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Silcox has founded several important performing arts events in theatre, music, dance, and the visual arts in Canada.
He organized a major Canadian exhibition for the Edinburgh International Festival, and is chair of the Canadian Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, and a Trustee of the Canada House Trust, London.
To honour his contribution to culture and the arts in Canada, Silcox has received the Order of Canada, the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, and honorary doctorates from Victoria University in the University of Toronto and the University of Windsor.
As a senior administrator in provincial and federal governments, he established cultural policies and programs such as the Art Bank at the Canada Council for the Arts, which brought improved opportunities, support and recognition to our artists. He is also a long-standing Senior Fellow at Massey College and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.
Mr.
David P. Silcox
Member of the Order of Canada
- Awarded on: April 6, 2006
- Invested on: February 09, 2007
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David P.
Silcox
David P. Silcox has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the arts, his positions ranging from the first Senior Arts Officer of the Canada Council for the Arts and Associate Dean, Faculty of Fine Art, York University, to federal Assistant Deputy Minister of Communications (Culture) and Ontario Deputy Minister, Culture and Communications.
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He has also written major prize-winning books, including Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne; The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson; and, with Harold Town, the groundbreaking Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm. We are creating a central digital resource to tell the world about Canada’s most important works of art and where they are located.
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He has served on the boards of more than thirty cultural organizations, including the Stratford Festival, National Film Board, Toronto International Film Festival, CFDC (now Telefilm Canada), Royal Conservatory of Music, and Gardiner Museum.
Internationally, Silcox has served on the boards of Studio International, the Americas Advisory Board of the Praemium Imperiale arts prize (Japan), and the American Friends of Canada (now the Council for Canadian American Relations).
Most recently he was president of Sotheby’s Canada for twelve years. By functioning as an online art museum, a digital library, and an interactive Canadian art encyclopedia, the ACI is an indispensable resource on Canada’s visual heritage.
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Launched in 2013, the Art Canada Institute is the only national institution whose mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive multi-vocal Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, in both English and French, within Canada and internationally. President of Sotheby's Canada, he has turned the auction house into a major force in the national art market.
Through these works and his other books on prominent Canadian painters, he has made an important and lasting contribution to the study of Canadian art.