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Curatorial Projects

My curatorial practice centres care, context, and collaboration. I develop exhibitions and public projects that respond to place, process, and community, creating space for reflection rather than fixed interpretation. Each project invites artists and audiences into thoughtful, shared encounters with contemporary art.

Recent Projects
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Montageries

AFA Art House, Calgary AB

Feb 13 - Sept 30, 2026

Montageries explored how a selection of 19 artworks drawn from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts' collection of nearly 10,000 objects could tell a much larger story of the province of Alberta.

 

With the words "montage" and "memories" blended into a new and curious exhibition title, ​each of the artworks included were created by uniting varied components. Multi-layered and complex, the works included in Montageries are flashes of memories and times past.

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Oct 1, 2025 - Jan 15, 2026

A Breath Beyond was curated as an inaugural opening exhibition for Inspire, a brand-new public space in Airdrie to host the city's library and rentable spaces for community and culture.

 

Artists were encouraged to respond to the prompt: "much like the act of taking breath, art has the power to ground us, to invigorate and to expand our horizons and future-thinking."

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In Plain Sight

Inspire, Airdrie AB

May 25 - Aug 23, 2026

Works in The Shape of Change exhibition were selected curatorially alongside a community selection committee through the following prompt:

“Like the act of unfolding, change reveals a pattern, a geometry or choreography of being and learning that is only just beginning to be understood. It is not static, but fluid – moving through time, space and form in ways that are often mysterious.”

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Sept 6 - Oct 30, 2025

Featuring artworks that loop back to their aesthetic innovations and run parallel to their enduring impact – this exhibition celebrated contemporary artists whose work shares kinship with Katie Ohe & Harry Kiyooka’s post-modern abstraction and playful use of form and gesture. The special exhibition was put on as part of the Kiyooka Ohe Art Centre's 2025 Fall Gala and Fundraiser Auction. 

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The SHape of Change

Inspire, Airdrie AB

Jan 23 – May 15, 2026

Works in The Shape of Change exhibition were selected curatorially alongside a community selection committee through the following prompt:

“Like the act of unfolding, change reveals a pattern, a geometry or choreography of being and learning that is only just beginning to be understood. It is not static, but fluid – moving through time, space and form in ways that are often mysterious.”

Past Projects
  • Howl in the Grass, 2025 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • Mary Whale: Between the Lines, 2025 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • Inseparable Fragments, 2024 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • Speculative Fictions, 2024 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • pal•imp•sest, 2024 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • Jude Griebel: Land Eater, 2023 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

  • The Nature of Ornament, 2023 - AFA Travelling Exhibition

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