The alumni list is organized alphabetically by year of graduation.
MFA in Visual Art
Sol Hashemi
Martin Katzoff
Natalie Purschwitz
Dion Smith-Dokkie
Xan Shian
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Yubing Guo
Jasmine Hynes
Curated exhibition: No Single Dancer
Amy Kazymerchyk
Curated exhibition: Thought, outside
Oluwasayo Olowo-Ake
Curated exhibition: Oruko Mi Ni: Reinterpreting Ibeji
Andrea Sanchez Ibarrola
Curated exhibition: Miradas Alternas Through Her Lens
MA in Art History
Richard Chapplow
Thesis title: Of flesh and pigment: early modern painting and representations of meat
Shala Gutierrez
Thesis title: TBA
Jeremy Kramer
Thesis title: Specters of the vessel: SMdeisha, Isamu Noguchi, and nonfunctional ceramic art in postwar Japan
Erika Kindsfather
Thesis title: TBA
Nicholas Loewen
Thesis title: Making light: criticality and carousel projection in the work of Marcel Broodthaers and Allan Sekula
Bahar Mohazabnia
Thesis title: TBA
Asumi Oba
Thesis title: Recontextualizing the silence of Japanese Canadians: artistic approaches by Cindy Mochizuki and Emma Nishimura
Jade Wang
Thesis title: Exhibiting multiculturalism: Canadian national identity and the representation of Chinese-Canadian culture
Josephine Wong
Thesis title: TBA
Eileen Wu
Thesis title: TBA
PhD in Art History
Judy Jansen
Thesis title: Appropriation, displacement and gender theft: figuring the Virgin and Christ in medieval Christian art
Jean Kyung (Alice) Choi
Thesis title: The nomad, the exile, the in-between: diaspora and identity in Korean modern and contemporary art
Jacqueline Witkowski
Thesis title: Disappearing Threads: Art Between Text and Textile in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile After 1955
MFA in Visual Art
Matthew Ballantyne
Alejandro Barbosa
Rosamunde Bordo
Samantha Kinsley
Nazanin Oghanian
Julian (Jay) Pahre
MA in Art History
Illaria Casini
Thesis title: The vanishing point: a black feminist paradigm on the early modern canon in the national galleries
Adrian Deveau
Thesis title: Art crimes: queering the revolution through the work of Pussy Riot and Petr Pavlensky
Megan Jenkins
Thesis title: Thinking continuity in the works and milieus of Fahrelnissa Zeid
Lanna Lastiwka
Thesis title: Visible female power structures in nineteenth century Algeria
Kristina Parzen
Thesis title: The space in-between: site-specific meeting places of Indigenous and European knowledges
Marcus Prasad
Thesis title: Splitting space: destabilizing the suburban souse in postwar art and contemporary horror film
PhD in Art History
Katherine Jackson
Thesis title: Total Economy: The Artist Placement Group (1966-1976)
Jeff O’Brien
Thesis title: The Right to Be Seen: Archiving Absence in Post-Civil War Lebanon
MFA in Visual Art
Angela Glanzmann
Cameron Kerr
Mandana Mansouri
Kathryn (Ramey) Newell
Weronika Stepien
Candice Okada
MA in Art History
Suhyun (Sue) Choi
Thesis title: Dressing difference: gender, ethnicity, and subjectivity in representations of chima chogori in Japan
Annika Davis
Thesis title: Between individual expression and collectivism: Onchi KMshirM’s wartime prints
Lucas Kling
Thesis title: Impressions of the grid: veil, velo, and the printed image in early modern Europe
Schuyler Krogh
Thesis title: Birthing the modern: modernity, maternity, and subjectivity in the art of Berthe Morisot
Anika Sterba
Thesis title: The Magazine as surrealist object: VVV and the reanimation of a movement in New York during World War II
Catherine Volmensky
Thesis title: Replica chains and the portability of Jerusalem
PhD in Art History
Heida Arnadottir
Thesis title: The Conceptual, the Romantic and the Nonhuman: The SÚM Group and the Emergence of Contemporary Art in Iceland, 1965-1978
Kristen Carter
Thesis title: Enraged and Confused: Art after Student Revolt, circa 1970
Marisa Sánchez
Thesis title: The Beckett Effect: The Work of Stan Douglas, Paul Chan and Tania Bruguera
Rajarshi Sengupta
Thesis title: Making Kalamkari Textiles: Artisans and Agency in Coromandel, India
Ivana Vranic
