Faculty of Art
AHVA Alumna, Jeneen Frei Njootli is Longlisted for the Sobey Art Award
Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of 25 Canadian artists longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists, awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The winner […]
Jeneen Frei Njootli (MFA 2017) is one of 25 Canadian artists longlisted for the prestigious Sobey Art Award. The Sobey Art Award honours Canada’s most exciting young artists, awarded to a visual artist age 40 and under who has exhibited in a public or commercial art gallery within 18 months of being nominated. The winner […]
AHVA Alumna, Jayne Wilkinson Joins Canadian Art as Managing Editor
Photo courtesy of Canadian Art. Congratulations to AHVA alumna, Jayne Wilkinson, on her appointment as managing editor of Canadian Art. The now Toronto-based Wilkinson earned an MA in Art History at UBC in 2014. Her thesis, Art documents: The politics of the visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen, investigated the politics […]
Photo courtesy of Canadian Art. Congratulations to AHVA alumna, Jayne Wilkinson, on her appointment as managing editor of Canadian Art. The now Toronto-based Wilkinson earned an MA in Art History at UBC in 2014. Her thesis, Art documents: The politics of the visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen, investigated the politics […]
AHVA Welcomes Professor Althea Thauberger
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to announce that Althea Thauberger will be joining the department as assistant professor of visual art effective July 1, 2018. Thauberger has an international exhibition record and is making a contribution to the field of collaborative social documentary in a global context. Thauberger’s projects […]
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to announce that Althea Thauberger will be joining the department as assistant professor of visual art effective July 1, 2018. Thauberger has an international exhibition record and is making a contribution to the field of collaborative social documentary in a global context. Thauberger’s projects […]
Catherine M. Soussloff Discusses Her Work in the Foucault Archive at the BnF
“Unexpectedly and as it turned out, fortuitously, Foucault continued to occupy me …” Catherine M. Soussloff’s Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) is now available in stores and online! While Professor Soussloff was completing final edits on the book last year, she made some discoveries in the Foucault archive at the Bibliothèque Nationale de […]
“Unexpectedly and as it turned out, fortuitously, Foucault continued to occupy me …” Catherine M. Soussloff’s Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) is now available in stores and online! While Professor Soussloff was completing final edits on the book last year, she made some discoveries in the Foucault archive at the Bibliothèque Nationale de […]
Dana Claxton Shortlisted for bpNichol Chapbook Award
Congratulations to Professor Dana Claxton on the nomination of her chapbook The Patient Storm (above/ground press) for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. We look forward to announcement of the winner on November 18! The prize, awarded annually since 1985, goes to the author of the best poetry chapbook—in the estimation of the judges—published in Canada in […]
Congratulations to Professor Dana Claxton on the nomination of her chapbook The Patient Storm (above/ground press) for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. We look forward to announcement of the winner on November 18! The prize, awarded annually since 1985, goes to the author of the best poetry chapbook—in the estimation of the judges—published in Canada in […]
Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting – forthcoming in November 2017 from University of Minnesota Press
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the forthcoming release of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press), a timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge. Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect […]
Congratulations to Professor Catherine M. Soussloff on the forthcoming release of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press), a timely exploration of Foucault’s art historical and philosophical engagement with painting as knowledge. Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the meaning of the image from his earliest publications, yet this aspect […]
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We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered
Apr 7th, 2018 - Apr 28th, 2018
Maggie Groat, Joar Nango, Leya Tess April 7 — 28, 2018 Reception Friday April 6, 7:00 PM Curated by Laurie White Artist Talk: Leya Tess in conversation with Laurie White,...
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UNDERGROWTH 2018 BFA/BA Visual Art Graduating Exhibition
Apr 18th, 2018 at 5:00pm - Apr 26th, 2018 at 5:00pm
The UBC Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory is pleased to present Undergrowth, the 2018 University of British Columbia Bachelor of Fine Arts / Bachelor of Arts...
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Foucault on Painting Book Launch
May 3rd, 2018 at 6:00pm - May 3rd, 2018 at 7:00pm
Please join Professor Catherine Soussloff at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery for the launch of her new book, Foucault on Painting (University of Minnesota Press). This event is free and open to the...
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Postscript: MFA Graduate Exhibition
May 3rd, 2018 at 6:00pm - Jun 3rd, 2018 at 5:00pm
May 4–June 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 6:00-9:00 pm Public critique with Kimberly Phillips, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver: Saturday, May 5, 12:30-4:15 pm at the Belkin...
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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