Karen Love

Karen Love is an independent curator and writer whose early training included summer student work as a research assistant for Dennis Reid, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Canada, and as visual art consultant at the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa. She was director/curator of Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, from 1983 to 2001. Her 90+ curatorial and publication projects include War Zones, co-organized with Karen Henry (1999); Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver (2001); Weathervane, Oakville Galleries, Ottawa Art Gallery, Museum London (2006); Memory Palace: Three Artists in the Library, Vancouver Public Library (2008–11); and many solo exhibitions with publications, including those for Marlene Creates, Wyn Geleynse, Jamelie Hassan, Geoffrey James, Arnaud Maggs, Joey Morgan, Jan Peacock, and Mark Ruwedel. Love worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery in various capacities including manager of curatorial affairs and director of institutional gifts, from 2006 to 2020. In 2023-2024 she co-curated, with Linda Chinfen, an exhibition of photographs by Diane Evans for The Polygon Gallery in North Vancouver, followed by work as contributing editor of the 2026 book Diane Evans: Photographs 1976 to 2023, for which she wrote an in-depth illustrated and annotated chronology.