We extend warm congratulations to thirty-one graduate students who completed their programs over the past year and we thank them for their many contributions to the intellectual and artistic conversations in the department.
PhD, Art History
Heiða Árnadóttir, “The Conceptual, the Romantic, and the Nonhuman: The SÚM Group and the Emergence of Contemporary Art in Iceland, 1965–1978”
Kristen Carter, “Enraged and Confused: Art after Student Revolt, circa 1970”
Katherine Jackson, “Total Economy: The Artist Placement Group (1969–1976)”
Jeff O’Brien, “The Right to Be Seen: Archiving Absence in Post-Civil War Lebanon”
Marisa Sánchez, “The Beckett Effect: The Work of Stan Douglas, Paul Chan, and Tania Bruguera”
Rajarshi Sengupta, “Making Kalamkari Textiles: Artisans and Agency in Coromandel, India”
Ivana Vranic, “Making and Remaking Renaissance Sculpture: The Terracotta Groups (1460–1560)”
MA, Art History
Ilaria Casini, “The Vanishing Point: A Black Feminist Paradigm on the Early Modern Canon in the National Galleries”
Suhyun Choi, “Dressing Difference: Gender, Ethnicity, and Subjectivity in Representations of Chima Chogori in Japan”
Annika Davis, “Between Individual Expression and Collectivism: Onchi Kōshirō’s Wartime Prints”
Adrian Deveau, “Art Crimes: Queering the Revolution through the Work of Pussy Riot and Petr Pavlensky”
Megan Jenkins, “Thinking Continuity in the Works and Milieus of Fahrelnissa Zeid”
Lucas Kling, “Impressions of the Grid: Veil, Velo, and the Printed Image in Early Modern Europe”
Schuyler Krogh, “Birthing the Modern: Modernity, Maternity, and Subjectivity in the Art of Berthe Morisot”
Lanna Lastiwka, “Visible Female Power Structures in Nineteenth Century Algeria”
Kristina Parzen, “The Space in-between Cultures: Site-Specific Meeting Places of Indigenous and European Knowledges”
Marcus Prasad, “Splitting Space: Destabilizing the Suburban Souse in Postwar Art and Contemporary Horror Film”
Anika Sterba, “The Magazine as Surrealist Object: VVV and the Reanimation of a Movement in New York during World War II”
Catherine Volmensky, “Replica Chains and the Portability of Jerusalem”
Alice Wang, “Collaboration as Camouflage: The Mobilization of Art during Cold War Scientific Exceptionalism”
MFA, Visual Art
Matthew Ballantyne
Alejandro A. Barbosa
Rosamunde Bordo
Angela Glanzmann
Cameron Kerr
Samantha Kinsley
Mandana Mansouri
Ramey Newell
Nazanin Oghanian
Jay Pahre
Weronika Stepien
Learn more about the MFA students’ individual practices and see images of work from their graduating exhibitions Shores and one sentence too many, one word too few here:
https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/shores-ubc-master-of-fine-arts-graduate-exhibition-2019/
https://belkin.ubc.ca/exhibitions/ubc-master-of-fine-arts-exhibition-2020/