Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
David Diviney is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax) where he has worked since 2009. His recent projects include The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978, Jason de Haan: Noghwhere Bodili is Everywhere Goostly, Eleanor King: Dark Utopian, John Greer: retroActive, and Chris Hanson and Hendrika Sonnenberg: The Way Things Are. He curated David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East, a retrospective of the late artist’s work that opened in 2011 at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa) before travelling to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown) and the Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena). He previously held the positions of Assistant Curator of the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge) and Director of the artist-run centre Eye Level Gallery (Halifax). He has also taught courses at Alberta College of Art and Design, University of Lethbridge, Thompson Rivers University, and Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. Diviney participated in the Canada Council for the Arts Asia-Pacific Visual Arts Delegation 2014 and was a curatorial panel member for the Sobey Art Award in 2010, 2012 and 2015.