Katherine Dennis

Public Program Coordinator Middlebrook Prize Winners

  • Vancouver BC

Katherine Dennis is the recipient of the 2013 Middlebrook Prize.

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Katherine Dennis is a Vancouver-based curator and researcher. Her practice bridges disciplines including exhibition making, public programming and visitor studies, and places such as British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. In 2012 Katherine won the inaugural Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators. She is also the co-curator with Noa Bronstein of Memories of the Future, an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists to intervene in historic house museums. She holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practices from OCADU. Currently, Katherine is the Adult Public Programs Coordinator at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Research Associate at Pivotal Research Inc.

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Writing and Editing
Arts and Crafts
Fine Art
Design
Research

Areas of Expertise

Curating
Museum Collections
Art History
Public Art
Art Education

Accomplishments

Memories of the Future II

2015-08-20

Art Exhibition
Bambitchell and Aleesa Cohene

The Lowest Relief

2015-08-21

Art Exhibition
Maria Flawia Litwin

Memories of the Future

2014-09-20

Art Exhibition
Sara Angelucci, Robert Hengeveld, Eleanor King and Matt Macintosh
Co-curated with Noa Bronstein

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Education

OCAD University

MFA

Fine Arts

2012

Simon Fraser University

MGMT

Business Administration

2009

Continuing studies

University of British Columbia

B.A.

Visual Arts

2008

Articles

Land Marks

Thames Art Gallery

2014-01-01

Land Marks features five artists whose works draw our attention to the ways in which humans mark themselves, others and their environments as a way of establishing identities, territory and relationships to the world. The artists highlight practices of marking, naming and classification as bound up in binaries that separate nature from culture. These organizing practices in turn create and...

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A Case for Visitor Research in Canadian Art Museums

Muse, Canadian Museum Association

2014-03-01

Article about Visitor Research in Canadian Art Museums

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NOW: In dialogue with the Art Gallery of Ontario

Muséologies : les cahiers d’études supérieures, vol. 7, n° 1

2014-09-01

Peer review article published on my MFA thesis exhibition, NOW: A Collaborative Project with Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette

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