Renée van der Avoird is the Associate Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Prior to joining the AGO in 2018, van der Avoird held positions as Associate Curator/Registrar at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Assistant Director of Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; and Curatorial Mentor at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She holds a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Arts and French Language & Literature from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo. Van der Avoird’s areas of specialty are modern and contemporary Canadian women artists and postwar Canadian art.