Tarah Hogue is a curator, writer, and cultural worker based in Treaty 6 and 7 territories and the Métis homeland.
In 2020, she became Remai Modern’s inaugural Curator (Indigenous Art) and recently transitioned to Adjunct Curator. Previously, she held curatorial fellowships at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, served as a visiting curator at the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, and was curator-in-residence at grunt gallery in Vancouver.
Her recent curatorial projects include the touring exhibition Meryl McMaster: Bloodline (2023), co-curated with Sarah Milroy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Storied Objects: Métis Art in Relation (2022), with advisor Sherry Farrell Racette, which received an AAMC Award for Excellence, and the mid-career survey and monograph Adrian Stimson: Maanipokaa’iini (2021). In 2019, Hogue received the Hnatyshyn Foundation-TD Bank Group Award for Emerging Curator of Contemporary Canadian Art.
She has authored catalogue essays for artists such as Maureen Gruben, Henry Tsang, Tania Willard, and Jin-me Yoon, and her writing has appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere.
She holds a master's degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia and a bachelor of arts in Art History from Queen’s University.
Raised in central Alberta, Hogue is of Métis and white settler ancestry and is a citizen of the Métis Nation of Alberta, with relatives from the Red River communities of St. Charles and St. François Xavier in Manitoba. She has written about her Métis family here.
She can be reached at hogue.tarah at gmail dot com
