Full-Time Faculty
Alexandra Peck
Alexandra Peck
Assistant Professor | Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art
phone604 822 8830
location_onLasserre 411
Research Area
Art HistoryDr. Alexandra M. Peck is an anthropologist, art historian, and material culture specialist whose scholarship primarily concerns Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest. Using a multi-modal approach, she draws upon oral histories, objects, interviews, land-based knowledge, and archiv...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Althea Thauberger
Althea Thauberger
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 6657
location_onBC Binning 202
Research Area
Visual ArtAlthea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator. Her teaching and research interests include photographic history and theory; documentary practices in photography, video and performance; collaborative/collective community research; biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; and site or pl...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Anthony Shelton
Anthony Shelton
Professor
phone604 822 2654
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 203
Research Area
Art HistoryI have been Director of the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) at the University of British Columbia since August 2004. A researcher, curator, teacher and administrator, my interests include Latin American, Iberian and African visual cultures, Surrealism, the history of collecting, and critical museology....Read more
Research Area
Art History
Christine D'Onofrio
Christine D'Onofrio
Associate Professor of Teaching | Chair, Bachelor of Media Studies
phone604 822 6637
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 206
Research Area
Visual ArtChristine D'Onofrio is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She attended York University in Toronto for her BFA, and completed her MFA at the University of British Columbia. D’Onofrio has held positions at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, University of Toledo, and the Univ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Dan Starling
Dan Starling
Assistant Professor
emaildan.starling@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5991
location_onBC Binning Studios 205
Research Area
Visual ArtDan Starling is an interdisciplinary artist who works with print media and film. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at UBC he holds a Meistershuler from the Städelschule, Frankfurt and has previously taught at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and NSC...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Dana Claxton
Dana Claxton
Department Head | Professor
emaildana.claxton@ubc.ca
phone604 822 5650
location_onLasserre 400
Research Area
Visual ArtDana Claxton works in film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art. Her practice investigates beauty, the body, the socio-political, and the spiritual. Her work has been shown internationally at the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Centre, Sundance Film...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Erin Silver
Erin Silver
Assistant Professor | Critical and Curatorial Studies Graduate Advisor
emailerin.silver@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4497
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 262
Affiliation
Faculty Associate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Erin Silver specializes in contemporary Canadian art and queer and feminist art, visual culture, performance, and activism. She is the author of Taking Place: Building Histories of Queer and Femin...Read more
Gareth James
Gareth James
Associate Professor | Visual Arts Graduate Advisor
emailgareth.james@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4167
location_onOld Fire Hall 2
Research Area
Visual ArtGareth James is an internationally exhibited artist, previously based in London and New York before joining the University of British Columbia in the summer of 2010.
James’s work is constituted through his abiding interest in histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Georgios Makris
Georgios Makris
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 6187
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 260
Research Area
Art HistoryGeorgios (Yorgos) Makris specializes in Byzantine art and archaeology, placing particular emphasis on the material culture and landscape of monasticism as well as the dissemination and usage of portable objects across the medieval eastern Mediterranean.
Makris is currently at work on his first mo...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Ignacio Adriasola
Ignacio Adriasola
Associate Professor (on leave)
phone604 822 2410
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 268
Research Area
Art HistoryIgnacio Adriasola specializes in the history of art in modern Japan. His research addresses three interrelated concerns: avant-gardism and the question of art and politics; gender and sexuality in art and visual culture; and the transfer and circulation of objects and ideas to and from Japan in the ...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Jaleh Mansoor
Jaleh Mansoor
Associate Professor
emailjaleh.mansoor@ubc.ca
phone604 822 9412
location_onLasserre 413
Research Area
Art HistoryJaleh (ZHAH-lay) Mansoor is a historian of Modern and contemporary cultural production, specializing in twentieth-century European art, Marxism, Marxist feminism, and critical theory. She received her PhD from Columbia University in 2007 and has taught at SUNY Purchase, Barnard College, Columbia Uni...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Jillian Lerner
Jillian Lerner
Assistant Professor of Teaching
phone604 822 3312
location_onLasserre 212
Research Area
Art HistoryJillian Lerner specializes in nineteenth-century visual culture, with an emphasis on print, early photography, and commercial visual attractions. She studied art history at Columbia University, completing her PhD in 2006 under the direction of Jonathan Crary and Anne Higonnet.
