As part of the series Gale Force Snow Storm: Michael Snow & Peggy Gale in Ottawa, join us for a free lecture by preeminent Canadian curator Peggy Gale, entitled “Critical Issues in Curatorial Practice.”

Peggy Gale is an independent curator and writer whose texts on contemporary art, especially video art, have become artistic benchmarks. Born in Guyana in 1944, Gale studied at the University of Toronto and the Università degli Studi in Florence. She has published extensively, with essays in Video By Artists (1976, 1986), Mirror Machine: Video and Identity (1995) and Lectures obliques (1999), and texts in many museum catalogues. She was editor, among others, of Museums by Artists (with AA Bronson, 1983) and Video re/View: The (best) Source for Critical Writings on Canadian Artists’ Video (with Lisa Steele, 1996). Videotexts, a selection of her essays, was published in 1995. She has organized many exhibitions including: Videoscape (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1974-1975); XIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (1977); Electronic Landscapes (National Gallery of Canada, 1989); the Biennale of the Moving Image (Madrid, 1990) and Tout le temps / Every Time (La Biennale de Montréal, 2000). In 2006, she was awarded the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts. Gale was the co-curator of the Biennale de Montréal 2014, L’avenir (looking forward), at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Peggy Gale lives in Toronto.
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