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U of T Art Museum, visual studies alumni recognized by Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries
Published: March 4, 2026
The Art Museum at the University of Toronto, one of the city's largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions and programming, and several alumni of the master of visual studies program in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design have been recognized by Galeries Ontario / Ontario Galleries (GOG) at its 48th annual awards.
The awards celebrate outstanding achievement, artistic merit and excellence of arts institutions and professionals in the public art gallery sector.
The art museum was awarded Exhibition of the Year – in the category for monographic exhibitions with a budget over $20,000 – for its 2024-25 exhibition "Otherworld," curated by executive director and chief curator Barbara Fischer, an associate professor, teaching stream in curatorial studies in the Daniels Faculty, and artist Camille Turner, a provost's postdoctoral fellow from 2022 to 2024.
The museum was also honoured in the public program category for "A Journey through Otherworld,” curated by Bushra Junaid in collaboration with Drea Asibey.
Yan Wu, a graduate of the master of visual studies program and current PhD student at the Daniels Faculty who is the City of Markham's public art curator, received the Changemaker BIPOC Award.
Alumni Darryn Doull and Miles Rufelds were recognized in the exhibition design and installation category for "Miles Rufelds: Salvage Archives," exhibited at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery. Ingrid A. Jones was recognized in the curatorial writing for a major text for "Labour," an exhibition produced by the art museum.
Undergraduate architecture student Mark Bennett was recognized in the identity renewal design category for his work on the Joan and Martin Goldfarb Gallery of York University.
