Visual Arts: Banff Artist in Residence - Summer 2023

Curator, Former Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Gallery of Canada

Kitty Scott is a curator, writer and senior arts administrator. Formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Gallery of Canada, she has also served as the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, Chief Curator at Serpentine Galleries and curator of Contemporary Art at the NGC. She has curated exhibitions of artists including Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Peter Doig, Geoffrey Farmer, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Ragnar Kjartansson, Ken Lum, Gordon Matta-Clark, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ron Terada, and Jin-me Yoon. She co-curated the Liverpool Biennial (2018), presented Geoffrey Farmer’s project at the Canada Pavilion for the Venice Biennale (2017) and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Scott edited the publication Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents (2010) and has written extensively on contemporary art for a variety of journals. Scott has contributed to numerous books on curatorial studies and written texts for monographic publications on the work of Matthew Barney, Peter Doig, Brian Jungen, Adam Pendleton, and Daniel Richter; and for the publication Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture (2010). Scott has taught at numerous institutions including the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts.
 

Associate Professor Emeritus, Visual Arts Department, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria

A significant area of Lynda Gammon’s artistic production has dealt with ideas of space, time and inhabitation through the disciplines of sculpture, performance, assemblage, photography and collage. A number of her projects explore the studio as a space of artistic production in relationship to feminist practices.
Gammon, studied at The University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, [B.A. English] and York University [M.F.A. 1983]. She is currently Associate Professor Emeritus in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Victoria where she has taught and served in administrative capacities for over thirty years.  She has been the recipient of numerous BC Arts Council and Canada Council grants and is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. In 2004 Gammon established flask an artist press dedicated to the production and publication of books by artists and writers. She served as a Board member at Open Space and Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and currently serves on the board of the Victoria Art Council.
https://lyndagammon.ca/
 

Tékeniyáhsen Ohkwá:ri (Jackson 2bears) is a Kanien’kehaka (Mohawk) multimedia installation/ performance artist and cultural theorist from Six Nations and Tyendinaga, who is currently based in Lethbridge, Alberta—Treaty 7, Blackfoot Territory. 2bears’ research-creation activities focus on Indigenous land-based histories and embodied cultural knowledge, wherein they explore the creative use of digital technologies as a means to support the innovation, transmission, expression, and transformation of FNMI creative and cultural practices. Since 1999, 2bears has exhibited his work extensively across Canada in public galleries, museums, and artist-run centres, as well as internationally in festivals and group exhibitions. 2bears is an active researcher in the areas of video arts, digital media, and extended media, with a focus on embodied interaction, live audio/visual (Live Cinema) performance, and immersive, multimedia installation. 2bears is currently Associate Professor of Art Studio and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research & Technology at the University of Lethbridge.  

Tanya Doody is an interdisciplinary artist who works in ceramics/sculpture, performance, and
video. Her work proposes strategies of embodiment through performative acts, poetic gestures
and object making. Using touch as a means of engagement within her work is a strategy that
offers direct experience and seeks to communicate embodied ways of knowing with the viewer.
Ideas of materiality and the body are sought through direct, haptic experiences. Tactile
experience becomes a way to reconnect the body to itself, its environment and to others.
Tanya holds an MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University in Fine and
Media Arts, a BFA from University of Victoria in Visual Arts, a Diploma from Sheridan College in
Crafts and Design (Ceramics), and a certificate of Fine Crafts (Ceramics) from the New
Brunswick College of Craft and Design. She lives and works on traditional Blackfoot
Confederacy territory, Treaty 7, in Lethbridge, Alberta.