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about
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Liv Cerda (b. 2001) is a Toronto-based visual artist and curator. She prioritizes experimentation within her practice, through sculpture, printmaking & curation. As an artist-curator, Cerda ensures that this intersection is highlighted in her work; mixing media, techniques, and various branches of research. Concepts that have organically integrated include the study of optometry and the refraction of light/waves, aphantasia; visual imagination, aesthetics and the creative experience, and the invention and evolution of visual languages.
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EDUCATION
2019 - 2023 BFA, Major in Criticism and Curatorial Practice Minor in Print and Publications
2022 Student Internship, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Toronto, ON.
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Joy. Sorrow. Anger. Love. PRIDE, (Magenta Foundation/Magenta Publishing for the Arts) Toronto. (co-curator)
2023 Grad Ex 108, Ada Slaight Student Galleries, Toronto. (exhibited work)
2023 Archiving Nostalgia, 100 McCaul St, Toronto. (co-curator)
2023 Synergy, 205 Richmond St. West, (CRCP Student Association) Toronto. (co-curator)
2022 Lustre, Ada Slaight Student Galleries (OCAD U Gallery Crawl 2022), Toronto. (curator)
2020 The New Miasma: Materials and the Anthropocene, Virtual Exhibition. (exhibited work)
2019 Sculpture Concepts, Ada Slaight Student Galleries, Toronto. (exhibited work)
2019 Ab Intra, Yellow House Framing, Toronto. (exhibited work)
PUBLICATIONS
Joy. Sorrow. Anger. Love. PRIDE: A Celebration of Toronto Pride, 1970s – present (2023)
... the first broadly available publication and exhibition on the Canadian movement. Incorporating photography, ephemera, posters, and writings by community leaders, the project focuses on the history of Toronto Pride throughout its long and sometimes turbulent journey. Highlighted in both the exhibition and publication are diverse materials generated by the LGBTQ2+ community—which includes beloved and vital organizations like Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Black Lives Matter, Casey House, 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations, and more—interspersed with photographs and other materials, such as t-shirts, buttons, issues of XTRA Magazine, protest signs, zines, and posters.
Issue 01: Synergy (2022)
'Critica Magazine' is an arts publication by OCAD University's CRCP Student Association. The journal also supports students outside the Criticism and Curatorial Practice (BFA) through collaborative events and open submissions, increasing contact points between creative communities.
Issue 01: Synchronicities (2022)
'Diarist Magazine' is an independent publication dedicated to cultivating knowledge in emerging artists. This collection of interviews offers pragmatic advice by featured creatives: Gabriela Hirt, Melissa Tozaj, Keith Petersen and Avleen Kaur. Interview work and publishing by Liv Cerda.
Teams Magazine (2021)
‘Teams Mag’ is a digital publication dedicated to navigating the “new normal” in the context of a group of OCAD U students’ creative practices, interview work is featured in ‘Edition 01.’
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