Dominique Fontaine
Scholar-in-Residence Dominique Fontaine received the Grand Prix in Visual Arts awarded by the Dynastie Foundation during their 10th anniversary gala. This hommage celebrates Fontaine's multi-hyphenate career as a curator, researcher and arts administrator, through which her particular attention to Black visuality and the often marginalized stories of art in Canada contributes to renewing perspectives and opening up essential paths in the field of visual arts.
Fontaine plays an active role in several international organizations, including the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC), the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-Canada). Her rigor and expertise have led her to sit on leading juries, including that of the French Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale, the 2021 Sobey Art Prize and the 2024 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts and Media Arts.
In her current appointment in the Department, Fontaine supports the new generation of curators and researchers as a key collaborator and instructor of the graduate certificate and microprogram in Curatorial Studies and Practices.