Resume

Education

PhD Visual Culture, University of Western Ontario
MA Art History, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
BA Art History, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg-in-Bresigau

Professional Experience

Independent Curator

Researching, conceptualizing, realizing small and large-scale, solo and group exhibitions and film programs
Conducting studio visits, liaising with artists, ensuring professional and ethical practices
Writing didactics, labels, catalogue texts, press releases
Conducting exhibition tours, giving curator’s talks

Arts Writer

Reviews, feature articles, and interviews published in national and international arts publications
Exhibition catalogue texts

Artistic Director, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film (2012 - 2015)

Conceptualizing and realizing five-day film festival
Grant writing and budgeting
Liaising with programmers and film makers
Producing all aspects of the film festival
Overseeing technicians, hospitality, accommodation, special events
Responsible for accompanying brochure, editing, and all media and PR

Public Art Coordinator, City of Markham (2012 - 2017)

Developing strategic vision
Identifying sites for public art
Implementing public art projects from concept/call to installation
Overseeing budgets ($150,000 - $500,000)
Public presentations
Organizing open calls
Overseeing public art juries

Teaching and Related Experience

Sessional lecturer at college and university level
Developing course curricula
Classes in curatorial practices, Modernism, 20th Century Art and Advertising
Critiques at MfA level
External examiner MfA level
Public talks
Presentation at academic conferences

Grants and Awards

Toronto Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council
Canada Council for the Arts
Ontario Graduate Scholarship
MITACS Accelerate

Curated Exhibitions
Look Again: Form and Void: Works from the Permanent Collection, Woodstock Art Gallery
Through Her Eyes: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kelowna Art Gallery (catalogue)
Stardust and Time: John McEwen and Veronica Verkley, Durham
Human Nature (touring exhibition), Carleton University Art Gallery
Traversive Territories: Sarindar Dhaliwal, Sheila Esfahani, Colette Urban, Varley Art Gallery
Writing Topography: Marion McCain Biennale of Contemporary Atlantic Canadian Art, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (catalogue)
Animal (touring exhibition), Museum London (catalogue)
Douglas Walker: Other Worlds (touring exhibition) co-curated with Peter Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery (catalogue)
Sciencefiction Sciencefair: Denton Frederickson, Brian McKenna, Robyn Moody (touring exhibition), Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery (catalogue)
Pulp Fiction (touring exhibition), Museum London
The Conative Object, York Quay Gallery
The Wonderland: Claudia Klucaric and Kate Wilson, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery
Neutrinos They Are Very Small: Rebecca Diederichs, Gordon Hicks, Sally McKay (touring exhibition), Sudbury Art Gallery (catalogue)
18 Illuminations (touring exhibition) co-curated with Carla Garnet, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, (catalogue)
SuperNatural: Anna Maria Parolin and Natsuko Nakata, Open Studio
ReCollect: Mary Kavanaugh and Carol Sawyer, La Centrale (touring exhibition)
InkLinations, York Quay Gallery
Happy Valley: David Acheson and Lorna Mills, The Walter Phillips Gallery
Tekeningen III, Quartair
Wish: Mona Kamal, Pamila Matharu, Tara Sabharwal, WARC in conjunction with SAVAC
Poesis: Marianne Lovink and Sheila Moss (touring exhibition), Mercer Union
Made In Banff: Selections from the Collection, co-curated with Melanie Townsend and Charlene McNichol, Walter Phillips Gallery
Crawford Street: Carolyn White, Toronto Photographers Workshop
Feminist Practices: Lateral Moves: Jamelie Hassan and Leila Sujir, A Space in conjunction with SAVAC
LightWeights: Sandra Gregson and Sandra Rechico, Gallery 96
Illegitimate: David Acheson, Janet Bellotto, Lisa Klapstock, Jill Stock, Archive Inc
Bawdy: Michelle Gay, Vessna Perunovich, Jill Stock, Angela Gallery

Film and Video Programs
North, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Disrupting Binaries, Cold Cuts Video Festival
Us Animals, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film

Selected Publications
“The Mediation of Trauma: The Problematics of Witnessing Tertiary Memory in the Work of Samina Mansuri.” In Kim Huynh and Cecille DePass, Ed., Calgary: Art Bayeux
“We Are Here Now: Vessna Perunovich
“Complex Intermingling and the Co-Evolution of Species.” Mary Anne Barkhouse, MacLaren Arts Centre
“The Proverbial Mole.” Veronica Verkley: Second Nature: FERAL, Yukon Arts Centre
“Deep in the Mud: Unthinking and Re-Thinking.” Colette Urban: Incognito. Museum London
“Material Becomings in the Work of Lyn Carter.” Cambridge Galleries and Peel Gallery
“Looking for Cohesion in a Broken World.” Abject Nature: Duke and Battersby. Union Gallery
“Curious Lights in the Eye of the Storm.” Kate Wilson: Curious Lights. Union Gallery
“Persona Volare: Canadian Club.” Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris.
“Probing Into the Distance.” Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener
“Lorna Mills: Reality Show.” Tom Thomson Art Gallery
“Gathering Shades: Catherine Heard and Ed Pien.” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
“Computer Voices: Speaking Machines.” David Rokeby and Jocelyn Robert, The Walter Phillips Art Gallery

Selected Public Art Commissions
Jill Anhold, Living Light, Downtown Markham
Mary Anne Barkhouse, Locavore, Carleton University
Les Drysdale, Monument to Benjamin Thorne, Thornhill Community Centre
Marlene Hilton Moore, Monument to William Bercy, Berczy Square, Markham
Mary Anne Barkhouse, Quarry, Toogood Pond, Unionville
Kipjones, Gambrel Journey, Markham Museum
Douglas Walker, Cloudflower, Cornell Community Centre