Sheena Hoszko lives and works in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), in Kanien’kehá:ka territory. A sculptor, anti-prison organizer, and Polish settler, Sheena Hoszko explores the connections between physical control of the body and mental health. Her work is based on long-term research into the power dynamics of geographical, architectural and psychological sites, and is informed by her own family’s experience of migration and incarceration. Drawing on measurement and surveying practices and transcription of oral information and stories, she interprets and recreates experiential spaces for the viewer, using materials such as light, stained glass, fabric, concrete and metal in conjunction with textual gleanings. Recently she has been focusing on the cartography of sites related to the spatial control of the body—borders, boundary lines, fences—and on possible ways of recontextualizing them as a political tool in a gallery situation.

Christine Shaw is Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery and Associate Professor of Curatorial Studies in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga, a Research Fellow & Visiting Scholar in Art, Culture Technology (ACT) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Curatorial Research Fellow, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (2021–2023).

Shaw’s work convenes, enables, and amplifies the transdisciplinary thinking necessary for understanding our current multi-scalar historical moment and co-creating the literacies, skills, and sensibilities required to adapt to the various socio-technical transformations of our contemporary society. She has applied her commitment to compositional strategies, epistemic disobedience, and social ecologies to multi-year curatorial projects including Take Care (2016–2019), an exhibition-led inquiry into care, exploring its heterogeneous and contested meanings, practices, and sites, as well as the political, economic, and technological forces currently shaping care; The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea (2015–2023), a variegated series of curatorial and editorial instantiations of the Beaufort Scale of Wind Force exploring the relentless legacies of colonialism and capital excess that undergird contemporary politics of sustainability and climate justice; and OPERA-19: An Assembly Sustaining Dreams of the Otherwise (2021–2029), a decentralized polyvocal drama in four acts taking up asymmetrical planetary crisis, differential citizenship, affective planetary attention disorder, and a strategic composition of worlds. She is the founding editor of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Blackwood, 2018–ongoing), and co-editor of The Work of Wind: Land (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2018) and The Work of Wind: Sea (Berlin: K. Verlag, 2023).