Meet the 2025 Jury

Pangée (Montréal, QC), established in 2020, is a contemporary art gallery with a critical curatorial approach that embraces diverse expressions of art and materiality and encourages dialogue between practices. Pangée currently represents ten Canadian artists: Trevor Baird; Russell Banx; Nicholas Bierk; Mara Eagle; Delphine Hennelly; Grace Kalyta; Élise Lafontaine; Claire Milbrath; Darby Milbrath; and Élisabeth Perrault and interweaves international collaborations throughout its programming with emerging and mid-career artists. Pangée operates its gallery space and artist residency out of a historic building that overlooks Mont-Royal Park

Created in 2020 out of the merger of Galerie Division (founded in 2010) and Galerie René Blouin (founded in 1986), Blouin Division is a commercial based in Montreal and Toronto. With the mission of promoting the careers of critical Canadian contemporary artists and disseminating their work to an international audience, the gallery works with 46 artists and showcases their talent in its locations in Canada, as well as in New York City through its association with Arsenal Contemporary Art, in addition to participating in multiple international fairs every year.

Blouin Division has placed the work of its artists in some of the most important institutional and corporate collections in Canada, including those of the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, RBC Bank, TD Bank, Hydro-Québec, and the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.

Galerie Robertson Arès is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2019 with a focus on bold and innovative aesthetics. It represents over twenty emerging and established artists of international caliber, including many talents of Canadian origin.

The gallery occupies a completely renovated building located on rue Notre-Dame in the heart of the Petite Bourgogne district. The main exhibition space is a bright minimalist “white cube” space which hosts a diverse, vibrant and refined programming of individual and collective exhibitions. The lower floor features a secondary exhibition room reserved for more intimate presentations and experimental practices. In addition to participating in a selection of local and international fairs, Robertson Arès organizes an annual “pop-up” exhibition in Downtown Toronto.

Possessing over 15 years of experience in the Canadian and American art markets, gallery founders Emily Robertson and François Arès are actively involved in the Montreal and Canadian art scenes. Emily Robertson is Treasurer of the Association of Contemporary Art Galleries of Canada and President of the Société de développement du Boulevard St-Laurent. François Arès is part of the official Art Toronto Jury. Rachel Vincent-Clarke, director of the gallery since 2023, sits on the Editorial Committee of Magazine Ligne and is a member of the Honorary Committee of Les Impatients.

Established in 2012 the Macaulay & Co Fine Art is located in Vancouver on unceded, traditional and ancestral xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territories.

Macaulay + Co is a boutique gallery with a focus on artist relationships, and the management of thoughtful exhibitions within the gallery and in partnership with institutions.