The following were the artists in residence in 2020:
Paulette Phillips – educator and artist, Toronto
Luce Dumont – visual artist and printmaker, Saint-Fabien, Quebec
Sameer Farooq – interdisciplinary artist, Toronto
Gabrielle Moser – art historian, writer and curator, Toronto
Julie Mannell – prose and poetry author, literary critic, cultural commentator and essayist, Toronto
Kate Barss – writer, Toronto
Kate Barss is a queer writer living in Toronto. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Catapult, The Hairpin, The Awl, Taddle Creek and others. She has been shortlisted for prizes in Room Magazine, Prism International, Event Magazine and others. One of her short stories appeared on Wigleaf's List of Top 50 Short Fictions of 2018. https://catapult.co/katebarss
Gita Hashemi – artist, curator and writer, Toronto
Artist, curator and writer Gita Hashemi’s experimental transmedia practice spans over 30 years, encompassing work that draws on visual, media, performance, site-specific and live art strategies. Exploring social relations and the interconnections of language and culture, Hashemi’s work centres on marginalized histories and contemporary politics. She has received many art grants, and her work has been exhibited at festivals, galleries and museums nationally and internationally, reviewed extensively, and won local and international awards. Most recently, her project Grounding, produced during an Open Space Lab residency at the Carlton University Art Gallery, was selected as the best exhibition of the year in 2017 by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. http://gitaha.net