Arts & Culture
Curator Nan Capogna (left) is retiring from Richmond Art Gallery, and Zoë Chan (right) will assume the role next month.
Photo courtesy Richmond Art Gallery
Art Gallery curator retires, new curator to assume role
Published 3:41 PDT, Mon April 4, 2022
Last Updated: 3:15 PDT, Mon April 25, 2022
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After a 22-year tenure at Richmond Art Gallery, including two years as interim director and curator, Richmond Art Gallery is bidding a fond farewell to curator Nan Capogna.
Many of Capogna’s exhibitions highlighted the work of under-represented local artists, forming a lasting impression on the arts in Richmond and the region. Her curatorial practice provided supportive opportunities to experiment with artistic boundaries that included Lyse Lemieux: A Girl’s Gotta Do What A Girl’s Gotta Do (2016); Mark Haney and Seth: Omnis Temporalis (2017); and Adad Hannah: The Decameron Retold (2019).
Capogna helped to catapult the careers of many artists and colleagues in the arts sector, as well as contributing to establishing the art gallery as an acclaimed regional contemporary gallery with a national reputation. Staff and board members are grateful for her leadership and dedication to the organization.
Starting in mid-May, new curator Zoë Chan will assume the role. With a Master’s degree in art history from Concordia University and more than 20 years of experience working at arts organizations across Canada, Chan is recognized as a thoughtful and skilled curator, writer, and researcher whose exhibitions have explored a range of subject matter including youth, food, embodied storytelling, hybrid documentary practices, and diasporic representation.
“I am really looking forward to working with the staff at the Richmond Art Gallery,” says Chan. “The (gallery’s) priorities of promoting dialogue around the issues of our time while engaging with diverse communities are very much in line with my own desire to develop rigorous, accessible programming that represents a rich range of aesthetics, perspectives, and approaches.”
Most recently, while in her post at the Vancouver Art Gallery Chan curated or co-curated a number of well-regarded exhibitions including Uncommon Language (2020-21), Where do we go from here? (2020-21), and Stories that animate us (2021). In 2015, the Canada Council for the Arts awarded her the Joan Lowndes Award in recognition of excellence in critical and curatorial writing.
“Zoë is a curator deeply invested in learning with and from the communities she is embedded within,” says Richmond Art Gallery director Shaun Dacey. “Her past work has involved deep conversations with dynamic and diverse artistic practices that are urgent and critically rigorous. We are so excited to have Zoë join our team.”
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