Julia Lamare, Acting Associate Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery

Julia Lamare is a curator working on the unneeded territories of xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlilwətaɬ/Selilwitulh Nations. She holds a BFA with a minor in curatorial practices from Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and has studied at the University of British Columbia and the Paris College of Art. In 2016, she and Julie D. Mills co-founded Number 3 Gallery, an independent curatorial project, which they continue to co-curate. Number 3 Gallery has worked with spaces including Access Gallery (Vancouver, 2019-20); Dynamo Arts Association, (Vancouver, 2019); CSA Space (Vancouver, 2018), the Ministry of Casual Living (Victoria, 2018) and continues to operate digitally. Currently, Lamare is the Acting Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), where she has curated exhibitions by Alison Yip (2022), Christine Howard Sandoval (2021), Nadia Belerique, Jeneen Frei Njootli and Kathy Slade (2020), and Andi Icaza-Largespada (2018).