Toronto-based artist Wayne Salmon works in photography, film and installation. Born in Jamaica, he immigrated to Canada in the early 1980s.  Salmon’s work is concerned with Black sociality, particularly issues around history, migration, and memory.  He earned an MFA in Documentary Media at Toronto Metropolitan University.  

 

Salmon was the founding editor of Umoja Urban Culture Magazine, and a co-founder and curator at Brickhouse Studio & Gallery.  He teaches courses on the history of photography and alternative darkroom printing at Humber Polytechnic.  

 

Salmon’s writings have appeared in The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry and The Unpublished City, Volume II.  He is the director of Shut Out, Locked In, and Freedom—films that reflect on Black life in Canada.  His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums in Canada, China and the US. 

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