National Gallery of Canada

About the Selection Committee

About the Curator of the 2012 Exhibition

Josée Drouin-Brisebois is the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, in Ottawa. She organized the Canadian participation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume.

She has also curated numerous important exhibitions including Arnaud Maggs: Identification (2012); It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art (2010–11); Nomads (2009); Caught in the Act: The Viewer as Performer (2008); De-con-structions (2007) and Christopher Pratt (2005).

Ms. Drouin-Brisebois also co-curated Misled by Nature: Contemporary Art and the Baroque with Catherine Crowston and Jonathan Shaughnessy at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2012); and Spectral Landscape (2012) and The Shape of Things (2012) with David Liss at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto (MOCCA).

The National Gallery of Canada is home to the most important collections of historical and contemporary Canadian art.

The Gallery also maintains Canada’s premier collection of European art from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as important works of American, Asian and Indigenous art and renowned international collections of prints, drawings and photographs.

Created in 1880, the National Gallery of Canada has played a key role in Canadian culture for well over a century. One of its principal missions is to increase access to excellent works of art for all Canadians. To this end, the National Gallery maintains the largest touring art exhibition program in the world. For more information visit: www.gallery.ca