Curator Walkthrough: David Liss on Sybil Goldstein / URBAN MYTHS

David Liss, curator of Sybil Goldstein / URBAN MYTHS, leads a guided walkthrough of this unique legacy exhibition. He shares insights about his process of selecting specific artworks to hang from a collection of over a thousand artworks, and how the exhibition brings Goldstein’s previously unseen art to the public, celebrating her important contribution to Toronto’s cultural history as a co-founder of ChromaZone Collective (1981-1986) and a teacher.

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.