Team

Sue Balint (she/her) has been Executive Director of the Bonavista Biennale since 2022. She is a producer, curator and facilitator, and has collaborated on performance and public art projects with Luminato, SummerWorks, Philip Beesley’s Studio, Patria Projects (R. Murray Schafer), DNA Theatre (Hillar Litoja), Aluna Theatre, and Native Earth Performing Arts, among others. Sue’s current side hustle is her role as Director of Artistic Planning at Buddies in Bad Times, the largest and longest-running queer theatre company in the world.

Chris Clarke (St. John’s, 1975) is an independent curator and critic based in Vienna, Austria.

He is currently Curator with Innsbruck International Biennial of the Arts (2018-present) and was previously Senior Curator at The Glucksman, Cork, Ireland (2009-2024) and Visual Arts Education and Publications Manager at Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (2006-2008). He has independently curated exhibitions and projects in Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, and the UK, including the exhibitions Phantom Limb at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2026), Under the Surface: Newfoundland and Labrador at the Venice Biennale (2015), and The Second Act at De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam (2011).

He has written for publications and journals including Art Monthly, Camera Austria, Circa, MIRAJ, Photography & Culture, Source, Spike Art Magazine, VAN, and Whitehot, as well as numerous exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, MUN in 1999 and is currently a PhD student at University College Cork, Ireland, where he is writing on ‘The Curated Encounter’.

Paul McDonald, Chair
Marc Losier, Vice Chair
David A. Hood, Treasurer
Cassandra Filice, Secretary
Angela C. Antle
Andrew Bell
Megan Burt
Luanne Dominix
Bernie Doyle
Logan MacDonald
Luke Redmond
Terri Roberts
Karen Skinner