Adam Welch is the Associate Curator, Modern Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Prior to joining the AGO in 2023, he held curatorial roles at the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His recent curatorial projects include the retrospective General Idea (2022), Joseph Beuys (2015–2017), The Advent of Abstraction (2016–2017), and the reinstallation of the Indigenous and Canadian Galleries (2017) at the NGC. He holds an MA from Columbia University and a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Toronto. Welch’s dissertation, Borderline Research: Art between Canada and the United States, 1965–75, explored relationships between artists, curators, and dealers across the Canadian-American border.