Biography: Michelle Kasprzak was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada and currently lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She completed her BFA in New Media at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario in 2000, and in 2006 completed her MA in Visual and Media Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal, earning several scholarships over the course of her academic career.
Michelle has exhibited and lectured across North America and Europe. She has appeared in publications such as Wired UK and on radio and television broadcasts on the BBC and CBC. Most recently she has delivered lectures at PICNIC (Amsterdam), transmediale festival (Berlin), and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh).
Following a decade of practice as a visual artist, her current focus is primarily on writing and curating. In 2006, she was awarded a curatorial research residency at the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland, in 2010 she attended the Summer Seminars for Art Curators in Yerevan, Armenia, and in 2011 was a guest of the BAM International Visitor’s Programme in Flanders. In 2006, Michelle founded a leading blog on the subject of curating contemporary art, Curating.info, which was featured in the LabforCulture publication, Cultural Bloggers Interviewed
The results of her curatorial work have appeared in venues worldwide, most recently at the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial (San Jose, US), Cornerhouse (Manchester, UK), across Toronto as part of In-Site Toronto, a collaboration between Wireless Toronto and Year Zero One, at Canada House (London, UK), Holden Gallery (Manchester, UK) Urban Screens Manchester (Manchester, UK), Federation Square (Melbourne, Australia), and the Virtual Museums of Canada/Gallery TPW (Toronto, Canada).
Michelle is currently Curator at V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and is a member of IKT (International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art).
Career & Work: For my complete career profile, please view my LinkedIn page. For further details about my work, please use the navigation at the top of this page to browse my curatorial projects, artwork, and writing and lecturing history.
Email: My email address is: michelle (at) kasprzak (dot) ca.
Disclaimer: All opinions expressed on this site are my personal views – which means they have no relation to the views, policies, or practices of my current or past employers and collaborators.
