Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-Kwe curator, image and word warrior from Beausoleil First Nation. Currently Nanibush is the inaugural curator of Indigenous Art and co-lead of the Indigenous and Canadian Art department at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. She is also the founder of the yearly gathering of International Indigenous artists, curators and writers called aabaakwad (it clears after a storm) which most recently took place at the Venice Biennale in support of the Sami Pavillion. Her exhibition Robert Houle Red is Beautiful was on the NMAI Smithsonian in Washington DC from May 25, 2023 for a year. Nanibush has published widely on Indigenous art, politics and history. Her most recent publication Moving the Museum, Indigenous and Canadian Art at the AGO covers decolonization and Indigenisation work at the AGO.
Wanda collaborated with the Artistic Research Initiative (sponsored by the Mellon Foundation) as a 2023-2024 Fellow and co-instructor for Art of the MOOC: Colors, Bodies, Power.