Richard Hill Appointed as Curator of Canadian Art at Vancouver Art Gallery

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Richard William Hill (photo by Scott Little; courtesy the Vancouver Art Gallery)

Richard Hill has been appointed the Smith Jarislowsky senior curator of Canadian art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. 

“I’m extremely excited to be coming to the Vancouver Art Gallery at this moment of change and possibility,” says Hill.

“My approach to curating is to leave no methodological assumption unexamined in the attempt to match the form of the exhibition to its curatorial intent. We need innovative ways of looking at the art we are used to seeing in the museum, but also new methods for drawing attention to what has been overlooked or excluded.”

Hill, also a critic and art historian, is of Cree heritage and holds a Canada research chair in Indigenous studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. Previously, he was an associate professor at York University in Toronto. Hill has also worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where he helped oversee the process of collecting and displaying Indigenous North American art.

Hill is currently co-curating a retrospective for acclaimed Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, which will open at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2023. The exhibition, Alanis Obomsawin: Lifework, is being organized with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. 

The Vancouver Art Gallery also announced its appointment of Broek Bosma to the new position of chief advancement officer and director of the Vancouver Art Gallery Foundation. Bosma, trained as a musician and worked as a conductor for a decade, before completing an MBA and working in fundraising for orchestras, hospitals and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design.

Source: Vancouver Art Gallery