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 serves as the inaugural Audain Chair in Historical Indigenous Art & Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Art History, Visual Art, & Theory. She is an anthropologist and material culture specialist with a research focus on Pacific Nor...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Althea Thauberger
Althea Thauberger
Associate Professor (on leave)
phone604 822 6657
location_onBC Binning 202
Research Area
Visual ArtAlthea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from collaborative research and production processes. Her work—spanning photography, film, video, and performance—explores relationships between community stories and geopol...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
Camille Georgeson-Usher
Camille Georgeson-Usher
Assistant Professor
emailcamille.usher@ubc.ca
phone604 822 0964
location_onDorothy Somerset Studios 204
Research Area
Art HistoryCamille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish scholar, curator, and writer from Galiano Island, BC. Through her research, Usher is interested in the many ways in which peoples move together through space, how public art becomes a site for gathering, and intimacies with the everyd...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 currently interested in the generative possibilities for art making offered by the mediums of printmaking, drawing, and artist books. In previous projects he has also used photography, video and performance. As a settler inhabiting the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, ...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Dana Claxton
Dana 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
Associate 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
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
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh
Assistant Professor
emailgermaine.koh@ubc.ca
location_onBC Binning Studios 207
Research Area
Visual ArtGermaine Koh is an artist and organizer whose work ranges widely across media. Her work adapts familiar objects, everyday actions, and common spaces to create situations that look at the significance of communal experiences and the connections between people, technology, and natural systems. She was...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Ignacio Adriasola
Ignacio Adriasola
Associate Professor
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 specializes in the history of photography, nineteenth-century visual culture, and critical pedagogy. An alumna of our department (BA 1998), she went on to study art history at Columbia University, completing her PhD in 2006 under the direction of Jonathan Crary and Anne Higonnet.
Dr. Lern...Read more
Research Area
Art History
Joseph Monteyne
Joseph Monteyne
Department Head | Professor
phone604 822 1893
location_onLasserre 409
Research Area
Art HistoryJoseph 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 wa...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
Assistant Professor | AHVA Gallery 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 Baldoquin
Manuel Piña Baldoquin
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 (re)search focuses on spirituality+technology as a key intra relation to elucidate present realities and challenges, and...Read more
Research Area
Visual Art
Marina Roy
Marina Roy
Associate Professor
emailmarina.roy@ubc.ca
phone604 822 2247
location_onAAC 4026A
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, curator, and educator 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.
Her current book project traces re...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 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
Sadia Shirazi
Sadia Shirazi
Assistant Professor | Canada Research Chair in History of South Asian Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture
emailsadia.shirazi@ubc.ca
phone604 822 3252
location_onAuditorium Annex Office A263
Sadia Shirazi is a scholar, writer, curator, and a Canada Research Chair in the History of South Asian Art, Architecture, and Visual Culture. Their multi-disciplinary research focuses on transregional histories of modern and contemporary art and architecture across South Asia, the Indian Ocean, and ...Read more
Saygin Salgirli
Saygin Salgirli
Associate Professor | Art History Graduate Advisor
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
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 ArtVisiting Researchers and Scholars
Atri Hatef Naiemi
Atri Hatef Naiemi is an art and architectural historian specializing in the medieval Islamic world. Her primary research explores Iranian architecture within the context of the intercultural dynamics that developed after the Mongol Empire’s conquests in the thirteenth century. She has also conduct...Read more
Research Area
Art History