Ingrid Jones
Toronto-based curator and creative director, Ingrid Jones, examines the intersections of decolonial curatorial practice, transnational solidarities, and the politics of museum representation. Her research engages themes of marginalization and refusal through installation, media, and collaborative projects. She has curated exhibitions and programs for the Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto), SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin), and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She has also lectured and created masterclasses on photographic best practices and design for Toronto Metropolitan University and Sheridan Institute, respectively. Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Reesa Greenberg Fund, and featured in Vice Berlin and Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, among others.
Dee Dee Decay
With an emphasis on play, Dee Dee Decay works with sculpture, performance, video, and the tender processing of materials. The close relationship they hold with their grandmother directly informs their practice through manual labor, slowness, repetition, and care, whether they find themselves at the metal studio or by claybeds of the Humber River. For Dee, creating from a land-based practice becomes the connective tissue that brings together their cultural investigations and reverence of death in the form of a tangled fruit net. This past year, they’ve developed an affinity for white swiftlets and the unique nature of their nests. Ongoing research explores colonial histories in South Asia and their personal experiences with homebuilding and migration. Dee is a queer Chinese-Viet…Find out more
PAVED Arts
PAVED Arts is a non-profit, artist run centre for production, presentation, research and dissemination of contemporary media arts. The word PAVED is an acronym signifying the integration of media art forms addressed by our mandate: photographic, audio, video, electronic, digital. PAVED Arts exists to support artists who work in these media.
PAVED Meant is a biennial publication of critical writing produced by PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Founded in 2012, it supports interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary media and lens-based art practices. By contextualizing exhibitions and amplifying underrepresented voices, PAVED Meant contributes to critical discourse across aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of media art.
Toxoplasma Press
Toxoplasma Press makes available books and art projects which often feature a disregard for rules and authority. We don’t consider a book to be a unit of commerce—a package for an idea to be bought and sold. We create books to be art objects—often hand-bound and specially printed—or as lasting documentation of clandestine or otherwise impermanent art projects.
Jenelle Smith
Jenelle Smith is a first generation Jamaican-Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. Smith is an emerging artist whose dreamlike work delves into intricate concepts of the mind. Working in digital and analog image-based media, Smith addresses topics such as mental health, technology, race, and family. A recent graduate from the OCAD University Photography program, she strives to challenge conventional perceptions and spark conversations through her work.Find out more