BARBARA FISCHER

Barbara Fischer, Curator for the Canada Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, is the Executive Director/Chief Curator of the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto and Senior Lecturer in Curatorial Studies at the University of Toronto. She has held curatorial positions in galleries and museums across Canada including at Walter Phillips Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant. She has curated solo exhibitions of the work of Stan Douglas, Kelly Mark, Euan Macdonald, Rebecca Belmore, James Carl, Fastwürms, as well as the internationally circulated exhibition General Idea Editions 1967-1995. Major curatorial projects include Love Gasoline (1996), foodculture (1997), Logo-City (2000), New Modular (2002) and Projections (2007), the first major survey of projection-based works in the history of contemporary art in Canada. She also co-curated Soundtracks (2003) and Make Believe (2006) with Catherine Crowston. Fischer is the recipient of the 2008 Hnatyshyn Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art.

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photo credit: Michel Mersereau, Hart House

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