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Richmond Art Gallery invites visual artists to present their work to curators Zoë Chan and Maria Filipina Palad for a private critique session.
Each artist will have 10 minutes to introduce their work and receive focused feedback on recent work or work in progress.
Free admission. Pre-registration is required.
About the Presenters:
Zoë Chan’s curatorial projects have explored a range of subject matter, including collaborative documentary, storytelling, youth, food, and diasporic identity. Curator at Richmond Art Gallery since 2022, she has curated exhibitions for institutions across Canada, including the Vancouver Art Gallery; Kamloops Art Gallery; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Optica, Montréal; MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax; and the MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels). Her writing has been published in C Magazine, Esse arts + opinions, and Momus, among other publications. She received the Canada Council for the Arts’s Joan Lowndes Award in recognition of excellence in critical and curatorial writing in 2015.
Maria Filipina Palad holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts from Simon Fraser University (SFU). She has studied in the Master in Arts Management program at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Italy. In 2023, Maria curated installations for Richmond Public Art and Richmond Art Gallery along the Canada Line as part of the Capture Photography Festival. She was a keynote speaker at Big Pictures Lab 2024. She currently works as a Curatorial Assistant at the Richmond Art Gallery, where she manages exhibitions and displays of artworks from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection. She is a member of the jury responsible for selecting artist submissions for both the Cultural Centre Annex and the City Hall Galleria exhibition spaces. Her curatorial projects have been exhibited in Vancouver, Florence, Italy, and Manila, Philippines.
Art at Work is a series of professional development workshops designed for artists and arts organizations practicing in any artistic medium. The program is presented in partnership by the City of Richmond Arts Services, Richmond Public Art, and Richmond Art Gallery. The program is intended to provide artists and arts organizations with knowledge and skills relevant to pursuing a professional practice in the field of public art, performance, visual art and community arts.
Art at Work offers workshops from February through October each year. To view an archive and videos of past workshops, click here.
