Name: Curatorial Tour and Book Signing with Dr. Kenneth Montague
Start: 2022-11-05T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-11-05T16:00:00-04:00
Location: Art Museum at the University of Toronto - University of Toronto Art Centre

Curatorial Tour and Book Signing with Dr. Kenneth Montague

The Art Museum at the University of Toronto is a dynamic interdisciplinary arts hub that offers new encounters with diverse artistic and cultural perspectives.The Art Museum comprises the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (Hart House) and the University of Toronto Art Centre (University College). Located just a few steps apart, the two galleries were federated in 2014 and began operating under a new visual identity as the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, one of the largest gallery spaces for visual art exhibitions and programming in Toronto.Building on the two galleries’ distinguished histories, the Art Museum organizes and presents an intensive year-round program of exhibitions and events that foster — at a local, regional, and international level — innovative research, interdisciplinary scholarship, and knowledge of art and its histories befitting Canada’s leading university and the country’s largest city.

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This event is a program of the exhibition, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic

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Join prominent art collector Dr. Kenneth Montague for a public tour of the exhibition <a href="https://artmuseum.utoronto.ca/exhibition/as-we-rise-photography-from-the-black-atlantic/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic</a>, followed by a book signing of the homonymous book published by Aperture from which the exhibition was adapted. Books will be available for purchase at the event.—About the SpeakerDr. Kenneth Montague is a Toronto-based art collector and the founder and director of Wedge Curatorial Projects, a non-profit organization that supports emerging and established African and Diasporic artists. Since 1997 Montague has been exhibiting contemporary art that explores Black identity and showcasing these works within his growing Wedge Collection. Montague grew up in a Jamaican-Canadian family on the border of Canada and America; his family was one of the first Jamaican immigrants in the community and closely immersed in issues of race and representation. He has served on the Africa Acquisitions Committee at Tate Modern, London; the Advisory Board of the Ryerson Image Centre; and the Photography Curatorial Committee of the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is currently an AGO Trustee and an Advisor to the Global Africa Department. For his ongoing work with emerging artists and young creatives, Montague received an honorary doctorate from OCAD University, Toronto in 2016. A photobook featuring works from his Wedge Collection was published by Aperture Foundation in Fall 2021.—Title Image: Zun Lee, Jebron Felder and his son Jae’shaun at home, Harlem, New York, September 2011, selenium split-tone K7 on Hanhemüle Photo Rag. From As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic (Aperture, 2021). Courtesy of Zun Lee, from the Father Figure Project.

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