About

Treva Legassie (she/they) is a curator, artist and writer born and based in Tkarón:to, Treaty 13 territory. She is a SSHRC funded postdoctoral fellow at Simon Fraser University in the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology and holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Concordia University. Her curatorial research practice is interested in urban-natural spaces; those wild zones that defy human development and settler desires to control Land and nature. Legassie has curated site specific exhibitions for Nuit Blanche, walks along Wonscontonach (Don River) and Port Lands and curated and designed the web-based exhibition improvement becomes a wall, and the river meanders still (2023). Legassie is co-director of the Curatorial Research-Creation Collective. Their writing has been published in RACAR, PUBLIC Journal, and The Senses & Society. She has also curated new media based exhibitions such as improvement becomes a wall, and the river meanders still (2022/2024), Femynynytees (2018), #NATURE (2016) and Influenc(Ed.) Machines.

trevamichelle@gmail.com