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Jann Bailey was born in 1952 in Hamilton, Ontario. She graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design (Toronto) and Sarah Lawrence College (New York) and taught at Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario, prior to moving to Kamloops, British Columbia in 1987. She is best known throughout Canada as former Executive Director of the Kamloops Art Gallery, and past president of the Canadian Museums Association and the Canadian Art Museum Directors, In recognition of her many accomplishment she received the Governor General's Canada 125 Award in 1992, the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 2003, was named Co-commissioner for the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005 (Italy), received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts and Letters, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops in 2008, and the Queens Golden Jubilee Medal, Government of Canada Award in 2013.