We're excited to announce Anqi Li as the recipient of the Clark Centre for the Arts, Call for Curators/Cultural Producers!
Anqi's curatorial project will premiere at the Clark Centre for the Arts in June 2023 with artists Ali Sheikh, Sierra da Silva-Canadie, Tizzi Tan, and Zim Yu.
Anqi Li is an independent curator and educator interested in cross-cultural art exchange. Her practice examines therecurring local-global irreconcilability within Art History and strives to create space to underrepresented stories. A new immigrant to Canada, Anqi graduated from OCAD University’s Criticism and Curatorial Practice program and curatedthe Flowing Still exhibition at the Xpace Cultural Centre.
Website: www.anqi.ca
Instagram: @anqi.li.a
Ali Sheikh is a multidisciplinary artist from Mississauga, Ontario, studying at OCAD University. Through painting, illustration, digital design and installation, his current work explores memory, documentation, and self-perception and seeks to blur the line between comic and solemn.
Sierra da Silva-Canadien is a Mohawk-Portuguese visual artist residing in Toronto, Ontario as a full-time undergrad student at OCAD University. Her work - both in photography anddrawing/painting - takes inspiration from her interest in the human form, and incorporates it in her portraiture, abstracted and figurative work.
Tizzi Tan was born in Yunnan, China. She studied visual art at Sheridan College and was the Photography medalist at the 2022 OCAD GradEx. Grounded, approachable and intimate, her lens-based work zooms in on subtle details that rend the reality unrealistic.
Zim Yu is a Toronto-based painter who recently graduated from OCAD University. Rigorously trained in both analogueand digital drawing and painting, he creates a surrealistic world with hidden narratives through playing with symbolic elements, forms, and colours.
Located inside Guild Park and Gardens, the Clark Centre for the Arts is a stunning new cultural facility that houses specialized art studios and gallery spaces. Guild Park and Gardens is a unique 88-acre site on the Scarborough Bluffs that includes forests, shoreline and a collection of architectural fragments, sculptures and buildings. The Clark Centre for the Arts is interested in working with artists and projects that are responsive to the site and location of Centre’s surrounding neighbourhood, and artists who have an existing relationship to the community.
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