Independent curator Keith Wallace (Canadian, b. 1951) has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979. From 1991 to 2001 he was Curator, then Director/Curator, of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He has organized exhibitions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto, and the Belkin, where he was Associate Director/Curator from 2005 to 2008 and 2012 to 2015. Wallace has travelled to India more than a dozen times over close to thirty years and artists of South Asian descent he has exhibited in Vancouver include Shani Mootoo, Sunil Gupta, Vivan Sundaram, Subodh Gupta, and Anita Dube. From 2004 to 2020, he was Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English-language publication on contemporary Chinese art that is edited and designed in Vancouver and published in Taipei, Taiwan.

Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).