Daisy Desrosiers

An interdisciplinary art historian with a background in independent curatorial work, Daisy Desrosiers’ current research focuses on the cultural, post-colonial, and material implications of the use of sugar in contemporary art. She is the inaugural Director of Programs for the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College (Waterville, Maine, USA). From 2012 to 2017, Desrosiers was the director of Battat Contemporary (Montreal, Canada). In 2018 she was the inaugural recipient of the Nicholas Fox Weber curatorial fellowship, affiliated with the Glucksman Museum (Cork, Ireland) as well as a curatorial fellow-in-residence at Art in General (Brooklyn, NY) in partnership with Centre CLARK (Montreal, Canada).

For Daisy Desrosiers, reflecting on the archive and questions of representation through this work is a great honor, and presenting these results in Montreal makes it even more so. The curator would like to warmly thank the entire team at CLARK for its incredible trust and support⎯from Brooklyn to Montreal. She would also like to sincerely thank the artist for his generosity and enthusiasm toward this project. Special thanks are extended to peers who have contributed, directly or indirectly, to the reflections that emerged from this research : Megan Bradley, Sophie Jodoin, Jinn Lee, Joanie Lavoie, Sky Goodden, Felicia Lee, Judha Su, YuanYuan Yang, Lutz family as well as Calvin Reedy.