Sylvie Fortin is an interdependent curator, researcher, writer, and editor working internationally. She was Curator-in-Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha (2019–21); Executive/Artistic Director, La Biennale de Montréal (2013–17); Executive Director/Editor, ART PAPERS, Atlanta (2004–12).
Her writings have been published widely, including in Artforum, ART PAPERS, Art Press, Art Review, e-flux Criticism, and Frieze.
In 2017, Fortin began a long-term curatorial inquiry into the currencies of hospitality. This hydra-headed pursuit hashad several public manifestations, including the editorship of PUBLIC (Fall 2020); an iterative exhibition of works by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens hosted by four North American art institutions (2019-26); the production of Liv Schulman’s film “The New Inflation” (2021); and the group exhibition “I don’t know you like that: The Bodywork of Hospitality,” at Bemis Center (2021) and UB Art Galleries, Buffalo (2022).
Her current research focuses on the debt that economics and finance owe to hospitality.