Thesis title: Making and Remaking Renaissance Sculpture: The Terracotta Groups (1460-1560)
MFA in Visual Art
Aileen Bahmanipour
Christopher Lacroix
Cameron McLellan
Madiha Pandhiani
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Whitney Brennan
Curated exhibition: Feathers, Ether, Sand, Speech
Paula Booker
Curated exhibition: Being in Place
Laurie White
Curated exhibition: We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered
MA in Art History
Krista Bailie
Thesis title: The monstrosity of text: gender tensions in early modern English pamphlets, 1550-1650
Irene Choi
Thesis title: The principle of things: materiality and morality from Dutch still-life to Korean Chaekgeori
Esme Cunningham
Thesis title: The pool and the web: visuality and interface theory in the architecture of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art
Blake Finucane
Thesis title: Creating with blockchain technology: the “provably rare” possibilities of crypto art
Stella Gatto
Thesis title: New cuts, dark continents: Hannah Höchs From an Ethnographic Museum
Sherena Razek
Thesis title: Decolonizing documentary photography: the Rawiya Collective in Palestine
PhD in Art History
Gloria Bell
Thesis title: The eloquence of things: indigeneity and the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exposition
Kyoung Yong (Anton) Lee
Thesis title: Narrative forms and visual sequences: the new photography in American practice and French discourse, 1968-1989
Heather Muckart
Thesis title: Absence and artlessness in Early Modern Church of England martyr portraits
Vanessa Parent
Thesis title: History, myth and the worker body: Vienna actionism within the longue durée of 1848
Jessica Poon
Thesis title: “Harmonious Disagreement”: Painters Eleven, Abstraction, and the Construction of Canadian Modernism in the 1950s
MFA in Visual Art
Matthew Browning
Steven Cottingham
Jessica Evans
Brian Lye
Saroop Soofi
Carolyn Stockbridge
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Weiyi Chang
Curated exhibition: An Absolute Movement
Ines Min
Curated exhibition: It Is Almost That
MA in Art History
Alison Ariss
Thesis title: Wrapped in wool and copper: encountering Musqueam art at Vancouver’s Granville at 70th development project
Chanel Blouin
Thesis title: West Coast Bauhaus: a case study of the Oberlander Residence II
Katherine Damon
Thesis title: Copper ontology: being, beings, and belongings
Madeline Ullrich
Thesis title: Partial vision: remediations of the Algerian veil in film and scholarship after Fanon
MFA in Visual Art
Benjamin Allard
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Leigh Tennant
Olivia Whetung
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Justin Barski
Curated exhibition: Security Theatre
Derrick Chang
Curated exhibition: Queering Citizenship
Louis Alexandre Douesnard-Malo
Curated exhibition: Elegant Disorder: Perspectives on Porcelain
Kristine Olson
Curated exhibition: Absence in Remembrance; the Japanese Canadian Internment
April Thompson
Curated exhibition: Three Kinds of Abstraction
MA in Art History
Tristan Ignas-Menzies
Thesis title: Provoke as a Collective Practice of Photographic Realism
David Norman
Thesis title: Do You Think It’s Over?: Performance and the “Third Place” of Greenland’s Art History
Heather Woolley
Thesis title: Modern Acheiropoieta: The Veil of Veronica in the Age of the Jacquard Loom
Michael Zhang
Thesis title: Umayyad Jerusalem and the Production of Social Spaces
PhD in Art History
Joan Boychuk
Thesis title: Multum in Parvo: The Miniatures of Joris Hoefnagel and the Gathered Practices of Central European Court Culture
Marcia Crosby
Thesis title: Urban Aboriginal Cultural Production: A dialogue between representations and the imaginary, and historical facts and experience
Yanlong Guo
Thesis title: Affordable Luxury: Consumption of Mirrors in Han dynasty Central China
Vytas Narusevicius
Thesis title: Parallel Processing: Conceptual Art in the Age of Revolt, 1966-1970
MFA in Visual Art
Eric Angus
Jamey Braden
Anyse Ducharme
Jessica Gnyp
