CURATOR’S TOUR:
TARAH HOGUE

Free for Members or with Gallery Admission

Join Senior Curatorial Fellow of Indigenous Art Tarah Hogue for an in-depth tour of ​Transits and Returns, which is co-curated with Sarah Biscara Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli Eshraghi and Lana Lopesi and builds on recent presentations in Brisbane and Auckland. Hogue will expand upon the exhibition’s four themes of territory, movement, kinship and representation and speak to the conversations that arise between the artworks on display.

About the Curator 

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. She is a member of the Métis Nation with French Canadian and Dutch ancestries. Hogue is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow of Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm [Musqueam], Sḵwx̱wú7mesh [Squamish] and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ [Tsleil-Waututh] territories since 2008. Her work often responds to complex histories of place through adjacent or resonant gestures embodied within contemporary artistic practices, and utilizes process-based and collaborative working methods. Recent curatorial projects include Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land? at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2018) and #callresponse, co-organized with Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard, which toured Canada and the United States in partnership with grunt gallery (2016–19). Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash, c magazine, Canadian Art, Inuit Art Quarterly, MICE Magazine and others. Hogue is currently the co-chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective / Collectif des commissaires autochtones. She holds an MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a BA(H) in Art History from Queen’s University.