Awards & Scholarships

The Art Museum at the University of Toronto recognizes student achievement in the arts through three award opportunities: the Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award, the Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award, and the Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award.

The Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award

Applications for the 2026 Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award is now closed.

About the Award

Each year, the Art Museum accepts applications from eligible students for the Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award. The up to 12-week, full-time residency comes with a financial award in the form of a stipend of $3,500/month. Under the supervision of the Art Museum’s curatorial staff, the successful candidate will engage in research and program development for several upcoming exhibitions for our public programming season.

The residency is made possible by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto Award, which was established with gifts from three founding members of the University of Toronto Art Centre Volunteer Committee, Margaret McKelvey, Joy Alexander and Judith McErvel with matching funds from the University of Toronto Adjustment Fund and the Ontario Student Opportunity Trust Fund (OSOTF), and the Art Museum OSOTFF II Award established by the W. Garfield Weston Foundation with matching funds from OSOTF.

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Past recipients

Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award

The Art Museum is pleased to announce Ingrid Jones as the recipient of the 2023 Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award. Jones is an independent curator, multidisciplinary artist, and creative director based in Toronto. Design and direction are the foundation for her curatorial practice utilizing installation, media, and collaborative projects to interrogate themes of marginalization and refusal.

The Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award was created by Reesa Greenberg, an internationally renowned scholar on museums and exhibition studies, for academic excellence for a Master of Visual Studies (MVS) Curatorial Studies student at the University of Toronto at the end of the first semester. Greenberg’s donation provides an annual monetary award of $5,000 to a first-year MVS Curatorial Studies student, as well as a biannual award of $10,000 in support of international travel or a paid MVS Curatorial Studies Program internship at the Art Museum.

The Reesa Greenberg Curatorial Studies Award is adjudicated annually by visual arts and curatorial faculty at the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto.

Read the full media release here.

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Past recipients

The Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Awards

The student experience at the University of Toronto is more than classes and books. It is life on campus, in the community and in the world at large. The Cressy Awards recognize graduating students for outstanding contributions to improving the world around them and inspiring others to do the same.

For application information click here.

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Past recipients

Student Engagement in the Arts

The University of Toronto celebrates student engagement and leadership in arts related initiatives annually with the University of Toronto Student Engagement in the Arts Awards. This recognition award is given to successful applicants who have made a leadership contribution to co-curricular arts activities at the University. These awards are given at a ceremony in late March, at the Art Museum, in conjunction with the University of Toronto Shelley Peterson Student Art Exhibition.

For application information click here.

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Past recipients

The University of Toronto Student Engagement in the Arts Awards are generously sponsored by TD Insurance, MBNA, and Manulife.