Dan Toua

Dan Toua is an arts worker and independent curator living and working on unceded Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. She is currently working at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery, having previously been a Curator of Pacific Art at the National Gallery of Australia and Associate Curator and Gallery Manager for Canberra Contemporary. Dan is a sessional lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies and a PhD candidate at the Humanities Research Centre (both at the Australian National University). Her PhD research investigates the curation of Pacific cultural materials in Australian national cultural institutions, with the goal of creating a Curatorial Handbook that will aid in sustainable, relevant and culturally sensitive curatorial practices in this area.

Dan is a first-generation Australian with Indian, Papua New Guinean and Fijian heritage and bases her curatorial practice on cultural autonomy, two-way relationships and knowledge sharing. In her work Dan strives to be an effective part of the global push for the re-imagination of cultural collections, exhibition development and curatorial methodologies that focus on anti-colonial and (re)indigenised practices.