Candice Hopkins is director and curator of the exhibitions program at the Western Front, Vancouver, and an instructor in the critical and cultural studies department at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. She has a master of arts from the Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, New York, where she was awarded the Ramapo Curatorial Prize for the exhibition Every Stone Tells a Story: The Performance Work of David Hammons and Jimmie Durham (2004). Her writing has been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, New York University, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, and Banff Centre Press, among others. She has lectured at venues including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, and the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.  Hopkins is co-curator of the touring exhibitions Jimmie Durham: Knew Urk (2005), which originated at the Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland; and Shapeshifters, Timetravellers and Storytellers (2007), organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Upcoming curatorial projects include exhibitions on architecture and disaster, fictional identities, and the revolutionary potential of “slowness” in relation to new technologies. With the Western Front she is initiating a new series of books that will include conversations between artists and respondents of their choice.