I am an editor, curator, and writer based in Toronto.
For nearly twenty years, I have worked with arts organizations and creative companies to make exhibitions and books, devise publishing strategies, edit texts, and create digital experiences. More
My long-term interests include photography and contemporary art; knowledge management and publishing, in both theory and practice; places and their pasts; and helping people and organizations create or find patterns that better their lives.
I am currently directing a publishing-and-exhibition project for the Ryerson Image Centre and Steidl; consulting with and editing for the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation and for Frontier, a design office in Toronto; serving on the jury of the Scotiabank Photography Award; editing for the Moderna Museet, OSMOS, and other organizations; and writing and curating.
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I help museums, galleries, and creative companies develop print and online publishing strategies and edit texts destined for books, catalogues, websites, and gallery walls. This entails everything from conceiving magazines and creating newsletters, to commissioning writers and developmental editing, to copy editing and proofreading. I’ve even indexed a book.
In addition to the staff positions I held at Artforum and the Aperture Foundation, over the last fifteen years I have worked with Creative Time, Frontier, the Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Matthew Marks Gallery, Metabolic Studio, Moderna Museet, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Objektiv, OSMOS, and the Venice Biennale, among other clients.
I’m open to working with new partners and would be pleased to hear from you.