carina magazzeni
curator / femme-inista / bunny mamma / bad gal ccmagzz
Carina Magazzeni's curatorial + artistic practice is rooted in critical collaboration. Her projects to-date have emphasized curating as an act of care, valued friendships, and have been informed by methods of slowing down processes of witnessing. Her work aims to recover queer aesthetics, feminist politics, and decolonial strategies within and beyond gallery spaces. Drawing on archival research and playful interventionist strategies, Magazzeni designs projects that bring research-creation to the forefront and value the generative process of thinking/feeling/(un)doing just as much as the final work, itself.
Magazzeni (b. 1991, Welland, ON) is a femme settler of Italian-Scottish descent. She is based between Welland-Kingston-Montréal and from the Niagara Region, situated on Haudenosaunee and Chippewa territory. Recent and ongoing curatorial projects include Let's Talk About Sex, bb co-curated with Erin Sutherland; open up the archives: on incarceration; Sovereign Voices co-curated with Camille Georgeson-Usher, Sebastian De Line and Lisa C. Ravensbergen; Many Voices: Indigenous Art co-curated with Tania Willard; PARK LIFE: Interventions in Public Space as part of LandMarks2017/Repères2017; and Cheryl L'Hirondelle: STANDING UP, SITTING IN, SOUNDING OUT co-curated with Ellyn Walker. Magazzeni is a co-founding member of various artist collectives, including Small Potatoes, think tank, and The Hysterics. She is the Co-Chair on Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre's Board of Directors and her artwork has been exhibited at Union Gallery, Sexual Assault Centre Kingston, Niagara Artists Centre and Lumière Arts Festival.
​She was selected as the 2018 Curator-in-Residence, Curatorial Residency in Paris–Programme Ville de Paris aux Récollets–Fonderie Darling, Centre Culturel Canadien and the Curator-in-Residence with La Panacée at l'ESBA Montpellier Contemporain MoCo. In 2017, Magazzeni was awarded the Queen's University Marty Memorial Scholarship to complete curatorial fellowship research for "Alternative Archives: Kingston's Carceral Histories and Contemporary Realities." She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Queen's University and a BA Honours in History of Art and Visual Culture with a Concentration in Curatorial Studies from Brock University.