Calling all youth ages 14-25 to join us in the education commons for a guided tour of the Pacita Abad exhibition with Renée van der Avoird, Associate Curator, Canadian Art.

Renée van der Avoird is the Associate Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Specializing in work by modern and contemporary Canadian women artists, she has curated exhibitions including Pacita Abad (2024); Sarindar Dhaliwal: When I grow up I want to be a namer of paint colours (2023); Denyse Thomasos: just beyond (2022); Kim Ondaatje: The House on Piccadilly Street (2021); and Betty Goodwin: Moving Towards Fire (2019). Prior to joining the AGO in 2018, van der Avoird held positions as Associate Curator/Registrar at the MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie; Assistant Director of Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; and Curatorial Mentor at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto. She has contributed writing to various periodicals including Border Crossings, C Magazine, Black Flash, and exhibition texts such as Russna Kaur: DREAM MACHINE (try walking on a path of splinters with no shoes) (W Projects, 2023); Uninvited: Canadian Women Artists in the Modern Moment (McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 2021); and Magnetic North: Imagining Canada in Painting 1910-1940 (Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, (2021).