Join Ron Terada, in conversation with Kitty Scott, to learn about the Vancouver-based artist’s expansive practice including sculpture, photography, video, sound and graphic design. Terada’s Entering the City of Vancouver (2002) is presently on view as part of Light Years: The Phil Lind Gift, and in 2018, the AGO exhibited his fourteen painting series the Jack Paintings, in response to the memoir of the American artist Jack Goldstein. Scott also organized Terada’s exhibition at The Power Plant, Toronto, We Did This to Ourselves, which was on view in summer 2023.

Ron Terada lives and works in Vancouver. His wide-ranging practice includes painting, signage, photography, printed matter, music and interventions, grounded in a text-based tradition of Conceptual art that interrogates the sign systems of art and everyday life, while approaching the realm of popular culture as an expanse of material, free for the taking and ripe with possibility. Terada’s solo exhibitions include The Power Plant, Toronto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and Hayward Gallery, London with group showings at the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna to name a few.

Kitty Scott is a Canadian curator and Strategic Director at Shorefast and Fogo Island Arts. She is currently Chief Curator of the 15th Shanghai Biennale. Formerly Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Canada, Scott has also held prominent positions at other major institutions, including Carol and Morton Rapp Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Director of Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, and Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She has worked with notable artists including Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Peter Doig, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Ken Lum, Silke Otto-Knapp, Ron Terada and Jin-me Yoon. She co-curated the Liverpool Biennial (2018), presented Geoffrey Farmer's project for the Canada Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017), and was an agent for dOCUMENTA (13) (2012). Scott is a member of the Board of CIMAM - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art.