Photo by Perrin Grauer
Congratulations to AHVA alumna Trish Kelly (PhD ’03) on her appointment as Emily Carr University of Art + Design’s 10th President and Vice-Chancellor. She begins her term ahead of the university’s centennial in 2025, celebrating a century of art, design, and media education.
This follows her previous appointments at Emily Carr University as Vice President Academic + Provost, and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies.
Kelly completed her doctoral studies in the department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory at UBC under the supervision of Professor Emeritus Serge Guilbault, researching minimalism in 1960s American art. She holds an MA from Tufts University, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
As an art historian and educator, Kelly’s writings on contemporary art have been published in peer-reviewed venues, including Art Journal, American Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics, and Culture. Her research involves a range of subjects, including minimal art and abstraction, art and politics, alternative art networks, and time and duration in new media production. Throughout, an interest in viewership and art-making as a form of knowledge production is central.
