Lisa Deanne Smith

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Lisa Deanne Smith is the Curator at Onsite [at] OCAD University. She is engaged in a cultural practice that moves between multiple mediums — art, curating, writing and arts administration — exploring issues of voice, experience, community and power.

Smith has exhibited internationally including White Columns, The New Museum and Paula Cooper Gallery (New York), Mercer Union, Convenience, and Gallery 44 (Toronto), Eye Level (Halifax), Kunstlerhaus Sootborn (Hamburg) and in Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec (Quebec City).

Recent curatorial projects at Onsite [at] OCAD University include 'Generations of Queer: Robert Flack / John Greyson / Elisha Lim / Kiley May,' 'Biological Urbanism: Terreform ONE,' 'No Dull Affairs: Karen Lofgren, Vanessa Maltese and Jillian McDonald,' 'Ads for People: Selling Ethics in the Digital Age' and 'I Wonder: Marian Bantjes' and 'converse without leaving home,' (with Helena Reckitt and Andrew Zuckerman) produced by the University of Dundee, Scotland.

  • Work
    • OCAD University
  • Education
    • OCAD University
    • Cranbrook Academy of Art