DIANA GUO

Curator at Kirkland Gallery
2022-2023

Curator in Residence, with Maggie Chen, Galena Sardamova, Xiaoji Zhou (2022) & Youtian Duan, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Yunsong Liu, & Galena Sardamova (2023).

Artists: Sky Araki-Russell, Benjamin Good, Jeannelle Fernandez, Benson Joseph, Joseph Kennedy, Alisha Kapoor, Haewon Ma, Sabrina Madera, Paola Ovando Peraza, Angélica Oteiza, Pin Sangkaeo, Zachary Schumacher, Sahar Simforoosh, Annie Simpson, August Sklar, Jialei Tang

Exhibitions curated at Kirkland Gallery include YES, BUT ALSO, organized during International Womxn’s Week to question and expand definitions of womanhood; MIS(INTERPRETATIONS), which reexamined everyday gendered objects and their cultural associations; and 9 FANTASY GIRLS, a playful exploration of identity, fantasy, and transformation beyond physical form. SOUVENIRS IN SITU (2023) was a public project featuring clotheslines with religious garments installed across iconic Montreal landscapes, offering a quiet protest against Quebec’s Bill 21. OPERATIONAL DOUBLES (2022) explored themes of imitation and reality, drawing on media and digital culture. NOTHING SPECIAL, REALLY (2022) explored materiality and perception through elements such as color, proportion, placement, detail, scale, and texture, featuring works that engaged with tininess and enormity, cracks and sheen, softness and sharpness. Each exhibition brought together emerging artists and experimental formats to engage timely social and political issues.

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