Ronald Rose-Antoinette is the Max Stern Curator at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Ronald is a Martinican art curator, critic, and researcher interested in advancing creative experiments in anticolonial, cross-cultural practice. He has organized talks, workshops, film programs, and exhibitions centering the practices of visual, sound and performance artists in Canada, Germany, France, Martinique, and online. Recent contributions/collaborations include Crossings: Itineraries of Encounter at the Blackwood Gallery (Toronto), The Musical Question and The Musical Answer at the MACM (Montréal), and Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, an experimental band for listening and hanging out, in person and virtually, in various combinations. He is the co-author of Nocturnal Fabulations, a book that examines the works of the Thai filmmaker, Apichatpong Weerasethakul. His work has appeared in academic venues such as South Atlantic Quarterly, Inflexions, and in The Drama Review with an article on collective performances of spirit possession in Martinican culture.
Ronald is the founder and creative director of in the shade, a residency program located in Tartane, Martinique. Embedded in the genealogies of Black, queer, and feminist radicalism, the residency encourages creative spirits to explore concepts of adumbration, lay(er)ing, in/discretion, and camouflage. Between 2022 and 2024, he worked as an Assistant Professor of contemporary art and transversal aesthetics at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the Humanities program at Concordia University, where he was recently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, and has made Tiohtià:ke/Montréal a place of constant departure for the past two decades.
