The fourth edition of the Toronto Biennial of Art will be curated by Allison Glenn, its organisers announced.
Glenn, who lives in New York, is a curator and writer specialising in site-specific and research-intensive curating. Glenn is currently the Artistic Director of The Shepherd, an arts campus in Detroit.
‘Toronto is one of the most diverse cities in the world and is located on the Great Lakes waterway – a system that contains 20 percent of the world’s freshwater. This will undoubtedly impact the curatorial framework,’ Glenn said in a statement. ‘I am honoured to be invited to consider a city so close to home, and to learn from the vast histories of the region.’
Glenn was chosen by a selection committee including the 2024 edition’s cocurators Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López; the curator and executive director of Forge Project, Candice Hopkins; Camille Usher, a writer and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Indigenous Art at the University of British Columbia; the artist Léuli Eshrāghi; and Elvira Dyangani Ose, a curator and director of MACBA Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona.
The fourth edition will run from September to December 2026.
