Curator, Exhibitions and Collections

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The Art Museum is an internationally renowned centre for contemporary art and interdisciplinary inquiry located on the University of Toronto’s downtown campus, in Canada’s largest and most diverse city. With its two distinct gallery spaces (the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Hart House and the University of Toronto Art Centre at University College), the Art Museum offers intensive cycles of programming dedicated to artistic and curatorial experimentation.

Featuring works in a wide array of traditional and contemporary media, the Art Museum’s exhibitions are further complemented by energetic offsite projects, digitally accessible programs, and research engaging with the University of Toronto’s extensive contemporary and historical art collections.

Working with artists and curators of diverse backgrounds, embodiment and cultural contexts, the program emphasizes the intersectional potential of the visual arts and cultural practices, their ability to undo existing and model new identities, creating other ways of knowing and belonging. This includes an emphasis on critical engagements with local histories, attention to their complex embeddedness in local and global relations, and the development of other, possible stories.

An integral part of all our programs are the in-depth and wide-ranging experiential opportunities for students and faculty, emerging and established scholars, visitors and communities alike – with mentorships, academic and co-curricular engagement, co-productions, partnerships, and other participatory involvement -- to catalyze the possibility of transdisciplinary knowledge and greater awareness of the worlds we share.

Above all, the Art Museum aspires to be a welcoming meeting point to bring into conversation the university community and broader publics. Creating multi-faceted opportunities for dialogue, our program fosters deeper knowledge of the visual arts, and especially their unique contribution to ways of seeing, hearing, sensing, and thinking about what is happening at present, and what is urgent in our time.

The Art Museum is currently seeking a Curator, Exhibitions and Collections. Reporting to the Executive Director, and working with the team of the Art Museum, their mandate is to research, initiate, develop and implement original, guest-curated and collection-based exhibitions and outreach relevant to the Art Museum’s forward-looking program.

• Curating exhibitions and gallery installations
• Liaising with creative professionals and vendors to generate and deliver creative concepts
• Implementing plans and process improvements for program and service activities
• Analyzing and making recommendations for programming enhancements
• Creating and/or editing original, published content and materials
• Developing and implementing community engagement strategies and plans
• Coordinating selection and acquisitioning processes
• Directing the activities of a single ongoing staff‑appointed employee

• Master’s Degree (Curatorial Studies) and/or equivalent education and experience curating contemporary art and exhibitions, including art in public spaces, working with collections, and policy implementation.
• Minimum three years of related senior experience in an equivalent position.
• Curatorial experience developing art in public spaces and collections.
• Deep familiarity and demonstrated abilities producing contemporary art exhibitions in all media in both, traditional and non-museum spaces.
• Experience coordinating exhibitions as well as public art projects related to the collection and temporary (off-site) programming.
• Experience implementing plans and process improvements for program and service activities.
• Experience and the ability to work with multiple stakeholders to develop exhibitions and public programming.
• Ability to multi-task and efficient implementation of projects.
• Excellent familiarity and working experience with all administrative tasks related to exhibition-making and collections in an A-designated museum context (including coordinating…