Faculty of Art
MFA Graduate Christopher Lacroix Wins Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize
Congratulatations to recent graduate Christopher Lacroix (MFA 2018) for winning the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize and second-year MFA student, Ramey Newell, for being named an honourable mention. Christopher receives $5,000 toward the commissioning of a new artwork to be exhibited at The Polygon Gallery in 2019. Photo courtesty of The Polygon Gallery Read […]
Congratulatations to recent graduate Christopher Lacroix (MFA 2018) for winning the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize and second-year MFA student, Ramey Newell, for being named an honourable mention. Christopher receives $5,000 toward the commissioning of a new artwork to be exhibited at The Polygon Gallery in 2019. Photo courtesty of The Polygon Gallery Read […]
First Book by Jillian Lerner: Graphic Culture
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates faculty member Jillian Lerner on the publication of her first book; Graphic Culture: Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 (McGill-Queens University Press). Jillian is an alumna (BA 1998) and long-time sessional lecturer in the department. This exploration of print culture traces changing conditions […]
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory congratulates faculty member Jillian Lerner on the publication of her first book; Graphic Culture: Illustration and Artistic Enterprise in Paris, 1830-1848 (McGill-Queens University Press). Jillian is an alumna (BA 1998) and long-time sessional lecturer in the department. This exploration of print culture traces changing conditions […]
AHVA PhD Candidate Gloria Bell Receives Assistant Professor Position at McGill
AHVA PhD candidate Gloria Bell has received an Assistant Professor position at McGill University in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies beginning Fall 2018. Her current research and teaching examines visual culture focusing on Indigenous arts of the Americas, primarily from the nineteenth century through to contemporary manifestations. Bell will be completing her […]
AHVA PhD candidate Gloria Bell has received an Assistant Professor position at McGill University in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies beginning Fall 2018. Her current research and teaching examines visual culture focusing on Indigenous arts of the Americas, primarily from the nineteenth century through to contemporary manifestations. Bell will be completing her […]
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien Receives Darat al Funun Fellowship
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien has received the prestigious Darat al Funun Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art for 2018-2019. Awarded by the Darat al Funun Art Gallery in Amman, Jordan, the Fellowship will support his thesis research which focuses on ‘The Right to be Seen: Archiving Absence After Nakba in Palestine and Lebanon […]
AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien has received the prestigious Darat al Funun Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art for 2018-2019. Awarded by the Darat al Funun Art Gallery in Amman, Jordan, the Fellowship will support his thesis research which focuses on ‘The Right to be Seen: Archiving Absence After Nakba in Palestine and Lebanon […]
AHVA Alumna, Jeneen Frei Njootli Is Shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award
Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of five Canadian artists shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award, representing the West Coast and the Yukon region. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists. It is awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or […]
Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of five Canadian artists shortlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award, representing the West Coast and the Yukon region. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists. It is awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or […]
Professor Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Foucault on Painting
In Foucault and Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Professor Catherine M. Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. In a recent conversation with Professor Kirstin L. Ellsworth (Indiana University), Soussloff sheds light on this largely neglected aspect […]
In Foucault and Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), Professor Catherine M. Soussloff discusses an area of Foucault’s development that has remained largely overlooked: his engagement with painting. Indeed Foucault, we learn, described himself as a painter. In a recent conversation with Professor Kirstin L. Ellsworth (Indiana University), Soussloff sheds light on this largely neglected aspect […]
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Some Kind of Darkness
Sep 19th, 2018 - Oct 26th, 2018
“The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.” – Giorgio Agamben Five MFA candidates...
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory comprises three streams of research-based learning and practice: Art History, with a particular focus on theoretical and critical discourses concerning the social impact of art and visual representation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; Critical and Curatorial Studies, examining through research and exhibition projects issues in contemporary visual culture and display; and Visual Art, with an undergraduate curriculum placing art production, academic learning and a graduate emphasis on preparation for participation in the field of contemporary international art.
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