Miriam Shiell is a fine art dealer specializing in 20th Century Modern and Contemporary art. She has operated in Canada since 1978. Her primary role is buying and selling, both on her own account and on the behalf of collectors.
As well as being president of the Art Dealers Association of Canada, Miriam Shiell has served on the advisory Committee for Trade Routes Canada (Department of Heritage) in addition to a prior term on the Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada (PADAC) board. Until recently she was a member of the board and advisory committees for the Koffler Center for the Arts.
Tien Huang has lived his life within the visual arts. The son of art dealers, and the artist Paul C. Wong, he is the second-generation to operate Bau-Xi Gallery. Huang began his career at Bau-Xi in 1990 while studying art history and commerce. He became director of the Bau-Xi ten years later and moved from Bau-Xi Vancouver to Bau-Xi Toronto in 2001. Established in 1965, Bau-Xi Gallery is the oldest contemporary gallery in Vancouver and one of Toronto's most established galleries having been in its current location since 1976. Through galleries in Vancouver and Toronto, Huang has represented some of Canada's most established artists as well as giving first exhibitions to many of its emerging young talent.
In 2002, he expanded on the Bau-Xi Gallery by acquiring the Foster/White Gallery in Seattle which was founded in 1968. The Foster/White is one of the largest and most established galleries in the Northwestern US. With this expansion, Huang has made exporting Canadian art a mandate and access to a larger American market a part of his business.
Pierre-François Ouellette has been involved in the visual arts field for the last twenty years. He obtained an MBA degree from the University of Ottawa and completed a PhD scolarity in strategy at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Montréal. Mr. Ouellette has held different positions in arts organizations before starting his gallery in 2001. He was the Executive assistant to Shirley Thomson during her mandate as Director of the National Gallery of Canada, he directed the Association des galeries d'art contemporain (AGAC Montréal) and was also administrative director of Optica.
Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain (PFOAC) represents multidisciplinary artists who work in a wide range of media including Adad Hannah, Karilee Fuglem, Isabelle Hayeur, Chih-Chien Wang, Ed Pien and Jérôme Fortin. In addition to its year-round programming of solo and group exhibitions, PFOAC regularly exhibits the work of its artists at national and international art fairs including the Toronto International Art Fair (TIAF), LOOP Barcelona and PhotoMiami. PFOAC also initiates special collaborative projects with other galleries both inside and outside of Canada including Galeria Habana (Cuba) for example. The gallery is committed to showing artwork that demonstrates critical engagements with contemporary art in all of its forms and complexity.
Ian Muncaster - Secretary
Mr. Muncaster has been the Owner/Director of Zwicker's Galleries since 1970. He is a Board Member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada and is Chairman of the Art Dealers Association of Nova Scotia. Mr. Muncaster holds a B.A. in English and History from Bishops University and a M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. He worked several years with Procter and Gamble, J. Walter Thompson, McLaren Advertising and Peat Marwick. He taught marketing courses at McGill, Concordia, Dalhousie, St. Mary's and Mount Saint Vincent Universities. He is a past board member of Neptune Theatre in Halifax.
After graduating from the Ontario College of Art in 1975, Doug MacLean's gallery training began in Toronto with positions at the Marlborough Godard Gallery, the Mira Godard Gallery, and Gallery Moos Ltd. He later worked with director and author Joan Murray as assistant curator at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa.
Doug moved to Calgary in 1979 to become the Assistant Director for Walter Moos' Gallery Moos Ltd. In 1983 he assumed the position of Acting Director for the Mira Godard Gallery. Unfortunately, the Calgary economy, hard hit by the economic recession of the 80's, forced the closure of both galleries. In 1983, Doug became a partner in Canadian Art Galleries and in 1993, the sole owner and director. Doug has been a member of the Art Dealers' Association of Canada for 15 years and was a board member for over 10 years during the 1980's and 90's. In 1999 Doug rejoined the ADAC board and continues to serve as Membership Committee Chairman.
Patricia Feheley is an art dealer and art historian specializing in the field of Canadian Inuit art.
Feheley has an extensive educational and administrative background in the visual arts, coupled with a lifetime of experience with the Inuit and the Canadian Arctic. She is an acknowledged expert in the primary and secondary market for Inuit art.
Feheley is the long-time Director of Feheley Fine Arts, a Toronto commercial art gallery specializing in early and contemporary Inuit art. She has spearheaded the gallery's ongoing program of catalogued exhibitions and has championed emerging Inuit artists such as Annie Pootoogook and Shuvinai Ashoona, both of whom are currently exhibiting in European galleries.
Past President of the Art Dealers Association of Canada, Feheley has represented the country's leading artists via the major private and commercial galleries of Canada. In this capacity, Feheley still travels nationally and abroad, participating in industry and governmental events.
Jeanette Langmann
Jeanette Langmann has spent her life in the arts. Daughter of Uno Langmann, a respected authority on art and antiques in the Northwest, Jeanette has acquired over 25 years of experience working in this field. She studied at the University of British Columbia before becoming a second generation art dealer and appraiser in the family business, Uno Langmann Limited.
The Langmann gallery specializes in the finest quality 17th to 19th century European and North American paintings as well as antiques and objets d'art. Jeanette travels worldwide to research and collect fine and decorative arts, and has a particular interest in historical Canadian art from the 19th and early 20th century. The Gallery provides appraisal services to public institutions and private clients, assists in assembling collections and sources artwork for individual clients. Jeanette is an expert on CBC's Canadian Antiques Roadshow and advises in appraisals and acquisitions for countless Canadian organizations. Jeanette has acted as Vice-President of the Art Dealers Association of Canada, is on the board of the Canadian Antique Dealers Association of Canada and was President of the former Antique Dealers Association of Western Canada.
Mary Sue Rankin
Powell MacDougall
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