Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received an Associate of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has worked for the past 12 years within the museum/art gallery milieu as an educator, intern, technician, curator (assistant, guest, resident, independent and Chief) at the Iroquois Indian Museum, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Indian Art Centre (DIAND), Carleton University Art Gallery and the Walter Phillips Gallery. Rice is a co-founder /coordinator of Nation To Nation (www.nation2nation.org), a First Nations artist collective and co-founder and chair of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective (www.aboriginalcuratoialcollective.org). In 2008, Rice will tour his exhibitions ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land and Oh So Iroquois, and will be opening new exhibitions in Lethbridge, Alberta, Toronto, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec.
Ryan Rice, a Mohawk of Kahnawake, Quebec is an independent curator. Rice received a Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Studies from the Center for