Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Of Maps, Abstraction, and Language

The Grid and the Water: Anishinaabe Mapping in the work of Bonnie Devine and Michael Belmore

Maya Wilson-Sánchez is an Andean curator, art historian, and writer. Born in Ecuador and currently based between Toronto and New York City, their work centres on the development, movement, and exchange of art across the Americas. Wilson-Sánchez was the 2020 recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators and a 2021 participant at the Tate Intensive in London, UK. They were an Editorial Resident at Canadian Art, a Curatorial Resident at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and an Associate Editor at C Magazine. They curated Intra-Action: Live Performance Art (2016, 2017) at Xpace Cultural Centre, Living Room (2017) at the Royal Ontario Museum, DIY Love: Queer Knowledge & History Then, Now, and Forever (2017) at Pride Toronto, and Grounding (2020) at the Art Gallery of Guelph. Most recently, they served as one of the main curators for Toronto’s Year of Public Art, curating the 2021-2022 exhibition series I am Land, and the 2023-2024 show Replicas and Reunions: Ancient and Contemporary Ceramics from Ecuador at the Gardiner Museum.