The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto has appointed Andrew Hunter to be its new curator of Canadian art, a post he will take up on May 1, the Globe and Mail reports. He succeeds Gerald McMaster, who held that position from 2005 until last year, when he left for Philadelphia, where his wife became the Please Touch Children’s Museum’s executive vice-president.
Hunter, who is currently a faculty member in the University of Waterloo’s school of architecture and a partner in the interdisciplinary research collective DodoLab, has held curatorial positions at many of Canada’s major art institutions, including the Waterloo Art Gallery, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. He studied at the revered Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
At the AGO he’ll be leading one of the country’s largest collections of Canadian art, which includes some 16,000 objects.
— Benjamin Sutton
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