Tarah Hogue, curator, and Walter Scott, artist receive $10,000 TD Bank Group Awards for emerging curators and artists.

Tarah Hogue 

Tarah Hogue is a curator, cultural worker and writer. She is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and has been an  uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ territories, since 2008. She holds an M.A. in Critical and Curatorial Studies from  the University of British Columbia and a BA(H) in Art History from Queen’s  University. Raised in Red Deer, Alberta on the border between Treaty 6 and 7  territories, she is a member of the Métis Nation with French-Canadian and Dutch  ancestry. 

Her work often responds to complex histories of place through adjacent or resonant gestures  embodied within contemporary artistic practices, and utilizes process-based and collaborative  working methods.Her recent curatorial projects include Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do  you carry the land? at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2018); The Commute, co-curated with Freja  Carmichael, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Léuli Eshragi and Lana Lopesi at the Institute of Modern Art,  Brisbane (2018); and #callresponse, co-organized with Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard, in  partnership with grunt gallery (2016–19).

Walter Scott

Walter Scott is a Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk) artist working in diverse media — including sculpture, drawing, video, performance and graphic novels — and  explores the navigation of social and emotional worlds. His Wendy comic strip  and books have gained critical acclaim and a cult following, and he has said  that, if given the award, he would “wrap up production on my current project:  the third volume of the Wendy comic series. I would also bring my new project,  a short Wendy animated film, to be shown in galleries and artist-run centres upon completion.”  

Other areas of his practice are interconnected, yet distinct. Last year, he presented a new suite of sculptures at the Remai Modern, in Saskatoon. This year, he will develop a new body of work as  an Artist in Residence at the International Curatorial and Studio Program, in Brooklyn, New  York.