Carina Magazzeni rejoins the Agnes as the Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art — Special Project, focused on Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson. Magazzeni also maintains an active independent curatorial practice, with recent projects including Many Voices: Indigenous Art, co-curated with Tania Willard; PARK LIFE: Interventions in Public Space as part of LandMarks2017 / Repères2017; and Cheryl L’Hirondelle: STANDING UP SITTING IN, SOUNDING OUT, co-curated with Ellyn Walker. She was recently selected as the 2018 Curator-in-Residence, Curatorial Residency in Paris—Programme Ville de Paris aux Récollets—Fonderie Darling, Centre Culturel Canadien and the Curator-in-Residence with La Panacée at l’ESBA Montpellier Contemporain MoCo.

Magazzeni is a co-founding member of various artist collectives based in Kingston, including Small Potatoes, think tank, and The Hysterics. She is the Co-Chair on Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre’s Board of Directors and a Director on the Board of Reelout Queer Film Festival. She is a femme settler from the Niagara Region, on Haudenosaunee and Chippewa territory.