Following the award of the 2025 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, join Juror Grace Deveney and the Polygon’s Curator Elliott Ramsey as they share insights about their roles in shaping the inaugural Lind Biennial and how they connect local practice to broader frames of reference.

Conversation at 4:00pm

Grace Deveney is David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent exhibitions include Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Unsewn Time, Peter Hujar: Performance and Portraiture, and Kwame Brathwaite: Things Well Worth Waiting For (all 2023). In 2022, she was the Visiting Curator at the School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, where she organized Open Structure. Previously, she was Associate Curator of Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow, a New Orleans–based contemporary art triennial (2021) and Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, where she organized numerous exhibitions including Christina Quarles (2021), Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power (2019), and presentations of the work of Paul Pfeiffer and Amanda Williams (both 2017). She holds a PhD in Art History from Northwestern University.

Elliott Ramsey is Curator of The Polygon Gallery, based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ First Nations. He holds a Master of Arts in Comparative Media Arts (2015) from Simon Fraser University. Ramsey is an alumnus of the Association of Art Museum Curators’ Professional Alliance for Curators of Colour, has served on numerous advisories and art juries including the Sobey Award, and his recent exhibition As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic, presented by Aperture and featuring works from the Toronto-based Wedge Collection, is currently touring.

Banner Image: Alison Boulier.