Megan Kammerer
Curator / Writer /Researcher


Exhibitions
  1. Milestone Nerve
  2. To our reunited future
  3. Memories of the Mountain
  4. Shadow Games
  5. Spoiled Milk
  6. Every Beloved Object
  7. Prelude / Requiem
  8. Anoxic Memory
  9. Sutures
  10. Yesterday is Melting


Writing


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Megan Kammerer (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She has held various positions with the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, The Bentway, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Guelph where she worked to support critically engaged exhibition programmes across Southern Ontario.



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1. Milestone Nerve




Milestone Nerve
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
May 17 - August 31, 2025

Curatorial Team: Philip Leonard Ocampo, Megan Kammerer, Samantha Lance
Artists: Andrew Harding, Brandon Fujimagari, Yan Wen Chang, Josi Smit, and Philip Leonard Ocampo
Installation: David Wigley
Photo Documentation: LF Documentation

Production Assistance: Samuel Kwan, Danan Lake, Loading Doc Productions, Studio Kwan, and Kayla Ward.

Milestone Nerve adopts tenacity as essential to witnessing, navigating, and making sense of precarious generational shifts and collective upheavals. This group exhibition activates sculpture, painting, images, and site-specific interventions to question how we might firmly orient ourselves in a world that changes continuously, suddenly, and even catastrophically.

This exhibition expands upon the research, practices, and processes first explored in The Bald Eagle’s Claw, a group exhibition which took place at Xpace Cultural Centre in 2019. After more than half a decade passed since the first incarnation of this conversation, Milestone Nerve reunites the work of Andrew Harding, Brandon Fujimagari, Yan Wen Chang, Josi Smit, and Philip Leonard Ocampo as an exercise in longform dialogue, eventual returns, and personal / artistic growth. It breaks down hierarchical relationships between artists and curators to uncover new possibilities emerging within contemporary institutional practices.  

As an arena wherein they may steadfastly situate themselves at a new nexus point, the artists of this exhibition once again gaze upward and outward towards the unknown horizon. Forging a new benchmark in personal and collective time (milestone) necessitates both bold defiance (nerve) and uncertainty (nervous) interlaced. If the world changes, then so do we.

Milestone Nerve is organized by the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council,  the Government of Ontario, and the Toronto Arts Council. This exhibition has also been supported by Partners in Art under its Artist-Direct Program.