Dot Tuer

Dot Tuer is a writer and cultural theorist whose current scholarly and creative work explores artistic practices of memorialization and visual storytelling in a hemispheric context. She has written extensively on Canadian and Latin American art, with a specific focus on performance, photography, and new media. Tuer is the author of Mining the Media Archive and numerous museum catalogue, book anthology, and journal essays. Her curatorial projects include a major retrospective of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2012-13. She is currently writing a book on north/south dialogues in cultural memory and art in the Americas. Since the 2000s, Tuer has divided her time between Corrientes, Argentina, and Toronto, where she is Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. [Source: VOX, 2022]

A selection of her writings can be found at https://ocad.academia.edu/DotTuer