Kelly Richardson - Forest Park - Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery

About the ContributorsPrior to joining the staff of Hallwalls in early 2001, John Massier had been a curator and writer in Toronto for 13 years.From 1988 to 1998, he worked at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, where he curated more than forty exhibitions of emergingand established Canadian artists. Massier has also curated exhibitions for the University at Buffalo Art Gallery, the SaidyeBronfman Centre in Montreal and Cambridge Galleries in Cambridge, Ontario. In 1997, he co-founded the local Toronto artjournal LOLA. He has written feature articles, profiles, and reviews for various galleries and visual art publications, includingCanadian Art, MIX magazine, Coagula Art Journal, THIS magazine, and Art In America.Crystal Mowry is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design (AOCAD, 2000) and the Nova Scotia College of Artand Design University (MFA, 2002). Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Calgary, The KhyberCentre for the Arts, Halifax; the Klondike Institute of Art & Culture, Dawson City, YK; and most recently in Quantal Strife,a touring exhibition curated by Sally McKay and circulated by Doris McCarthy Gallery UTSC. In 2006 she co-curated TheTerrarium Project with Panya Clark Espinal, an interdisciplinary project featuring filmmaker Gail Singer, designer / historiansDavid Ross and Rebecca Duclos, artist / curator Andrew T. Hunter, and artist Denton Fredrickson. She is currently theAssistant Curator at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.Kelly Richardson was born in Canada (1972) where she studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCADwith honours) and media studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (MFA studies). Her works have been exhibitedinternationally at various galleries including Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal / Articule, Montreal (2007), Birch Libralato,Toronto (2006), The Nunnery, London, UK (2006), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK (2005), Gwangju Biennale,South Korea (2004), Stills Gallery, Scotland (2004), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada (2004), Art Gallery of Ontario,Toronto (2002-2003) and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). Her work was recently acquired by the Hirshhorn Museumand Sculpture Garden and will be featured in their upcoming exhibition The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the MovingImage (Feb-May, 2008). She lives and works in the United Kingdom and is represented by Birch Libralato, Toronto.30