Caitlin Sutherland is a contemporary art curator, writer, and consultant with an academic background in criticism, curatorial practice, and museum studies and management from OCAD University and the University of Toronto. Over the last two decades she has worked in curatorial, project management, and leadership capacities with Grimsby Public Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area (CAFKA); Walter Phillips Gallery (Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity); Blackwood Gallery (University of Toronto Mississauga); University of Waterloo Art Gallery; Hamilton Artists Inc.; University of Toronto Art Centre; Workers Arts and Heritage Centre; and Art Gallery of Hamilton.
Recent curatorial projects include: si com di l’eau | we are like water, Jason Baerg (2024); Stay with me, Stéphane Alexis, Joel Becker, Lindsey Carter, Amy Esplen, Shirin Fahimi, Behnaz Fatemi, Kandis Friesen, Mélika Hashemi and Nasim Asgari, Kablusiak, Abedar Kamgari, Tee Kundu, Isabel M. Martínez, Alisa McRonald, Sara Mozafari, The Observatory (Lucy Bilson, Nicole Beno), Lauren Prousky, Brenda Mabel Reid, Finnegan Shannon, Esther Slevinsky, Jessica Thompson, Tract Collective, Lan “Florence” Yee, Shellie Zhang, Zest Artist Collective (2023); Mmenwenmad | to save for later, Raven Davis (2022); Mentally I’m Here, Shannon Finnegan (2022); Never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon, (F)NOR, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Hazel Meyer, Kelly Mark and Jo-Anne Balcaen (2017); & Into the Wild, featuring Sonny Assu, Jason Brown, Leisure, Duane Linklater, Alex McLeod, Darren Rigo, Elinor Whidden and Young & Giroux as well as select works from the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Hamilton and Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (2015).
In addition to exhibition texts, she has contributed writing to a variety of publications including Inuit Art Quarterly, Daily Serving, Hamilton Arts and Letters Magazine, and Canadian Art.
Image: Lydia Santia.
Caitlin Sutherland 