Gerald McMaster Receives OCAD University Award for Distinguished Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity.
Wapatah Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge is pleased to announce that Dr. Gerald McMaster has been recognized by OCAD University with a Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award for outstanding achievements in research and a legacy of curatorial and artistic contributions in Canada and globally.
Dr. Gerald McMaster is currently serving as the Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Indigenous Visual Culture and Curatorial Practice at OCAD University. As a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the director of the Wapatah: Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge at OCAD University, he brings more than 40 years of international work in contemporary art, critical theory, museology, and Indigenous aesthetics to the university. Dr. McMaster is a nêhiyaw (Plains Cree) and a citizen of the Siksika Nation.
Dr. McMaster has worked at institutions that include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, and the Canadian Museum of Civilization. He was selected as the Canadian curator to the 1995 Venice Biennale and 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. He served as the Canadian Commissioner to the 2010 Biennale of Sydney and the Artistic Director to the 18th Biennale of Sydney in 2012. His most recent work includes an Art Canada Institute publication, Iljuwas Bill Reid: Life & Work (2020), and the curation of a seminal Postcommodity exhibition at Remai Modern, Postcommodity: Time Holds All the Answers (2021).
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