About

The Wedge Collection was established in 1997 in Toronto by Dr. Kenneth Montague. It is one of the Canada’s largest, privately owned contemporary art collections focusing on exploring African diasporic culture and contemporary Black life.

Originally conceived as The Wedge Gallery, this was both a private and public experience, with the original gallery literally wedged inside the narrow hallways of Montague’s home.

Today, the Wedge Collection, comprises over 400 original works by artists from Canada, the United States and throughout the Diaspora. It also houses an extensive catalogue of resource materials, including books, art journals, newspapers, magazines, and exhibition and artist documentation and lends works to international traveling exhibitions.

Dr. Kenneth Montague

Dr Kenneth Montague is a Toronto-based dentist, art collector, and the founding director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a non-profit arts organization. Since 1997 Montague has been promoting both emerging and established artists via exhibitions, lectures and workshops. His focus is African Canadian and Diasporic art, which he also showcases in his privately-owned Wedge Collection.

Montague has served on the African Art Acquisition Committee at Tate Modern as well as the Photography Curatorial Committee at the Art Gallery of Ontario; he is currently an AGO Trustee and an advisor to their Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora. He is also a Trustee of the Aperture Foundation, and a member of the jury for the Scotiabank Photography Award, Canada's largest photography prize. Montague is a frequent panelist at international art symposiums including the Bamako Encounters/Biennial of Contemporary African Photography and Black Visualities, Lisbon; as well, he has been invited to lecture on contemporary art at the National Gallery of Canada, the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, among other institutions. His curatorial projects include Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, and Position As Desired: Exploring African Canadian Identity. In 2021 the Aperture Foundation published the award-winning title As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, a celebration of works from his Wedge Collection; an associated exhibition is currently touring North America.

For his efforts in supporting the arts and his mentoring of emerging creatives, Montague received an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto (2016).