Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: November 9, 2022
• Invested on: December 12, 2024

Marc Daniel Mayer, C.M.
Sudbury, Ontario

Marc Mayer is an internationally renowned museum director and art curator. His impressive career has taken him from Head of Visual Arts for the Canadian Embassy in Paris’ cultural services; to Director of the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery; to Deputy Director for Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where he highlighted feminist and African American art; to Executive Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, where he established the Quebec Triennial. Former CEO of the National Gallery of Canada, he reinvented the space for Indigenous art, photography and contemporary art, and oversaw major international exhibitions, emphasizing cooperation and sharing.