Glenn Alteen

Glenn Alteen is a curator and writer and founding Program Director of grunt. He was cofounder of LIVE Performance Biennial (1999, 2001, 2003, 2005). His writing was recently published in The Place of Objects: The John David Lawrence Collection (VAG 2025), Other Places - Reflections on Media Art in Canada (MANO 2019), Wordless - The Performance of Rebecca Belmore (grunt 2019), Unceded Territories Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (MOA 2016) Making Always War (Stride Gallery, 2015), Access All Areas (grunt, 2008), and Caught in the Act (YYZ Books, 2006).  

Alteen has been involved in archival projects as a producer of websites including Medicine (2008), Beat Nation (2009) grunt gallery, Ruins in Process -Vancouver Art in the 60’s (2009) grunt and the Belkin Gallery at UBC, Activating The Archive 2011, Taking Advantage – The Mainstreeters Redux 2014. 

As program director of grunt gallery Alteen was active in creating sustainable administration practices through the purchase of a facility (1995) and the creation of the Glenn Alteen Legacy Fund (2006), an endowment held by the Vancouver Foundation and the Blue Cabin Residency Program (2019). 

In 2018 Alteen was awarded Governor General’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Visual and Media Practice.