Grant Arnold is currently Audain Curator of British Columbia Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where he contributes to the Gallery’s exhibition and collecting activities. He was previously Senior Curator at the Art Gallery of Windsor and Extension Coordinator at the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon. He holds an M.A. in art history from the University of British Columbia. Over the past twenty-five years he has organized more than forty exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art. Recent exhibition projects have included Ken Lum; Owen Kydd: Mission/Night/Joshua; Is Only the Mind Allowed to Wander; Mark Lewis: Modern Time; Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs; Real Pictures: Photographs from the Collection of Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft; Rodney Graham: A Little Thought (with Jessica Bradley and Connie Butler); Robert Smithson in Vancouver: A Fragment of A Greater Fragmentation; Liz Magor (with Philip Monk); and These Days.

Arnold has contributed essays and articles to exhibition catalogues and journals. He has taught in the Critical and Curatorial Studies program at the University of British Columbia and lectured on historical and contemporary art at a variety of conferences and institutions.