BIO

Ray Cronin is a writer and curator living in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, the traditional unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq and the Wəlastəkewiyik (Maliseet) Peoples. 

In 2023 he was named the Curator of Canadian Art at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. 

From 2001 to 2015 he worked at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia as Curator and as Director and CEO. He is the founding curator of the Sobey Art Award and the author of fourteen books on Canadian art, including Alan Syliboy: Culture is Our Medicine, (Gaspereau Press) Our Maud: The Life, Art and Legacy of Maud Lewis (Art Gallery of Nova Scotia) Halifax Art & Artists: An Illustrated History (Art Canada Institute), and Nova Scotia Folk Art: An Illustrated Guide (Nimbus Publishing).

He is a graduate of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Bachelor of Fine Arts), the University of Windsor (Master of Fine Arts), and the Getty Museum Leadership Institute.