Tao Fei is a transdisciplinary cultural worker with over 15 years experience as a producer, arts manager, researcher and writer. Tao is currently Producer, Strategic Initiatives at 221A where she advances the R&D goals of the organization, with a focus on decentralized technologies and plural governance and ownership models in art, community and public sector contexts. Prior to joining 221A she was Executive Producer of the POP Montreal International Music Festival (2012-18). Tao is a 2023-24 Research Fellow with the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR). Other recent cohorts and fellowships include The New Centre for Research & Practice, Saas-Fee Institute of Art, KERNEL, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. Born in Hong Kong, Tao is sixth-generation Chinese-Canadian with maternal family ties to Vancouver’s Chinatown, on the unceded lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
