CARLETON UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY (Ottawa, Ontario)

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To Be Continued: Troubling the Queer Archive. Curators Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney. Carleton University Art Gallery. September 24, 2020 – May 16, 2021

“This exhibition examines local histories and genealogies of queerness.”

The story of queer history that dominates the archival record is one of white cisnormative gays. Curators Anna Shah Hoque and Cara Tierney question and destabilize this incomplete version of the past, foregrounding the work and creativity of emerging and established artists from local queer, trans and IBPOC communities.

From works that reconsider specific historic events to works that speculatively produce histories from the future, the artists collectively imagine and gesture toward alternative archives.

The exhibition is amplified by the Stonecroft Symposium: To Be Continued. It takes the form of a multi-vocal, multi-site virtual “event” including podcasts, conversations and gatherings.

The exhibition and symposium together generate and disseminate new artworks that share lesser-told stories and histories. For Shah Hoque and Tierney, as for the artists, this work is always, and forever will be, “to be continued…”

Four works by Ace are included in the exhibition. For more information, follow link (here).

Carleton University Art Gallery (here).
The Stonecroft Symposium Series: To Be Continued (here).

Artists in the exhibition

Barry Ace, Howard Adler, Aymara Alvarado Sanchez, Pansee Atta, Rosalie Favell, Ashley Grenstone, RJ Jones, Don Kwan, Ed Kwan AKA China Doll, Kole Peplinskie, Adrienne Row-Smith, Pride Is Political, Shanghai Restaurant