Curators Tour with Analays Álvarez Hernández and Colette Laliberté on Saturday, September 9, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Onsite Gallery, 199 Richmond Street West
Join the exhibition curators on an in-depth curatorial tour of On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging. Curators conduct the tour in English.
Register here: https://bit.ly/43NFzdv
About the Curators
Analays Álvarez Hernández
Analays Álvarez Hernández is an art historian, independent curator, and assistant professor at the Université de Montréal. She holds a BA in Art History from the Universidad de La Habana, and an M.A and Ph.D. in Art History from the Université du Québec à Montréal. From 2016 to 2018, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. Her research activities focus mainly on public art, alternatives exhibitions venues, diasporic and Latinx-Canadian artists, and decolonial issues. As an independent curator, Alvarez Hernandez has organized several exhibitions mostly in Havana, tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto) and Tiohti:áke/Mooniyang (Montreal), such as The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canada (Sur Gallery, 2018; OBORO, 2020,) and Au fil des îles, archipels (Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal, 2022; Musée régional de Rimouski, 2023).
Colette Laliberté
Working across various media, Colette Laliberté's conceptual approach to abstraction includes drawings, digital prints, paintings, and site-oriented wall artwork. Although the aesthetic of the forms is integral to her pictorial language, abstraction serves as a gateway to establishing a physical and emotional relationship with materials and shapes, invoking narrative, and inviting reflection on a given subject.
Born in Sherbrooke, Québec, Colette Laliberté moved to tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto) in 1985 after living at the Banff Centre for the Arts as Young Artists in Residence. She received her BFA from Université du Québec à Montréal and her MFA from Windsor University. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Canada and abroad. She has also participated in residencies in France, Spain, New York, and Ontario at the Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury; The Durham Gallery in Stouffville, Ontario; and Duntara, Newfoundland.
She is an Associate Professor Emerita at the Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCAD U). She has curated Penance and Devotion at the Glendon Gallery, York University, Ontario; August and Portrait Oval, Artcite, Windsor, Ontario and “Valérie Gill and Barbara Claus” at Mercer Union, tsi Tkarón:to (Toronto), Ontario.
