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Current Residents
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About Us
Roundtable is a peer-mentored and self-directed experimental artist residency program, with an emphasis on emerging artists. Formerly hosted at The Dragon Academy in Toronto, Roundtable is currently operating as an entirely online residency. The primary goal of the residency is to assist artists in the development of their practice, and to facilitate collaborations among artists and other practitioners with disparate methodologies and experiences. To this end the residency provides collaborative programming; critiques and constructive feedback from members of the arts community in Toronto; workshops and other skill/community-building events; and unique peer-to-peer mentorship opportunities.
Each year selected artists work both individually and collaboratively to develop distinct, well-rounded artistic works and projects throughout the course of the program; engaging with that years theme in the way most befitting their own practice. This culminates in an online exhibition of finished works, works-in-progress, and other experimental outcomes of the residency.
Roundtable embraces the experimental nature of peer-to-peer mentoring and knowledge sharing, and the possibilities of chance occurrences that happen when new voices get together. Artists are encouraged to be ambitious, to work experimentally and collaboratively, and to connect with the other participants of The Roundtable Residency and broader arts community through workshops, critiques, discussion groups and public exhibition. The outcomes of these activities are open to the public, in the hope of furthering artistic discourse and creating new avenues of exposure for emerging practitioners.
For more information about getting involved with Roundtable, or for how to apply to be a Resident, please see the Calls + News section below or contact us directly.
Calls + News
Our 2023 Online Space is now live. There you can find the work, research, and other creative outcomes of our 2023 Remote Residents.
The Team
Roundtable is an Artist-Run space, with a horizontal, collaborative organizational structure. Our current team consists of both a Board of Directors and a Director, whose information is below:
Kesang Nanglu – Board Member
Kesang Nanglu is a curator and arts administrator. She holds a master's degree in Museum Studies from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University in Drawing and Painting and Art History. She has curated exhibitions at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and The Brandscape, and previously worked at the Aga Khan Museum as Program Coordinator. She currently works as Marketing Assistant at MOCA Toronto.
Sam Roberts – Board Member
Sam Roberts is an artist and writer living and working in the downtown area. His work often critiques institutional systems by using comedy and failure to expose the massive holes in the operation of those institutions.
Roberts’ graduated from OCAD University in 2016 with a BFA in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Integrated Media. In his artwork he generally uses painting, installation, projection, and interactive programming. In his writing, he often uses words.
Max Suillerot – Board Member
Maximilian Suillerot is a queer multi-media artist holding French and Mexican nationalities, currently living and working in Toronto. Born and raised in Mexico City, Maximilian began their artistic training in Paris (France) at Les ARCADES. They continued their studies at the University of Toronto where they obtained a B.A (Hons) specializing in Visual Art Studies.
In their practice, Maximilian plays with concepts that encompass the duality of presence and absence in queer settings. They are concerned with psychological processes, as well as the limits of intimacy. The notion of memory is questioned and put to the test. Grief and fiction meld with aspects of personal narrative to reveal a comical discomfort and rituals are created as coping mechanisms to deal with life. Throughout their work, the reality of uncertainty is exposed, and all of its consequences are accepted.
B Wijshijer – Board Member
B Wijshijer is an artist and researcher based in Tkaronto (Toronto), working within digital media, video and performance. Informed by acceleration aesthetics, their work plays with excess and artifice to interrogate the ways in which late capitalism affects our digital lives. Wijshijer received their BFA in Printmaking from OCAD University in 2017 and an MFA from the University of Waterloo in 2020.
Richard Williams - Director
Richard Williams is a contemporary, New Media artist operating out of Toronto. His practice is centred around Global Capitalism, looking specifically at themes such as precarity, Neoliberal ideology, capitalist intersections with information technology, and the evolving ways in which time and place are understood in a globalized world. His work often takes on the form of active processes, making use of existing infrastructures to either expand or frustrate viewers' understandings of the systems they interact with. Drawing heavily upon contemporary theory as the backbone to his work, he makes use of both digital and physical systems with a focus in conceptually driven web art and site-dependent installation.
More recently, he has begun to expand his practice to include works which address his own experiences with economic precarity.
