The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) has appointed Vancouver-based curator Kate Wong to oversee the Miami fair’s Curated Spotlight section. This is the sixth time that NADA has appointed an independent curator to highlight a selection of up-and-coming galleries and nonprofit art spaces who are participating in the fair. Previous editions of Curated Spotlight were selected by Ebony L. Haynes, Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, Jasmine Wahi, and Jenée-Daria Strand (Miami), and Kendra Jayne Patrick and Simon Wu (New York).
Wong was most recently a curator at MOCA Toronto, where her show “Tishan Hsu: Interface Remix” was on view earlier this year. She also founded the research project SITE Toronto, which explores “how art institutions can more meaningfully respond to the social, economic, and political realities of our time.”
In choosing the fair participants to highlight for Curated Spotlight, Wong aimed to feature “galleries taking nontraditional approaches to supporting artists,” according to a release about the appointment. She chose the EFA Robert Blackburn Parintmaking Workshop, Spill 180, and El Consulado (all in New York, Romance (Pittsburgh), and the Southside Contemporary Art Gallery (Richmond, Va.). Each space is showing work by one or two artists at NADA. “These commercial and non-profit spaces are expanding what it means to support artistic practice—expanding beyond exhibition-making and the placement of artworks to offer resources, programming, and community infrastructure,” explained Wong.
NADA opens it’s 23rd Miami edition on Dec. 2 at Ice Palace Studios, an event space across Biscayne Bay from where Art Basel Miami will be set up at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