Daniel Phillips
Michelle Weinstein
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Margaret Stern
Curated exhibition: #saltandwater: The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Eva Tweedie
Curated exhibition: Gravure Automatique: Dalla Husband at Atelier 17
MA in Art History
Jean Kyung (Alice) Choi
Thesis title: Outside Art: Baggat and the History of Modern and Contemporary Art in Korea
Laura Dickson
Thesis title: Negotiating vernacular community: the photographic archive of Métis activist James P. Brady
Siwin Lo
Thesis title: Work and the Work of Art: Agnes Martin, 1959-1964
PhD in Art History
Krystel Chehab
Thesis title: Material Conversations: Naturalism, Discernment and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Still-Life Painting
Michael Coughlin
Thesis title: Prudence and the Harmonics of Time in the Sixteenth-Century Venetian Architecture
Mique'l Dangeli
Thesis title: Dancing Sovereignty: Politics and Protocols of Northwest Coast First Nations Dance
Maja Dujakovic
Thesis title: On Books and Death: the Danse Macabre Printed Books in the Fifteenth Century
Adrienne Fast
Thesis title: An Indian Impression: Reproduction, Mark-making and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Bengal
Ivana Horacek
Thesis title: Alchemy of the gift: Things and Material Transformations at the Court of Emperor Rudolf II
Menno Hubregtse
Thesis title: Aero-kinaesthetics: Airport Aesthetics and the Regulation of Mobilities in the Terminal
Catherine (Kate) Steinmann
Thesis title: Visceral Exposure: Melanie Gilligan, Hito Steyerl and the Biopolitics of Visibility
MFA in Visual Art
Fabiola Carranza
Todd Evanger
Marie Horstead
Guadelupe Martinez
Katherine Moss
Erin Siddall
Setareh Yasan
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Shaun Dacey
Curated exhibition: Field Work
Jonah Gray
Curated exhibition: Where Does it Hurt?
Jeremy Jaud
Curated exhibition: Ten Thousand Suns
Carolyn Jervis
Curated exhibition: Welcome to Screenland
Michaela Rife
Curated exhibition: Dust on the Lens
Jordan Strom
Thesis title: The Infra-structural Image
MA in Art History
Judy Jansen
Thesis title: Framing a Shifting Paradigm: Art & Anatomy in the Early Modern Era
Jeff O'Brien
Thesis title: Archive as History: Godard, Gericault and Hirschhorn's "Costa Concordia"
Jocelyn Plant
Thesis title: Ornament in the Science of God: the Precious Covers of the Lindau Gospels
Denise Ryner
Thesis title: Space is a Participant: Strategies of Activation and Presence in the Contemporary Practice of Brian Jungen
Rachel Smith
Thesis title: Beyond Epistemic Disobedience: The Importance of Humor in Fred Wilson's Mining the Museum
Jayne Wilkinson
Thesis title: Art Documents: Complicating the Visible in the work of Taryn Simon and Trevor Paglen
Jacqueline Witkowski
Thesis title: Ever Present, Never Presented: Suzanne Lacy, Feminism, and Quilting
MFA in Visual Art
Carlos Colin
Kate Henderson
Christopher Howison
Tristan Sober-Blodgett
Stephen Wichuk
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Klara Manhal
Curated exhibition: Things Matter
Shahana Rajani
Curated exhibition: Right to the City: Travel Guide to Karachi
Katherine (Katie) Schroeder
Curated exhibition: Full Frontal
Eva Sofia Stalner
Curated exhibition: Shifting Margins: Emily Carr and Irene Hoffar Reid
PhD in Art History
Su-Chen Chang
Thesis title: Improvising a Great Age: the Creating of Qingming Shengshi (A Great Age under a Benign Regime)
MFA in Visual Art
Ali Ahadi
Nelly Cesar Marin
Kevin Day
Nicholas Lakowski
Yan Luo
Nathan McNinch
Lux Petrova
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Adriana Estrada Centelles
Curated exhibition: Broken Borders
Tarah Hogue
Curated exhibition: Facing the Animal
Mohammad Salemy
Curated exhibition: Nature, Knowledge and the Knower
Jenny Walton
Curated exhibition: Sans Song
Daina Warren
Curated exhibition: Cosmologies: anything that exists has a beginning
MA in Art History
Victoria Addona
Thesis title: Boundaries of License: The Materiality of the Painted Facade in Cinquecento Venice.
