Emily Dundas Oke

Emily Dundas Oke is a Nehiyaw, Scottish, English, and Métis curator and editor currently based on the West Coast. She is the Assistant Curator at the Burnaby Art Gallery and has previously held positions at The Capilano Review, Massy Arts Society and the Kamloops Art Gallery. A graduate of Philosophy and Visual Art (BA) from Thompson Rivers University, she has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards including the Ken Lepin Award of Excellence and is an alumni of the TRU Indigenous Knowledge Makers program. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, and has been an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony (Lithuania), Ideas Block (Lithuania), Access Gallery (Canada) and the Kamloops Printmakers Society (Canada). Her work is guided by reciprocity, resurgence and collaboration. Dundas Oke was the Indigenous Curatorial Assistant at CAG, 2018–2019.