Alison Cooley is the former Assistant Curator at the Blackwood.

Jeneen Frei Njootli has been working and living on unceded Tsleil-Waututh, Musqueam, and Skwxwu7mesh territories (Vancouver) for the last ten years. Jeneen Frei Njootli is a Vuntut Gwitchin artist who has performed and exhibited their work internationally, from galleries to rooftops, casinos, runways, and the bush. They work across numerous media and modes, including performance, sound, installation, fashion, and with community, and are a co-creator of the ReMatriate Collective. Frei Njootli has completed multiple residencies at the Banff Centre for the Arts, and has collaborated with James Luna, Dana Claxton, Olivia Whetung, Tsēmā Igharas, Krista Belle Stewart, Lindsay Lachance, Angela Code, Tania Willard, Gabrielle l’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow, and her brother Stanley Grafton Njootli. Frei Njootli has been awarded the Contemporary Art Society Vancouver Artist Prize and the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize, and was a Sobey Art Prize finalist in 2018.

Since 2007, Julie Pellegrin has been the director of the Art Centre of la Ferme du Buisson in the outskirts of Paris. She aims to create a dialogue between contemporary art and other art forms (with a particular emphasis on theatre and dance), as well as social science, focusing on the significance of processes and experimentation in the performative dimension of art. She organises solo (Isabelle Cornaro, Gianni Motti, Denis Savary, Mathieu Abonnenc, Julien Bismuth, Emily Mast, Kapwani Kiwanga…) and group exhibitions (A Choreographed Exhibition, Treasures for Theatre, The Yvonne Rainer Project, Alfred Jarry Archipelago…) mixed with publications, talks, and performances. Publisher of over a dozen artist monographs and artists’ books, Julie Pellegrin recently published, together with fellow curator Mathieu Copeland, a collective anthology entitled Choreographing Exhibitions. In 2013, she co-curated Nuit Blanche in Paris with Chiara Parisi.