cultural Advisor, Founding Director, aPOSteRIORI, Montréal

    Stuart Keeler, Senior Art Curator, TD Arts, Global Corporate Citizenship

    Tania Willard, Curator, 2016 recipient of The Hnatyshyn Foundation’s Mid-Career Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art

  • Glenn Alteen, Vancouver-based curator and writer, co-founder and Program Director, grunt Gallery

    David Balzer, Author, Editor-in-Chiefé, Canadian Art Magazine

    Marie-Ève Beaupré, Curator, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

    David Garneau, Artist and Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina

    Linda Graif, Art consultant

  • Louise Déry, Director, Galerie de l’UQAM

    Dominique Fontaine, Curator and cultural advisor

    Anthony Kiendl, Executive Director and CEO, MacKenzie Art Gallery

    Lee-Ann Martin, Independent curator

    Eric Walker, Senior visual and media artist

  • Lisa Baldissera, Chief Curator, Mendel Gallery

    Robert Enright, Cultural journalist, writer and lecturer

    Jenifer Papararo, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

    Eric Walker, Painter and video artist

    Sarah Watson, General and Artistic Director, Artexte

  • Jury

    Diana Nemiroff

    Nigel Prince

    Eve-Lyne Beaudry

    Peggy Gale

    Robert Enright

  • 2012 Jury

    Diana Nemiroff

    Stephen Horne

    Michael Fernandes

    Peggy Gale

    Robert Enright

  • 2011 Jury

    Catherine Crowston

    Barbara Fischer

    Robert Fones

    Angela Grauerholz

    Scott Watson

  • 2010 Jury

    Louise Déry

    Lisa Steele and Kim Tomczak

    Ken Lum

    Jon Tupper

  • 2009 Jury

    Ian Carr-Harris, artist, writer and educator, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto;

    Peter Dykhuis, Director/Curator, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax;

    Timothy Long, Head Curator, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina;

    Joan Stebbins, Curator Emerita, Southern Alberta Art Gallery;

    Gaétane Verna, Executive Director at Musée d'art de Joliette, QC

  • 2008 Jury

    Christina Ritchie, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

    Jeffrey Spalding, Glenbow Museum, Calgary

    Louise Dompierre, Art Gallery of Hamilton

    Marc Mayer, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

    Marlene Creates, Artist, Portugal Cove, Newfoundland

  • 2007 Jury

    Jon Tupper, Confederation Centre Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown

    Christine Ross, Dept. of Art History, McGill University, Montreal

    Diana Nemiroff, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa

    Robert Enright, arts journalist, Winnipeg

    Liz Magor, artist, Vancouver

  • 2006 Jury

    Scott Watson, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver

    Catherine Crowston, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton

    Darlene Coward Wight, Winnipeg Art Gallery

    Kitty Scott, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Serpentine Gallery, London (England)

    Paulette Gagnon, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

    Robin Metcalfe, Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax