Peggy Gale

Peggy Gale
Portrait of Peggy Gale
Born
NationalityCanadian
EducationUniversity of Toronto, Università degli Studi, Florence Italy
Known forCurator, Writer, Editor
AwardsGovernor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2006)

Peggy Gale (born 1944) is an independent Canadian curator, writer, and editor. Gale studied Art History and received her Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Toronto in 1967.[1] Gale has published extensively on time-based works by contemporary artists in numerous magazines and exhibition catalogues. She was editor of Artists Talk 1969-1977, from The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax (2004) and in 2006, she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts.[2] Gale was the co-curator for Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection in 2012[3] and later for the Biennale de Montréal 2014, L’avenir (looking forward), at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.[4] Gale is a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art), AICA (International Association of Art Critics), The Writers' Union of Canada, and has been a contributing editor of Canadian Art since 1986.

  1. ^ "Peggy Gale". Experimental Television Center.
  2. ^ "Member Profile". The Writers' Union of Canada. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection". Ryerson Image Centre.
  4. ^ "BNLMTL 2014". BNLMTL 2014.