Bruce W. Ferguson (1946–2019) was a curator, critic, and academic administrator known for his work in arts management, exhibition curation, and international collaboration in contemporary art. He served on SAHA’s International Advisory Board from 2014 to 2018.

Throughout his career, Ferguson organized more than thirty-five exhibitions at institutions including the Winnipeg and Vancouver Art Galleries, the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and the Barbican Art Gallery in London. He also curated exhibitions at international biennials in Istanbul, São Paulo, Sydney, and Venice. For the 1980 Venice Biennale, he conceived a Canadian presentation dedicated to video art, and in 1991, he co-curated Un-Natural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada with Carol Brown at the Barbican Art Gallery. As founding director and curator of SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, he shaped the vision of its international biennial. Throughout his career, he championed emerging artists and supported the development of young arts professionals.

Following a senior research fellowship at the Getty, he co-edited Thinking About Exhibitions (Routledge, 1996) with Reesa Greenberg and Sandy Nairne. His writing appeared in publications including Canadian Art, Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, and Parachute. In his academic leadership career, he held senior positions at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the American University in Cairo, the School of Arts at Columbia University in New York, and the New York Academy of Art.