Lani Maestro’s art works have consistently pursued links between the concerns of Minimalist art and philosophic traditions associated with silence, emptiness or absence. Maestro has been a Canadian representative to numerous international exhibitions including the Shanghai Biennial in China (2000), 11th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (1998), 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (1997), Asia Pacific Triennial in Brisbane, Australia (1997) and “Traversées/Crossings” at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa (1998). In 1986 she was awarded the Biennal prize for her work in the Segunda Bienal dela Habana in Havana, Cuba. Maestro’s expanded art practice also includes engagement in art publishing, teaching and running an exhibition space in Montreal. In 1990, she bagan a collaboratve project with artist-writer Stephen Horne and they founded “Harbour” Magazine of Art and Everyday Life, a journal of artworks and writings by artists, critics and theorists. . The aim was to focus on practical issues affecting artists in the areas of production and dissemination and to provide a venue alternative to the prevailing institutional system. This project expanded into “Galerie Burning”, an itinerant exhibition space in Montreal and later initiated Burning Editions which continues to publish artist’s books. For ten years, Lani Maestro conducted graduate seminars in the MFA program at Concordia University in Montreal and taught studio at the The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. Maestro is a recipient of the Canada Council’s International Residency program in London, England for 2008. When 12:00 noon