The Air of the Now and Gone, curated with Sarah E.K. Smith, Carleton University Art Gallery, January 26-May 4, 2025.
Test Site, Cohen Commons, Western University, October 10-31, 2024.
meromictic, artLAB Gallery. Curated with MCS4605E, February 29-March 15
Ist Das Kunst Oder Kann Das Weg: Curating Waste, curated with Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Cohen Commons, Department of Visual Arts, Western University, November 24-December 12, 2022.
Collection of Dreams. Curated by Kirsty Robertson, part of Collection Count and Care, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, October 25-November 6, 2022, featuring Eleanor Bond and Kim Ondaatje.
From Remote Stars: Buckminster Fuller, London, and Speculative Futures. Curated by Kirsty Robertson and Sarah E.K. Smith, March 5-May 15, 2022, Museum London.
Plastic Heart: Surface the Whole Way Through. Curated by the Synthetic Collective, Art Museums at University of Toronto, September 8-November 15, 2021 and Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, November 15-March, 2022-23.
“Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff.” Curated by Kirsty Robertson, including work by Germaine Koh, Allyson Mitchell, Payton Turner and Kelly Wood, with catalogue design by Shannon Gerard. McIntosh Gallery, Western University, Canada, February 28-April 6 2013 (with catalogue).
The Bookcase micro-museum and library, September 2014-2019, Room 221, Visual Arts Building, Western University, Canada (now hibernating indefinitely).
Part of my pedagogy includes curating exhibitions with undergraduate and graduate students. Here are links to some of those exhibitions.
2023-24 MCS4605 meromictic
2019-20 MCS4650 Together We Average As Zero
2018-19 A Museum for Future Fossils
2017-18 VAH4485 95% Invisible: The Art of Storage
2016-17 VAH4485 Protectorate 1: A Darker Side of the Moon.
2015-16 VAH4485 Cabinet of Shadows: The Reliquary For Lost Animals.
2014-15 VAH3385 Beneath the Surface: The Archives of Arthur Nestor
2012-2013 VAH3385 Famously Anonymous: Dafen Does Van Gogh
2011-2012 VAH3385E 42°59’81°14’: Mapping London’s International Legacy
2010-2011 VAH3385E (Re)Collecting Clark McDougall
2009-2010 VAH3385E Art.wav: A Sound Walk Through 1960s London
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