Visiting Artist Lecture: Amanda Boulos

Amanda Boulos (she/her) is a visual artist and educator based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Boulos explores how oral narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada shape the Palestinian diaspora or shattat. She recently exhibited at Centre Clark (Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, QC), Clint Roenisch Gallery (Tkaronto/Toronto, ON), The Bows (Mohkínstsis/Calgary, AB), No.9 Gardens/Agnes Etherington Art Centre (Ka’tarohkwi/Kingston, ON), and de Montigny, (Ottawa, ON). She was the winner of the 20th RBC Painting Prize, and has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. Boulos is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at OCAD University, a founding member of the Toronto project space the plumb, and a programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.

This talk is free and open to the public, all are welcome. Registration required. If you have accommodation needs, please let us know through the registration form or contact dmg.utsc@utoronto.ca.

Scarborough students attending for course credit should register here. 

This talk is part of the Visiting Artist Lecture Series, co-presented by the Doris McCarthy Gallery & Studio Art program, Department of Arts, Culture & Media, University of Toronto Scarborough. The theme of this year's series, Futures Otherwise: Memory, Myth and the Politics of Tomorrow, invites artists to share insights into their respective practices exploring themes including Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurisms, diasporic mythology, techno-utopian, queer temporalities, and beyond. These artists engage with the future not just as speculative, but as a site of resistance, healing, memory and radical re-imagining. 

This is a seated event. The classroom is wheelchair accessible.