Noa Bronstein
Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto. Her practice is often focused on the social production of space and thinking through how artists disrupt and subvert systems including those registering across social, political and economic structures.
Noa has previously stewarded two leading artist-run centres through her role as the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and Gallery TPW. In 2018, in her position as Senior Curator at the City of Mississauga, she oversaw the opening of the Small Arms Inspection Building with programming by local and international artists, including Diane Borsato, Stephanie Comilang, Amy Malbeuf, Dawit L. Petros and Kara Springer, and partnerships with the Peel Aboriginal Network and the Toronto Biennial of Art, amongst many others. Noa has curated and programmed projects/exhibitions at institutions across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Contemporary Calgary, The Rooms (St. John’s), Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto) and The New Gallery (Calgary). Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Border Crossings, C Magazine, Canadian Art, esse art + opinions and The Journal of Curatorial Studies. Noa is currently the Assistant Director of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
Image: With an instinct for justice featuring Elise Rasmussen and Shadi Harouni at Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2018.
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PUBLIC ART EXHIBITION: Place Settings II
August 21, 2022 - September 17, 2022Place Settings: Part II
Featuring works by Adrià Julià, Larissa Sansour, and Reza Nik
Curated by Noa Bronstein
Place Settings continues this summer with performance-based projects staged throughout the city of Toronto. Each project engages in a discursive gesture that considers new possibilities at the intersections of food practices and public space, revealing the shareable and relational qualities of both.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Adrià Julià
August 21, 2022 - September 17, 2022Artist Adrià Julià’s billboard A Very White Flower, is on view at 180 Shaw Street through August to September, 2022, as part of the public art exhibition Place Settings II, curated by Noa Bronstein. The exhibition features works by Adrià Julià, Larissa Sansour, and Reza Nik, who explore the intersections of food practices and public space, revealing the shareable and relational qualities of both.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Karen Tam
June 18, 2021 - August 15, 2021Artist Karen Tam’s billboard Seeds for the Future, Seeds for Now is on view at 180 Shaw Street through June to August, 2021, as part of the public art exhibition Place Settings, curated by Noa Bronstein.
Find out morePUBLIC ART EXHIBITION: Place Settings
June 18, 2021 - August 15, 2021Place Settings is a large-scale, durational project that considers how food functions to connect and disrupt. Focusing specifically on the intersections of food, public space, and architecture, Place Settings points to formal and informal structures that offer forms of nourishment, be they physical, emotional, social, or political.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Kablusiak
November 24, 2020 - January 29, 2021Artist Kablusiak’s billboard Piliutiyara is on view at 180 Shaw Street through November, 2020, to January, 2021, and is co-presented in partnership with Gallery TPW in the context of their ongoing project MOVEMENTS.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Zinnia Naqvi
August 18, 2020 - September 29, 2020Artist Zinnia Naqvi’s billboard The Border Guards Were Friendly is on view at 180 Shaw Street through August to September, 2020, and is co-presented in partnership with Gallery TPW in the context of their ongoing project MOVEMENTS.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Nadia Myre
June 23, 2018 - August 5, 2018Artist Nadia Myre’s billboard Indian Act is on view at 180 Shaw Street through June to August, 2018, as part of the group exhibition Through Lines, curated by Noa Bronstein featuring works by Lise Beaudry, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Leila Fatemi, Maria Hupfield, Raafia Jessa, and Nadia Myre. The artists of the exhibition challenge notions of redaction, tackling its typical devices of shredding, blacking out, editing, and covering up.
Find out moreEXHIBITION: Loose Ends
January 14, 2016 - February 29, 2016Exploring the spaces between states of being, the exhibition traces the cyclical and vernacular places between appearance and disappearance, presence and absence, construction and deconstruction. Each work questions the currency of permanence. Moving between and within, a new kind of relic is realized, one that is both past and present, confined only to the metamorphic. Featuring works by Mary Grisey, Faye Mullen, Jérôme Nadeau, and Deborah Wang. Curated by Noa Bronstein.
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