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July 25, 2024
# Announcing Ernesto Cabral de Luna and Kay Rangel as the recipients of the 2024 Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Public Art Billboard and Exhibition Essay Career Launcher!
The RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers is excited to announce **Ernesto Cabral de Luna** and **Kay Rangel** as the recipients of the 2024 [**Critical Distance Centre for Curators**](https://criticaldistance.ca) Public Art Billboard and Exhibition Essay Career Launcher! Ernesto's work "La Piñata y La Locura II" is on display at 180 Shaw Street until September 22, 2024 and a commissioned essay by Kay Rangel is available to read [**HERE**](https://criticaldistance.ca/assets/2024/07/ECAB-OCAD_Billboard_Essay-by-Kay-Rangel_final.pdf)!
[**Ernesto Cabral de Luna**](https://abrokeniris.format.com/) is a Mexican lens-based artist who works through experimental analog and digital processes to emphasize the multi-dimensionality and materiality of the image. Working with archives to alter perception through his image manipulations, he draws from his immigrant experience to explore themes of identity, representation, exile and diasporic communities. Ernesto recently completed his BFA in Photography at OCAD University. A recipient of OCAD’s 2021 Wendy Coburn Art and Social Change Scholarship, he has exhibited at Ada Slaight, Xpace Cultural Centre, Riverdale Hub and Abbozzo Gallery. Ernesto was selected for the Toronto Raptors’ 2022 Welcome Toronto Creators Program.
Website:
Instagram: [@abrokeniris](https://www.instagram.com/abrokeniris/)
[**K. Rangel**](https://kayrangel.format.com/) (b. 2002) is an emerging artist, writer, and curator from Mexico City-based in Toronto. Her practice thrives within a poetic context that aims to materialize language. As a curator, she's had to rely heavily on words, and as an artist, she pushes the viewer to navigate the written language within the visual realm. She recognizes the prevalent characteristics of visual and textual language; both share a bond that keeps them tied perpetually. Kay holds a BFA in Criticism & Curatorial Practice with a Minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies from OCAD University.
Website:
Instagram: [@kaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy](https://www.instagram.com/kaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy/)
[**Critical Distance**](https://www.instagram.com/critical.distance) Centre for Curators (CDCC), is a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial inquiry in Toronto, Canada, and beyond. With a focus on critically-engaged, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary practices, underrepresented artists and art forms, and community outreach and education in art and exhibition-making, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives, and a forum for the exchange of ideas on curating as a way to connect, engage, and inform people and publics across cultures, disciplines, geographies, and generations.
Since 2016, Critical Distance has programmed the billboard outisde their former home at [Artscape Youngplace](https://www.instagram.com/youngplaceto/) located at 180 Shaw Street between Dundas and Queen streets.
Learn more about our Career Launchers at: [https://careerlaunchers.format.com](https://careerlaunchers.format.com/)
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