OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce Cassidy Alejandria as the recipient of the 2026 Gallery 44 Vitrines Curatorial Incubator Career Launcher! As part of this Career Launcher opportunity, she will curate a project in the Gallery 44 Vitrines, opening in September 2026.

Recipient of the 2026 Gallery44 Career Launchers

Cassidy Alejandria bio:

Cassidy Alejandria is a Filipina-Canadian art historian and emerging curator based in Toronto, ON. She is a second-year MFA candidate in the Criticism and Curatorial Practice program at OCAD University. Her research interests include feminist curation, Filipina feminisms, embodiment, activist and socially engaged arts, and epistemology. For her thesis exhibition, she explores questions of how incorporating embodied experience in curation can disrupt hierarchies of knowledge and serve as a bridge between historical and contemporary feminisms. 

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