Curator Walkthrough: David Liss on Don't Look Back

What goes into choosing 17 artists with wide-ranging practices to tell 65 years of the story of Canada’s largest and longest-running outdoor art fair? Join curator David Liss for a guided tour of Don’t Look Back and find out. He’ll walk you through the thinking, the themes, and the contemporary relevance — past TOAF artists alongside present ones, all part of a story that continues to evolve.

David Liss is an independent curator, writer and artist currently living in Toronto. From 2000 to 2020 he was Director, Curator and Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto. From 1995 to 2000 he was Director and Curator of the Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts in Montreal. During the early 1990s he contributed art and music reviews to the Montreal Gazette, Vice, Canadian Art, and other publications. Since the late 1980s he has organized, curated, written texts and essays, published books and developed interdisciplinary.