Curator Kim Nguyen. Photo: Erik Hood.
The Hnatyshyn Foundation and TD Bank Group have announced that Kim Nguyen is the third recipient of the Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art. Nguyen recently spent five years as the director and curator of the artist-run centre Artspeak.
The annual award is presented to a Canadian curator under the age of 35 whose body of work has achieved a public presence and peer recognition. The winner receives a $10,000 grant for professional development.
Before joining Artspeak, Nguyen worked as the director and curator of Access Gallery, and curated shows at the Belkin Satellite, Gallery Atsui and Or Gallery, where she was Canada Council Curator-in-Residence from 2009 to 2010. Her writing has been published in Fillip, Ricepaper and Cahiers métiers d’art.
“My work is a constant balance between taking great care of artworks and artists while operating as if I have nothing to lose,” said Nguyen in a release. “I can, and do, present things out of a deep affection for them (and with affection comes criticism), and I can be, and am, in service to artists always. ”
Nguyen was selected by a jury including Candice Hopkins, chief curator at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts; Reesa Greenberg, art and exhibition historian; and Pamela Meredith, senior curator of the TD Bank Group.
The past recipients of the award, which was established in 2014, are Jon Davies and cheyanne turions.
The 2015 award was presented at a ceremony in Vancouver tonight.
