Liane Davison

Liane Davison has curated over 100 exhibitions on contemporary art practice from digital media through to lawn ornaments. She began curating in 1986 as Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria before joining the Surrey Art Gallery in 1990 as its Curator and then served as its Director from 2008-2018. Her writing has been published in over 30 catalogues and her work supporting digital art and artists has been recognized internationally. In 1998 she initiated the Surrey Art Gallery’s TechLab, a unique venue dedicated to supporting the production and presentation of digital art forms, as well as artist’s residencies and exhibitions that showcased the engagement between ceramics, fibre and technology. In 2008 she also established an ongoing exhibition program of audio art. In 2010 she established in Surrey’s one of Canada’s largest permanent outdoor non-commercial projection venue, UrbanScreen, for interactive digital art.