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About the speakers
Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most distinguished artists, with a painting career spanning five decades and over 60 solo exhibitions. A major survey of her work was mounted by the National Gallery of Canada in 2011. From the outset of her career, Koop has garnered critical and curatorial acclaim for her energetic and ambitious exploration of her medium. Starting in the 1980s, she charted new directions for her painting, pushing the boundaries of presentation and display with her monumental-scale installations. Recent solo exhibitions include Objects of Interest, at Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Eclipse, at Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London (2023); Lightworks, at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario (2022); and Concentrations 62: Dreamline, at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (2019).
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 some 47,000 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
Location: Maxwell Cummings Auditorium, 1379-A, Sherbrooke Street West
Please note that unclaimed reserved seats will be made available to other participants.
