Yaoxi Zhu
Yaoxi Zhu is an arts worker and researcher with an academic background in art history and industrial relations. She brings a cross-disciplinary and equity-informed perspective to her practices, with a strong commitment to cultural advocacy and community engagement. Her experience spans curatorial support, public programming, and youth mentorship, including assistance to arts education initiatives and regular volunteer work. Yaoxi has contributed to cultural institutions across Toronto and Kingston, including Images Festival, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival.Find out more
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Noor Alé

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.

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Geneviève Wallen

Geneviève Wallen is an award-winning independent curator, writer, researcher, workshop facilitator, and mentor. Wallen’s practice is rooted in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal) and Tkaronto (Toronto) territories. Her curatorial practice, administrative ethics and pedagogy are informed by intersectional feminism, intergenerational dialogues, and BIPOC platforms offering alternatives to neo-liberal care definitions. Her ongoing curatorial explorations include the practice of gift-giving, carving spaces for unfinished thoughts, and musings on the intersection of longevity and pleasure.

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Zoë Chan

Zoë Chan lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh Nations. Since 2018, she has worked as Assistant Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where she curated Uncommon Language (2020-21), and co-curated Where do we go from here? (2020-21) and Stories that animate us (2021). While working as an independent curator between 2012 and 2019, she delved into a range of subject matter including documentary practices, youth, food, and discourse around representation in art and visual culture. Her curatorial projects have been presented by Trinity Square Video, Vidéographe, Kamloops Art Gallery, Optica, MSVU Art Gallery, Foreman Art Gallery, Articule, and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels).

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