Free of charge
About the speakers
Cathleen Chaffee is Charles Balbach Chief Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, where she has organized exhibitions with artists including Christine Sun Kim, Eric N. Mack, Jacob Kassay, Tamar Guimarães, Anthony McCall, Erin Shirreff, Joe Bradley and Ellie Ga, as well as historical and thematic projects including Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective; Shade: Clyfford Still/Mark Bradford; Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from The Panza Collection, 1967–1990; and Overtime: The Art of Work. She co-organized Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings, a collateral event at the 59th Venice Biennale. Chaffee previously held curatorial positions at the Yale University Art Gallery; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Chaffee holds a Ph.D. from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts.
Chief Curator of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts since 2020, Mary-Dailey Desmarais oversees a multidisciplinary team dedicated to enriching, promulgating and preserving a collection of over 45,000 art works and objects dating from antiquity to the present. She joined the Museum in 2014. Notable among the exhibitions she has curated are Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music (2022), How Long Does It Take for One Voice to Reach Another (2021), Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together (2021) and Once Upon a Time... The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film (2017), whose accompanying catalogue won two awards. She has published widely in scholarly journals, exhibition catalogues, and art magazines on subjects ranging from Impressionism to global modern and contemporary art. Originally from New York, she holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Yale, an M.A. from Williams College and a B.A. from Stanford.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Reservation terms: Please note that unclaimed reserved seats may be taken by those present, on a first-come first served basis.
Acces: At the Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Language: The conversation will be held in English with simultaneous subtitling provided in French on the big screen.
