Site-specific mini-sculpture, 2013

About DEBORAH WANG

Deborah is a curator and architect based in Toronto, with a broad range of experiences in contemporary art, design and architecture that spans two decades. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from OCAD University, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Waterloo, earning the prestigious RAIC Student Medal.

Through her diverse practice, Deborah has curated and co-curated exhibitions for the Textile Museum of Canada, Harbourfront Centre, Gladstone Hotel, XPACE Cultural Centre, Art Gallery of Ontario, The New Gallery (Calgary), and WantedDesign (New York); designed for award-winning architectural practices KPMB and superkül; and co-founded FEAST Toronto – a series of community dinners and micro-funding events supporting local art initiatives. She has been interviewed by The Globe and Mail, Monocle Radio and CBC Radio, and profiled in Azure Magazine.

Currently Deborah is Artistic Director of DesignTO, a non-profit arts organization she co-founded that produces Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival, and continues to practice architecture.

About PROJECTS FOR THE CITY

Deborah’s research lies in artistic practices of walking, site-specific installation, and participatory art forms, while her practice attempts to bring together the role of the artist, architect, and curator through a series of drawings as instructions for movement, as well as through more traditional forms of art and exhibition making. With Projects for the City, Deborah is interested in the use of the map and tour as an approach for curating the city; the creative and generative aspects of notation; and how people can investigate and activate the urban landscape by walking it.

Projects for the City research contributed to Deborah’s MFA thesis entitled Mapping Place: Notation in Peripatetic Art Practice.

Projects for the City was created in 2010 in Toronto, Canada.