Ian A.C. Dejardin served as Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection from 2017–2023. Previously he served as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK, until 2017, having held from 1998 to 2005 the position of Curator of that gallery’s permanent collection of European Old Master paintings. While at Dulwich, Dejardin curated Henry Moore at Dulwich Picture Gallery (2004); Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven (2011); Emily Carr: From the Forest to the Sea (2014); and Vanessa Bell (2017), the latter two exhibitions in collaboration with Sarah Milroy, with whom he also curated David Milne: Modern Painting (2018), and Into the Light: Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald (2019). He has recently curated A Like Vision: The Group of Seven at 100 (2020–22), and Conversations: Masterworks from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection (2022–24).
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