Meet Gwynne Fulton, the new administrator of Concordia’s FOFA Gallery
Portrait of Gwynne Fulton
Gwynne Fulton, PhD 19, and MFA 11, has joined the Faculty of Fine Arts as the new administrator of the FOFA Gallery. The Concordia alum in Philosophy, Art History and Cinema, and interdisciplinary curator stepped into the role in April, bringing with her over a decade of experience in research, curation and community collaboration.
“I have been warmly welcomed back,” says Fulton. “I’ve been struck by the collaborative ethos of creative feeling-thinking across the Faculty of Fine Arts community, and I’m thrilled to work for the FOFA Gallery. It’s a meeting place to exchange knowledges and a unique point of connection between the university and Montreal’s publics.”
Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Fulton is a writer, curator and image theorist whose work explores critical phenomenology, decolonial aesthetics and contemporary artists’ film and photography. Her projects have addressed urgent themes such as environmental justice, state violence, and Indigenous land defense, working with partners like SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cinema Politica, Slought Foundation and Colombia’s Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica. Her writing has appeared in various magazines, such as Esse arts + opinions, Espace art actuel, Mosaic and more. She currently sits on the editorial board of Esse.
In her new role at the FOFA Gallery, she’s eager to support existing programming and build on key priorities established under the leadership of former director Nicole Burisch, including student training and mentorship, and commitments to accessibility, anti-racism and ecological justice.
“Under my transitional leadership, I hope the FOFA will continue to support critical cultural work that affirms alternative sensory worlds to strengthen solidarities across difference.”
Looking ahead to the FOFA Gallery’s 20th anniversary, Fulton reflects on the Gallery’s history, while envisioning new paths.
“I look forward to collectively reimagining the Gallery’s role, as a shared space for organizing and creating, while being responsive to current conditions of fiscal precarity that affect our community,” she explains.
“I’m most excited to build on the Gallery’s commitments and to work closely with students, faculty, and alumni to support the Gallery’s unique position as a publicly engaged, theoretically rigorous, non-extractive space that facilitates exchange, experimentation, and collaboration.”
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