Group Exhibition persona
- Arnaud Maggs
- Suzy Lake
- Ian Baxter&
- General Idea
- Liz Magor
- Kelly Mark
- Jeff Thomas
A selection of works from the Hart House and University of Toronto Art Collections
The works in this exhibition engage dramatization and performance of a persona. Critical in these works is the use of the camera as an apparatus that offers opportunity to play: to invoke, impersonate or conjure someone else, whether historical or present-day figures or (im)probable future beings.
Curated by Barbara Fischer
Jeff Thomas is an independent curator and photographer who deals, in examination of his own history and identity, with issues of aboriginality that have arisen at the intersections of Native and non-Native cultures in what is now Ontario and northern New York state. Nationally recognized for ground-breaking scholarship and innovative curatorial practice in this area, he has been involved in major projects at such prominent cultural institutions in Canada as the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Woodlands Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and Library and Archives Canada. As his curatorial projects, publications and exhibitions amply demonstrate, he is committed to work dealing with issues of race, aboriginality, and gender in both archival and contemporary photography dealing with Aboriginal peoples.