A view of the Western Front in Vancouver. Photo: Pegwong via Wikimedia Commons.
Pablo de Ocampo, formerly artistic director of the Images Festival in Toronto, is now exhibitions curator at the Western Front in Vancouver.
Best known for his work in film curation, in 2013 de Ocampo also was programmer for the 59th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar in New York.
De Ocampo fills the vacancy left by the departure of Jesse Birch, who held the exhibitions curator position for four years. In March, Birch became interim executive/artistic director at the Nanaimo Art Gallery.
De Ocampo has organized and curated screenings, exhibitions, performances and related events at cinemas, galleries, festivals and arts spaces internationally, including at Power Plant in Toronto, Kino Arsenal in Berlin, Experimenta in Bangalore, and the British Film Institute in London. In 2003, he co-founded the collectively run screening series Cinema Project in Portland.
Established in 1973, the Western Front is one of Canada’s longest-running artist-run centres.
