Aretha Pereira has been appointed to the position of TD Assistant Curator at Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.
A South Asian artist, writer and arts programmer, Pareira holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and was the recipient of the SAAG Arts Writing Prize in 2023. In her new position, she will help plan and coordinate gallery exhibitions, off-site projects, public programming, residencies and publications. She will also develop and implement a curatorial project under the mentorship of Godfre Leung, CAG’s curator.
“Aretha comes to us with tremendous promise as a writer, thinker and curator,” says Leung in the news release. “We are excited to work with her on her first major curatorial project in the year ahead.”
Source: Contemporary Art Gallery
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