Awards & Scholarships
The Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award
We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award.
About the Award
Each year, the Art Museum accepts applications from eligible students for the Art Museum Curatorial Residency Award. In 2025, the full-time summer residency placement comes with a financial award in the form of a stipend of $6,000 (~$20/hour, 300 hours, 8–10 weeks). The award offers the successful candidate an opportunity to engage in curatorial support and research assistance for upcoming Art Museum exhibitions and programs.
The Art Museum at the University of Toronto Award was established with gifts from three founding members of the University of Toronto Art Centre Volunteer Committee, Margaret McKelvey, Joy Alexander and Judith McErvel.
2025 Curatorial Project
The Art Museum is currently working on a number of curatorial and collections-based research projects exploring contemporary issues in art. In preparation, we are seeking a Curatorial Resident to work with the Art Museum’s curatorial team to support our research through online and library holdings, compiling histories of exhibitions on a number of topics in contemporary art, and assist in drafting research reports and related documents. The ideal candidate has robust experience in researching in a number of relevant platforms, and has prior knowledge and a passion for contemporary art in a global context through their studies at the University of Toronto and/or co-curricular or extra-curricular interests and practices.
Eligibility Criteria:
- University of Toronto student (undergraduate or graduate) registered in full (part) time studies at U of T; preference to students who have some affiliation with University College
- OSAP (must have received or be eligible for OSAP in the 2024–25 fall/winter or summer session)
- Ontario Resident
- Demonstrated engagement / background in one or several of the following: visual arts studio, curatorial studies, arts management, art and/or cultural history, Transnational/Diasporic Studies, cultural geography, urban studies, and/or museum studies at the University of Toronto.
Applications:
- CV
- Transcript
- Statement of Interest (250 words), relaying a description of current/past engagement in the visual arts and how the residency might further career interests and goals
Deadline: Submit your application by emailing artmuseum@utoronto.ca by Friday, May 16, 2025.
Page Image: Morris Lum, Remembering the Forestview, 2011 and 2021. Dibond mounted print. 36 x 28.5 inches. Photo by: Toni Hafkenscheid.
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.
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.
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.
The University of Toronto Student Engagement in the Arts Awards are generously sponsored by TD Insurance, MBNA, and Manulife.