Education
Master of Visual Studies, Curatorial Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Scholarship awarded: Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters, 2024.
Bachelor of Arts, Honours Visual Culture, Minor Fine Arts Studio Practice, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON.
Languages spoken: English, French.
Positions Held
2024 Teaching Assistant, Modernism & Anti-Modernism, Prof. Ivana Dizdar. University of Toronto.
2023-25 Lead Teaching Assistant, Visual Concepts, Dr. Mitchell Akiyama. University of Toronto.
2023 Project Coordinator, Black and Free by Dr. Naila Keleta-Mae, Ken Seiling Regional Waterloo Museum. Kitchener, ON.
2022-23 Programming Liaison, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair. Toronto, ON.
2022 Gallery Events Coordinator, University of Waterloo Art Gallery. Waterloo, ON.
2021-2022 Library Assistant, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON. Positions held: Collections Management, Library Space and Delivery Services at Dana Porter Library and Davis Centre Library, Library Assistant at Musagetes Architecture Library.
Published Writing
Catalogue Essay, “I rebuild my home everywhere I go,” Beyond the Threshold, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, September 2025–January 2026.
Exhibition Review, “Labour,” Labour curated by Ingrid Jones, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, September 2024–March 2025. Public (Toronto), no.71 (2025): 172–174.
Exhibition Essay, “I hold the future…,”Future Dances, Dancemakers & FADO Performance Art Centre, March 2025.
Conference Paper, “Miss Olympia Blak’s Pharmacoliberation,” presented on the panel: Death drop: Trans/queer resistance and the underworld, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, London, ON, 2024.
Artist Text, “MOUTH,” Silverfish (Toronto), no.003 (2023).
Catalogue Essay, “Visions of Black Identity,” Voices, Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, September 2022–January 2023.
Creative Activities
Curatorial
Curatorial Assistant, Répondez s’il vous plaît curated by Gia Liapi, Campbell House Museum, Toronto, ON. June 2025.
Curator, Careful Crossings, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, May–July 2025.
Film Programmer, The Truck Guys by Lauren Fournier, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON. December 6, 2022.
Moderator, BEING+ Art Talk, online program, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, January 2022.
Curator, BEING+, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, January–February 2022.
Exhibitions (as artist)
Despair of Demolition, “Field Guide to the Understory,” CAFKA.25 Biennial. June–July 2025.
MOUTH, “In the hole,” [Group] curated by Silverfish collective. December 2022–January 2023.
Community and Professional Service
Curatorial Working Group, Dancemakers Centre for Creation. Toronto, ON. 2024-25.
Organizer, Fentaware Harm Reduction Collective. Toronto, ON. Present.
Chair, Board of Directors, Pleasure Dome. Toronto, ON. 2023-Present.
Member, Postcolonial Potsdam. Berlin, Germany. 2024.
Editorial Intern, SiNEMA Transtopia, Berlin, Germany. 2024.
Volunteer, Gallery 1313 with P. Anderson. Toronto, ON. 2022.
Intern, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener + Area with C. Sutherland. Kitchener, ON. 2022.
Intern, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery with Dr. D. Longchamps. Waterloo, ON. 2021-22.
Scholarships, Grants, and Awards
2024 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters.
2023 University of Toronto, John and Myrna Daniels Foundation Opportunity Award.
2022 University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts, Arts Endowment Fund [Grant].
2022 University of Waterloo, Visual Culture Award.
2022 University of Waterloo and Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery Volunteerism Award.
2021 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair and Flavio Belli, Emerging Curator Award.
2019 University of Waterloo, University of Waterloo Merit Scholarship.