Tarah Hogue

Tarah Hogue is a curator and writer of Dutch, French and Métis ancestry originally from the Prairies. She holds an MA in Art History, Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a BA(H) in Art History from Queen’s University. Since 2014 Hogue has been conducting research as well as coordinating exhibitions and programming as the Aboriginal Curatorial Resident at grunt gallery. She is lead curator on #callresponse with Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard along with invited artists Christi Belcourt, Ursula Johnson, and Laakkuluk Williamson-Bathory, a series of site-specific and socially engaged works that will be followed by an exhibition at grunt gallery in October 2016. Current projects include Cutting Copper: Indigenous Resurgent Practice (co-curator), a collaboration between grunt gallery and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, writer-in-residence with VIVO Media Arts, and she has forthcoming texts for Inuit Art Quarterly, MICE Magazine and the 2016 MFA Graduate Exhibition at UBC on the work of Jeneen Frei Njootli. Hogue has curated exhibitions at the Satellite Gallery, Or Gallery and was co-curator of Witnesses: Art and Canada's Indian Residential Schools at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, and NET-ETH: Going Out of the Darkness, organized by Malaspina Printmakers. In 2009 she co-founded the Gam Gallery, a Vancouver exhibition space, studio and boutique.