Andrea Kunard

Senior Curator, Photographs, National Gallery of Canada curates, researches and publishes on historical and contemporary photography. Exhibitions include Shifting Sites (2000), Susan McEachern: Structures of Meaning (2004), Steeling the Gaze (2008), Scott McFarland: A Cultivated View (2009), Fred Herzog (2011), Clash: Conflict and Its Consequences (2012), Michel Campeau: Icons of Obsolescence (2013), Photography in Canada 1960-2000 (2017) Marlene Creates — Places, Paths, and Pauses (2017) with Susan Gibson Garvey; Photostories Canada (2017 virtual exhibition); Anthropocene (2018) with Sophie Hackett and Urs Stahel; Moyra Davey: The Faithful (2020), Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art (2022), and Kan Azuma: A Matter of Place (2024) with Assistant Curator Euijung McGillis. Kunard has taught photo history, Canadian art and cultural theory at Carleton and Queen's University, and lectured on photography throughout Canada. Recent published essays include “Stilll Moving: Fugitive and Unfolding. Jin-me Yoon and Photography,” Jin-me Yoon: Scotiabank Photography Award (Steidel 2023) and “James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk: Photography and Collaboration,” Ithin-en-wuk—we place ourselves at the centre: James Nicholas and Sandra Semchuk (MacKenzie Art Gallery 2023). Co-editor of The Cultural Work of Photography in Canada (McGill Queen’s U.P. 2008), she has also published in the National Gallery of Canada Review, (University of Toronto Press), The Journal of Canadian Art History, the International Journal of Canadian Studies, and Early Popular Visual Culture.