TPW Fellows 2025/26
Please join us to celebrate the culmination of
the 2025/2026 TPW Fellows!
Publication Launch and Artists’ Talk
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
Gallery TPW
2PM-4PM
Over the past year, the TPW Fellows, an expanded fellowship, brought together an artist, curator, and writer to build connections and support new, experimental projects. Evolving from Gallery TPW’s Indigenous Curatorial Research Fellowship, the TPW Fellows program was designed to foster collaboration and cross-cultural community among artists, writers, and curators, creating space for caring critique beyond formal academic settings.
We were pleased to welcome artist Jaiden George (Tofino/Vancouver), writer Nawang Tsomo Kinkar (Montreal/Toronto), and curator Safia Siad (Montreal/Calgary/Toronto) as members of the inaugural TPW Fellows cohort. Meeting monthly online, the group shared their practices, identifying areas of interest, curiosity, and experimentation. Through these conversations, a sense of trust and kinship developed, alongside opportunities for meaningful feedback and the exploration of connections across their work with the goal of creating insight for each participant's praxis.
Join us as we launch the TPW Fellows publication highlighting each cohort’s practice, along with an included conversation on citation, memory and family lineages.
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The TPW Fellows is generously supported by TD Bank.
Gallery TPW is thrilled to introduce this year's TPW X TD Fellows.
Expanding from our previous fellowship program, we will be hosting three fellows in the fields of Writing/Criticism, Curatorial Practice and Lens-Based Art, in support of a year long research program. Artist Jaiden George, Writer Nawang Tsomo Kinkar and Curator Safia Siad are the selected cohort that will be working with the TPW Team to develop a program/publication or project to be presented with Gallery TPW in 2026.
Learn more about the TPW Fellows and their practices below!
Nawang Tsomo Kinkar
Nawang Tsomo is an emerging writer and curator based between Tkaronto/Toronto and Winnipeg Treaty 1 Territory. She is the inaugural recipient of the TD Curatorial Fellowship award at WAG-Qaumajuq. Her writing on contemporary art and photography can be found in Public Parking, Peripheral Review, and most recently in Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print 1950-Present published by 10x10 Photobooks. She has worked on photography projects at the Royal Ontario Museum, The Image Centre, and Museum of Modern Art, among others. She holds an MA in Photography Preservation + Collections Management from Toronto Metropolitan University and a BA in Art History from the University of Toronto.
Jaiden George
Jaiden George (b. 1999, Tofino, BC) is an artist and writer of ʕaḥuusʔatḥ and settler descent working and living in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Drawing from the fields of literature, art history, anthropology, and philosophy, and driven by a thematic interest in staging and placemaking, George employs photography to explore the production of place at the intersection of conflicting histories, colonization, commodification, anthropological interest, and cultural practice. George graduated with a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2022.
Safia Siad
Safia Siad is a curator, scholar, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening. As a founding member of the Afrosonic Innovation Lab, Siad operates at the intersections of the visual and audio poetics of the African diaspora. Her deep listening sessions have taken place in Montreal, Florence, Toronto, and Banff, while her writing has appeared in C Magazine and in multiple exhibition catalogues. She is currently completing her SSHRC funded Master’s of Art History at Concordia University.