Chief Curator
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Curator, Sobey Art Award
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Sarah Fillmore is Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and Curator of the Sobey Art Award. She has held positions of Gallery Manager at the Chappell Gallery in Boston/New York, Public Programs Coordinator at the Portland Museum of Art, and Curator of Exhibitions at AGNS. Fillmore has worked with the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia since 2005. In her role as Chief Curator she oversees the provincial art collection, as well as the Gallery’s acquisition, interpretation, education, conservation and exhibition programs. She is curator of its Artist-in-Residence program and chairs the jury for the annual Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent award for an artist forty and under.
Fillmore has curated group and solo exhibitions including the retrospective exhibition of Canadian Abstract painter, Jacques Hurtubise, Skin: the seduction of surface, Forces of Nature, The Last Frontier, Open Tuning (WaveUp) by Stephen Kelly, Lisa Lipton: Stop@forever and, since 2008, the annual Sobey Art Award. She is currently working on an exhibition of Graeme Patterson’s recent work as well as co-curating a major retrospective and accompanying publication of Canadian realist painter Mary Pratt, set for exhibition and publication in 2013.