Sylvie Fortin, an interdependent curator, writer, and editor based between Montréal and New York, was Curator-in-Residence 2019–2021 at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, USA; Executive/Artistic Director of La Biennale de Montréal (2013–2017); Executive Director/Editor of ART PAPERS, Atlanta (2004–2012); Curator of Contemporary Art at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada (2013); and Curator of 5th Québec City Biennial (2010), Quebec, Canada. Fortin lectures internationally and her critical essays and reviews have been published in numerous catalogues, anthologies, and periodicals, including Art/Agenda, Artforum International, ART PAPERS, Art Press, C Magazine, Flash Art, and Frieze.

In 2017, Fortin began a long-term, interdisciplinary, itinerant curatorial inquiry into the currencies of hospitality. This hydra-headed durational pursuit has had several public manifestations, including her editorship of PUBLIC (Fall 2020); her collaboration with Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens exploring the intersections between soil, land use, interspecies cohabitation, financialization, and hospitality through an iterative, name-changing exhibition presented at Bemis Center (2019), Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS (2021), and Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, Canada (2023); her production of Liv Schulman’s feature film The New Inflation (2021); and the episodic group exhibition I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality, delving into storied entanglements of the body and hospitality, presented at Bemis Center, Omaha, USA (2021) and UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, USA (2022).

The next chapter of her curatorial research focuses on the intersection of hospitality and the economy while operating as a humble, informal platform for resource redistribution.

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