Graduate Student News & Events

2019 Lind Prize Announcement

Jun 20th, 2019

A warm congratulations to recent BA graduate Claire Geddes Bailey, whose stop-motion animation/multi-media installation, Swimming Pool (2019), received an honourable mention for the 2019 Lind Prize. In Swimming Pool, Bailey examines the impulse toward narrative and visibility, miniaturizing herself in an attempt to make sense of the splinters in the narrative of her own life. […]

AHVA PhD Candidate Pamela MacKenzie wins pre-doctoral fellowship

May 31st, 2019

AHVA PhD candidate Pamela MacKenzie has received a prestigious pre-doctoral research position at the Max Planck Institute at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome beginning in September of 2019. MacKenzie will be a part of the research group Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions. Their research explores the modes and media in which early modern scientific practitioners […]

AHVA PhD Candidate Gloria Bell Receives Assistant Professor Position at McGill

Jul 31st, 2018

AHVA PhD candidate Gloria Bell has received an Assistant Professor position at McGill University in the Department of Art History & Communication Studies beginning Fall 2018. Her current  research and teaching examines visual culture focusing on Indigenous arts of the Americas, primarily from the nineteenth century through to contemporary manifestations. Bell will be completing her […]

AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien Receives Darat al Funun Fellowship

Jun 8th, 2018

AHVA PhD Candidate Jeff O’Brien has received the prestigious Darat al Funun Fellowship for Modern and Contemporary Arab Art for 2018-2019. Awarded by the Darat al Funun Art Gallery in Amman, Jordan, the Fellowship will support his thesis research which focuses on ‘The Right to be Seen: Archiving Absence After Nakba in Palestine and Lebanon […]

41st Annual Graduate Symposium: Call for Papers

Oct 20th, 2017

Tracing Erasure University of British Columbia Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory (AHVA) 41st Annual Graduate Student Symposium March 9, 2018 Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2017 The University of British Columbia’s 41st Annual Graduate Symposium in Art History, Visual Art and Theory invites papers that explore art and architecture as sites of […]

2017 Lind Prize Nominees from AHVA

Mar 21st, 2017

Presentation House Gallery has just announced the shortlist for the second annual Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize. Congratulations to AHVA MFA student Brian Lye and BFA Natasha Habedus!   Brian Lye Shitty Magician #3 (still) 2016, one minute, HD, silent Be sure to check out the Lind Prize exhibition at Presentation House Gallery, April […]

AHVA MFA Grads A Akhavan and R Boisjoly in the news!

Oct 29th, 2015

ABBAS AKHAVAN WINS THE 2015 SOBEY ART AWARD! Halifax, October 28, 2015 – The prestigious 2015 Sobey Art Award has been presented to Abbas Akhavan  representing the Ontario region during tonight’s annual Award Announcement Gala at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. The 2015 finalists emerged from a longlist of 25 Canadian artists under the […]

CCST Graduate Shahana Rajani in the news!

Apr 17th, 2015

Shahana Rajani AHVA CCST Graduate in the news in Karachi The Tentative Collective is a group of young people working throughout the city of Karachi, sharing ideas and resources and producing images, but mostly projecting images from a rickshaw-powered projector, and in that way attempting to connect the experiences of artists, institutions, and ethnically diverse […]