roya delsol.
royamdelsol@gmail.com
royadelsol.com
@royadelsol
professional experience
2017 — Present | Filmmaker, Photographer, New Media Artist & Curator
2017 — 2020 | CUE, Gallery Coordinator (Margin of Eras Gallery)
2016 — 2019 | Blank Canvas Gallery, Director of Operations
film credits
(selected)
2022 — "MOMENTS" Live Performance Series, Director, It’s OK* Community Arts
2022 — “She’s Not Special”, Director of Photography & Editor, HomeMadeIt Productions & Pressgang
2022 — “Fragments” Documentary, Videographer, Art Gallery of Ontario
2022 — “In My Bones”, Cinematographer & Co-Director, Black Women Film! Canada
2021 — Nicole Chambers “Warm Body”, Director & Editor, Little Andro Media
2021 — a l l i e., “Clean Sight”, Director, Producer & Editor, Independent
2021 — “Taura”, Cinematographer, Inamorata Dance
2021 — “SOLA”, Co-Director, Cinematographer & Editor, Inamorata Dance
2020 — “Can I be a Black mother in a world so dangerous to Black children?” Hadiya Roderique Globe & Mail Feature, Videographer, Globe & Mail
2020 — “Sickening”, Director, Cinematographer & Editor, Independent
curatorial projects
2022 — BLACK_BOX, Trinity Square Video (Upcoming, July 2022)
2022 — fi di gyal dem, Doris McCarthy Gallery (Upcoming, May 2022)
2021 — Windows To Paradise, makeroom.me
2019 — Fill In The Blank, Myseum Intersections @ Toronto Media Arts Centre
2019 — Group Experiments n02, Margin of Eras Gallery
curatorial writings
2021 — “A Caribbean Constellation” for We Buy Gold (Gallery TPW), curated by Michele Pearson Clarke
group exhibitions
2021 — and other monuments, Textile Museum of Canada
2021 — FLESH ON THE FLOOR, Patel Brown Gallery
2021 — Venus Festival V, the plumb
2021 — WIsdoM ripples, Jamii @ David Crombie Park
2020 — Galvanized Suns, Diasporic Futurisms x Subtle Technologies
2019 — Come As You Are, 187 Augusta
2019 — Fill In The Blank, Blank Canvas x Myseum Intersections @ Toronto Media Arts Centre
2018 — Protagonist, Unit 2
2018 — NXNE Showcase, The Baby G
awards & residencies
2021 — “Curatorial Projects: Indigenous and Culturally Diverse”, Ontario Arts Council
2021 — “MVP Project: Round 5”, RBCxMusic x Prism Prize
2020 — Concept to Realization Grant, Explore & Create Stream, Canada Council For The Arts
2020 — Left of Centre Incubator, Creative Catalyst Stream (Curation), Nia Centre for the Arts
2020 — Black HXOUSE Incubator, HXOUSE
2019 — Virtual Grounds Research Residency, Digital Justice Lab x Trinity Square Video
2019 — Artscape Launchpad Bursary, Toronto Artscape Foundation
2014 — Certificate of Academic Excellence (for work done on Honours thesis), Canadian Psychological Association
workshops & speaking engagements
2021 – Gallery 44, “The Build” OUTREACH Symposium (Workshop Facilitator)
2021 — On digital connection, suppression, and memory with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Kim Ninkuru, Vector Festival (Panel Moderator)
2021 — “Reverse Process with Roya DelSol”, U for Change (Workshop Facilitator)
2020 — “Building Resilience: How To Master Mental Toughness & Thrive”, Venture Out (Panelist) *
* cancelled due to COVID-19
2019 — Black Canvas: Capturing The Skin (Workshop Facilitator)
2019 — Drew A Blank: Financial Literacy for Creatives, Blank Canvas Gallery x Art Gallery of Ontario (Moderator)
2018 — Nuit Talks: Transcending Margins, Nuit Blanche Toronto @ Margin of Eras Gallery (Panelist)
2018 — Black Our Stories Month, The Creator Class @ FREE Agency (Panelist)
interviews
2022 — AGO Insider, Documenting a Landmark
2022 — AGO Insider, Emerging Futures
2021 — Charles Street Video, October Member Highlight: Roya DelSol
2021 — CBC Arts (Black Light), These Black Toronto photographers are using their cameras to create the world they want to see
2021 — exposure toronto, "exposed: Roya DelSol"
2020 — Imara Celine on Medium, "Why Independent Art Spaces Need Our Support"
2019 — Musings, “it’s not just ticking off boxes”
print publications
(photography)
2021 — West End Phoenix (Multiple Issues)
2021 — Lez Spread The Word, Volume 05
2020 — invert. Mag, Volume 01
2019 — Paper & Coin F/W 2019
2019 — Lez Spread The Word, Volume 04
2019 — Bitch Magazine, Issue #83
2018 — Cross / Process, Issue 02
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References available upon request.