Rhonda Corvese is a Toronto-based international independent curator. Her curatorial projects often evolve in response to situations in which she strives to challenge the role of the curator, the artist and the audience in the presentation of contemporary art. She is fundamentally interested in exploring the dialogue between curator and artist in the creation of new work – which often takes the form of site-specific installations that exist beyond the gallery/institutional space – and in the examination of contemporary Canadian art within an international framework. She received the 2006 Untitled Art Award of the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art as Emerging Curator. In 2007 she co-curated the city-wide Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche

Nuit Blanche is an annual all-night or night-time arts festival. A Nuit Blanche will typically have museums, private and public art galleries, and other cultural institutions open and free of charge, with the centre of the city itself being turned into a de facto art gallery, providing space for...

 art-event in Toronto that drew some 800,000 visitors.

Recent projects (selected)

• The Idea of North, a sound art project of visual and media artists with exhibitions in Canada, Iceland and Norway (2005/2006)
• The Legacy of Joseph Wagenbach (2006), curatorial/artistic collaboration with installation artist Iris Häussler
  Iris Häussler
  Iris Häussler is a conceptual- and installation art artist of German origin. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Many of Iris Häussler's works are detailed, hyperrealistic installations that visitors can decode as narrative stories...
  
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• The Watch Man (2007) an installation at Toronto's Interaccess by Shona Illingworth
• 25sec.-Toronto, a videoproject by Angelika Middendorf and Andreas Schimanski at Prefix ICA
• Co-curator of Toronto's Nuit Blanche 2007.

External links

• Biography at CCCA