Dominique Fontaine

Dominique Fontaine is a curator, researcher, cultural advisor and Founding Director of aPOSteRIORI, a non-profit curatorial platform – researching, documenting, developing, producing and facilitating innovation in diverse contemporary art practices. Currently, she is developing a multi-year, multidisciplinary project on new forms of collaborations and connections between artistic zones in Africa and Canada. Fontaine graduated in visual arts and arts administration from the University of Ottawa (Canada). She studies curatorial practices at De Appel Stiching Curatorial Training Programme (Amsterdam, the Nertherlands). Her ongoing research, "Evidence: Inter-documentation", surveys Contemporary Visual art practices by Black artists, curators, critics, theorists and art historians as a response to a gap concerning the accessibility of updated material on diverse artistic propositions from Africa and its Diaspora. Since 1992, she has curated and organized several contemporary art events in Canada and abroad. Her curatorial projects included “Images, Imageries, Imaginaires” – International Photography Exhibition of the World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures, December 2010; “Forms and topographies: African Cityscape in flux”, 2009, Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece; “Moshekwa Langa: Unlimited”, Art Star Video Biennial, August 2005; “Zineb Sedira”, Art Star Video Biennial, July 2003. Her writings have been published in many exhibitions catalogues, among them ”Marie-Hélène Cauvin in Conversation with Dominique Fontaine – Sharjah Biennial 10”, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2011, p. 105; ”Biennàle :2 – Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art”, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009, p. 3 ; “Snap Judgments : New Positions in Contemporary African Photography”, CV ciel variable, 74 Montréal, p. 29-30; Art Star Video Biennial, 2005 and 2003; Politicas de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano fin de siglo, "Politics of the Difference: End-of-century Iberoamerican Art", 2001; WWWF 01, 19th World Wide Video Festival, 2001; In the meantime, De Appel, 2001; Dak'Art '98, Biennale de l'art africain contemporain, 1998. She has done field research in Africa, Europe, North America and the Caribbean. Dominique Fontaine is a member of IKT - the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.

•Professional artistic and cultural activities••
•Juror, BES Photo 2012, Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
•Artists’ Views - interviews with Jodi Bieber, Mohamed Bourouissa, Bouchra Khalili – The Paris Photo 2011 Plateform (2011)
•Member of the programming committee and the advisor board of the Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal (2007-2010)
•Selection Committee Member — Cité Invisible / Invisible City, 7th Biennale Champ Libre, Montreal (2006)
•Member, Delegation on cultural diversity in the arts Montreal Arts Council, Montreal (2004-2007)
•Guest Curator – “Matthijs De Bruijne: http://artengine.ca/asimilarplace/” Artengine, Ottawa (2002)
•Co-Curator, “In the meantime…” De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2001)
•Program Officer, The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology 2001-2005
•Project Coordinator, “Retreks” –Zar Works, Johannesburg, South Africa (2000)
•Curator / Jury member , DAK’ART ’98, la biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar, Senegal (1997-1998)
•Board member — Saw Gallery Video Coop, Ottawa (1997-1998)
•Board member — Canadian Artists Network: Black Artists in Action (CAN:BAIA), Toronto (1996-1998)
•Organizing Committee – “Black Site ‘96”, Saw Video Coop, Ottawa (1994-1996)
•Conference organizer – “Artists against hate” Saw Video Gallery Coop, Ottawa (1997)
•Founding member — Little Pear Garden Collective, Toronto (1994)