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Curatorial Research
Writing and Criticism
Artistic Practice
Pedagogy
Bio
Publications
Hall Study with Aylin Abbasi, Karsh-Masson Gallery, 2024
Weavings for Hunter Reynolds with Ethan Shoshan, Visual AIDS, 2024
“Modern Nature” and the Self-Portrait with Neeko Paluzzi, Drain, 2024
Maximalism and the Post-Maternal (I, II) with Natalie Bruvels, Femme Art Review, 2024
Thresholds: The Space of Queer Intimacy, Karsh-Masson Gallery, 2023
Recess, Cultural Production, Checking Out (I, II) with Deirdre Logue, Femme Art Review, 2022
To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive, Peripheral Review, 2021
Metaphors and Their Limits, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2021
Empty History: The Conversations Continue with John Paul Ricco, Vtape, 2020
Homoeroticism in Drawing, Esse art + opinions, 2020
Inheriting AIDS with John Paul Ricco, OnCurating, 2019
Lucas Michael: Black in Three Colours, Visual AIDS, 2019
FASTWÜRMS in Gairloch Gardens, Espace art actuel, 2019
Roula Partheniou: House & Home & Garden, Magenta Magazine, 2018
We are safe and all is well in our world, Magenta Magazine, 2018
Queer Curating: From Definition to Deconstruction, Canadian Art, 2018
We Have Never Been “Post-AIDS,” Canadian Art, 2018
PosterVirus: Views from the Street, Esse art + opinions, 2017
The Florida Highwaymen, SAW Gallery, 2015
The Digital Memorial Quilt, Journal of Communication and Languages, 2015
Precarious Formalism, Bad Subjects, 2015
The Studio Without Walls, Magenta Magazine, 2015
Unlearning Queer History, The Apollonian, 2015
Are you experienced?, Momus, 2015
The Circle Won’t Be Broken, Visual AIDS, 2015
Shan Kelley in Marfa: On Minimalist Informality, Visual AIDS, 2015
The Queer Turn in Feminism, QED: A Journal if GLBTQ Worldmaking, 2014
Quotational Practices, Reviews in Cultural Theory, 2014
In Conversation with Wilfredo Prieto, Drain, 2014
Christian Boltanski: Almas, Journal of Curatorial Studies, 2014
Untitled Photographic Pictures, Ciel variable, 2014
Curating with Doubt, Visual AIDS, 2014
Something that accompanies one everyday and everywhere, Espace art actuel, 2014
Towards and Against Interpretation, KAPSULA, 2014
Academic Lectures
Bed-Frame: Healing, Self-Invention, and the Other AIDS, DARC/Visual AIDS, 2023
Painting, Autobiography, and Refusal, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2023
Words Unsaid: Curating as Queer Dialogue, University of Ottawa, 2023
Far From Myself: Curating After the Trans Origin Story, University of Toronto, 2023
On Silence: Trans Theory After the Subject, University of Ottawa, 2022
Beyond Autobiography: Perspectives on Curating “Trans,” University of Ottawa, 2022
Queer Solitude and Non-Reparative Curating, Vtape, 2021
Regarding Empty History, Vtape, 2021
Sick Theories: Curating the Other AIDS, University of Toronto, 2019
Rib Gets in the Way: In Conversation with Steve Reinke, Images Festival, 2018
Working Space: Process-Based Curating, University of Ottawa, 2015
Body as Wedge, The Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts, 2015
Shan Kelley: Chasing the Horizon, Carleton University, 2015
Formalism and the AIDS Memorial Quilt, OCAD University, 2015
Everyday Queer, Art Gallery of Guelph, 2015
A Minimal Doubt: Autobiography and AIDS, Videofag, 2015
Imaging Community in "Windows from Prison," University of Ottawa, 2014
Bad Timing: Humour as Resistance in Video Art, Vtape, 2014
Community Workshops
We Are Numerous: Art and Trans Multiplicity, Cambridge Art Galleries, 2023
Curating Trans Art Histories, University of Ottawa, 2022
General Idea: The Politics of Quotation, Rockway Collegiate, 2022
Queer Art and Activism, Cambridge Art Galleries, 2022
Unpacking Queer Art Histories, Spectrum Community Space Waterloo, 2022
Queer Art and Cultural History, Canterbury High School Gender and Sexuality Alliance, 2022
Undergraduate Curatorial Workshop, University of Ottawa, 2022
Master of Fine Arts Writing Workshop II, University of Ottawa, 2020
Master of Fine Arts Writing Workshop I, University of Ottawa, 2019
Curating in/as Process, University of Ottawa, 2018
LGBTQ+ Studies in Art History, University of Ottawa, 2018
Queer Futures Student Workshop, Art Gallery of Guelph, 2015
Write Home Soon: Windows from Prison, US Embassy in Ottawa, 2014
Pablo Neruda: State of Translation, Research in Art Ottawa (RIA), 2014
1985 Today, Parque Cultural de Valparaíso (PCdV), 2014