Sky Fairchild-Waller (b. 1987) is an American-Canadian performance/video artist and arts manager based in Toronto. Formerly a student of the National Ballet School of Canada, Sky received a BFA in Dance and a BA in Cultural Studies from York University. A three-time recipient of the Koerner Foundation's Award in Fine and Performing Arts, Sky's work has been presented in Canada, the USA, Italy, and Switzerland, with credits including Angell Gallery, Assisi Sala Pinacoteca, the 2009 Canada Games, the Center for Performance Research, Gallery 1313, Instituto Cervantes, the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, stromereien11 Performance Festival Zürich, Studio Béluga, and the Torino Performance Art Festival. He has performed in work by Perry Bard, Diane Borsato, Brendan Fernandes, Derek Liddington, Yoshi Oida, John Oswald, and Tino Sehgal, with credits including the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto International Film Festival, and World Stage 2011.
As an arts manager, Sky served as Assistant Curator for The Harriet Tubman Institute's UNESCO-supported series Performing Diaspora in 2009; as Exhibitions Assistant in Fine Arts Programming for the Canadian National Exhibition in 2010, and as Events Coordinator for Winters College in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University from 2011 to 2012. Presently, he is the Artistic Director Intern for Performing Arts at Harbourfront Centre. He sits on the Board of Directors for Dance Media Group/ Groupe Danse Média, publisher of The Dance Current - Canada's Dance Magazine.
His work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Kunststiftung NRW, the Metcalf Foundation, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
As an arts manager, Sky served as Assistant Curator for The Harriet Tubman Institute's UNESCO-supported series Performing Diaspora in 2009; as Exhibitions Assistant in Fine Arts Programming for the Canadian National Exhibition in 2010, and as Events Coordinator for Winters College in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University from 2011 to 2012. Presently, he is the Artistic Director Intern for Performing Arts at Harbourfront Centre. He sits on the Board of Directors for Dance Media Group/ Groupe Danse Média, publisher of The Dance Current - Canada's Dance Magazine.
His work has received support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Kunststiftung NRW, the Metcalf Foundation, the Vancouver Foundation, and the Royal Bank of Canada.
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