Kari Cwynar is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Concordia University and independent curator and editor based between Toronto and Montreal. Her research asks whether tracing lineages of performance and ephemeral practice in Canada can serve to denaturalize the colonial attachment of public art to monuments. She was the inaugural curator of Evergreen’s public art program in Toronto’s Don River Valley (2015-2020), co-director of the occasional project space and publishing house Kunstverein Toronto since 2014, and Editor and Editorial Director of C Magazine (2016-2019). She has written on contemporary art for publications including Artforum, Inuit Art Quarterly, Frieze and C Magazine; held curatorial research positions at the National Gallery of Canada, the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario; and participated in curatorial and writing residencies at Fogo Island Arts, the Banff Centre, Griffin Art Projects and SOMA Mexico.