Curated 2024: 2D & Mixed Media

Bart Gazzola is an arts writer, curator and photographer based in Niagara. He’s published with New Art Examiner, Canadian Art, BlackFlash Magazine (where he was editorial chair for three years), Magenta Magazine and Galleries West, and was the art critic at Planet S in Saskatoon for nearly decade. Notable recent curatorial projects
include Welland: Times Present Times Past (2020) at AIH Studios in Welland, and A Place To Stand: The Legacy of the Rodman Hall Art Centre Collection (2021 – 2022). He was previously assistant editor at The Sound: Niagara’s Arts and Culture Magazine, where his ongoing series on Brock University’s ‘demolition through neglect’ of Rodman
Hall Art Centre earned him several St. Catharines Arts Award nominations (2020).
Gazzola is co editor for The COVERT Collective: a gathering of visual art curators from across Canada, sharing the work of artists they love, and work that inspires them.
A selection of his writing for curated. can be enjoyed here: 
https://curatednow.ca/bart-gazzola/
He is also the primary writer / researcher for AIH Studios’ continuing series Artists You Need To Know, offering information and images about artists both Canadian and international, that merit attention. This online anthology can be enjoyed here: https://artishell.com/artists-you-need-to-know

Gazzola also hosts and facilitates the 5 x 2 Visual Conversations in St.Catharines at Mahtay Cafe: for almost a decade this has been an informal meeting of visual artists where they can share their art and ideas in a relaxed, community focused manner. It’s open to everyone, and can be found on FB, as the group sometimes meets online, as well as in person.

Since late 2022, he’s been the curator and facilitator of a number of exhibitions  platforming Niagara artists in downtown St. Catharines at Mahtay Café & Lounge. This has been supported by the SCCIP program with the City of St. Catharines. Past featured artists include Geoff Farnsworth, Gabrielle de Montmollin, Rob Royal, Amber Lee Williams and Julianna D’Intino.

He also has an upcoming exhibition at the Welland Museum planned for the Fall of 2024 : Ross Beard | A Sort of Homecoming will be a posthumous retrospective of the Welland artist and muralist. Another exhibition titled Chris Reilly | Love Lost Ruins will open at AIH Studios in downtown Welland in May of 2024.

He’s worked in a number of galleries and artist-run spaces, in Ontario and Saskatchewan.