John Zeppetelli

(Montreal, Canada) was the Carol and Morton Rapp Curator, Contemporary Art, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada.

Before joining the AGO in 2024, he was Director of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal for over a decade, where he led a large team and curated numerous widely acclaimed exhibitions.

He previously held curatorial positions at Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art in Montreal and at the ICA in London (UK). Among his most recognized curatorial projects are Re-enactments (2008), Chronicles of a Disappearance (2012), Ragnar Kjartansson (2016), Mundos, Teresa Margolles (2017), Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything (2017), Terror Contagion, Forensic Architecture with Laura Poitras (2021), and Phase Shifting Index, Jeremy Shaw (2023).

Zeppetelli has curated media arts festivals in Canada and Europe, and taught Video Art at NSCAD University and Concordia University. An award-winning filmmaker, he has had his works exhibited internationally at festivals and galleries.

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