Francesca Bennett has supported artists’ practices as an uninvited guest on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations since 2003, mostly in collections, archives, appraisal, and administration.

🔮 ➰ upcoming and ongoing projects

In spring 2025, invited by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, and edited by Emily Fedoruk, I wrote a new text, “My grandmother lived through the avant-garde,”, for Dedications, the fall/winter issue of The Capilano Review—available now.
Since April 2024, I have organized ECHO-ECHO, a 55-square-foot project space, pronounced “echo echo”, at 1469 Venables—ECHO-ECHO is now closed for winter break.

💾 ➰ past work and projects

In 2024 and 2025, I was co-host, with Ratna Dhaliwal, of sleep and her brother death, a monthly screening series from bed, mostly held on the last Sunday of the month, on Zoom—sleep and her brother death is at rest in 2026.
In September 2025, my text “What is an exhibition, besides a roomful of temporary things?” was distributed as a broadsheet for Gwenyth Chao: /stāj/ 3.0 at Fort Langley Community Hall, organized by Fort Gallery.
In early August 2025, with Woojae Kim and Khan Lee, I co-hosted Resonance through the haze, an evening of musical performances and readings, on Helena Gutteridge Plaza at City Hall, supported by the City of Vancouver Community Placemaking Program.
In mid-July 2025, I was one of three readers—alongside Andrea Actis and SF Ho—celebrating the launch of The Longest Way to Eat a Melon by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross.
In 2024, I was invited by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres to read for Dear Friends &, co-organized by Western Front and The Capilano Review.
In 2023, I wrote a review of Woojae Kim’s solo exhibition at dreams comma delta for the 2023 C New Critics Award, edited by Maandeeq Mohamed, and published in C 156.