She is the author o...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Joseph Monteyne
Joseph Monteyne’s first book, The Printed Image in Early Modern London: Urban Space, Visual Representation, and Social Exchange, was published by Ashgate in 2007. A second book, From Still-Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London w...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Julia Orell
Julia Orell
Assistant Professor
emailjulia.orell@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3991
location_onAudX A 264
Research Area
Art HistoryJulia Orell is a historian of Chinese art, specializing in landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago, has taught at the University of Zurich, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles) and Academia Sini...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Karice Mitchell
Karice Mitchell
Lecturer | AHVA Gallery Co-Chair
phone604 822 1223
location_onAudain Art Centre 4026B
Research Area
Visual ArtKarice Mitchell is a photo-based installation artist whose practice uses found imagery and digital manipulation to engage with issues relating to the representation of the black female body in pornography and popular culture. Her work seeks to re-contextualize pre-existing images to reimagine possi...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Manuel Piña
Manuel Piña
Associate Professor
emailmanuel.pina@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2486
location_onBC Binning Studios 204
Research Area
Visual ArtAffiliation
Faculty Associate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Manuel Pina B is an artist, pedagog, and social and spiritual activist. His research adopts spirituality+technology as a key intra relation to elucidate present realities and challenges, and imagi...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Marina Roy
Marina Roy
Associate Professor (on leave)
emailmarina.roy@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3755
location_onOld Fire Hall 1
Research Area
Visual ArtIn the pile-up of language and spectacle which constitutes our amnesiac present, one role for art is to create a clearing within our petrified landscape, and, through an attentiveness to the potential of matter, through a reordering of all this new and mostly obsolete stuff, through bricolage and pl...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Nicole Georgopulos
Nicole Georgopulos
Assistant Professor
phone604 822 4812
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 270
Research Area
Art HistoryNicole (Nikki) Georgopulos is an historian and curator specializing in European art of the nineteenth century. Her research focuses primarily on realism and its intersections with the history of science, philosophy, and cultural constructs of gender.
She received her PhD in Art History and Criti...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Nuno Porto
Nuno Porto
Associate Professor
emailnuno.porto@ubc.ca
phone604 827 3863
location_onMuseum of Anthropology
Affiliation
Curator, Africa and South America, Museum of Anthropology
Nuno Porto received his PhD from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He holds a joint appointment with the Museum of Anthropology where he is Curator for African and South American collections.
Before joining UBC in ...Read more
Phillip McCrum
Phillip McCrum
Lecturer | AHVA Gallery Co-Chair
phone604 822 4395
location_onOld Fire Hall 3
Research Area
Visual ArtPhillip McCrum has worked in the Vancouver arts community since the 1980s in a variety of capacities, including as curator of the OR Gallery (1987–89), co-editor of BOO Magazine (1994–96), and associate and board member of several artist-run centres. He taught in a number of diverse communities ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Saygin Salgirli
Saygin Salgirli
Associate Professor (on leave)
phone604 827 5168
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 266
Research Area
Art HistorySaygin Salgirli is an art and architectural historian of the Ottoman and the Mediterranean worlds, focusing on the late medieval and early modern periods. He teaches a range of courses from European medieval art to the arts of the Islamicate world, including the modern period.
