Charo Neville

Charo Neville is Curator at the Kamloops Art Gallery, where she has developed exhibitions and publications since 2011. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Critical Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2006. Neville has held positions as Curatorial Assistant at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Associate Director at Catriona Jeffries Gallery and Interim Curator/Director at Artspeak. Neville also served on the Board of Directors at the Western Front artist run centre from 2006 to 2010. Her curatorial practice supports artists who engage with the social and political potential of art. Through projects like the outdoor video projection biennale Luminocity, which Neville launched in Kamloops in 2014, she is interested in creating opportunities for public art that shift our relationship with urban spaces and expand access to contemporary art. Neville has contributed to publications such as Fillip, Yishu, West Coast Line and Blackflash and participated on visual art juries, including the 2013 Sobey Art Award.