Chelsea Yuill, Capture Photography Festival

Chelsea Yuill is the Assistant Curator at Capture Photography Festival, where she coordinates the annual Catalogue, Featured Exhibition, and Public Art Program ranging from billboards, transit stations, and building façades. In this role, she has worked with a myriad of lens-based artists including Jordan Bennett, Lucas Blalock, Michelle Bui, Sara Cwynar, Alex Gibson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Mahmoud El Safadi, and Celia Perrin Sidarous. Curatorial highlights are 88 Artists from 88 Years (2017); Intertwined (2018) both at Emily Carr University of Art + Design; EAT YOUR TAIL, Access Gallery (2020); and Here and Now, Pendulum Gallery (2023).

Published writings include an interview with Dana Qaddah, ReIssue (2021), and the exhibition text for Gillian Haigh: the change that weakens the hour, Monica Reyes Gallery (2023). Yuill holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019), and attended the Momus Emerging Critics Residency (2021). She is on the Editorial Committee at Peripheral Review. Yuill is based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.