Yaniya Lee

Yaniya Lee is a Toronto-based writer and editor interested in the ethics of aesthetics. She is a founding collective member of MICE Magazine and she was the 2017-2018 writer-in-residence at Gallery 44, in Toronto. She currently works as associate editor at Canadian Art magazine and teaches art criticism at the University of Toronto.

Tactics and strategies of racialized artists: some notes on how to circumvent the art world’s terms of inclusion

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Tactics and strategies of racialized artists: some notes on how to circumvent the art world’s terms of inclusion

By Yaniya Lee

I have been thinking about what it means to be a racialized person in the arts, and what kinds of tactics and strategies we’ve developed to move through these spaces.