Ryan Rice, a Mohawk of Kahnawake, Quebec, is an artist and curator who will serve as Advisor to Harpo's Native American Fellowship Program in 2012. Rice received a Master of Arts degree in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and received an Associate of Fine Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has worked for the past 17 years within the museum/art gallery milieu at various centres including the Iroquois Indian Museum, Indian Art Centre, Carleton University Art Gallery and the Walter Phillips Art Gallery. He has published articles in the periodicals - Canadian Art, Spirit, Fuse, Muse and Blackflash.

Rice is also a co-founder and former director of the Aboriginal Curatorial Collective. His exhibitions include ANTHEM: Perspectives on Home and Native Land, Oh So Iroquois, Scout's Honour, LORE, Hochelaga Revisited, ALTERNATION and Soul Sister: Re-imagining Kateri Tekakwitha. In 2009, he joined the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico as Chief Curator.

Past Advisors