Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art 




LAUNCHES

MONTREAL | TORONTO | VANCOUVER



Selected Writing on Black Canadian Art is a collection of essays, reviews, and interviews published by Yaniya Lee between 2017-2021. It brings together the testimonies and achievements of African diasporic artists and curators from across Canada and beyond.

Foreword by Nasrin Himada, published by figure ground, graphic design by House9, distributed by Art Metropole, 209 p., 25$






Yaniya Lee is the author of Buseje Bailey: Reasons Why We Have to Disappear Every Once in a While, A Black Art History Project (2024). Her writing and research track Black creative practice and narratives of liberation across the nation. She has written about art for museums and galleries across Canada, as well as for Canadian Art, C Magazine, Flash Art, and British Vogue.

MONTREAL

Eli Kerr Gallery, 4647 St Laurent Blvd.
Thursday, August 29, 2024, 5pm-8pm

TORONTO

-joint launch with Katherine McKittrick, Twenty Dreams Art Metropole, 896 College Street
Friday, August 30, 2024, 5pm-8pm

VANCOUVER

-conversation with Nya Lewis and Elliot Ramsey
The Polygon, 101 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver
Thursday, September 5,
2024