NEWS RELEASE
ART GALLERY OF GUELPH
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The winner of the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators will be announced in an online event on Tuesday, March 30, at 7 p.m. ET.
Created in 2012, the prestigious annual award is the only one of its kind in Canada, recognizing an emerging curator under 30 with a $5000 prize and mentorship in the development of an exhibition presented at the Art Gallery of Guelph from Sept. 16 – Dec. 12, 2021. Everyone is invited to the free online event; please register on Eventbrite to receive the link.
By supporting and mobilizing Canadian creative talent, the Middlebrook Prize aims to inspire positive social change in an era of ongoing and unprecedented economic, environmental, social, and cultural challenges. “Awarded each year, the impact the Middlebrook Prize has had for both the applicants and the wider cultural sector is clear,” says AGG Director Shauna McCabe, “Supporting young professionals at a critical point in their careers, the recipients are among the country’s best and brightest emerging curators with a clear sense of the public role and transformative potential of the arts.”
The Middlebrook Prize winner is selected from proposals submitted by the nation’s best young curators. Reviewing the exhibition submissions for the 2021 Prize was a jury of arts leaders and established curators across the country: Nicole Caruth (independent curator and cultural strategist); Sally Frater (former Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Guelph, and current Director of Oakville Galleries); and Denise Ryner (Director/Curator of the Or Gallery, and Associate Curator of the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin).
Middlebrook Prize winners represent the strongest emerging curatorial talent in Canada and include Katherine Dennis (2013), Natasha Chaykowski & Alison Cooley (2014), Adam Barbu (2015), Isabelle & Sophie Lynch (2016), Yasmin Nurming-Por (2017), Lauren Fournier (2018), Missy LeBlanc (2019), and Maya Wilson-Sanchez (2020).
The Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators is made possible through the support of the Centre Wellington Community Foundation Middlebrook Social Innovation Fund, the Guelph Community Foundation Musagetes Fund, and through private donations.
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