Executive Director , Plug Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, MB
For the last fifteen years Jenifer Papararo has worked within the field of contemporary art as a curator, writer, institutional director and member of a service-oriented curatorial and artist collective. She is the Executive Director of Plug Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, previously working as the Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver and the Program Director at Mercer Union, Toronto. She has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions most recently for Plug In ICA, including Superimposition: Sculpture and Image featuring work by Valerie Blass, Nadia Belerique, Andrea Roberts, Ursula Mayer, Kelly Lycan, Ursula Johnson, Kristin Nelson and Dominique Rey and Further Than I Can Throw A Stone, a group exhibition of film and video work featuring Jeremy Blake, John Bock, Cécile B. Evans, Erica Eyres, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Tristan Bera, Lisa Jackson, Karrabing Film Collective, John Knight, Kelly Mark, and Erika Vogt. In 2015 she launched a city-wide poster campaign with work by Rodney Graham. In 2013, she worked intensively with Mike Nelson to co-commission two new works exhibited at the CAG and The Power Plant, Toronto and she co-edited a book on Frances Stark’s pivotal work My Best Thing, published by CAG, Walter Phillips Gallery and Koenig Books, London. In 2010 she curated Triumphant Carrot: The Persistence of Still Life, which featured the work of twenty-seven artists, including Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Rodney Graham, Liz Magor, Sam Taylor-Wood and Jeff Wall. She is a founding member of the curatorial and artist collective Instant Coffee, whose work has been exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Toronto Sculpture Garden; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Subvision, Hamburg; Astronomical Futures, Copenhagen; Encuentro Internacional, Medellín; Sparwasser HQ, Berlin; the Americas Society, New York; and the 2nd Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial, Albania.