114:, Ottawa (2010 and 2018). She retired from the gallery after working there more than 40 years in 2021. She now works as an independent curator. At the National Gallery, she curated or co-curated numerous major exhibitions and authored or co-authored their accompanying catalogues, and books, essays and articles on photography as well as lecturing and giving talks on the subject. In 2018, Thomas said:
147:) in Montreal (1972-1973), then her Masters degree in Fine Art at Concordia (1974-1976). When she did her Masters degree in Art History, she did a piece of research on urban town planning. It was a history of town planning in Kingston, Montreal and Toronto up until Confederation, documentation for the Historic Sites board and the Inventory of Canadian Buildings, part of the
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