Suzanne Carte is a curator, cultural producer, and waste management coordinator whose two-decade career has been dedicated to expanding access, sustainability, and equity within Canada’s arts sector. As Artistic Director/Curator at the AGB, she champions an institution that disrupts the binary between contemporary art and craft.  Carte is the founder of Artist Material Fund (AMF), Canada’s only material relocation service diverting cultural waste from landfills.

Her curatorial foundation was built over ten years as Assistant Curator at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), where she developed integrated approaches to exhibitions and public programming. Her independent practice spans artist-run centres, public spaces, and commercial galleries, consistently prioritizing community engagement and accessibility. A national advocate for circular economies in cultural production, Carte has lectured at universities and colleges, and spoke on panels for galleries, museums, and service organizations. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art History from Sotheby’s Art Institute, New York, and a BFA from the University of Windsor.

is a Canadian artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. With a versatile approach that shifts between sculpture, photography, documentary film, and anthropological methods, Farooq foregrounds community-based models of knowledge production and an array of contemplative practices in order to suggest new ways of narrating our cultural histories. The result is often a collaborative work which counterbalances how dominant institutions speak about our lives: a counter-archive, new additions to a museum collection, or a buried history made visible. Together with the public he works to redress the role of exhibition and collection-based practices by employing decolonial, queer, and critical race lenses.