Curriculum Vitae.

#Curator #Author #Professor
Corinna Ghaznavi

Education

  • PhD Visual Culture, University of Western Ontario
  • MA Art History, Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf
  • BA Art History, Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg-in-Bresigau

Professional Experience

Independent Curator

  • Researching, conceptualizing, realizing small and large-scale, solo and group exhibitions and film programs.
  • Conducting studio visits, liaising with artists, ensuring professional and ethical practices.
  • Writing didactics, labels, catalogue texts, press releases.
  • Conducting exhibition tours, giving curator’s talks.

Arts Writer

  • Reviews, feature articles, and interviews published in national and international arts publications.
  • Exhibition catalogue texts.

Artistic Director, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film (2012 - 2015)

  • Conceptualizing and realizing five-day film festival.
  • Grant writing and budgeting.
  • Liaising with programmers and film makers.
  • Producing all aspects of the film festival.
  • Overseeing technicians, hospitality, accommodation, special events.
  • Responsible for accompanying brochure, editing, and all media and PR.

Public Art Coordinator, City of Markham (2012 - 2017)

  • Developing strategic vision.
  • Identifying sites for public art.
  • Implementing public art projects from concept/call to installation.
  • Overseeing budgets ($150,000 - $500,000).
  • Public presentations.
  • Organizing open calls.
  • Overseeing public art juries.
  • Sessional lecturer at college and university level.
  • Developing course curricula.
  • Classes in curatorial practices, Modernism, 20th Century Art and Advertising.
  • Critiques at MfA level.
  • External examiner MfA level.
  • Public talks.
  • Presentation at academic conferences.

Grants and Awards

  • Toronto Arts Council
  • Ontario Arts Council
  • Canada Council for the Arts
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • MITACS Accelerate

Curated Exhibitions

  • Look Again: Form and Void: Works from the Permanent Collection, Woodstock Art Gallery.
  • Through Her Eyes: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kelowna Art Gallery (catalogue).
  • Stardust and Time: John McEwen and Veronica Verkley, Durham.
  • Human Nature (touring exhibition), Carleton University Art Gallery.
  • Traversive Territories: Sarindar Dhaliwal, Sheila Esfahani, Colette Urban, Varley Art Gallery.
  • Writing Topography: Marion McCain Biennale of Contemporary Atlantic Canadian Art, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery (catalogue).
  • Animal (touring exhibition), Museum London (catalogue).
  • Douglas Walker: Other Worlds (touring exhibition) co-curated with Peter Dykhuis, Dalhousie Art Gallery (catalogue).
  • Sciencefiction Sciencefair: Denton Frederickson, Brian McKenna, Robyn Moody (touring exhibition), Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery (catalogue).
  • Pulp Fiction (touring exhibition), Museum London.
  • The Conative Object, York Quay Gallery.
  • The Wonderland: Claudia Klucaric and Kate Wilson, The Tom Thomson Art Gallery.
  • Neutrinos They Are Very Small: Rebecca Diederichs, Gordon Hicks, Sally McKay (touring exhibition), Sudbury Art Gallery (catalogue).
  • 18 Illuminations (touring exhibition) co-curated with Carla Garnet, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, (catalogue).
  • SuperNatural: Anna Maria Parolin and Natsuko Nakata, Open Studio.
  • ReCollect: Mary Kavanaugh and Carol Sawyer, La Centrale (touring exhibition) .
  • InkLinations, York Quay Gallery.
  • Happy Valley: David Acheson and Lorna Mills, The Walter Phillips Gallery.
  • Tekeningen III, Quartair.
  • Wish: Mona Kamal, Pamila Matharu, Tara Sabharwal, WARC in conjunction with SAVAC.
  • Poesis: Marianne Lovink and Sheila Moss (touring exhibition), Mercer Union.
  • Made In Banff: Selections from the Collection, co-curated with Melanie Townsend and Charlene McNichol, Walter Phillips Gallery.
  • Crawford Street: Carolyn White, Toronto Photographers Workshop.
  • Feminist Practices: Lateral Moves: Jamelie Hassan and Leila Sujir, A Space in conjunction with SAVAC.
  • LightWeights: Sandra Gregson and Sandra Rechico, Gallery 96.
  • Illegitimate: David Acheson, Janet Bellotto, Lisa Klapstock, Jill Stock, Archive Inc.
  • Bawdy: Michelle Gay, Vessna Perunovich, Jill Stock, Angela Gallery.

Film and Video Programs

  • North, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film.
  • Disrupting Binaries, Cold Cuts Video Festival.
  • Us Animals, Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film.

Selected Publications

  • “The Mediation of Trauma: The Problematics of Witnessing Tertiary Memory in the Work of Samina Mansuri.” In Kim Huynh and Cecille DePass, Ed., Calgary: Art Bayeux
  • *“We Are Here Now: Vessna Perunovich
  • “Complex Intermingling and the Co-Evolution of Species.” Mary Anne Barkhouse, MacLaren Arts Centre
  • “The Proverbial Mole.” Veronica Verkley: Second Nature: FERAL, Yukon Arts Centre
  • “Deep in the Mud: Unthinking and Re-Thinking.” Colette Urban: Incognito. Museum London
  • “Material Becomings in the Work of Lyn Carter.” Cambridge Galleries and Peel Gallery
  • “Looking for Cohesion in a Broken World.” Abject Nature: Duke and Battersby. Union Gallery
  • “Curious Lights in the Eye of the Storm.” Kate Wilson: Curious Lights. Union Gallery
  • “Persona Volare: Canadian Club.” Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris.
  • “Probing Into the Distance.” Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener
  • “Lorna Mills: Reality Show.” Tom Thomson Art Gallery
  • “Gathering Shades: Catherine Heard and Ed Pien.” Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
  • “Computer Voices: Speaking Machines.” David Rokeby and Jocelyn Robert, The Walter Phillips Art Gallery

Selected Public Art Commissions

  • Jill Anhold, Living Light, Downtown Markham
  • Mary Anne Barkhouse, Locavore, Carleton University
  • Les Drysdale, Monument to Benjamin Thorne, Thornhill Community Centre
  • Marlene Hilton Moore, Monument to William Bercy, Berczy Square, Markham
  • Mary Anne Barkhouse, Quarry, Toogood Pond, Unionville
  • Kipjones, Gambrel Journey, Markham Museum
  • Douglas Walker, Cloudflower, Cornell Community Centre