Daina Augaitis

Bio:

Daina Augaitis is a curator based in Vancouver, Canada. She is chief curator emerita at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and has also held curatorial positions at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff; Western Front, Vancouver; Convertible Showroom, Vancouver; Franklin Furnace, New York; and has organized exhibitions independently including at the Museum Reina Sofía, Madrid, and Jeu de Paume, Paris. Augaitis was named the Canadian Commissioner of the Johannesburg Biennale (1995); the Sydney Biennial (2000); the Bienal de Sao Paulo (2002); and curated the Vancouver Pavilion at the Shanghai Biennale (2012). She has edited anthologies, written numerous catalogue essays and articles, has sat on national juries and lectured internationally. In 2025, Augaitis was awarded the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.