Professor and University Research Chair in Art Theory and Criticism,
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario and Contributing Editor and film critic to Border Crossings magazine, Winnipeg.
Robert Enright is a Canadian writer, lecturer and curator. Since 2004 he has taught in the Graduate Program in the School of Fine Art and Music at the University of Guelph. He has over 35 years experience as a cultural journalist in print, radio and television. For that entire period, he has been associated with the arts magazine, Border Crossings, where he has published over 200 interviews with leading Canadian, American and European artists, including a number of leading photographers and photo-based artists. A partial list includes Ed Burtynsky, Stan Douglas, Robert Frank, Rodney Graham, Suzy Lake, Laura Letinsky, Helmut Newton, Arnaud Maggs, John Massey, Duane Michals, Shirin Neshat, Michael Snow, Jeff Wall, Gillian Wearing and William Wegman. For his writing in Border Crossings, he has received 15 nominations at the National and Western Magazine Awards, winning four gold and two silver awards.
Professor Enright has written extensively about contemporary art, contributing introductions, essays and interviews to over 80 books and exhibition catalogues. Recently, he wrote the essay for the Errata Edition of The Stage, Donigan Cumming’s 1991 book of photographs. He is also a nominator and contributor to Vitamin P2 and Vitamin D2, the influential surveys of painting and drawing published by Phaidon.
Professor Enright was given the 2006 Art Award of Distinction by the National Council of Arts Administrators, an affiliated society of the American College Art Association, and in 2007 was awarded a Gold Medal for his contribution to the arts by the R.C.A. (Royal Canadian Academy). In 2005 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and in 2012 received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.