Jim Shedden is the Curator, Special Projects & Director, Publishing at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. Shedden’s areas of specialty include film, music, popular culture and countercultures, and publishing. He has curated and/or collaborated on exhibitions and publications ranging from I AM HERE: Home Movies and Everyday Masterpieces (2022), Guillermo del Toro: At Home with Monsters (2017), Outsiders: American Photography and Film, 1950s–1980s (2016), Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows (2022), and KAWS Family (2024). Shedden has worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario since 2010, and from 1988–1998, wearing various curatorial, publishing, education, and programming hats. From 1998–2010, Shedden was the vice-president and creative producer at Bruce Mau Design. He is also director of a number of documentary films, an independent film curator, music programmer, writer, and podcaster. He holds a masters degree in political science and a bachelors degree in philosophy, political science, and cinema studies, both from the University of Toronto.