Art Conversations that Matter at Art Toronto 2023

October 27 & 28, 2023
Metro Toronto Convention Centre

Art Toronto is delighted to offer talks onsite on the Platform Stage with notable art experts across Canada and abroad, as well as tours of the fair led by curators and collectors, all free with your ticket at the fair. Highlights from the Platform schedule include the talks below.

Renee Condo works presented at Art Toronto 2022 edition

Curators in Conversation
Friday, October 27, 12:30pm

Curators in Conversation offers audiences an insight into the processes of notable curators working today. In this talk, longtime colleagues and friends, Kitty Scott and Connie Butler discuss upcoming projects, including Butler’s move from her curatorial role at the Hammer Museum to NYC’s MoMA PS1 as director.

Kitty Scott is this year’s FOCUS Exhibition curator. An independent curator celebrated for her influential contributions to contemporary art exhibitions and scholarship, Scott worked with Geoffrey Farmer in the Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, and co-curated “Beautiful world, where are you?”, the 10th edition of the Liverpool Biennial, 2018.

For 10 years, Connie Butler was the Chief Curator of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This fall, she takes on the role of Director of New York’s MoMA PS1. Butler curated WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007), a landmark exhibition that showcased feminist art and activism from 1965 through 1980.

Indigenous Artists on the World Stage
Friday, October 27, 2:30pm

The global impact of Indigenous Art is certainly nothing new, yet works by First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists are being exhibited and sold internationally with increasing interest from collectors and institutions alike. We’ll welcome artists Meryl McMaster, Renee Condo and Caroline Monnet to engage in discussion around how global recognition within the art community can serve or challenge Indigenous artists working today. Moderated by Rhéanne Chartrand.

Linklater, i want to forget the english language, 2023 Art Toronto Focus Exhibition

Centering the Margins
Saturday, October 28, 12:30pm

We often think of the art world as being centered in major cities across the globe. But increasingly art institutions, exhibition spaces and creative organizations are taking root and thriving outside of city centers. This talk, moderated by Larry Ossei-Mensah Co-Founder and Curator, Art Noir, Miguel A. Lopez, Co-Curator, Toronto Biennial (former co-director of TEOR/ética, Costa Rica), Michelle Jacques, Curator, Remai Modern and moderated by Sarah Milroy, Director and Chief Curator, McMichael, explores the idiosyncrasies, opportunities and challenges of cultural production in these unique environments.

Collecting the Art of Our Time
Saturday, October 28, 2:00pm

Join the RBC Curatorial Department for a discussion with Jean-François Bélisle, Director of the National Gallery of Canada, Emelie Chhangur, Director and Curator of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, and Stephan Jost, Michael and Sonja Koerner Director, and CEO of the Art Gallery of Ontario, on the art market in Canada, the role of institutions and the importance of collecting the art of our time.

Watch out for more talks to be announced in October and don’t miss your chance to attend the Platform program at the show – free with your entrance ticket at the fair.

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Art Toronto 2023, Canada’s world-class art fair featuring galleries from across the world. This year’s celebration, on from 26 to 29 October at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, is bigger and better than ever, showcasing 110 galleries with works from renowned and emerging artists from Canada, the United States and abroad. The event starts with an opening night fundraising celebration on Thursday, October 26, in benefit of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection.

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