Photo credit: Tom Sandler
Sarah Milroy is Chief Curator at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. The former editor and publisher of Canadian Art magazine, she served as lead art critic of the Globe and Mail from 2001 to 2011. In 2014, she and Ian A.C. Dejardin curated From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK, followed by Vanessa Bell (2017) and David Milne: Modern Painting (2018). Since coming to the McMichael in 2018, Milroy has curated over twenty exhibitions, including Early Days: Indigenous Art at the McMichael (2020–21), Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (2021–22), Denyse Thomasos: Odyssey (with Gaetane Verna, 2021), Generations: The Sobey Family and Canadian Art (2022), Dempsey Bob: In His Own Voice (with Curtis Collins) (2022–23), Wanda Koop: Lightworks (2022), Gathie Falk: Revelations (2022–23), Rajni Perera: Futures (2022–23), and her forthcoming exhibition, Marcel Dzama: Ghosts of Canoe Lake. Milroy was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2020.