About DEBORAH WANG
Based in Toronto, Deborah is an independent artist, curator and designer, with a background in installations and architecture. She completed her undergraduate degree in architecture at the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Fine Arts degree at OCAD University.
Deborah has curated and co-curated exhibitions for the Gladstone Hotel, XPACE Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Women's College Hospital, and Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art Projects; worked at KPMB Architects on the Royal Conservatory TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, and the University of Waterloo Quantum-Nano Centre; and exhibited her art and architectural projects in Toronto, Cambridge, and Rome. She is a co-founder of FEAST Toronto (a series of community dinners and micro-funding events supporting local art and design), a co-curater of Come Up To My Room, a designer for superkul inc | architect, and occasionally makes work as one half of the collaborative Elsworthy Wang.
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 a potential tactic for curating the city; the creative and generative aspects of notation; and how people can investigate and activate the urban landscape by walking it.
