The Founding Curators

CUTMR was founded in 2003 by artist/curators Pamila Matharu and Christina Zeidler. They developed a show that brought the methods of their artistic experience to the design community, bringing together these often polarized disciplines. They continued to curate CUTMR for the next five years and in 2009 they passed the torch and mentored four young curators, The Curatorial Collective.  The premise of the show remains and the new curators continue to bring new and ground breaking work to the show.

Christina Zeidler

Christina Zeidler is a film and video artist with over twenty titles in distribution, which have shown internationally at festivals and appeared on television. In 2003 Christina was named one of Toronto’s 10 Best Filmmakers by Cameron Bailey, and won the Best Canadian Media award at the 2004 Images Film Festival. Christina has been the Developer and President of the GLADSTONE HOTEL since 2003, focusing on the renovation and revitalization of the building through a community based approach. She was the creator of the Artist-Designed Room Project (inviting 37 local artist/designers to implement individually designed hotel rooms) and co-curator of CUTMR, with Pamila Matharu since its inception in 2004.

Pamila Matharu

Pamila Matharu is an independent artist, cultural producer and educator. Her art practice is rooted in organizing projects, photography, film, video, and installation based work. Recent curatorial projects include: CUTMR with Christina Zeidler (2004-2008), TAAFI (Toronto Alternative Art Fair International, 2004, 2005) and Docu Lomo (Gallery TPW, 2002.) In 2005, she was short listed for the Untitled Art Awards’ Best Emerging Curator and won the Jury’s Choice Award in both 2004 and 2005 Untitled Art Awards for her organizational contribution to TAFFI.