Kimberly Phillips, Director, Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum

Kimberly Phillips is Director of the Marianne and Edward Gibson Art Museum at Simon Fraser University. Over the past 20 years, in her roles as gallery director, curator, and teacher based on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh peoples, she has worked to create meaningful and unexpected ways for contemporary artists and their publics to find one another. Phillips’s curatorial practice maintains a particular interest in the spectral and the resistant, as well as the conditions under which artists work. She has curated over 60 exhibitions and public projects, most recently as Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery (2017-2020) and Director/Curator of Access Gallery (2013-2017) and has edited and contributed to numerous publications. Phillips holds a PhD in art history from the University of British Columbia (2007), where she was an Izaak Walton Killam Doctoral Fellow.