Caitlin Sutherland is Assistant Curator, Walter Phillips Gallery at Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. She is also an independent curator and writer with an academic background in criticism, curatorial practice, and museum studies and management from OCAD University and the University of Toronto. Caitlin has worked independently and with a number of contemporary arts organizations for more than a decade, most recently as Project Coordinator for The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea produced by Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto Mississauga and the City of Mississauga. Prior to that, she was Programming Director of Hamilton Artists Inc. (2013-2018). Some recent curatorial projects include Never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon, featuring (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 numerous 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 by Lydia Santia.