Toby Lawrence
Thesis title: Whose Body? Nicholas and Sheila Pye's 'The Coronation'
Dana Loughlin
Thesis title: The Entomology of Ornament: 'Essai de Papillonneries Humaines' and the Metamorphoses of Eighteenth-Century Decorative Art
Robyn Rossmeisl
Thesis title: Encountering the embodied mouth of hell: the play of oppositions in religious vernacular theatre
Russell Stephens
Thesis title: Slanging the emperor: Honoré Daumier’s Le Monde illustré caricatures of the 1867 Exposition Universelle
Shalini Vanan
Thesis title: 17th-Century Neapolitan Paintings of the Flagellation of Christ: Temporality, Pain & Performance
Danijela Zutic
Thesis title: Seeing again: Geometry, Cartography and Visions in the Work of Opicinus de Canistris (1296-c.1354)
PhD in Art History
Asato Ikeda
Thesis title: Mobilizing Every Body: Japanese Art, Fascism, and War (1931-1945)
April Liu
Thesis title: Living in Auspiciousness: the revival of Mianzhu's New Year Picture (nianhua) industry
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Allison Collins
Thesis title: Hold Still Wild Youth: The GINA Show Archive
Darrin Martens
Thesis title: Exhibiting Aboriginality within a Field of Spectacle: First Nations Art Exhibitions during the 2010 Cultural Olympiad
MA in Art History
Lisa Andersen
Thesis title: Rosso's Fury: engraving, antique sculpture, and the topos of death
Larissa Grzesiak
Thesis title: Spolia's Implications in the Early Christian Church
Samuel Sackeroff
Thesis title: The testimonial gesture: temporality and mediation in representations of John the Baptist
Vanessa Sorenson
Thesis title: Messages to the public: Krzysztof Wodiczko and Jenny Holzer vs. the Reagan revolution
Kelsey Wilson
Thesis title: Visualizing the Imperial Mission of the Salvation Army
Erica Zacharias
Thesis title: Gordon Matta-Clark's photographic spaces
PhD in Art History
Geoffrey Carr
Thesis title: Building Assimilation: Architecture, Memory, and British Columbia's Indian Residential School System
Kazuko Madar (Kameda)
Thesis title: Pictures of Social Networks: Transforming Visual Representations of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering in the Tokugawa Period (1615-1868)
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Jennifer Cane
Thesis title: Surveyors & Tourists: Glenn Lewis & N.E. Thing Co. – British Columbian Space Transformed
MA in Art History
Carla Benzan
Thesis title: Conditions of Sociability: Mobility, Mutability and Medaglie in Early Modern Networks and Publics
Jean Kares
Thesis title: Playing Host to Cultural Prestige: Transmission and Translation Through Two Manchu Kesi
Rebecca Lesser
Thesis title: Mid-Century Canadian Portrait Photography
Amanda Sciampacone
Thesis title: Monumental Failure: British Representations of the Black Hole Memorial of Calcutta
Devon Smither
Thesis title: Beyond the Mirror: Nude Self-representation in the Work of Lilias Torrance Newton, Prudence Heward, and Pegi Nicol MacLeod
Ivana Vranic
Thesis title: Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pietà: Materiality, Temporality and Transubstantiation
Angela Zhang
Thesis title: Ignorant Gaze: George MaCartney's Negotiation with China in 1793
PhD in Art History
Darlene Calyniuk
Thesis title: Pistils and Stamens: Botanophilia, Sex and Nationhood in Eighteenth-Century Georgian Britain
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Kim Nguyen
Thesis title: Ease Your Feet into the Sea
MA in Art History
Ashley Belanger
Thesis title: Avalanche and File: Plotting in the field of cultural production
Greg Gibson
Thesis title: Moving Forward: The "Save the Kogawa House" Campaign and Reconciliatory Politics in Canada
Adah Hudson (Neuman)
Thesis title: Sailing the Boat of Tradition: Mi Fu’s Revision and Innovation in Calligraphy
Sara Mameni-Bushor
Thesis title: "Failed & Fell: Fell to Fail" The Narration of History in the Works of Tacita Dean and Jeremy Deller
Laura Matwichuk
Thesis title: Slide Show, Monograph, Cibachrome: Nan Goldin's Colour Photographs in Three Forms
Heather Muckart
Thesis title: The Face of Death: Prints, Personifications and the Great Plague of London
Joshua Schwab
Thesis title: Recordando los Binnigula’sa’ - Multiple voices in the Lienzo de Guevea y Petapa
Kimberley Tuttle
Thesis title: A View of the City: The Urban Landscape and its Architectural Imagery in the Ashburnham Pentateuch
PhD in Art History
Michael Windover
Thesis title: Aestheticizing Mobilities: Art Deco and the Fashioning of Interwar Public Cultures
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Jessie Birch
Thesis title: Introductory Copy or, Thoughts on Miméstime
MA in Art History
Ian Pui Adam Chu
Thesis title: Crossing the Borders of a Merchant Class: Imagining and Representing Elite Status in the Portraits of the Hong Merchants of Canton
Jeffrey DeCloedt
Thesis title: How to Read the Bill Reid Bill
Kristen Lambertson
Thesis title: Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami
Zoe Pei-Yu Li
Thesis title: Consoling Frustrated Scholars: A Copy of a Parting Gift by Wen Zhengming
Lisa Gayle Marshall
Thesis title: What Design Means to Art
Milena Tomic
Thesis title: Rituals and Repetitions: The Displacement of Context in Marina Abramovic's Seven Easy Pieces
PhD in Art History
Barry Magrill
Thesis title: A “Commerce of Taste” in Pattern Books of Anglican Church Architecture in Canada 1867-1914
Martha Lydia Sesin
Thesis title: Playing Their Game: France, Latin America, and the Transformation of Geometric Abstraction in Postwar Paris
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Sophie Claude Brodovitch
Thesis title: The Backlot: An Analysis in Six Acts
Matthew Ralph Hills
Thesis title: Sonny Assu: As Defined within the Indian Act
Kegan McFadden
Thesis title: How Much Longer
Elizabeth Sunran Park
Thesis title: Limits of Tolerance and Spaces of Difference
Jean-François Stephane Renaud
Thesis title: Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art
MA in Art History
Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
Thesis title: Art and Possibility: From Nationalism to Neoliberalism. The Cultural Interventions of Banamex and Televisa
Jamie Linn Kemp
Thesis title: Score & Structure in Ritual Representation
Christian Patrick Monks
Thesis title: The Twilight Years of Pictorialism in Vancouver: The Art Photography of Percy Bentley during the Second World War
PhD in Art History
Dorothy Barenscott
Thesis title: Troubling Modernity: Spatial Politics, Technologies of Seeing, and the Crisis of the City and the World's Exhibition in Fin de Siècle Budapest
Colin Brent Epp
Thesis title: Art Economy and Criticism
Kimberly Jean Phillips
Thesis title: "Looking for Berlin: Imaginary Cities Behind the Unified Capital"
Megan Smetzer
Thesis title: Assimilation or Resistance? The Production and Consumption of Tlingit Beadwork
