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Amin Alsaden is a curator, scholar, and educator whose work focuses on transnational solidarities and exchanges across cultural boundaries. His curatorial practice is committed to advancing social justice through the arts, and to disseminating more inclusive narratives that decenter existing canons and challenge hegemonic epistemological and power structures. His exhibitions invariably raise questions concerning the interrelated domains of geography, colonialism, extraction, organized violence, and displacement.

Noor Alé is a curator, art historian, and writer whose exhibitions and roles span international contemporary art institutions. Her practice delves into the intersections of contemporary art with geopolitics, cosmologies, and land relations pertaining to the Global Majority. Through a relational, transcultural and transhistorical lens her work unearths convergences that engender solidarities across ideological divisions. She has held positions at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi Project, New York; and Art Dubai.

Shani Khoo Parsons (she/her) is an independent curator, designer, mother, and founding director of Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC). With degrees in architecture (Temple U, Phila) and graphic design (RISD, Providence), she has pursued a transdisciplinary, process-driven practice within both independent and institutional contexts (AMNH, MoMA, Museum of Chinese in America, all NY), producing an eclectic body of work ranging from intimate artist’s books to immersive exhibitions. With Critical Distance she has collaboratively produced over 70 exhibitions and projects with 350+ artists and guest curators over the past decade, and has simultaneously developed an experimental independent curatorial practice; in 2022 she received her masters in visual/curatorial studies from the University of Toronto.