Adelina Vlas

Passionate museum professional with over 15 years of experience. Innovative curator with critically acclaimed accomplishments, Skilled team-builder and leader with outstanding interpersonal skills. Seeking opportunity to grow professionally and lead with a vision at The Power Plant.

• 2024 (forthcoming) Amartey Golding: In the comfort of ambers, The Power Plant
• 2023, Jen Aitken: The same thing looks different, The Power Plant
• 2023, Brenda Draney: Drink form the river, Editor, The Power Plant, Hatje Cantz
• 2021, Haegue Yang: Emergence, Editor and contributor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Del Monico Prestel
• 2019, Hito Steyerl: This is the future, Editor and contributor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Del Monico
• 2016, Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2015, Represent: 200 Years of African American Art in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2014, Michael Snow: Photo-Centric, Editor and contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Yale University Press
• 2013, Fiona Tan's Inventory - Re-imagining the Past, Contributor, MAXXI Rome and Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2012, Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces - A Trilogy, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2011, Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2010, Live Cinema/Histories in Motion: Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Joshua Mosley, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2008, Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings and a Plague, Contributor, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• 2021, Art in the Spotlight: Jennifer Rose Sciarrino and Adelina Vlas
• 2021, Artist's Talk: Ragnar Kjartansson in conversation with Adelina Vlas
• 2020, Downtime: Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller in conversation with Adelina Vlas, AGO and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA)
• 2020, Cross-continental Conversations in the Cone of Uncertainty, Participating curators: Jihoi Lee, Curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea; Adelina Vlas, Associate Curator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; Anne Barlow, Director and Curator at Tate St Ives, and Joselina Cruz, Director and Curator, at the DLS-CSB Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila, Philippines (moderator)
• 2020, Curator's talk: Adelina Vlas on Haegue Yang: Emergence
• 2019, Curator's talk: Adelina Vlas on Hito Steyerl: This is the future, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2019, Valérie Blass and Adelina Vlas in conversation, Baillie Court, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2017, John Edmonds and Adelina Vlas in conversation, Visibility Symposium, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2017, Mark Lewis On Screen and In Conversation, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 2014, In Dialogue: Michale Snow and Adelina Vlas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2013, A series of conversations in conjunction to the exhibition Objects of Desire, with Jean-Michel Rabaté, Salman Akhtar, and Jeanne Jaffe, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2013, In Context: Resonating Surfaces - A Trilogy, Participants: Robyn Schulkowsky, Manon de Boer, Karen Beckman and Adelina Vlas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2012, Peripheral Objects, a panel discussion with Mohamed Bourouissa, Pippo Ciorra, Stefano Gizzi, Piero Orlandi, Adelina Vlas, and Tobias Zielony, MAXXI, Rome
• 2010, Live Cinema Live, conversation with Nora Alter and René Marquez, University of Delaware, Newark
• 2010, In Dialogue: Jennifer Levonian and Adelina Vlas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2010, In Dialogue: Joshua Mosley and Adelina Vlas, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2008, In Dialogue: Carlos Amorales and Adelina Vlas, Philadelphia Museum of Art

• 2019, Guest critic, MFA studio program, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
• 2014, Guest critic, MFA studio program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• 2012, Guest critic, MFA studio program, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
• 2011, Guest critic, MFA studio program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
• 2010, Guest critic, Curatorial Studies, Arcadia University, Glenside, Pennsylvania
• 2008, Adjunct Faculty, Curatorial Studies, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
• 2008, Visiting Faculty, Banff Centre, Banff
• 2000, Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant, York University, Toronto

• 2017, Getting Started: A Shared Responsibility, Caring for Time-Based Media Artworks in Collections, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2011 - 2012, Curatorial Intensive, Independent Curators International/Philadelphia Exhibition Initiative

• 06/2022, 10/2022, Ken Lum, Iskowitz Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 11/2020, 03/2022, Ragnar Kjartansson: Death is Elsewhere, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 10/2020, 04/2021, Haegue Yang: Emergence, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 10/2019, 02/2020, Hito Steyerl: This is the future, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 05/2019, 12/2019, Valérie Blass: Le parlement des invisibles, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 03/2018, 05/2018, Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 12/2018, 12/2019, Kara Hamilton: Water in Two Colours, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 10/2017, 01/2018, Sandra Meigs: Room for Mystics (with Christopher Butterfield), Art Gallery of Ontario
• 10/2017, Will Kwan - The Forest (performance), Art Gallery of Ontario
• 05/2017, 08/2017, As If Sand Were Stone: Contemporary Latin American Art from the AGO Collection, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 04/2017, 12/2017, Mark Lewis: Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 05/2016, Kevin Beasley, Movement II: BEATEN-FACE/TOMS/ARMS, TIES, & LEG/FLOOR/BODY/BASS (performance), Art Gallery of Ontario
• 05/2016, 08/2016, Hurvin Anderson: Backdrop, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 08/2015, 11/2015, Liz Magor: Surrender, Art Gallery of Ontario
• 01/2015, Ragnar Kjartansson and Davíð Þór Jónsson present: An Evening of Misery (performance), Art Gallery of Ontario
• 02/2014, 04/2014, Michael Snow: Photo-Centric, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 12/2013, 03/2014, Live Cinema/Fiona Tan: Inventory, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 2013, Objects of Desire, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 11/2012, 05/2013, Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces - A Trilogy, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 10/2011, 01/2012, Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 04/2010, 07/2010, Live Cinema/Histories in Motion: Martha Colburn, Jennifer Levonian, Joshua Mosley, Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 12/2009, 03/2010, Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms (exhibition and explosion event), Philadelphia Museum of Art
• 04/2008, 07/2008, Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings and a Plague, Philadelphia Museum of Art