Allison Collins is a curator, writer and researcher who also maintains a creative practice as a weaver. In her present role as Public Art Coordinator at the Burnaby Art Gallery she focuses on building commission opportunities for artists through public art processes. Since 2011, she has worked at various cultural institutions in Vancouver, including Western Front, Vancouver Art Gallery, SFU Galleries, Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Throughout this time she also produced projects as an independent curator in Canada and elsewhere. Recent independent projects have emphasized collaboration and exchange, including: Snack Bar (2021), a backyard hospitality series in Nanaimo with Claire Geddes Bailey; Kamias Triennial (2020, 2017), a domestic art triennial in Quezon City, Philippines with Patrick Cruz and Su-Ying Lee, and Pacific Crossings an intermittent research collaboration with BC-based curators that focuses on dialogue adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. She has also mounted several multi-faceted exhibitions, including Mainstreeters: Taking Advantage (with Michael Turner), grunt gallery, Vancouver; Suspicious Futures: Selected works of Susan Britton, Vtape, Toronto, and PLATFORM, Winnipeg; and Hold Still Wild Youth: The Gina Show Archive, Or Gallery, Vancouver. Her writing has been published in periodicals and catalogues in Canada and the Philippines. She holds a BFA in Visual Art, University of Ottawa, and an MA in Art History (Critical and Curatorial Studies), University of British Columbia.