Lisa Deanne Smith

Individual

Roles

Artist, Curator

Biography

Lisa Deanne Smith is the Senior Curator of Onsite Gallery, OCAD University. Her practice in the arts sector explores issues of voice, embodied experience, nonhuman centric worldviews, knowledge creation, and power. She actively addresses diversity in the gallery through its administration systems, curatorial methods, and outreach programming while engaging and attracting a community that culturally reflects our local community, which she carries to Onsite through former experiences working at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Fuse Magazine, and Gallery 44. Selected curatorial projects include: pi'tawita'iek: we go upriver (a large-scale outdoor mural by Jordan Bennett on 100 McCaul Street), How will we be with you?, How to Breathe Forever, The Sunshine Eaters, Objects for Listening: Cheryl Pope, Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age and I Wonder: Marian Bantjes.

OCAD, 2023

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)

Related programs

Flower Girl (Artist)
LIVE Biennial of Performance Art 2001 (Artist)