Tatiana Mellema has a longstanding practice working in public art, academic research and curating and is the Curator of Outdoor Art at the Belkin. She holds an MA in Art History from Concordia and a PhD in Art History from the University of British Columbia. Since 2018, Mellema has worked as a public art planner with the City of Vancouver. Prior to this role, she worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Banff Centre, the National Gallery and at the Belkin as Curator of Academic Programs (2021/22). Through her work at the City of Vancouver, Mellema has realized major public art commissions, including Weekend Chime (2021) by Brady Cranfield, A Constellation of Remediation (2021) by T’uy’t’tanat-Cease Wyss and Anne Riley and Saltwater City Vancouver (2020) by Paul Wong. Her recent curatorial projects include Traces and Intervals (2022) at the Cinematheque, Spill Radio (2019) at the Belkin and Notes on the Nude (2016) at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Mellema has contributions forthcoming in edited volumes published by b_books (2024) and Routledge (2025), and her writing has been published in Canadian Art, cmagazine, Border Crossings and Black Flash. She is currently developing a book on the practices of North American artists in the 1970s and the engagement of socially reproductive labour.