Zoë Chan

Zoë Chan’s curatorial projects have explored a range of subject matter, including collaborative documentary, storytelling, youth, food, and diasporic identity. Curator at Richmond Art Gallery since 2022, she has curated exhibitions for institutions across Canada, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Kamloops Art Gallery; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Optica, Montréal; MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax; and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels). Her writing has been published in C Magazine, Esse arts + opinions, and Momus, among other publications. She received the Canada Council for the Arts’s Joan Lowndes Award in recognition of excellence in critical and curatorial writing in 2015. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Art History from Concordia University, Montréal. Living on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations since 2016, she represented the Pacific Region in the jury for Canada's Sobey Art Award in 2025.