Rhiannon Vogl

Rhiannon Vogl is Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She has curated Kiki Smith and Tony Smith: Masterpiece in Focus (2016); New Lines: Contemporary Drawings from the NGC, Art Gallery of Alberta (2014) and Mendel Art Gallery (2014); Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition (2017-2011); as well as Store/Fronts (2015), Mark Soo: House is a Feeling, (2014) and Phil Collins: they shoot horses for NGC@MOCCA. She assisted with Geoffrey Farmer: A Way out of the Mirror (2017); BGL: Canadassimo (2015); Shary Boyle: Music for Silence (2013) and Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume (2011) at the Venice Biennale. Independent curatorial projects include Zachari Logan: Hanging Garden, Line Gallery, North Bay (2014) and Isabelle Pauwels, Art Star 5, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2013).

Her writing appears in numerous NGC publications as well as Art & Place: Site-specific Art of the Americas (Phaidon); James Kirkpatrick: Secret Base by the Lake (University of Western); Blackflash; Herd Magazine; Border Crossings and Canadian Art. Rhiannon holds a BA Hons and MA from Carleton University. Her thesis, Walk this Way: The Urban Interventions of Francis Alÿs and Diane Borsato focused on walking as a performative act in contemporary art.