Chelsea Yuill is a curator whose practice aims to connect the public with contemporary art practices in transformative and thought-provoking ways. Her curatorial projects include the alumni exhibition 88 Artists from 88 Years (2017), and Intertwined (2018) both at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; and EAT YOUR TAIL, Access Gallery (2020). As the Assistant Curator at Capture Photography Festival, she has coordinated four annual catalogues, and nearly forty public art projects. Curatorial projects include Elisabeth Belliveau: A Vase with Pale Roses (2020), Rydel Cerezo: Back of My Hand (2020), Yumna Al-Arashi: Holy Terrain (2021), Simon Bermeo-Ehmann: CLIPS (2021), Celia Perrin Sidarous: Flotsam (2021), Mahmoud El Safadi: Becoming (2021), Michelle Bui: Mutable Materialism (2022), Joseph Maida: Things “R” Queer” (2022), Alex Gibson: Untitled (Garden) (2021), Meganelizabeth Diamond: The Surface of an Image (2023), and Here and Now (2023).
Her interview with Dana Qaddah was published in ReIssue (2021), she was a mentee in the Momus Emerging Critics Residency (2021), and wrote the exhibition text for Gillian Haigh: the change that weakens the hour at Monica Reyes Gallery (2023). Yuill holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019), and is based in so-called Vancouver on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
