Ryeberg Curators

Lee Henderson
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Lee Henderson is the author of "The Broken Record Technique," a story collection, "The Man Game," a novel and winner of the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009, and "The Road Narrows As You Go." Lee's fiction and art writing are regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, and numerous other magazines and journals. He has curated exhibitions of contemporary art and experimental music. Before making books and stories, Lee made cookies, hamburgers, invoices, ad copy, and once, long ago, animation for a Sonic Youth video, and once, even longer ago than that, he played in a John Cage 'happening' at the Banff Centre.Go to curator page
David Heti
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David Heti is quietly waiting out his remaining days in the hopes of something better. He is never sadder than after breakfast. He performs stand up comedy. His comedy albums, "It was ok" "And you will regret it" are both available at Standup Records. When not performing stand-up comedy, he may often find himself reassessing purchases of bread or being comforted by others. More David Heti here.Go to curator page

Sheila Heti
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Sheila Heti is the author of "Motherhood," "The Middle Stories," "Ticknor," "How Should A Person Be?" — chosen by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2012—and most recently, "Pure Colour." She's also published an illustrated book for children, "We Need a Horse," featuring art by Clare Rojas, a book of "conversational philosophy" called "The Chairs Are Where the People Go," with Misha Glouberman, and, as co-editor, a book about what style really means, called Women in Clothes. More Sheila Heti here.Go to curator page
Ernest Hilbert
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Ernest Hilbert is the author of four collections of poetry, "Sixty Sonnets," "All of You on the Good Earth," "Caligulan," and "Last One Out," as well as a spoken word album recorded with rock band and orchestra, "Elegies & Laments." He hosts the popular blog E-Verse (www.everseradio.com) and the E-Verse Equinox Reading Series at Fergie’s Pub in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in The New Republic, Yale Review, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Parnassus, Boston Review, Verse, New Criterion, American Scholar, and the London Review as well as in a number of anthologies, among them "The Incredible Sestinas Anthology," "The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets," and two Penguin anthologies, "Poetry: A Pocket Anthology" and "Literature: A Pocket Anthology." More Ernest here.Go to curator page

Mike Hoolboom
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Mike Hoolboom is a Canadian artist working in film and video. His films have appeared in more than 200 film festivals and he has won over thirty international prizes and two lifetime achievement awards. His 2020 film, "Judy Versus Capitalism" is an experimental documentary about the life of feminist activist, Judy Rebick. He is the author of “Plague Years” (1998), “Fringe Film in Canada” (2000) and “Practical Dreamers” (2008), "The Beauty is Relentless: The Short Movies of Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby" (2012), and a novel, "The Steve Machine" (2008). He has co-edited books on media artists Philip Hoffman (2000) and Frank Cole (2009). He is also co-author of "You Only Live Twice: Sex, Death and Transition" (2016) and a book on David Rimmer (2007). He is a founding member of the Pleasure Dome screening collective, and has worked as the artistic director of the Images Festival and the experimental film co-ordinator at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre. More Mike Hoolboom here.Go to curator page

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