Miguel A. López and Dominique Fontaine will curate the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art.
In 2019, López organised the influential retrospective exhibition Cecilia Vicuña: Seehearing the Enlightened Failure at the Witte de With (now Kunstinstituut Melly), Rotterdam. The exhibition traveled to Mexico City, Madrid, and Bogota. Previously the Peruvian curator directed TEOR/ética, the Costa Rican nonprofit space.
Fontaine is likewise a curator and founding director of aposteriori, a non-profit curatorial platform. In 2018 she opened Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art at the the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, which travelled to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.
She described her appointment as an ‘opportunity to cocreate an event that could resonate with complex issues of our time in relation to the changing realities of Toronto and the praxis of coexistence’.
This will be the third edition of the biennial since its inauguration in 2019. The first, The Shoreline Dilemma, was curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien, with Katie Lawson joining them in 2021 for What Water Knows, the Land Remembers.
