Warren Harper
Warren Harper is a curator, researcher, and writer. He holds a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has worked with a wide range of arts organizations and institutions internationally in diverse roles, roles including Director of Metal Southend, UK and Exhibition Manager at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. Warren is a member of plumb, an ad hoc collective of Toronto-based artists, writers, and curators, and also teaches at the University of Toronto. He has prior governance experience, including serving on boards and establishing a board of trustees for the UK-based arts charity The Old Waterworks.
His research interests are at the intersection of art and nuclear culture, ecology, and sustainable and ethical curatorial practices. Warren’s work has also been preoccupied with art education, the art world and its accessibility, particularly from a working-class perspective. He advocates for an expanded understanding of the curatorial, its interdisciplinarity and how it engages with complex contexts