Nawang Tsomo Kinkar Named WAG-Qaumajuq’s new TD Curatorial Fellow

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Nawang Kinkar (photo by Leif Norman)

Nawang Tsomo Kinkar has been named the Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq’s new TD Curatorial Fellow.

“I am very excited to join WAG-Qaumajuq, an institution whose efforts towards Indigenizing the museum space is particularly noteworthy. I am grateful for the opportunity to learn and contribute to the Gallery in my new role as TD Curatorial Fellow,” Kinkar said in the news release. “I am also looking forward to my first winter in Winnipeg!”

Of Tibetan descent, Kinkar is a curator, writer, and researcher. Based in Toronto, she was born as part of the exile community in Nepal. She completed her undergraduate studies in art history, English and Book and Media Studies at the University of Toronto, and she holds a master of arts in Photography Preservation and Collection Management from Toronto Metropolitan University.

She has worked on major projects in North America and Europe, including the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, The Image Centre in Toronto, and the Royal Ontario Museum, also in Toronto. 

The TD Curatorial Fellow is a two-year position that was created “specifically for an emerging racialized curator to cultivate personal curatorial methodologies, and collaborate on exhibition development, collections research, programming, and community relationship-building,” according to the WAG team.

“Through a reciprocal mentorship model, Kinkar will engage and collaborate with artists, WAG-Qaumajuq staff, and other arts professionals. She will connect with local, national, and international communities to achieve a major curatorial project.”

Source: Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG)-Qaumajuq

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