SYRUS MARCUS WARE is a visual artist, activist, curator, and educator. Using painting, installation, and performance, Syrus works with and explores social justice frameworks and Black activist culture. Syrus is a core-team member of Black Lives Matter-Toronto and a co-curator of Blackness Yes!/Blockorama. He is also on the executive team of the Wildseed Centre for Art and Activism and a faculty member of the inaugural Black Arts Fellowship. He has won several awards, including the TD Diversity Award, the Steinert and Ferreiro Award, and was voted "Best Queer Activist" by NOW Magazine. Syrus completed his PhD at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and is currently an assistant professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University.