Bold, audacious, and colourful, Joyce Wieland was the first woman living artist to have a solo exhibition at both the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was a major figure in the avant-garde film scene of the 1960s and '70s, and together with Michael Snow, she was one of the founders of Canadian experimental cinema. Her work left an indelible mark on Canadian art.

Joyce Wieland: Heart On is the first publication to offer a comprehensive view of Wieland’s multifaceted career as a painter, experimental filmmaker, and cultural activist. Using her seductive wit as a powerful tool of social and political critique, Wieland embedded disruptive and unexpected elements and imagery in her work with compelling effect.

Richly illustrated with over 250 reproductions, Joyce Wieland: Heart On includes texts by curators, scholars, and artists, as well as personal reflections from Wieland’s friends and collaborators. Archival materials, an extensive chronology, and passages from Wieland’s own writings offer a new understanding of the artist’s extraordinary career and the social and political context in which she was creating.

Anne Grace is Curator of Modern Art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Her past curatorial exhibition projects at the MMFA include Peintures barbares : hommage à Jean McEwen, Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, In Memorium: Antoni Tàpies, Multiplicity: Post-War American Prints and Drawings from the Collection, and Van Dongen: Painting the Town Fauve. She has also been the curator responsible for the presentations at the MMFA of Lyonel Feininger: From Manhattan to the Bauhaus, Rouge Cabaret: The Terrifying and Beautiful World of Otto Dix, and From Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Expressionism in Germany and France, 1900-1914. Previous to her position at the MMFA, she worked at the National Gallery of Canada.

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Georgiana Uhlyarik is the curator of Jinny Yu: AT ONCE (2024). She is Fredrik S. Eaton Curator, Canadian Art, and co-lead of the Indigenous + Canadian Art Department, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada. She works collaboratively with artists and curators from across the Americas and Europe. Projects include: Moving the Museum: Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO (2023); Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940 (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2021); Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak (2018); Rita Letendre: Fire & Light (2017); Georgia O’Keeffe (Tate Modern, 2017); and Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry (Jewish Museum, NY, 2017). Uhlyarik is adjunct faculty in Art History at York University and University of Toronto.

Georgiana Uhlyarik est la commissaire de l’exposition JINNY YU : AT ONCE (2024). Elle est conservatrice Fredrik S. Eaton pour l’art canadien et codirectrice du département de l’art autochtone et canadien au Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario, à Toronto. Elle travaille en collaboration avec des artistes et commissaires de l’Amérique et de l’Europe. Ses projets incluent : Moving the Museum : Indigenous + Canadian Art at the AGO (2023) ; Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940 (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 2021) ; Tunirrusiangit: Kenojuak Ashevak and Tim Pitsiulak (2018) ; Rita Letendre: Fire & Light (2017) ; Georgia O’Keeffe (Tate Modern, 2017) ; Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry (Musée juif de New York, 2017). Uhlyarik est professeure adjointe en Histoire de l’Art à l’Université York et à l’Université de Toronto.

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