Critical Distance Profile Type Curator

Jonathan Middleton is an artist, curator, and publisher working between Toronto and Vancouver. He currently co-manages the Vancouver Art Book Fair and recently served as Interim Executive Director & Publisher of C Magazine (2024) and Executive Director of Toronto’s Art Metropole (2019–2024). His various publishing and curatorial roles have included as partner at Information Office (2017–2019); director/curator of Or Gallery (2007–2017), and director/curator of the Western Front Exhibitions Program (1999–2005). He was a founding member of Fillip in 2004, serving on its editorial board and as its first publisher until 2008. His artwork has been exhibited, performed, and screened at the Contemporary Art Gallery, VIVO Media Arts (Vancouver) International Film Festival, Inside Out (Toronto), the Chicago International Film Festival, Tracey…Find out more

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.

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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 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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Swapnaa Tamhane is an artist and curator, working between Canada and India. Her visual practice extends to decolonizing distinctions between art, craft, and design, while her curatorial practice is focussed on the wider South-Asian diaspora and contemporary art from India.

Tamhane graduated with a BA in Art History from Carleton University, Ottawa, an MA in Contemporary Art from the University of Manchester, and an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University, Montreal. She has been a Research Fellow with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009) and an International Museum Fellow with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (2013). She has held positions as an Editor at Phaidon Press, London (2002-2006), an Assistant Curator at The Power Plant (2007-2008), Toronto, and a Producer of Contemporary Art Projects at Luminato Festival (2016).

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