ARTIST’S TALK with JESSICA KARUHANGA

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26
4:00 pm (PDT)
All ages, FREE

Join us on Zoom for a virtual screening of Jessica Karuhanga’s work being who you are there is no other (2017) followed by an artist’s talk.

Jessica Karuhanga is a Canadian Ugandan-British artist whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black Diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity─ illness, rage, grief, desire and longing within the context of Black embodiment.

She has presented her work at SummerWorks Lab, Toronto (2020), The Bentway, Toronto (2019), Nuit Blanche, Toronto (2018), Onsite Gallery, Toronto (2018), Museum London, London (2018), and Goldsmiths, London, UK (2017). Her writing has been published by C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery and Fonderie Darling. She has been featured in AGO's Artist Spotlight, i-D, DAZED, Visual Aids, Border Crossings, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, filthy dreams, Globe and Mail and Canadian Art.

Jessica Karuhanga received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Western University and her Master of Fine Arts from University of Victoria. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Photo: Michelle Campos Castillo