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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
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In conversation with Kitty Scott, BFA 90
National Gallery of Canada’s first female chief curator
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Kitty Scott, BFA 90, Johanne Sloan, BFA 83
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This event is free
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University Advancement
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Women & Leadership Corner Office Series
In conversation with Johanne Sloan, BFA 83, professor in Concordia’s Department of Art History, Kitty Scott, BFA 90, will discuss her role as the first female Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada, the pivotal moments in her life and challenges she faced on her career journey.
Kitty Scott, BFA 90
Before her current role at the NGC, Kitty Scott worked at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) as the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Previously she was Director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, Canada; Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, UK; and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. Scott’s extensive resume includes exhibitions of artists such as Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater, Janice Kerbel, Ragnar Kjartansson, Scott McFarland, Silke Otto-Knapp, Frances Stark and Ron Terada.
She was a core agent for Germany’s dOCUMENTA (13) in 2012, and has been named curator the Canadian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and co-curator of the Liverpool Biennale (2018). Scott has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues, books and journals and edited the publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (2010).
Johanne Sloan, BFA 83
Johanne Sloan's research and teaching encompass contemporary Canadian Art, landscape art and aesthetics, and urban visual culture.
She has written extensively about Expo 67, Montreal's world's fair, and about the artist and experimental filmmaker Joyce Wieland.