Jaclyn Quaresma is a curator and writer with a practice of critical attunement. Often taking the form of conversations, collaborative publishing, exhibitions, festivals, film programs, micro essays, reading rooms and tarot readings, among myriad other outlets, her work creates space for transdisciplinary possibilities.

Jaclyn is currently the Programming Director at Images Festival in Toronto, Canada. Previously, she was the Executive Director and Curator at Durham Art Gallery, where she founded the Rural Reading Riot Press and its corresponding festival as experiments in rural futurity, radical care, and riotous collectivity.
From 2019 to 2021, Jaclyn was the Curator in Residence at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Agricultural College, where she worked with international artists on themes of art, agriculture, and sustainability during the pandemic.

She holds a Masters of Visual Studies in Curatorial Practice from the Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto, a Graduate Certificate from Humber College’s esteemed Creative Writing Program, and has collaborated with institutions such as e-flux (New York, USA), Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Gallery TPW, Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths Program (Toronto, Canada), Crate Studio Project Space (Margate, England), among many others.