I'm an independent emerging curator born, raised, and based in Toronto. I hold a Master of Visual Studies in Curatorial Studies from the University of Toronto, a postgraduate certificate in Museum and Cultural Management from Centennial College, and a Bachelor of Arts in History Specialization from Concordia University. Investigations into the ephemeral characterize my curatorial practice which is primarily situated within outdoor site-specific public art installations. I've curated exhibitions and public programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Toronto, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Jackman Humanities Institute, and the plumb, to name a few. I’m also the founder and director of Garden Variety, a small-scale, local, independent initiative that I began in 2021 in my backyard in Toronto’s west end. This ongoing project allows emerging and established GTA-based artists to create site-specific, outdoor, public art installations. Conceived as a variation on the community BBQ, Garden Variety exhibitions typically run for one day only, emphasizing decay, transformation, and ephemerality.

In my work, ephemerality critiques the commodification of time and experience, challenging the emphasis on permanence and proposing that value can exist in the temporary, fleeting, and experiential. The collectible nature of certain objects as opposed to others that are more quickly consumed/depleted often represents a barrier between what is considered ‘art’ and what is merely considered ornament, entertainment, or trend. My work embraces the ephemeral as containing otherwise forms of meaning and knowledge production outside of dominant narratives of the polarities between preservation and decay as embraced by traditional museum settings. I strive to stain museum practices of collection, categorization, and preservation by contesting the prevailing knowledge systems it silently enforces by engaging with ways of knowing that we may have been socialized to dismiss or discourage, including oral history and intangible knowledge.