Gaëtane Verna has been appointed to the position of Director of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Verna has been the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Musee d'art de Joliette (MAJ) in Lanaudiere, Quebec since 2006.
Gaëtane was chosen to lead the future of The Power Plant after an extensive internation seach launched by the gallery's Board of Directors, who determined her best to direct the galllery to a new level of achievement and recognition. She succeeds Gregory Burke, who left the organization at the end of May 2011, after six years in the role. Verna began her new position at Canada's leading non-collecting contemporary art gallery on 5 March, 2012.
Gaëtane Verna was formally Executive Director and Chief Curator of the MAJ in Lanaudiere, Quebec. From 1998 to 2006, she was the curator of the Forman Art Gallery of Bishop's University, while also teaching in the Art Histoy department of both Biship's University and the Universite du Quebec a Montreal. In her more than fifteen-year career, she has gained invaluable experience in curating, presenting and organzing exhibitions by emerging, mid-career and established Canadian and international artists such as Vasco Araujo, Alfredo Jaar, Luis Jacob, Kimsooja, Francois Lacasse, Marie-Josee Laframboise, Fabienne Lasserre, Yam Lau, Oswaldo Macia, Ed Pien, Penelope Stewart, Gabor Szilasi, Javier Tellez, Denyse Thomasos, Bill Viola, and YOUNG HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES, among others.
Verna holds a DEA and a Master's degree from the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne as well as an International Diploma in Heritage Administration and Conservation from the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris, France. She has an extensive list of publications to her name, and she is active in the arts community in a local, national and international capacity.
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