Miguel A. López and Dominique Fontaine to Curate 2024 Toronto Biennial
The Toronto Biennial of Art is set to launch its third iteration in 2024, with curators Miguel A. López and Dominique Fontaine at the helm. López, originally from Peru, is celebrated for his 2019 retrospective on Cecilia Vicuña, which was exhibited in various cities, including Bogotá and Madrid. He also previously led the nonprofit TEOR/ética in Costa Rica. Fontaine, known for founding aposteriori, curated a significant exhibition on Black Canadian art at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2018. The biennial, initiated in 2019, has featured important exhibitions like The Shoreline Dilemma and What Water Knows, the Land Remembers.
Key facts
- Miguel A. López and Dominique Fontaine will curate the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art.
- López organized the Cecilia Vicuña retrospective at Kunstinstituut Melly in 2019.
- That exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogotá.
- López previously directed TEOR/ética in Costa Rica.
- Fontaine is founding director of aposteriori.
- Fontaine curated Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2018.
- That exhibition traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
- The 2024 edition will be the third since the biennial's inauguration in 2019.
Entities
Artists
- Cecilia Vicuña
- Candice Hopkins
- Tairone Bastien
- Katie Lawson
Institutions
- Toronto Biennial of Art
- Kunstinstituut Melly
- Witte de With
- TEOR/ética
- aposteriori
- Royal Ontario Museum
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia
Locations
- Toronto
- Rotterdam
- Mexico City
- Madrid
- Bogotá
- Costa Rica
- Nova Scotia