Hello everyone, 

We are very pleased to welcome Taqralik Partridge to the AGO’s Indigenous + Canadian Art Department as Associate Curator, Indigenous Art – Inuit Art focus. Many of you will remember Taqralik as a co-curator of Tunirrusiangit: Kenojouak Ashevak + Tim Pitsiulak in 2018.  

Taqralik Partridge is a curator, artist, performer, writer and spoken-word poet originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Taqralik comes to us from her role as Director of Nordic Lab at Galerie SAW Gallery in Ottawa.  She also served as Adjunct Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph, where her most recent exhibition Qautamaat | Every day / everyday, is currently on view.

Taqralik’s performance work has been featured on CBC Radio One, and she has toured with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. In 2018, she was named a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize. She has previously worked as Communications Director for Avataq Cultural Institute and Editor-at-Large for the Inuit Art Quarterly. She is a member of the Inuit Leadership Group for Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/Pijariuqsarniq Project. Taqralik’s work was included in the Biennale of Sydney and Among All These Tundras, and has also released a book of poetry, Curved Against the Hull of a Peterhead (2020).

We are very lucky to welcome a true visionary, community builder and creative soul to our team.

Taqralik started on October 17, and she can be reached at [email protected].

Welcome Taqralik!