Liane Davison is the Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Surrey Art Gallery, a municipal contemporary art museum located near Vancouver BC. The Gallery's work with cultural communities was recently recognized with awards from the BC Museums Association and the BC Recreation and Parks Association for programming excellence. She has curated over 60 exhibitions on a wide range of contemporary art practice from interactive media through to lawn ornaments, and on themes as varied as abstraction and muscle cars. She is also responsible for the operation of the Digital Media Lab which offers exhibitions, events and artist residency opportunities in new media. Her writing has been published in over 30 catalogues including retrospective books on the work of Nancy Paterson, Alan Storey and Mowry Baden. She has taught art history, and studio and is an active volunteer on boards and committees for visual art programming and arts funding.