Fellowships in Canadian Art

2009/2010

Fern Bayer, of Toronto, holds a master’s degree from the University of Toronto, and was previously chief curator of the Government of Ontario Art Collection. She is now an independent researcher, curator and consultant with extensive publication and exhibition experience. Bayer will use her fellowship in order to complete a catalogue raisonné of the works of the artist collaborative General Idea and to write an essay on their production.

Virginia Solomon, of Brooklyn, New York, is a graduate of Stanford University, with a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, where she is now a doctoral candidate. Solomon’s research will explore how the projects of General Idea enumerate a different way of understanding being, meaning-making and the political potential of art.