Events, talks and tours

Speaker Bio

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, and engineering. His solo exhibitions have been held at major institutions such as the Smithsonian, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Fondazione Prada. Paglen’s projects include launching artwork into orbit, contributing to the film Citizenfour, and creating a radioactive sculpture in Fukushima. He has authored several books and articles on experimental geography, artificial intelligence, state secrecy, and photography. A MacArthur Fellow and recipient of the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, Paglen’s work has been featured in prominent publications like the New York Times and Wired. He holds degrees from UC Berkeley and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Artist Bio

Clara Gutsche (Canadian, b. American, 1949) studied visual arts at Concordia University, Montreal (MFA, 1986). A co-founder of the artist-run centre Powerhouse Gallery/La Centrale in Montreal (1973), she has also been an educator, teaching photography at Champlain College, Saint-Lambert and Concordia University. In the 1980s, along with her husband and frequent collaborator David Miller, she was awarded two major commissions from the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), documenting the Lachine Canal and the construction of the CCA’s museum building.

Gutsche’s photographs have been presented in solo and group exhibitions at Optica, Montreal; VU, Quebec City; Château d’Eau, Toulouse, France; Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; and the Musée d’art de Joliette, Quebec. Her work can be found in the collections of The Image Centre; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Musée de la photographie, Charleroi, Belgium; and the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona. In 1997 she was the recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography.

Artist Bio

Rebecca Wood is a multidisciplinary artist exploring relationships in the era of Hyperobjects. Through layered photographic materials, her work challenges binary thinking and highlights the circular nature of time, addressing the escalating hostility toward women. Committed to a speculative documentary practice, Wood avoids reinforcing dominant narratives. A professional photographer for over 20 years, she holds a BFA from the University of Guelph and is pursuing an MFA in Documentary Media Studies at Toronto Metropolitan University with a SSHRC research award. Wood has exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Contact Photo Festival, Milk Glass Gallery, and Gallery LeDeco in Tokyo.

Speaker/Curator Bio

Gaëlle Morel has been the Exhibitions Curator at The Image Centre since 2010, during which time she has curated dozens of exhibitions and written and edited numerous publications. Her latest projects include Stories from the Picture Press: Black Star Publishing Co. & The Canadian Press; Mary Ellen Mark: Ward 81; and Lee Miller, a Photographer at Work (1932-1945). In 2009, Morel was the guest curator of the photography biennial, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. She is currently an instructor in the Film + Photography Preservation and Collections Management graduate program at Toronto Metropolitan University. Morel holds a PhD in the History of Contemporary Photography from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.