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Tamara Toledo is a curator, scholar, writer, artist, and arts administrator from Chile who lives and works in Toronto. Toledo is the co-founder of Allende Arts Festival and Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP). She is also the curator at Sur Gallery, a space devoted to contemporary Latin American art. Overall, her work seeks to center Latin American Art within the Canadian art scene.

Born in Chile, Tamara Toldeo immigrated to Canada as a refugee during the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In Toronto, Toledo graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design University in 1998, and in 2005, she obtained an MFA from York University. She has curated numerous exhibitions that have created space for Latin American and other diasporic artists in Canada. Her artistic and curatorial work is interdisciplinary and has been rooted in exploring issues of power and representation. With this goal in mind, her work explores memory, identity, diasporas, surveillance, and international artistic-cultural interaction.

She has been the recipient of several grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council, including the Culturally Diverse Curators grant which allowed her to organize the Latin American Speaker Series. This project invited internationally renowned artists, writers, theorists, and curators to speak about how Latin American art has evolved in a globalized art world. Her artwork is held in many public and private collections in Canada and abroad, and it has been exhibited internationally in Canada, the United States, Chile, and China. Her writing has been published in ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, and Canadian Art.