Pre-Concert Talk with Richard Hill

Ahead of the VIFF Live x Chan EXP: Jeremy Dutcher & Alanis Obomsawin concert, Richard Hill will give a pre-concert talk in the RBC Cinema, free for ticketholders. Seating is limited and is first come, first served.

Richard Hill is the Smith Jarislowsky Senior Curator of Canadian Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. He has worked as a curator, critic and historian of Indigenous and Canadian art for three decades. He was Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design from 2015 until December 2021. Prior to this, he was Associate Professor at York University, teaching courses in art history, curatorial practice and graduate research methods. Hill also worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario, where, with Dr. Anna Hudson, he oversaw the museum’s first substantial efforts to collect historic Indigenous North American art and display it in the permanent collection galleries. Hill’s essays on art have appeared internationally in numerous books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals.