Photo by Justine Barnhart

Photo by Justine Barnhart.

Tori Fleming is an artist, programmer and curator based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Tori's practice includes installation, and animation. Her works have exhibited in Nuit Blanche Toronto, Art in the Open PEI, the Halifax Independent Film Festival, the Bus Stop Theater, the Khyber Centre for the Arts and more. She has been awarded multiple grants and awards including the Starfish Properties Award for Film, the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative Celluloid Grant, and an Arts Nova Scotia Creation Grant. She holds a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and a certificate in International Curation from the Berlin based Node Centre.
 
Fleming’s curatorial work focuses on media arts, often centering on the space between media art and filmmaking. Fleming is currently the Executive Director at the Centre for Art Tapes, a Media Arts based artist-run centre in North End Halifax. Through her independent curatorial practice, Fleming has recently worked with the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nocturne Art at Night Festival, and the Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival. Fleming has worked to promote the status of the artist and Canadian cultural institutions through volunteer work as a director on the boards of advocacy groups including Halifax Ink, a Nova Scotia based artists publication non-profit, as the Atlantic Canadian Representative for the Artist-Run Centre Association of Canada and as the Atlantic Canadian Representative for the Independent Media Arts Alliance of Canada.