Art Gallery of Ontario curators Wanda Nanibush and Georgiana Uhlyarik have won the 2023 Toronto Book Award for their book Moving the Museum.

The pair were named the winners of the annual award that honours books of literary merit that are inspired by Toronto on October 10. The award comes with a $10,000 prize, and finalists each received $1,000.

The jury called the book, which documents the re-opening of the AGO’s J.S. McLean Centre for Indigenous & Canadian Art, “revelatory,” and said it “kicks the colonial gaze to the curb, insisting instead that museums and galleries radically shift what they’ve been doing and offers page after page enacting the potential of Indigenous art to empower, inspire and create community.”

Moving the Museum was published by Goose Lane Editions and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

The book was one of five finalists for this year’s award, and was chosen from the 105 books published between June 1, 2022, and May 31, 2023, that were submitted for consideration.

The jury for this year’s prize was comprised of Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Jamila-Khanom Allidina, Steven W. Beattie, Sue Carter, and karen lee.