Visit with LandMarks Curator Kathleen Ritter
January 18, 2017
Kathleen Ritter came to 611 Alexander to share with the class her experiences curating public art, the vision of LandMarks 2017, how she came to lead a part of the project.
Kathleen Ritter is an artist and writer based in Vancouver and Paris. She was an artist in residence at La Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, in 2013. Her art practice broadly explores questions of visibility, especially in relation to systems of power, language and technology. Ritter was the Associate Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery until 2012, where she organized the exhibitions Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture (with Tania Willard); How Soon Is Now; and Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion (with Daina Augaitis). Ritter has lectured and published on the work of artists nationally and internationally, with texts appearing in numerous catalogues and journals, including ESSE, Open Letter, C Magazine, Prefix Photo, and Fillip.
