For Red Tree Artists’ Collective:
2021 Trail Mix Museum, art in public space with works by Shelley Niro, Leonard Hutchinson, Nathan Eugene Carson, Delio Delgado, Dámarys Sepúlveda and Klyde Broox
2015 ArtMatch, the first ever art banner project at the corner of James Street North and Wilson Street in Hamilton
2009 ReMix Institute, the Cuban Exchange in Cienfuegos, La Habana and Hamilton curated in collaboration with Rafaela Perna (Cienfuegos), Yuneikys Villalonga (La Habana)
At The Print Studio/Centre3:
2015 Pop-Up Shop in collaboration with Rita Camacho; noted in The Spec
2012 Qualia or The Feel of Steel: Bryce Kanbara, Andrew McPhail Samina Mansuri, Shelley Niro, Delio Delgado, Steve Mazza
2009 On Surface: Shelley Niro, Yoshiko Shimada, Delio Delgado, Amelia Jiménez
2009 Not Etched in Stone: Libby Hague, Rochelle Rubinstein, Luis Jacob, Rocky Doby
2007 YAWN: Pavel Acosta, video installation
i-Poder: Julio Ferrer, installation
At McMaster Museum:
SELECTED CURATORIAL PROJECTS at McMaster Museum of Art (Hamilton)
June/August 2006: Making Sense of Things – Frank Shebageget, Nadia Myre, Tanis S’eiltin, L. Frank Manriquez, Co-curated with Veronica Passalacqua, toured to Gorman Museum, Davis, California, October – December 2006
March/April 2006: the Named and the Unnamed – Rebecca Belmore
Video projection/installation, borrowed from the Belkin Gallery
Prima Materia – Lynda Gammon, Dianne Baker, Elaine Whitakker
Installations based on materials as form and image, artists selected from submissions
January/February 2006: Mute – Wilfredo Prieto
Contemporary Cuban artist’s response to Hamilton’s changing economic identity, curatorial invitation to create site-specific work
Between History and Memory – Rufino Tamayo (1899 – 1991), Wifredo Lam (1902 – 1982), Alfredo Jaar (b.1956) from the Museum’s collection, and contemporary Canadian Latinx artists Eugenio Tellez and Dámarys Sepúlveda.
November 2005 – February 2006: unNatural Disasters
Contemporary artists Oscar de las Flores and Rochelle Rubinstein, with works from the Museum’s collection, including Goya, Dürer, Barlach, Kollwitz, Grosz, Dix and others
June – August 2005: Active Layers – Michelle Gay, Teresa Ascencao, Veronica Verkley, Amelia Jiménez, Liss Platt
New Media installations involving viewer interaction with technology
Feb – May: Leaving Their Mark – Shelly Bahl, Yael Brotman, Libby Hague – General Idea, Georges Rouault, Kuniyoshi
Printmaking and post medium practices inspired by prints in the collection
November 2004 – February 2005: The Beast Not Found In Verse – Daniel Erban, Mary Catherine Newcomb, Leesa Streifler, Michael Belmore, and Mary Anne Barkhouse.
At A Space Gallery:
2007 Aberrations (ex situ) Boja Vasic and Manuela Lalic
2004: A Space 7 – Shelly Bahl, Ulysses Castellanos, Andrew Harwood, Raffael Iglesias, Edmund Law, Rosa Mesa, Adrienne Reynolds
Paintings, drawings, site specific installations, intervention, performance
Konkordija Centre, Vrsac, Serbia
2003: The Chile Exchange – Sadko Hadzihasanovic, Amelia Jiménez, Natacha Gagne, Frederic Laforge, Ana María Wynecken, Farouk Kaspaules, Gene Threndyle, Guy Blackburn, Jose Mansilla Miranda.
– Calbuco, Santiago, Sault Ste Marie and Toronto, in collaboration with A Space Gallery and Galerie Glendon (Toronto), Matucana 100 (Santiago, Chile), Algoma Art Gallery (Sault Ste Marie) and Espace Virtuel (Chicoutimi)
Selected Curatorial Texts and Publications
Seeing With Memory – a teachers’ guide to the work of Shelley Niro
Making Art Work – on line handbook for labour arts, http://www.wahc-museum.ca/
Bones in Tansu-Family Secrets – Yoshiko Shimada, catalogue, The Print Studio
Commute – excerpts from the alienation master plan, Burlington Arts Centre exhibition essay for Jim Riley
Rococo Pop or The Creative Paradox in the work of Sadko Hadzihasanovic – Catalogue essay for Centre Sagamie
The Architecture of Survival – MIX 32.2
Aberrations exSitu – Boja Vasic and Manuela Lalic, exhibition brochure, A Space Gallery
Wilfredo Prieto – exhibition catalogue, McMaster Museum of Art
The Named and the Unnamed – Rebecca Belmore at Gallery SAW and McMaster Museum of Art
Active Layers – web catalogue
Open Code – Libby Hague and Yael Brotman at Eastern Edge, text for opuscule
Leaving Their Mark – exhibition catalogue, McMaster Museum of Art
First Nations Art – catalogue essay, Woodland Cultural Centre
Like Ché – Essay on the image of the revolutionary in contemporary visual art – published in FUSE, summer 2004
Chile/Canada Xchange – video essay
On the way back from Vrsac – Review of the 5th biennial of Young Artists in Vrsac, Serbia, published in Serbian translation in Art Context, September 2002, and in MIX magazine (English)
Greeting to Taniperla – Educational Guide to community art mural, 2000
A Space in Chile – Essay, MIX, Summer 2000
Nicaragua, Art Before the Revolution – Border/Lines, 1988
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