Robert Enright

Robert Enright, CM is a Canadian journalist, art critic, and academic. He is the founder and the editor-at-large of Border Crossings.

Enright attended the University of Saskatchewan, in Saskatoon, from 1967 to 1971 as an undergraduate in the department of English where he received a BA (Hons.). He then attended the University of Manitoba where he worked towards his Masters from 1971 to 1972 and 1972 to 1974 at the same school earning a Ph.D. In 1976, he was one of the founders of literary publisher Turnstone Press. From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of the Board of Directors for the Western Magazine Awards Foundation, as well as a Member of the Canada Council Advisory Panel on Book and Periodical Publishing from 1990 to 1992.^[1]

Along with spending 25 years as an art critic for CBC, he has also contributed to ARTnews, Modern Painters, and ArtReview. He still regularly contributes to The Globe and Mail. For his work he received nominations and medals in the National Magazine Awards, and in the .

While working for CBC for 25 years he started the magazine Border Crossings with Meeka Walsh and has this to say on the topic: "I've always been a border crosser, and the magazine was based on the premise that artists never looked at only one thing."^[2]

In 2005 he was named a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 2012 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He holds a research chair in Art Criticism at the University of Guelph.^[3]

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