Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ working as a writer and critic, as a studio assistant for Tom Burrows, and in archives for artists and artist-run organizations. Yasmine holds a Bachelors in Art History from the University of British Columbia and her practice currently encompasses video, experimental audio, collecting/archiving, performance, writing, and curating C.L.A.M.


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All works licensed under a Creative Commons License. All images are taken by me unless otherwise credited. 

PUBLICATIONS

2025 - “Hazel Meyer X Yasmine Whaley-Kalaora,” essay, Le Sigh, (online exhibition space).
              “Tip: Never Leave Home Without Your Kitchen,” archives feature on Margaret Dragu, grunt gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
              RWFFS, prose, self-published, edition of 16, Vancouver, B.C.

2024 - “A haunting resolve: Small-file media and states of resolution,” media festival review, ReIssue, Vancouver, B.C.
              “Seeking the Latent: On Liz Magor’s ‘Subject to Change,’” book review, The Capilano Review, Vancouver, BC.
2023 - “A Goodbye to Former Selves: Uncategorizing Sonja Ahlers,” review, Momus, (int. online pub).
              “With a heart that sings the stars, I will love all things dying: Woojae Kim at dreams comma delta,” review, Peripheral Review,                       Vancouver, BC.
              “What Are Our Supports? - Ed. by Joni Low and Jeff O’Brien,” review, C Magazine, Toronto, ON.
              “’Codes of silence’ — Shirley Bruno, Aleesa Cohene, Caroline Monnet, Cauleen Smith ‘Sunny Side Up and other sorrowful                           stories’ — Mike Bourscheid,” review, C Magazine, Toronto, ON.
2022 - “memos,” poetry/prose, SUM Magazine, Toronto, ON.
             “Locating Again // Erdem Taşdelen’s A Minaret for the General’s Wife,” essay/review, ReIssue, Vancouver, B.C.
2021 - “Art Making and the Loiter,” autotheory/prose, QOQQOON, Vancouver, B.C.

             “ReMatriate’s Reimagining of Indigenous Futurity,” academic paper, Undergraduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture,                      Vancouver, B.C.

2019 - “Breeding Colonial Photo-Literacy,” academic paper, Undergraduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture, Vancouver, B.C.
2018 - “2534 Parker Street,” prose, SAD Mag, Vancouver, B.C.

2022 - Similkameen Artist Residency
            Shared Bodies, Commissioned for Platforms: We Are Here, Live by the City of Vancouver Public Art Program, project by                             Guadalupe Martinez, cinematography and post production by Luciana Freire D’Anunciacao.

2021 - Reflections on a Window Glass, “Chapter 1 CUERPO,” Guadalupe Martinez and collaborating artists
2020 - Research/Resurgence, Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Denise Ryner
2019 - CUERPO, Or Gallery at Cathedral Square, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Denise Ryner
             OnSite!, UBC Student Performance Art Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
             Spill: Response, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
             Spill Radio, “Episode 12”
2018 - Resonance, FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., curated by Pablo de Ocampo

CURATORIAL PROJECTS 

2022 (ongoing) - C.L.A.M. (Cinema, Literature, Art, and Media), an intermittent event of curated short films and performance art,
             Vancouver, B.C.

2021  - Annotating the Archives, LIVE Performance Art Biennale, Vancouver, B.C.
2020 - The Works of the AMS Art Collection (yes, all of them), Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (+ tour)
             How to Unroll a Baxter&?, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.