About the Author

Ian Thom

Ian Thom is an art historian and curator who has worked extensively in Canadian public art museums. He was a curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery for over thirty years; he also worked at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Thom curated Takao Tanabe’s first major retrospective, Takao Tanabe, in 2005, and he organized the exhibition Takao Tanabe: Printmaker for the Kelowna Art Gallery in 2023. Thom was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2009.