His current researc...Read more
Research Area
Art History
T'ai Smith
T'ai Smith
Associate Professor | Art History Graduate Advisor
emailtai.smith@ubc.ca
phone604 822 4839
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 269
Research Area
Art HistoryT'ai Smith received her MA and PhD from the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester and her BA in Visual Arts/Art History from Barnard College, Columbia University. In addition to her teaching and advising role in the department, she is a core member of the Group for Me...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Xiong Gu
Xiong Gu
Professor
emailxionggu@mail.ubc.ca
phone604 822 1584
location_onBC Binning Studios 209
Research Area
Visual ArtGu Xiong is a multimedia artist from China who now lives in Canada. He works with installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, digital imagery, text, and performance art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including more than sixty solo exhibitions and t...Read more
Research Area
Visual ArtSessional Faculty
Alejandro Barbosa
Alejandro A. Barbosa (they/he) is an HIV- queer latinx visual artist born in Argentina who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples—the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—in what is known as Canada. Alejandro’s art practice ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Ali Ahadi
Ali Ahadi
Sessional Lecturer
emailali.ahadi@ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 205
Research Area
Visual ArtAli Ahadi (b. Tehran, Iran. 1984) is an Iranian-Canadian Vancouver based artist and writer. His interdisciplinary practice spans from site-specific ephemeral installations to sculpture, photo and video-based works, writing and translation.
Consisting of representational images, videos, composite ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Byron Peters
Byron Peters is an artist and writer who works with emerging technologies, sculpture, text, drawing, sound installation, and film. His artworks often take the form of long-term collaborations which engage collective labour practices and histories of science and mathematics.
Exhibition venues incl...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Carlos Colín
Carlos Colín (Mexico, 1980) is a Mexican Vancouver based visual artist and pedagogue. Carlos’ research and artistic practice explores and connects the core cultural, theoretical, socio-political, tecno-feudal, religious, and artistic manifestations through baroque’s system as a colonial Western...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Carolyn Stockbridge
Carolyn Stockbridge
Sessional Lecturer
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 205
Research Area
Visual ArtCarolyn A. Stockbridge (b, UK 1965) is an artist and educator working in Painting and related media. Stockbridge is interested in abstraction and experimentation with process and materials to open up new areas of enquiry, while all along responding to socio-political, spiritual and environmental con...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Damla Tamer
Damla Tamer
Sessional Lecturer
emaildamla.tamer@ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 205
Research Area
Visual ArtDamla Tamer is a visual artist and educator born in 1986 in Istanbul, Turkey. She lives on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, Canada) since 2009. Her practice involves a close engagement with craft, focusing on weaving and other textile techniques and combinin...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh is an internationally active artist and curator based in Vancouver, on the ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. From 2018 to 2020 she was the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence.
Koh’s work adapts familiar objects...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Guadalupe Martinez
Guadalupe Martinez (Argentina, 1980) is an artist and educator making works that reflect on art, pedagogy, and place with the hope to create spaces of connection, care, discovery, and future dreaming. Interested in the complex relationships between history and memory, her practice looks for hidden n...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Ido Radon
Ido Radon
Sessional Lecturer
emaillradon@mail.ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 205
Research Area
Visual ArtIdo Radon is an artist and writer whose practice is shaped by a logic of the destituent gesture. Her research interests include radical histories and discourses; uses and subversive misuses of technologies; and science/speculative fiction as a preprogramming of the present. The work is further infor...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Josh Hite
Josh Hite
Sessional Lecturer
emailjosh.hite@ubc.ca
location_onDorothy Somerset Studio 205
Research Area
Visual ArtJosh Hite works with video, animation, sound, and photography, often creating reorganized archives of particular spaces or behaviours, either through his own recordings or by appropriating content through sites like YouTube. Leaning more on an ethnography that acknowledges content as a driving force...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Kelly Lycan
Kelly Lycan is a photo-based installation artist who resides in Vancouver, BC, Canada on the traditional and unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səl’ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil- Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Lycan’s work investigates the way objects and images...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Kevin Day
Kevin T. Day is a Taiwanese-Canadian media artist and theorist. His practice and research, encompassing sound, video, graph, web, and interactive installations, examine contemporary art’s critical capacity in response to the current socio-political issues of digital culture. He has exhibited at ve...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Marty Katzoff
Martin Katzoff is a multidisciplinary artist from Providence, Rhode Island living and working as an uninvited guest on the unceded and ancestral lands of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.
