CERLAC Presents: THE AESTHETICS OF RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICAN ART IN CANADA

Speaker: Dr. Tamara Toledo

Moderator: Dr. María Constanza Guzmán

Thursday, Nov 27, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Kaneff Tower 857

Tamara Toledo (PhD, York University) is a Toronto-based art historian, curator, artist, and writer. Her research focuses on hemispheric connections, decolonial methodologies, artistic practices of the oppressed, oppositional consciousness, aesthetics of resistance, and Latin American diasporic exhibition histories. Her essays, reviews, and exhibition texts can be found in various publications including ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal of the University of California, and Concordia University Press. Toledo is co-founder of LACAP (Latin American Canadian Art Projects) and the multidisciplinary Allende Arts Festival (2003-2011). She developed the Latin American Speakers Series (2008-2025), ARCHIVO (a digital archive of Latin American, Latin-Caribbean, Latinx, and Indigenous artists from the Latin American region), and Positionality: A Symposium on Latin American and Latinx art in Canada (2022). Toledo has presented at conferences in Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States and is currently the Director/Curator of Sur Gallery, the only art space in Canada dedicated to contemporary Latin American and Latinx art.