Jennifer Chan is a video and new media artist and web developer based in Toronto. She makes videos, installations, websites, and objects as social commentary on sex, success, love, equality, su”ering and happiness. Her work has been featured in Rhizome, LEAP, Modern Painter, Dazed, Sleek, Kunstkritik, VVORK, and ARTFORUM. She recently completed a commission for New Forms festival (Vancouver) and had a solo show at Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba (Brandon). Her videos are represented by VTape (Toronto) and Videotage (Hong Kong). She has had solo presentations at Galleri CC (Malmo), Images Festival (Toronto), Future Gallery (Berlin) and Transmediale (Berlin).

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Fang Di is a Chinese artist who is currently working in Shenzhen, China. His work discusses racism and social hierarchy through studies on news and political a”airs. By switching in between identities like a chameleon, he moves smoothly among di”erent social classes, absorbing and resolving people’s desire and wisdom gained through migration with his sensitivity. He often uses various artistic languages to explore the entanglement and meaning of urban life, and bravely discovers how special groups are defined under globalization and nationalism in the inverted reality, which has become an inevitable social fracture today

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Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes (b. 1991) is a Hong Kong-born artist based in “Vancouver, Canada.” Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Infinity Ball, Unit 17 (2022); My Owns, Project Native Informant, London (2021); Everything Leaks, Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver (2020); Open Heart Run O”, Sibling, Toronto (2019); Keep Your Eyes On Your Prizes, Calaboose, Montreal and ddmmyyy, Artspeak, Vancouver (both 2018). Select group exhibitions have been held at the National Gallery of Canada (2022); Royal Academy Antwerp, Access Gallery & Centre A, Vancouver (all 2017). In 2020, Holmes was longlisted for the New Generation Photography Award from the National Gallery of Canada and received the award in 2022. She was the winner of the second annual Lind Prize in 2017. Holmes graduated from ECUAD with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography & a Curatorial minor in 2017.

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Will Kwan is a Hong Kong-born, Tkaronto-based artist and educator. His artistic practice examines the diverse ways that hegemony is produced through economic systems and cultural narratives. Kwan received his MFA from Columbia University and from 2004-2006 was a research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He has been a full-time faculty member at UofT since 2007, teaching courses in interdisciplinary art practice and time-based media at the University of Toronto Scarborough and serving as a faculty member in the Master of Visual Studies Program at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the St. George campus.

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Alvin Luong works with stories of human migration, land, and dialogues from diasporic working class communities to create artworks that reflect upon historical development and its intimate e”ects on the lives of people. His focus is expressed through videos, photographs, and sculptures. Luong has shown and screened artworks in places including the Images Festival (Toronto), Boers-Li Gallery (Beijing), Gudskul (Jakarta), and The Polygon Gallery (Vancouver). The artist has held research and resident artist appointments at the Inside-Out Art Museum (Beijing), HB Station Contemporary Art Research Center (Guangzhou), the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), and Gallery TPW (Toronto). The artist’s works have been acquired and shown by The Rockefeller Foundation (New York City).

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Midi Onodera is an award-winning filmmaker and media artist who has been making films and videos for more than 35 years. She has produced over 25 independent shorts, ranging from 16mm film to digital video to toy camera formats. In 2018 she received the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Skin Deep (1995), her theatrical feature, screened internationally at festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. Her film The Displaced View (1988) was nominated for Best Documentary at the Gemini Awards.

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Karen Tam is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist and curator whose research focuses on the constructions and imaginations of cultures and communities through her installations in which she recreates Chinese restaurants, karaoke lounges, opium dens, curio shops and other sites of cultural encounters. Since 2000, she has exhibited her work and participated in residencies in North America, Europe and China, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. She has received grants and fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts du Québec, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Karen Tam was the winner of the Prix Giverny Capital 2021 awarded by the Fondation Giverny pour l’art contemporain and was a finalist for the 2017 Prix Louis-Comtois, a finalist for the 2016 Prix en art actuel from the Musée national des beaux-arts de Québec, and long-listed for the 2010 and 2016 Sobey Art Award.

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Henry Heng Lu is a curator, artist, and consultant based in Vancouver. Currently, he is the inaugural Gallery Manager for the new Chinese Canadian Museum in Vancouver that is slated to open on July 1, 2023. He was the Executive Director/Curator at Centre A, and was Artistic Director for Modern Fuel. He is co-founder and curator of Call Again, a mobile initiative/collective committed to creating space for contemporary diasporic artistic practices and to expanding the notion of Asian art in the context of Canada and beyond, through exhibitions, screenings, and roundtables. His writings have been published by Canadian Art, ArtAsiaPacific, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, C Magazine, Richmond Art Gallery, PLATFORM Gallery, ArchDaily, OCAT Shenzhen, and Gardiner Museum. In 2018, Lu won an Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Exhibition of the Year Award for his curatorial project, Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Lu holds a Master of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. He was on the jury for the 2020 Sobey Art Award at the National Gallery of Canada. He has been a member of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Committee since 2020, and has served as a juror for municipal and provincial arts councils, as well as international prizes