Ian Thom is an author and art historian who spent more than thirty years as a curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG). At the VAG and other institutions he organized more than one hundred exhibitions on Canadian and international art. He is the author of books and catalogues on David Milne (1992), Takao Tanabe (2005), and Gordon Smith (2014), among others. In 2008 he was appointed to the Order of Canada for his contributions to Canadian art.