Art critic, curator and essayist Sarah Milroy has been appointed chief curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Milroy is also a member of the ACI Board of Directors.

As a champion of Canadian art, Milroy has contributed to more than a dozen books, as well as serving as the chief art critic at The Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011. Milroy has also co-curated three major international exhibitions on Canadian artists for the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England: From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia (2014; and the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2015); Vanessa Bell (2016); and David Milne: Modern Painting (2018), which will also travel to the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Read the full statement from the McMichael here.

Watch ACI’s “Art Talk: Sarah Milroy and Gerta Moray on Emily Carr” to hear Milroy’s perspective on this extraordinary artist’s life and work.