Tarah Hogue is a Canadian curator and writer known for her work with Indigenous art. Hogue is of

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and

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ancestry and resides in

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. She is the inaugural Curator (Indigenous Art) at

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Early life and education

Hogue was born in

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, which lies on the border between

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and

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territories. Hogue received a bachelor's degree in Art History from Queen's University in 2008, and a master's degree in Art History in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the

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in 2012.

Career

After completing graduate studies, Hogue worked as an independent curator until 2014 when she became the curator-in-residence at

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. She was the Audain Aboriginal Curatorial Fellow at the

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in 2016, and the first Senior Curatorial Fellow,

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at the

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from 2017 to 2020. She became the Curator (Indigenous Art) at

in 2020. Hogue was recognized for her curatorial work in 2019 with an Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art by the Hnatyshyn Foundation. Hogue served as co-chair of the

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's board of directors from 2018 to 2023, and was a founding member of Shushkitew Collective.

Selected curatorial projects

* Located in the

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of Vancouver BC, Hogue co-founded Gam Gallery in 2009, an exhibition space and artist studio that operated until 2019. * Hogue co-curated ''Witnesses: Art and Canada’s Indian Residential Schools'' at the

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, which ran from September 6 to December 1, 2013. * Hogue co-organized the touring exhibition, ''#callresponse'' with

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and Tania Willard, which was first held at

in 2016. Hupfield and Willard were also participating artists along with

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, Ursula Johnson, and Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory. * ''Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land?'' at the

(July 14 to October 28, 2018) focused on Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin's collaborative performance practice and included artworks by Corey Bulpitt, Roxanne Charles, Navarana Igloliorte, Cheryl L'Hirondelle,

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and Juliane Okot Bitek. The exhibition was accompanied by three live performances and an artist publication. * Co-curated with Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Freja Carmichael, Léuli Eshrāghi, and Lana Lopesi, ''Transits and Returns'' was a group exhibition of artists from Indigenous Nations located throughout the Pacific, and was held at the Vancouver Art Gallery from September 28, 2019 to February 23, 2020. The exhibition was the third in a series that began with ''The Commute'' at IMA Brisbane (September 22 to December 22, 2018), and was followed by ''Layover'' at

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(March 15 to May 25, 2019). * ''lineages and land bases'' at the Vancouver Art Gallery (February 22 to May 24, 2020) focused on ideas of personhood and nature expressed in the basketry of Sewinchelwet (Sophie Frank) and the paintings of

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alongside works of contemporary art from the Vancouver Art Gallery's permanent collection. * Co-curated with Aileen Burns and Johan Lundh, ''An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance'' at Remai Modern considered modalities of health and healing in relation to pharmakon and the idea of minoritarian medicine. * '' Adrian Stimson: Maanipokaa'iini'' at Remai Modern (April 2 to September 4, 2022) was the first survey exhibition of this Siksika Nation artist, and was accompanied by a monograph publication. * The group exhibition ''Storied Objects: Métis Art in Relation'' at Remai Modern (September 24, 2022 to May 22, 2023) brought together more than 40 contemporary and historic works by Métis artists. The exhibition received an Award for Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators in 2023.

Publications

*Hogue, Tarah ed. (2022). ''Adrian Stimson: Maanipokaa'iini''. Remai Modern. ISBN 9781896359960. *Hogue, Tarah (2022). "Who are we becoming here? Opening Spaces of Interrelation" in ''Jin-me Yoon: About Time''. Hirmer Publishers and the Vancouver Art Gallery. ISBN 9783777439983. *Hogue, Tarah (2020). "(Untitled) Delta Trim" in ''Maureen Gruben: Qulliq''. Emily Carr University Press. ISBN 9780921356455. *Hogue, Tarah ed. (2019). ''Transits and Returns'' (exhibition catalogue). Vancouver Art Gallery. ISBN 9781927656488. *Hogue, Tarah (2018). ''Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land?'' Vancouver Art Gallery. ISBN 9781927656419. *Hogue, Tarah (2017).
Walking Softly with Christi Belcourt
. ''Canadian Art'' (Article). * *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogue, Tarah Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Canadian art curators Indigenous curators of the Americas People from Red Deer, Alberta Queen's University at Kingston alumni University of British Columbia alumni Writers from Alberta Canadian women curators Canadian Métis women