International Launch of the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex Collaboration with the French Embassy in Canada, the Institut français du Canada and AWARE–Centre Pompidou.

Alicia Knock
Head Curator of the Contemporary Creation and Prospective Department at the Centre Pompidou, Alicia Knock develops a transnational approach to art history. Her acquisitions and exhibitions—including Ernest Mancoba (2019), Chine-Afrique: Crossing the World Color Line (2020), Global(e) Resistance (2020), and Paris Noir 1950–2000—foreground postcolonial practices and the circulation of artistic forms across geographies. Alongside her institutional work, she explores new exhibition formats through dynamic, research-driven projects that critically engage with the future of museums. In 2023, she co-curated the Kaunas Biennial, Survival Kit in Riga, and the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, focusing on “Long-distance Friendships” and non-aligned solidarities between Africa and Eastern Europe. She also curated the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, and co-curated an exhibition dedicated to Boris Mikhailov at the PinchukArtCentre in 2019.

Matylda Taszycka
Matylda Taszycka is Head of Scientific Programs for the AWARE unit at the Musée national d’Art Moderne in Paris. In this role, she leads initiatives, oversees publications, and supervises research dedicated to women and non-binary artists. She is also an art historian and exhibition curator. In 2023, she curated the exhibition “Wanda Czełkowska: Art is not Rest,” presented at Muzeum Susch in Switzerland. More recently, she co-curated the exhibition “Trajectoires que je suis, laureates of the AWARE Honorary Award,” at the Fonds régional d’art contemporain Champagne-Ardenne in Reims (2025). Since 2024, she has been teaching the history and theory of contemporary art at the École du Louvre.

Ming Tiampo
Ming Tiampo is an award-winning scholar and curator of global art histories. Professor of Art History at Carleton University and co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, she advocates for art histories attentive to circulation of culture, migration, and racial geopolitics of historical representation, developing methodologies, advancing entangled narratives, and platforming marginalized artists. Her projects include Mobile Subjects: Contrapuntal Modernisms, Women, Life, Freedoms at the Wereldmuseum, Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, Jin-me Yoon (Art Canada Institute, 2023), Gutai: Splendid Playground (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2013), and Gutai: Decentering Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 2011). She serves on the boards of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Jinny Yu
Jinny Yu is a visual artist and Professor of Painting at the University of Ottawa. Her work examines questions of belonging and place through abstraction, approached as an ethical, transcultural, and political inquiry. Her paintings engage issues of perception, embodiment, and responsibility, rethinking abstraction as a site of critical encounter. Since the early 2000s, she has exhibited internationally, including Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating? presented during the 56th Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Jinny Yu: At Once at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2024). Her work is held in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec among others. She is the Principal Investigator of the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex.

The launch will feature a public roundtable:

“Half the Sky: A Roundtable Discussion about Women in the Arts”

With Alicia Knock (Centre Pompidou), Matylda Taszycka (AWARE), Ming Tiampo (Carleton University), and Jinny Yu (University of Ottawa)

The discussion will reflect on the histories of AWARE and the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex, and explore the broader cultural and institutional contexts that shape this collaboration.

Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex: https://bipocartistsrolodex.ca/

AWARE: https://awarewomenartists.com/