Special Thanks
Morris Fox // Co-Founder
Brandon Dalmer // Co-Founder
Dr. Meg Fox // Former Board Member (and much more)
Current Residents
Yoona
Tifaine Coignoux
Rylee Henson
Natasha Jensen
Ramolen Laruan
Margot Machado
Maddie Mcneely
Ciar O'Mahony
Tansy Xiao
Past Residents
2022 Online Residents
Hee Jun Ahn
CAM Collective
Ashley Culver
Katherine Diemert
Sof Kreidstein
Paula McLean
Maite Merida
Emma Ongman
2021 Online Residents
Sarah Boo
Daura Campos
Rebecca Casalino
Benjamin Chang
Marina FAW
Miles Forrester
Galen Macdonald
Louie Mangialardi
Tristan Sauer
Christie Shen
Kassandra Walters
Lingxiang Wu
2020 Online Residents
Evelyn Austin
Kevin Brophy
Kristi Chen
Gabby Coates + Skylar Eyre
Emergensies Collective
Kayla Drzewicki
Andrew Finlay Stewart
Angela Glanzmann
Nicole Ji Soo Kim
Tee Kundu
Luke Maddaford
Laura Ohio
Philip Leonard Ocampo
Kitt Peacock
2019 Online / IRL Residents
Hudson Christie
Michelle Cieloszczyk
Kaythi
James Knott
Hailey Kobrin
Eija Loponen-Stephenson
Aaron Moore
Angus Tarnawsky
Atleigh Homma + Katrina Takeda
Quinn Buckler
Ronnie Clarke
Marisa Gallemit
Robin Love
Nikole McGregor + Carlos McGregor
Alicia McKenzie
Noah Page
Sebastian Benitez + Alejandra Paton
2019 Writers in Residence
Angel Callander
Dallas Fellini
2018 IRL Residents
Saba Akhtar
Ella Bot
Andrew Hoekstra
Enna Kim
Jessy Kitchen
Katie Kotler
Steven Lourenço
Alvin Luong
Catherine P.
Colin Rosati
Ronald Siu
Josi Smit
Maximilian Suillerot
Amanda Warner
B Wijshijer
Kendra Yee
2018 Writers in Residence
Sophia Oppel
Sam Roberts
Laura Demers
Despoina Peichamperi
2017 IRL Residents
Maddie Alexander
Julia Dickens
Hannah Epstein
Emily Harrison
Emerson Maxwell
Emily Moriarty
Sophia Oppel
Cadence Planthara
Wei Qi
Sam Roberts
Lauren Runions
Blair Swann
Polina Teif
Zhizi Wang
Xuan Ye
2016 IRL Residents
Maya Ben David
Samantha Burns
Emma Carney
Adrienne Crossman
Brett Despotovich
Sanjit Dhillon
Sol Legault
Rachel Lott
Lindsey Luckevich
Maddy Mathews + Cotey Pope
Alison Postma
Jonathan Rotsztain
Amy Siegel
Luke Siemens
Robbie Sinclair
Lisa Smolkin
Maximilian Suillerot
Richard Williams
2015 IRL Residents
Robin Clason
Connor Crawford
Zoe Downie-Ross
Miles Forrester
Halloway Jones
Kunsang Kyirong
Sol Legault
Nadine Maher
Adria Mirabelli
Tough Guy Mountain
Aliya Pabani + Onyeka Igwe
Louise Reimer
Polina Teif
Joële Walinga + Dylin North
David Woodward
2014 IRL Residents
Neil LaPierre
Humboldt Magnussen
Ash Moniz
Brandon A. Dalmer
Erin Rei
Jesi the Elder
Abbe Findley
Mohammad Rezaei
Julia Kansas
Lisa Folkerson
Lauren Pelc-McArthur
Natalie Logan
Anni Spadafora
Morris Fox
Laura Hudspith
Tyler Vipond
Tobias Williams
Brianna Lowe
Iris Fraser
Anna May Henry
Rebecca Noone
Zoe Alexis-Abrams
Bridget Moser
Andrew Zukerman
Sara Maston
Gabriel Parniak
Nick Silvani
Nicholas Zirk
Zeesy Powers
Randy Gagne
Dana Buzzee
Alvin Luong
Ivana Dizdar
Jack Bride
Holly Timpener
Andi Clifford
Sebastian Koever
Melina Sevilla
Sam Abel
Ursula Handleigh
Lukus Toane
Heather Weston
Juliane Foronda
Shannon Garden-Smith
Shannon Linde
Emily Smit-Dicks
Jennifer Laiwint
Heather Rappard
2013 IRL Residents
Aaron Robert Duarte
Ali Christensen
Brandon A. Dalmer
Brian Schirk
Cameron Stott
David Hanes
Felix Kalmenson
Hugh Mater
Jessica Vallentin
Matthew Tanner
Mikki Benaglia
Morris Fox
Rebecca Noone
Sebastian Koever
Shannon Garden-Smith
Sona Safaei-Sooreh
Tyler Vipond
Yang Cao
Online Spaces
Since 2019 Roundtable has operated either partially or entirely online. The work of all of our Online Residents can be viewed using the links below:
Contact
To contact the Roundtable team, either for more information about the Residency, or to enquire about how to become a Resident, please email us at the address listed below:
You can also find us on Instagram, where we post updates, calls and the work of current and former residents: