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Danilo Deluxo McCallum
Artist Toronto, Ontario
Danilo Deluxo McCallum (he/him) is an award-winning Toronto multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, Afrofuturist and cultural curator. His creative practice explores the multiplicities of Black identity through the lens of Afrofuturism.
In 2020, Danilo Deluxo was honoured
by the city to create the artwork for the
new Toronto Sign at City Hall. The project was in celebration of the United Nations International Decade of People of African Descent (IDPAD) and represented the diversity and brilliance of Black people in Canada. In 2013, he created and curated Black Future Month, the annual Afrofuturism Exhibitions. The exhibitions ran from 2013
to 2017 and generated international recognition while building bridges across the Black Arts and Afrofuturist community.
Deluxo has been committed to creative collaboration with art organizations, artists and communities for more than 15 years.
He is a member of the Collective XYZ,
who produce public art works, murals and large-scale art projects across Toronto and internationally. He is a creative collaborator with The Black Speculative Art Movement (BSAM Canada) and is currently in a two-year fellowship with Wildseed Centre for Arts
and Activism. For 2021 to 2022, Deluxo is one of the hub curators for ArtworxTO – Toronto’s Year of Public Art.
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