ABOUT

Alison Powell's research engages with the history of environmentalism, decolonisation and the role of art museums in an age of ecological crisis. She served as Assistant Curator, and then as Acting Director/Curator, at the West Vancouver Art Museum from 2021 to 2025. There, she curated the exhibitions: Barrie Jones: Urban Wild (2025), Stepping Into the Circle: Aaron Nelson-Moody/Tawx'sin Yexwulla (2024) and The Decisive Moment: Ema Peter (2023). Most recently, she is launching PHYLUM, an artist talk series taking place in Bristol this March featuring established and emerging artist-researchers. She holds a master’s degree in Art History with a concentration in Museum Studies from The City College of New York (2021) and a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Art from Concordia University in Montreal (2016). She also holds an Associate's Degree in Arts and Sciences from Capilano University (2014), where an early foundational education in the environmental and social sciences directly informs her curatorial work.

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Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples – Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō, Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, she now lives and works in the UK. ​

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