Sarah Robayo Sheridan

Director of Exhibitions and Publications – Mercer Union

Panelist – 9:00 am, Thursday, April 7th – Proving Ground: Experiments in and with the Public Realm

Sarah Robayo Sheridan is director of exhibitions and publications at Mercer Union, A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto. She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, where she completed research on the visual culture of sleep. In 2009, she was nominated for the Young Curators Invitational, Ricard Foundation, Paris. She has previously worked at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto; the Toronto International Film Festival Group; and held research internships at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in arts magazines and she was a contributor to the anthology 100 Video Artists (Exit Books, Madrid, 2010) and João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2010). She recently served as one of the commissioning curators for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (2010), Toronto.