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Joyce Zemans (born April 21, 1940) is a Canadian art historian, curator, cultural policy specialist and academic. She is known as the first woman to serve as York University`s Dean of Fine Arts and as director of the Canada Council for the Arts (1988-1992).
From 1988 to 1992, she was director of the Canada Council, Ottawa. The author of the history of the council has written: “Ask …. about Joyce Zemans' time at the Canada Council and they will say "equity". It was under her leadership that Council began to take racial equality and Indigenous art seriously.....Zemans' tenure at the council is often associated with her efforts to expand...programming to Indigenous and culturally diverse communities".
In 1992, she returned to teaching at York, then as acting director of the graduate program in art history (1994–1995), later developing the diploma in curatorial studies. In 1995, she was honoured with a University Professorship. She was appointed Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies (1995–1996). In 1994, she became co-director of the MBA Program in Arts, Media and Entertainment Management in York's Schulich School of Business and served as co-director and director of that program for over 25 years, retiring in 2020 as Senior Scholar; University Professor Emerita.
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She has written Chapters in books including one on Frederick Horsman Varley in Frederick H. Varley (1983), and on "The History of Abstract Painting in English Canada", in The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2007). She has written or co-authored numerous articles on the themes of 'Where Are the Women?' in Canadian art, and on the National Gallery of Canada's program of reproductions of Canadian art in the Journal of Canadian Art History.
Her publications in the field of cultural policy include: Where is Here? Canadian Cultural Policy in a Globalized World (1997), Comparing cultural policy: A study of Japan and the United States co-edited with Archie Kleingartner (Altamira, 1999) and Making Change: Fifty Years of the Laidlaw Foundation co-edited with Nathan Gilbert (ECW Press). She has also written entries for The Canadian Encyclopedia and has served as a member of the editorial advisory boards of scholarly journals in the fields of art history and cultural policy and is a member of the advisory committees of such institutions as the Toronto Arts Council and others.
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