Sigrid Dahle, "Dairy Barn Ruminations," 2012 (courtesy Aceartinc, photo by Larry Glawson)
Winnipeg writer and curator Sigrid Dahle died in St. Boniface Hospital on Oct. 31. She was 65.
The Winnipeg Free Press is reporting that she died of complications from COVID-19.
Born in Regina, and raised there and in Calgary, Dahle earned a Bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Alberta and then studied art history at the University of Manitoba, graduating in 1986.
She went on to a 30-year career in the arts, organizing numerous exhibitions for Manitoba artists. Much of her work developed links between art, psychoanalytic theory and feminism.
Dahle was the first director-curator of the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon in the late 1980s and was art critic for the Winnipeg Free Press from 2000 to 2002. She mentored many artists, particularly through her work at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, which she helped found in 1984.
In 2011, she was one of five Winnipeg curators who organized My Winnipeg, an exhibition shown at La Maison Rouge in Paris and the Musée International des Arts Modestes in Sète, France.
In 2013, for her MFA thesis at the University of Manitoba, she produced I Never Stopped Being a Curator, a research project and exhibition that blurred boundaries between curating and making art.
Since 2014, she had been the art collections co-ordinator at the University of Manitoba, and also worked as a sessional instructor.
Source: Winnipeg Free Press