Twilight Hour: Eva Respini
Please join us for the first Twilight Hour talk of the 2025-26 school year with Eva Respini, interim co-director and curator at large of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Presented by the Painting and Photography programs at Emily Carr University.
Please join us for the first Twilight Hour talk of the 2025-26 school year with Eva Respini, interim co-director and curator at large of the Vancouver Art Gallery, on Tuesday October 21st at 7PM in the Integrated Motion Capture Studio.
Eva Respini is Interim Co-CEO and Curator at Large at the Vancouver Art Gallery, working to shape and drive the vision of the Vancouver Art Gallery along with the Gallery team.
Respini served as the curator and co-commissioner for the 2022 U.S. Pavilion’s presentation of Simone Leigh at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Leigh won the 2022 Golden Lion for her participation in the Biennale’s main exhibition. She organized the highly successful mid-career survey of Simone Leigh’s work, which opened at the ICA/Boston in April 2023, and will tour across the United States through 2025.
Between 2015-2023, Respini was Deputy Director and Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA/Boston). Prior to her tenure at the ICA/Boston, she served as Curator at the Museum of Modern Art for more than a decade in the department of photography, where she curated numerous acclaimed exhibitions of contemporary art and photography. Respini's curatorial leadership and commitment to curatorial craft at every level of exhibition-making is evident in all her curatorial projects.
Respini has been a visiting lecturer, critic, and speaker at a number of universities, including a seminar on curatorial practice at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Other universities where she has taught and lectured include School of Visual Arts, Columbia University; Yale University’s School of Art; and the School of Visual Arts, New York. She has published numerous books and catalogues and her writing appears in museum publications and periodicals.
Twilight Hour is a speaker series hosted by the Painting and Photography programs in the Audain Faculty of Art at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and organized by Elizabeth McIntosh and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez.