Scotiabank Photography Award: Angela Grauerholz

Angela Grauerholz
Artist

Angela Grauerholz (b. 1952, German-Canadian) studied graphic design, literature and linguistics in Hamburg, Germany. In 1980, she received an MFA in photography from Concordia University, Montreal. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, with venues including documenta IX, Kassel, Germany (1992) and the Biennale de Montreal (2002). Her most recent retrospective was organized by the National Gallery of Canada (2010) and toured to the University of Toronto Art Centre (2011). She has been awarded the Prix Paul-Émile Borduas (2006) and the Canada Council Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts (2014). Grauerholz is a professor at the School of Design of Universite du Quebec a Montreal where she teaches typography, book design and photography.

Dr. Gaelle Morel
Curator

Dr. Gaelle Morel is an art historian and Exhibitions Curator at The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre), Toronto, Canada. She received her PhD in the History of Contemporary Art from Universite Paris 1 – Pantheon-Sorbonne, France. Her research and recent work deal with the figure of the artist as author in French contemporary photography. She also works on the artistic and cultural recognition of the medium in the United States in the 1930s. She was, until 2013, a member of the board of the Societe francaise de photographie, and a member of the editorial committee of Etudes photographiques, a bilingual peer reviewed journal on the history of photography. She edited Les Derniers Tableaux. Photojournalisme et art contemporain (Paris: Editions des Archives Contemporaines, 2008) and co-wrote with Thierry Gervais La Photographie published by Editions Larousse in France (2008, 2011). She was a recipient of a Terra Foundation for American Art Travel Grant in 2007, for her work on the American art dealer Julien Levy who closely worked with Berenice Abbott in the 1920s and 1930s.

Paul Roth
Curator

Paul Roth is Director of The Image Centre (formerly Ryerson Image Centre) in Toronto, Ontario. Previously, he served as Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and as Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation in New York. Roth has organized numerous exhibitions and film series, including Scotiabank Photography Award: Mark Ruwedel (2015); Edward Burtynsky: Oil (2009), Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (2008), Sally Mann: What Remains (2004), and I…Dreaming: The Visionary Cinema of Stan Brakhage (National Gallery of Art, 2002). Among his writings are: Gordon Parks, from the series Photo Poche (Actes Sud, 2013); Gordon Parks: Collected Works (Steidl, 2012); “Unholy Trinity” in Richard Avedon: Murals and Portraits (Gagosian, 2012); and Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power (Steidl/Corcoran, 2008). In addition, Roth has helped organize the archives of photographers as Robert Frank, Richard Avedon, and Garry Winogrand.