Jenifer Papararo
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Jenifer Papararo is the Director/Curator of the Art Gallery of York University. She was previously the Executive Director of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver and the Program Director at Mercer Union, Toronto. She has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions, such as Further Than I Can Throw A Stone, a group exhibition of film and video work featuring Jeremy Blake, John Bock, Cécile B. Evans, Erica Eyres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera, Lisa Jackson, Karrabing Film Collective, John Knight, Kelly Mark, and Erika Vogt, and launched a city-wide poster campaign with Canadian artist Rodney Graham in Winnipeg. She initiated STAGES in 2017 a temporary public art exhibition of sculpture and performance in Winnipeg, and curated the 2019 iteration. In 2019, she curated Luanda-Kinshasa a film by Stan Douglas and initiated the lecture and performance series Labour of Love: On Digital Economies in the Arts. In 2018, she worked with Skeena Reece, DIS.art, BUSH gallery, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Przemek Pyszczek, and co-curated the group exhibition Days of Reading: beyond this state of affairs. She is a founding member of the curatorial and artist collective Instant Coffee, whose work has been exhibited at One +J in Seoul, South Korea; Vancouver Art Gallery; the Toronto Sculpture Garden; the Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco; Subvision, Hamburg; Encuentro Internacional, Medellín; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; the Americas Society, New York; and the 2nd Tirana International Biennial, Albania.Jenifer Papararo, 2023
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