Rhéanne Chartrand Named Art Toronto's Focus Exhibition Curator

Rhéanne Chartrand has been named as Art Toronto's 2024 Focus Exhibition Curator.

Part of the Métis Nation of Ontario, Chartrand is a curator with more than 10 years of experience curating exhibitions, festivals, programs and more.

In May 2024, she was appointed as the Royal Ontario Museum's inaugural Hatch Curator of Indigenous Art & Culture.

Before that, she served as the McMaster Museum of Art's curator of Indigenous art. Her curatorial projects include we are made of stardust (2022); NIIPA 20/20 (2022); and what sustains us, co-curated with asinnajaq (2022); and guest curation of the 2022 Official Selection for imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. She is also a sessional lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Chartrand holds an honours Bachelor of Arts in History and Anthropology from McMaster University and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto. 

Her Art Toronto exhibition will be entitled the place to which we return and will embrace the concept of home: “what home is and what it means, and how it is intimately wrapped up in identity, history, politics, and geography,” according to a news release.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Art Toronto, Canada's oldest and largest art fair. The 2024 event will include more than 100 galleries from Canada and beyond at Toronto's Metro Convention Centre from Oct. 24 to 27.

Source: Art Toronto

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