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Vicky Moufawad-Paul

Lecturer
EducationM.F.A., Film and Video Production, York University; B.A. (Honours), Double Major in Media Studies and Political Science at Huron University College, Western University

Biography

Vicky Moufawad-Paul is the Director and Curator at A Space Gallery in Toronto. She situates her work in terms of curatorial praxis which investigates aesthetic strategies for South West Asian self-determination, including counter archives, opacity, and refusal. She has curated exhibitions at Carleton University Art Gallery, Agnes Art Centre, Montreal Arts Interculturels, Latitude 53, Museum London, McIntosh Gallery, Contact Photography Festival, Inside Out Festival, Gallery 101, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, A Space Gallery, SAVAC, and 16 Beaver.

Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, Prefix Photo Magazine, C Magazine, 180: Toronto International Film Festival, and Fuse Magazine. Moufawad-Paul has contributed book chapters in Akram Zaatari: All is Well (Queens University and Carleton University Art Gallery, 2014), Beyond Her Usual Limits: The Film and Video Works of Deirdre Logue (Oakville Galleries, 2017), Decentre: Concerning Artist-Run Culture (YYZ Books, 2008), Taysir Batniji: Artist’s Rooms (Jameel Arts Centre, 2020), and The Art of Global Power: Artwork and Popular Cultures as World-Making Practices (London: Routledge, 2020).

Moufawad-Paul was the winner of the Galleries Ontario curatorial award for Monographic Exhibition of the year in 2019 and that same year was awarded the Chalmers Arts Fellowship. In 2024 she was awarded the Galleries Ontario Change Maker Award for over 15 years of curatorial collaborations with university art galleries, museums, artist-run centres, film festivals, and grassroots organizations across Canada.