Faculty and staff

Toni is a queer femme white settler and second generation Italian Canadian artist. She is also a university educator and a single mother to an amazing Autistic/ADHD child, living on the unceded territories of the Musqueum, Tsleil-Wau-tuth, and Squamish Nations (colonially known as Vancouver). She works in photography, installation, text-based practices, drawing, video, sound, public and performance art. Toni received her BFA from the University of Windsor in 1998 and her MFA from the University of Western Ontario in 2000. Her work has included social commentary public art, and large-scale installations representing queer/trans/non-binary communities in Coast Salish Territory.

Since 1994, Toni has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in both solo and group shows and has received numerous grants and awards in support of her practice. In 2021, Toni Latour and Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware received a $15,000 BC Arts Council Grant and a $70,000 Canada Council Grant to create a Black Lives Matter Memorial Project, presented and supported by the Vancouver Biennale. The exhibition premiered in Vancouver and travelled to Capilano Uni-versity and the University of the Fraser Valley.

Toni’s work is included in many catalogues and publications and is held in private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery of Canada, the Surrey Art Gallery, and the Vancouver Biennale.

Along with her art practice and teaching, Toni is the Non-Regular Union Representative at UFV. In this position, she is actively advocating for labour rights and equity for non-regular members. Toni is also an active member of UFV’s RAN (Racism and Anti-Racism Network) and the SOCA: EDI Committee (School of Creative Arts: Equity, Diversity and Inclusion).

MFA, University of Western Ontario, 2000

BFA, University of Windsor, 1998