Staff
MOROTI GEORGE (He/They)
Director/Curator
Olumoroti Soji-George (Moroti George), is a MA candidate at SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and a curator living in Vancouver. His research and curatorial practice revolves around envisioning accessible and community-centred art spaces, highlighting the stories of individuals in communities who shape and create new monumental environments. Moroti believes in using space to encapsulate agency and the lived experiences of individuals who are not only recognized, but valued and respected.
As Director/Curator at Gallery Gachet, Moroti fosters connections between the DTES, the Vancouver art scene, and the rest of Canada. Moroti aims to mentor early career and underrepresented artists, to support them in exhibition and to ground their work in a pedagogy that furthers their stories and shares their profound experiences through their art. Moroti’s socially engaged programming is a testament to Gachet’s mandate to find space in this city to make art accessible and strengthen community through compassion and activism.
SOL HASHEMI (He/Him)
Operations Director and Associate Curator
Sol Hashemi views his artworks as mushrooms popping up occasionally from a vast mycorrhizal web. His practice spans many niches, including foraging, experimental product photography, stoneworking, cooking, organizing, conceptual floral design, writing, curating, brewing, and the internet. His exhibitions include Western Front (Vancouver), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), James Harris Gallery (Seattle), Annarumma Gallery (Naples), Sculpture Center (Long Island City, NY), Ditch Projects (Springfield, OR), Portland Art Museum, Kunstverein München, as well as the NW Flower and Garden Show (Seattle). Hashemi received his MFA from the University of British Columbia (2021), BFA from the University of Washington (2009). He is a recipient of the Gary Glant (2024) and Kayla Skinner (2013) Awards from the Seattle Art Museum. Hashemi joined the board of the Western Front in 2024 and is a non-regular faculty member at Emily Carr University. Hashemi is a member of Vancouver Coastal Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Network, where he recently participated on an interview panel for a position at the Segal Centre, Vancouver General Hospital.
SOPHIA SANTOS ENGLISH (She/They)
Programming and Volunteer Coordinator
Sophia Santos English (she/they) is a filmmaker, arts & culture organizer & digital alchemist working, playing and dreaming on the traditional unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations, also known as ‘Vancouver’. Currently she is building low barrier, community oriented spaces for emerging BIPOC artists that can look like hosting a home-cooked meal, workshops, mentorship opportunities and film screenings. They are interested in big & small ideas, such as organizing as world building, operating against care work exhaustion in the Filipino diaspora, collecting oral family history & archives, pondering on the massiveness of the ocean & bird watching.
