Curator, Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts and Photography, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts,
Montreal, Quebec
Diane Charbonneau is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts as well as Photography at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She holds an MA in communications from Simon Fraser University and an MA in museology (decorative arts) from the Fashion Insitute of Technology. Working at the MMFA since 2000, she was deputy curator for Global Village: The 60s (2003), and coordinated Il Modo Italiano, Design and Avant-garde in the Twentieth Century in Italy (2006). She was in-house curator for the presentation of Gábor Ősz: The Liquid Horizon (2003), Tracey Moffatt (2005) and David Claerbout (2007) organized by the Mois de la Photo in Montreal. She was responsible for the following exhibitions based on works from the museum’s permanent collection: Landscapes, Inside and Out (2004), Literally and figuratively, Photographic Portraits (2005), Germaine Krull in Monte Carlo (2006), and Tête-à-Tête, Portraits of Quebec Artists by Richard-Max Tremblay (2011). Her next two projects entitled Landscape, Revolution, People and As Far As We Were, As Close As I Can (2012) introduced respectively the works of Aydin Matlabi and Chi-Chien Wang to the museum visitors. She is presently working with two photographers, Benoit Aquin and George Zimbel, for individual exhibitions in 2015. She serves on the board of the Mois de la Photo in Montreal since 2009 and has been its president for the last three years.