As a Jewish artist interested in Kabbalist perspectives, his etchings employ syncreti...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Natalie Purschwitz
Natalie Purschwitz is an artist and educator living and working on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ First Nations, also known as Vancouver. Her research draws on modes of making that include collecting,...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Rosamunde Bordo
Rosamunde Bordo is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans drawing, printmaking, creative writing, video, sculpture, performance and installation. Her practice employs narrative, amateur detective work, and material-based research to investigate the self as a created subject. Her research inter...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Scott Billings
Scott Billings’ art practice looks at the mimetic relationship between the apparatus of cinema and the language of movement it articulates. Centering on issues of animality, roboethics, and spectatorship, his sculptures and video installations mix the spatial spectacle of long takes with the mater...Read more
Research Area
Visual ArtEmeriti
Barbara Zeigler
Barbara Zeigler’s artistic practice is structured around an extended inquiry into ever-shifting relations between ecosystems and human, cultural structures. Working in printmaking, photography, drawing, installation, video, and collaborative public art projects, Zeigler’s artwork seeks to prompt...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Barrie Jones
Barrie Jones is a photo artist who combines a number of concepts and techniques in his work, which is known for its focus on the human figure as a site of complex personal and collective identities. Jones's art is often large in scale. He works regularly with colour and B&W photographs, sometime...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Carol Knicely
Carol Knicely's areas of interest lie in medieval art and society with emphasis on Western Europe, especially France. She is an Assistant Professor of Medieval Art History with a BA from UC, San Diego, and an MA and PhD from UCLA. In addition to courses in her field, she teaches graduate and undergr...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Catherine Soussloff
Catherine M. Soussloff’s research explores the historiography, theory, and philosophy of art and visual culture in the European tradition from the Early Modern period (ca. 1400) to the present. She has authored and edited books and written over fifty essays and articles in art history and in a wid...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Charlotte Townsend-Gault
Professor Emerita
emailctg@mail.ubc.ca
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 261/263
Research Area
Art HistoryMy long-standing engagement with the reception of Indigenous cultural expression, particularly in North America, is reflected in my own writing and teaching. Debates and teaching in both Art History and Anthropology Departments, in combination with other professional and personal affiliations, con...Read more
Research Area
Art History
John O'Brian
John O'Brian
Professor Emeritus
emailjobrian@mail.ubc.ca
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 261/263
Research Area
Art HistoryJohn O'Brian is an art historian, writer, and curator. He is best known for his books on modern art, including Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism, one of the New York Times “Notable Books of the Year” in 1986, and for his exhibitions on nuclear photography such as Came...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Katherine Hacker
Katherine Hacker, who received her PhD in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania, teaches historical and contemporary South Asian art and architecture at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Seminar topics have included: "South Asia: Rituals and Representation," "Cartographies of Pow...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Marvin Cohodas
My interests encompass both ancient American visual representation (i.e. 'Pre-Hispanic Art'), contemporary ritual and weaving arts of Maya peoples in Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and Native American basket weaving in California and Nevada.
Research on late 19th and early 20th century weaving fo...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan
Associate Professor Emerita
emailmaureen.ryan@ubc.ca
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 261/263
Research Area
Art HistoryMaureen Ryan received her PhD from the University of Chicago and began teaching at UBC in 1987. With a background in visual culture, art, and architecture particularly in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, she taught classes and carried out research that emphasized new media and te...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe
Before taking up the post as Associate Dean of Graduate (Awards and Scholarships), Dr. Windsor-Liscombe chaired the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program and served as head of UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, where he was first appointed as assistant professor in 1976. ...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Richard Prince
Richard E. Prince was born in 1949 in Comox, British Columbia, and has lived since a very early age in Vancouver. He attended the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history. He began teaching sculpture and studio arts in 1973 and joined the facul...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Scott Watson
Scott Watson
Professor Emeritus
emailscott.watson@ubc.ca
Affiliation
Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
Faculty Associate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice
Scott Watson is former Head (2012–2018) and Professor (2003–2022) in the Department of Art History, Visual A...Read more
Serge Guilbaut
Serge Guilbaut
Professor Emeritus
emailguilbus@hotmail.com
location_onAuditorium Annex Offices A 261/263
Research Area
Art HistorySerge Guilbaut is professor emeritus of Art History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He has written on modern and contemporary art and, in particular, on cultural and political relations between the United States and France. He has published How New York Stole the Idea of ...Read more
Research Area
Art History