Exhibition Tours with Choy Ka Fai

Please join us on the following dates for a guided tour of the exhibition with artist Choy Ka Fai to learn more about the artist’s practice and research.

Tour before the artists’ roundtable discussion:
2:00 - 2:45pm
Saturday, 11 July 2026

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Closing tour:
4:00 - 5:00pm
Sunday, 19 July 2026

Please register here if you are interested in attending either tour.

CosmicWander: Expedition - Artists’ Roundtable Discussion

Please join us for a discussion between Choy Ka Fai, Patrick Cruz, Sameer Farooq and Maria Hupfield, moderated by Yan Wu.

3:00 - 4:15 pm
Saturday, 11 July 2026

About the artists:

Choy Ka Fai is a Berlin-based Singaporean artist whose visionary practice reimagines the limits of the human body at the intersection of dance, media art, and performance. His multidisciplinary work transcends traditional realms to question realities beyond our own. His acclaimed CosmicWander series (2019–present) investigates Asian shamanic dance cultures through performance and exhibition, premiering at the Singapore Art Museum and tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf. His performance works have been presented by Sadler's Wells (London), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), and Kyoto Experiment (Japan). Recent exhibitions have been featured at the Biennale of Sydney, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), and Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn). Ka Fai holds an M.A. in Design Interaction from the Royal College of Art, London.

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Patrick Cruz’s practice considers the role of spirituality, improvisation, intuition, and play as emancipatory tools to reify embedded colonial frameworks and ideologies in art making and collective dreaming. Cruz employs cooking, healing, meditation, divination, exorcism, and hypnosis as research methodologies to exhume and retrieve hidden knowledge. His recent works have been informed by his shamanic practice as an Albularyo, a tradition rooted in Filipino mysticism.  

Cruz studied at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts in Diliman, Quezon City and completed his undergraduate degree from Emily Carr University of Art + Design after immigrating to Canada. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Guelph in 2016. In 2021, he received the prestigious Thirteen Artist Award from the Cultural Center of the Philippines, and in 2015, he won the national title in the 17th RBC Canadian Painting Competition. He is a cross-appointed Assistant Professor in Arts, Culture and Media in Studio Art at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Cruz is the co-director of the Kamias Triennial with curator Karie Liao, co-curator of Ben Flores Fan Club Collective with Christian Vistan and collaborator at Boring Earth with Laila Fox.

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Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent born in Cape Breton. Farooq has held exhibitions at institutions around the world including PRAx, Oregon (2026), the Jaou Photography Biennale, Tunis (2024). Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), Le 19, crac, Montbéliard, France (2024), Venice Architecture Biennale (2023), Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (2023), Materia Abierta, Mexico City (2023), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff (2023), Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax (2023), Galerie Nicolas Robert, Toronto (2023), Fonderie Darling, Montréal (2022); Susan Hobbs, Toronto (2022); Koffler Gallery, Toronto (2021); Patel Brown, Toronto (2021); Lilley Museum, Reno (2019); Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2016); The British Library, London (2015); Maquis Projects, Izmir (2015); Artellewa, Cairo (2014); and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2011). Reviews dedicated to his work have been published by Art Forum, The Art Newspaper, La Presse, Canadian Art, The Washington Post, BBC Culture, Hyperallergic, Artnet, and C Magazine. He is an alumni of the Kohler Arts/Industry and Bemis Center residencies and has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Canada’s preeminent art award.

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Maria Hupfield (b.1975) is an internationally recognized artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her transdisciplinary studio and research practice merges performance art, design, and sculpture, drawing from Indigenous storytelling traditions through art, scholarship, and collaboration. Recent acknowledgements include being awarded the Ontario Arts Council Indigenous Laurate 2025, an Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship 2025 from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, and solo exhibition “The Endless Supernatural Powers of Fabulous Panther (Biimskojiwan)”, Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, USA, 2025, following its premiere at the Toronto Biennial of Art 2024 in Ontario Canada. Hupfield is Anishinaabek, belonging to Wasauksing First Nation (Huron Robinson Treaty), an island in Georgian Bay, Ontario, Canada; and a Canadian Research Chair in Transdisciplinary Indigenous Arts, as Associate Professor in Indigenous Digital Arts and Performance, at the University of Toronto where she is the Director of the Indigenous Creation Studio. Her work is extensively exhibited and in numerous collections. Hupfield is represented by Galerie Hugues Charbonneau in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Born and raised in Shanghai, Yan Wu is a curator, writer, and translator based in Toronto. Her work focuses on the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, and public space, alongside a sustained engagement with conceptual art, translation, and translingual cultural practices. She is currently Public Art Curator for the City of Markham and is pursuing a PhD at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, where her research examines public art as a form of artistic research through the frameworks of play, lab, and land.

Her recent curatorial and collaborative projects include Interior Chinatown: Morris Lum at the McMaster Museum of Art (2026); The Underground Sun by Xiaojing Yan at Milliken Mills Park (2025–ongoing); Tom Dean: GOOD-BYE at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery (2025); Between Leaf and Light by Scott Rogers at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre’s Cancer Centre (2025); Lost and Found by Holly Ward and Kevin Schmidt (2023–24) and Double Gazebo by Native Art Department International (2022), both at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham; and Miao Ying: A Field Guide to Ideology at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (2022).

Wu has co-translated into Chinese Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind Krauss, Six Years by Lucy Lippard, Rock My Religion by Dan Graham, Formless by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, and Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel by John Cage. She also authored the Chinese text for M+’s online exhibition Marcel Duchamp: Lessons for a Creative Life from Box in a Valise. Her writing has appeared in Artforum.cn, ArtReview Asia, Canadian Art, PUBLIC, and e-flux Criticism.