Aretha Pereira Appointed as Contemporary Art Gallery's TD Assistant Curator

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Aretha Pereira (photo courtesy of Contemporary Art Gallery)

Aretha Pereira has been appointed to the position of TD Assistant Curator at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.

A South Asian artist, writer and arts programmer, Pereira holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and was the recipient of the SAAG Arts Writing Prize in 2023. In her new position, she will help plan and coordinate gallery exhibitions, off-site projects, public programming, residencies and publications. She will also develop and implement a curatorial project under the mentorship of Godfre Leung, CAG’s curator.

“Aretha comes to us with tremendous promise as a writer, thinker and curator,” says Leung in the news release. “We are excited to work with her on her first major curatorial project in the year ahead.”

Source: Contemporary Art Gallery

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