January 18 – March 29, 2025
Love and numbers
Works by Theo Jean CuthandCurated by Wanda Nanibush
Theo Jean Cuthand has been experimenting with video for over 30 years. His work ranges from diaristic explorations of sexuality and politics to performative radical histories and finally narratives that dive deep into the edges and centres of societies treatment of mental health, Indigenous peoples, and land. Always authentic, honest, and raw, Cuthand’s work continues to break open often-taboo topics and give us a new freedom through the camera. This exhibition covers a selection of Cuthand’s work from the 1990s to now.
About the Artist
Theo Jean Cuthand was born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1978. Since 1995 he has made experimental narrative videos and performances which have exhibited in festivals and galleries internationally, including Tribeca Film Festival in New
York City, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, and Berlinale and Oberhausen International Kurzfilmtage in Germany. He completed a BFA in Film and Video at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and an MA in Media Production at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University). He is currently developing a feature film and a video game. He is a trans man who uses He/Him pronouns. He is Plains Cree and Scots, and resides in Toronto.
About the Curator
Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. Based in Toronto, Nanibush is the founding director of aabaakwad, an international yearly gathering of over 80 Indigenous curators, writers and artists for talks and performances that last took place at Venice Biennale and is in Toronto Dec 5-7, 2024. She recently won the Toronto Book Award for her co-authored book Moving the Museum which chronicles some of her groundbreaking work at the Art Gallery of Ontario as the Inaugural curator of Indigenous Art. She has curated survey, group, and retrospective exhibitions including: Robert Houle, Red is Beautiful (NMAI, Smithsonian, Washington); Rebecca Belmore, Facing the Monumental (Canada and the U.S), and Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971 - 1989 (AGO). She will be the Helen Frankenthaler Visiting Professor in Curating in the Ph.D. Program in Art History at CUNY in the Graduate Department of Art History in 2025. She is also part of the curatorial team for Counterpublic 2026, St.Louis’ Triennial. She received her M.A. in Visual Studies from University of Toronto where she has also taught graduate courses. She is Adjunct Faculty at York University. Nanibush has published widely on Indigenous art, politics, history, feminism and sexuality.