Holly Chang
Curator
Holly Chang is a Toronto based artist, curator, and researcher. Her practice is focused on topics of hybridity, craft, and ecology. She has curated exhibitions for institutions including Art Gallery of Guelph, Trinity Square Video, and NAMARA. In 2023, Chang was the recipient of the Middlebrook Prize for curation, an award given to one young curator in Canada every year. In 2025, she was one of three recipients of the William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists.
Curatorial Statement
As a curator, my role is focused on supporting larger conversations around current ecological issues and connections to these topics as a collective and individually through the body and performance.
Dance Curation Working Group 2024
Throughout the year, emerging Curators will work with invited guests to discuss various emergent practices found within dance curation.
Critical Distance Centre for Curators
Sep 1, 2024 – Jul 31, 2025
Soil Study
Soil Study is an ongoing series of discursive experiments, processes, interventions and conversations between the human body and soil memory.
High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 31, 2026
Making Soil Into Paint
Learn how to process raw earth materials by grinding, washing and drying to achieve fine pigments that are suitable for paint-making.
High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 30, 2026
Prescribed burn walk & talk
Walk High Park with photographer Zackery Hobler as he points out evidence of prescribed burning, discusses the process, and how it benefits the park’s black oak savannah.
High Park
May 31, 2026 – May 31, 2026
The Practice Of Visiting
Guests are invited to spend an afternoon in conversation and visiting with one another, inspired by Indigenous relational practices.
High Park
May 30, 2026 – May 30, 2026