Gerald McMaster, the Fredrik S. Eaton curator, Canadian Art, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, will be making a special presentation at the McIntosh Gallery on Friday, Oct. 22 as part of a symposium held at The University of Western Ontario.
McMaster was recently appointed along with Catherine de Zegher as artistic director of the 18th Biennale of Sydney in Australia.
Gerald McMaster
He has worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and the Canadian Museum of Civilization and has curated many exhibitions including: In the Shadow of the Sun (1988); Indigena (1992); Edward Poitras, XLVI Biennale di Venezia (1995); and Reservation X (1998). While at the Smithsonian, he co-edited and co-curated: First American Art: The Collection of Charles and Valerie Diker (2004); edited and curated New Tribe: New York (2005–06); and co-curated Remix: Multiple Modernities in a Post-Indian World (2007).
McMaster is the keynote speaker for a symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition Mapping Medievalism at the Canadian Frontier, curated by Kathryn Brush and funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Department of Visual Arts’ Cohen Explorations Program, and the London Heritage Council of the City of London through its Community Heritage Investment Program.
The concurrent McIntosh exhibition Mapping Iroquoia: Shelley Niro and Jeff Thomas provides a complementary and contemporary perspective on the issues raised by Mapping Medievalism.
The event at the McIntosh Gallery begins at 7 p.m. with a reception to meet McMaster, followed by his keynote address at 8 p.m. This special event includes the unveiling of a new site-specific installation by the London-based artist’s collective Audio Lodge (Kevin Curtis-Norcross, Troy Ouellette and Paul Walde) that evokes the aural environment of southwestern Ontario in the pre-contact era.