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Kapwani Kiwanga Represents Canada at the 60th International Art Exhibition—La Biennale di Venezia 2024 Recognized as one of Canada’s most important artists, Kapwani Kiwanga works across a range of mediums including sculpture, installation, video and performance. Kiwanga's interdisciplinary approach to art making has received international attention for its astute ability to produce artworks that brilliantly investigate the structures, systems and narratives underlying today's power asymmetries. Her projects pay close attention to the sites in and on which they are conceived and exhibited. Kapwani Kiwanga’s presentation in Venice will be curated by Gaëtane Verna, Executive Director, Wexner Center for the Arts. Kapwani Kiwanga (b. 1978, Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian and French artist based in Paris. She studied anthropology and comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal, art at l’école des Beaux-Arts de Paris and at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing. In 2022, Kiwanga received the Zurich Art Prize (CH). She was also the winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize (FR) in 2020, Frieze Artist Award (USA) and the Sobey Art Award (CA) in 2018. Solo exhibitions have been shown at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; New Museum, New York; State of Concept, Athens; Moody Center for the Arts, Houston; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunsthaus Pasquart, Biel/Bienne; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (USA); Esker Foundation, Calgary; Power Plant, Toronto; Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago; South London Gallery, London, and Jeu de Paume, Paris, among others. Gaëtane Verna is a Canadian curator based in Columbus (OH). She is the Executive Director of the Wexner Centre for the Arts at the Ohio State University. From 2012 to 2022, she was the Director and Artistic Director of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto (ON). From 2006 to 2012, she was Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Musée d’art de Joliette (QC). For more than seven years, Verna also served as Curator of the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke (QC), while also teaching in the Art History department of both Bishop’s University and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Since 1992, Verna has curated and organized exhibitions by emerging, mid-career, and established artists, and has edited and contributed essays to numerous books and catalogues. In 2017, Verna was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) by the French government. Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada Curator: Gaëtane Verna

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