Meet Camille Richard: selected to attend the Hnatyshyn Foundation – Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency
March 27, 2025
The Hnatyshyn Foundation and Fogo Island Arts (FIA) are very pleased to announce that Camille Richard will be attending this year’s coveted Young Curator Residency. This residency, awarded annually, provides an opportunity for a young Canadian curator to work in residence at FIA, a contemporary arts venue in Newfoundland, for six weeks.
Photo: Jean-Sébastien Veilleux
Camille Richard
Camille Richard is an independent writer and researcher, living and working along the St. Lawrence River between Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/ Montreal and Wolastokuk/Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies. Her research focuses on conceptual and contextual artistic, curatorial and institutional practices that redefine exhibition parameters and that develop alternative methodologies for the production and transmission of knowledge. Equipped with a master’s degree in art history from the Université du Québec à Montréal, her curatorial practice takes various forms, including exhibitions (Champ liminal at Espace parenthèses, 2022), publications (Vie des Arts, Espace art actuel) and reflective workshops. She has also had the opportunity to participate in residencies and share her research at La Chambre Blanche (2021) and DARE-DARE (2023). Since 2021, she has devoted much of her energy to the general and artistic management of Est-Nord-Est, where she reflects on ways to make institutional structures more loving and inclusive.
Champ Liminal at Espace Parenthèses, Québec, 2022. Curated by Camille Richard.
Photo: Mariane Stratis
“I’m deeply grateful for the incomparable opportunity to attend the Hnatyshyn Foundation-Fogo Island Arts Young Curator Residency program. This exceptional experience will allow me to immerse myself fully in my curatorial practice while drawing inspiration from Fogo Island’s unique cultural and ecological context. The residency will not only offer me the time and space to deepen my research into artistic practices that foster collaborative learning between art and ecology, but also provide the ideal environment to explore sustainable practices from a community-centered perspective. I’m eager to engage with both the human and more-than-human inhabitants of the island, whose relationships shape its distinctive identity, and to see how these experiences will inform and expand my curatorial vision.”
Find out more about Camille at @cm.richard on Instagram!
About FIA
Fogo Island Arts is the founding program of Shorefast, a registered Canadian charity dedicated to unleashing the power of place so local communities can thrive in the global economy. FIA was founded in 2008 as an international artist residency program with the belief that artists are visionaries with a unique capacity to reveal and respond to the complexities of our time. The residencies enable artists, curators, and writers to think, create, and connect on Fogo Island, promoting discovery across perspectives and disciplines. The geographic specificity as an island off an island in the North Atlantic is a foundational platform for engagement around issues of sustainability, ecology, economy, and belonging. Over the last 15 years, FIA has grown into a program of exhibitions, public programs, publications, and research projects that aim to explore art and ideas and bridge connections between the local and the global.
