Joyce Zemans

Joyce Zemans (born April 21, 1940) is a Canadian art historian, curator, cultural policy specialist and academic. She is known as the first woman to serve as York University`s Dean of Fine Arts and as director of the Canada Council for the Arts (1988-1992).

Career Zemans received her BA in French (1962) and her MA in art history (1966) from the University of Toronto, with additional courses at the Courtauld Institute University of London (1961).

From 1988 to 1992, she was director of the Canada Council, Ottawa.

Writing Her publications include catalogues and essays for exhibitions she curated including: J.W.G. Macdonald: The Inner Landscape (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1981) which was praised in a peer review for its "diligent research, immensely readable prose and masterful organization"; Alexandra Luke, Christopher Pratt, Kathleen Munn and Edna Taçon, Bertram Brooker and Tony Urquhart. and on the National Gallery of Canada's program of reproductions of Canadian art in the Journal of Canadian Art History. and has served as a member of the editorial advisory boards of scholarly journals in the fields of art history and cultural policy and is a member of the advisory committees of such institutions as the Toronto Arts Council and others.