Lara Halina Tomaszewska
Thesis title: Borderlines of Poetry and Art: Vancouver, American Modernism, and the Formation of the West Coast Avant-Garde, 1961-69
Kathleen Lynne Wyma
Thesis title: Discourse & Practice of Radicalism in Contemp. Indian Art 1960-90
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Julie Anne Bevan
Thesis title: Material Obsessions: Janet Morton & Evelyn Roth
Charo Neville
Thesis title: Representing Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: The Production of Meaning Within a Socially Marginalized Landscape
MA in Art History
Mique'l Askren
Thesis title: From Negative to Positive: BA Haldane, 19thc Tsimshian Photographer
Simon McNally
Thesis title: Distension and Dissension: Artforum and the Seventies
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Elizabeth Ann Bruchet
Seamus Kealy
Thesis title: Delay, Misanthropy, Desublimation and the Counter-Tradition of the Loser: Contemporary Viennese Art and its Avant Garde Predecessors
MA in Art History
Maja Dujakovic
Thesis title: Dancing with the Dance of the Dead: Cemetery of the Innocents and the Ramifications of the Macabre
Laura MacDonald
Thesis title: Bring the pain Bob Flanagan, Sheree Rose and masochistic art during the NEA...
Catherine (Kate) Steinmann
Thesis title: Study from Nature: Women, Mobility, and the Politics of Urban Vision in Harper's Weekly, January 1860
PhD in Art History
Aleksandra Idzior
Thesis title: Urbanotopia and The Frontier
Charity Mewburn
Thesis title: Representing the Irish Body in England and France
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Jessie Grace Caryl
Thesis title: Re-Reading the 80's: Feminisms as Process in Vancouver
Jamila Dunn
Thesis title: Amazons of Feminine Emancipation
Veronika Klaptocz
Thesis title: Makeshift: Urban Interventions In Johannesburg
MA in Art History
Juan Andres Gaitan
Thesis title: The Indigenous as an Allegorical Figure in Antionio Caro's (Momenaje a Manuel Quintin) Lame and Cildo Meireles' (Zero Cruzeiro)
Jaffar Khonsary
Thesis title: Between Clutter and Containment: Situating Eugene Atget's Interieurs Parisiens
Cecilia Olivares Farias
Thesis title: A Hunger for Freedom, A Wall of Separation Migrant Votive Images
Monika Szewczyk
Thesis title: Unsafe Building: Coming & Reading into Vito Acconci's 'The Red Tapes'
MA in Critical and Curatorial Studies
Katie Ellen Spicer
Thesis title: Museopathy
MA in Art History
David Matthew Alexandre
Thesis title: Looking Through Ruin: Canadian Photography at Ypres and the Archive of War
Paloma Campbell
Thesis title: Looking at Annibale Carracci's 'The Butcher Shop'
Rajdeep Singh Gill
Thesis title: Indigenous Spectres, Subversive Lilas: Encounters Between Nawabi Authority, Colonialism & Popular Ritual in Lucknow
Jasmina Karabeg
Thesis title: Caravaggio's Crucifixion of St Andrew: From the Abstraction of the Law to the Afflicted Body
Kim-Ly Thi Nguyen
Thesis title: Vincenzo Campi's Ricotta Eaters (c. 1585): Viewership and the Early Modern Market
Sadira Elfrieda Rodrigues
Thesis title: Neither Red nor Black! Cuba, Africa, and the Politics of Posters
Kari Leanne Shepherdson
Thesis title: Fists, Youth, and Protest: Oshima Nagisa's Filmic Rebellion in 1960
PhD in Art History
Patricia Kelly
Thesis title: From SDS to LDS: Politics, Viewers, and Minimal Art in Late 1960s America
Lynn Marie Ruscheinsky
Thesis title: The Production of Gender in Maya Figurines