ABOUT
TONO is US non-profit arts organization (501c3) dedicated to exploring and supporting time-based artwork, including performance, dance, music, and moving-image. Through direct commissions with artists and collaborations with institutional partners in the United States and abroad, TONO instigates new threads of research and networks of exchange. TONO was founded as a nomadic institution to imagine a model that best serves artists working with time-based practices to promote interdisciplinary processes, support experimental programming, and reach an active audience across diverse contexts.
TONO has organized projects with institutions including the Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rockefeller Center, New York; Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Anahuacalli, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Museo Dolores Cárcamo, Centro de Cultura Digital, Centro Cultural España en México, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, all Mexico City; Museo Amparo, Puebla; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Pinacoteca de São Paulo; and the Serpentine Galleries, London. These projects have involved co-commissioning artwork, touring artwork, and introducing artists to new audiences through exhibitions, screenings, talks, digital programming, and live programming.
TONO Festival serves as TONO’s laboratory – an annual event hosted in Mexico City and Puebla, Mexico, that allows artists to experiment with new ideas. TONO Festivals 2023 and 2024 brought together over fifty artists from twenty-two countries to Mexico City and Puebla. Hosted across thirteen museums and music venues, the festival took over the city and featured a series of video installations, performances, music events, screenings, and talks.
OUR FOUNDER
SAM OZER
Sam Ozer is a curator, producer, and writer. In 2022, she founded TONO, a US non-profit arts organization 501(c)(3) dedicated to exploring and supporting time-based artwork and the subsequent TONO Festival in Mexico.
Before TONO, Ozer held curatorial and programming roles at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and MoMA PS1, New York, where she worked on a series of installations and live performances that brought visual artists and musicians together for new collaborations. She was also the inaugural video curator for Feria Material (2022), the inaugural video curator for Zonamaco (2023) and the inaugural cinema curator for Art Baja California (2023). As an independent curator, Ozer has organized projects at museums and commercial galleries in Athens, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Milan, and New York.
She is regularly invited for talks and has presented her work at Lafayette Anticipations, Paris; LOOP, Barcelona; and for the New Centre for Research & Practice at the 59th Venice Biennale. As a writer, she regularly contributes to Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Art21, CFA, Cultured, Cura, Document Journal, Frieze, Interview Magazine, Materia, PIN-UP Magazine, and Purple Magazine, where she was the Managing Editor for Purple 41 and 42 and Editor-at-large for the Mexico City issue.
Contact
INQUIRIES
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SUPPORT
TONO is made possible by supporters like you, who allow us to commission new artwork and present recent creative innovations in Mexico City as part of the festival. All US donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. Donate via Stripe.