Meet the TOAF65 Jurors
Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. A child of Guyanese parents, Brewster’s practice reflects a multilayered sense of identity born from the collision of place and time. She completed her BFA at York University and is a graduate of the Masters of Visual Studies program from the University of Toronto. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections. She has exhibited internationally. Brewster is a recipient of the Gattuso Prize of CONTACT Photography Festival (2017), the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize (2018), and the Canada Council for the Arts’ Photography Prize (2024). In the same year, she was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, recognizing her sustained contributions to lens-based practices in Canada.
Suzanne Carte
Suzanne Carte is a curator, cultural producer, and waste management coordinator whose two-decade career has been dedicated to expanding access, sustainability, and equity within Canada’s arts sector. As Artistic Director/Curator at the AGB, she champions an institution that disrupts the binary between contemporary art and craft.
Carte is the founder of Artist Material Fund (AMF), Canada’s only material relocation service diverting cultural waste from landfills. Over a decade, AMF has redirected tonnes of exhibition materials to artists and the public for free, operating as both environmental intervention and economic justice initiative that challenges the disposability inherent in institutional exhibition-making.
Maria Kanellopoulos
Maria Kanellopoulos (she/her) is an arts professional based in Toronto/Tkaronto, with experience in curating collections and exhibitions, program development and outreach, and strategic partnerships for individual artists and organizations. She has extensive experience in exhibitions and collections management, contemporary photography, and arts publishing.
Currently Associate Curator, TD Bank, Kanellopoulos plays a pivotal role in the growth, preservation, and care of TD Art Collection. Her career spans non-profit organizations, institutions, commercial galleries, and corporate and privately owned art collections and focuses on the transformative capacities of contemporary art and archives in creating spaces for historically underrepresented artists and their histories.
Jesse King
Jesse King is an Ojibwe curator and artist from Wasauksing First Nation, Eagle Clan. Based in Toronto, their work explores the many facets of identity, including discussions of queerness, gender, and the importance of cultural representation.
Their work has been exhibited locally and internationally, with exhibitions in Berlin, Germany, and Tampere, Finland. King’s work has also been featured in publications like Wonderland Magazine, Dauphine Magazine, and Photo Ed Magazine. They have taken part in transformative curatorial residencies with daphne and article in Montreal, Quebec, where the travelling exhibition “Celestial Bodies” was created. Along with their most recent curatorial fellowship with Gallery TPW in Toronto, Canada, where the exhibition “Smoke Signals x Reflections” was developed and produced.
