Karen Duffek is Curator Emerita and an Honorary Associate with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC (MOA) and an independent curator, writer, and editor. As Curator of Contemporary Visual Arts and Pacific Northwest at MOA from 2000 to 2025, she supported the activation of Northwest Coast Indigenous collections inside and outside the museum, and her research, exhibitions, and publications focused on the relationships between historical and contemporary art practices, museum collections, communities, and art markets. She is the author and co-author of many books, including most recently Where the Power Is: Indigenous Perspectives on Northwest Coast Art (with Bill McLennan and Jordan Wilson; Figure 1 Publishing, 2021).

BOOKS PUBLISHED WITH FIGURE 1:

Raven Transforms
The Transforming Image, 2nd Ed.
Where the Power Is
Unceded Territories