Celina Jeffery
History and Theory of Art
Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Address: 100 Laurier Ave
Room number: 110B
Telephone: 613-562-5218
E-mail address: cjeffery@uOttawa.ca
Curriculum vitae (PDF)
Biography
Celina Jeffery is an art historian, with a broad interest in cross-cultural interactions, new media and curatorial practice, and has a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex. She co-edited Global and Local Art Histories with Gregory Minissale, CSP, 2007. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Drain Magazine, A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture.
celina@drainmag.com
University degrees
- 2002, Ph.D. Art History and Theory, University of Essex, U.K.
- 1998, M.A. Critical Museology, University of Sussex, U.K.,
- 1996, B.A. Honors, History and Theory of Art and Design, U.W.I.C., U.K.
Fields of interest
- Theory and practice of curating
- Contemporary art, globalization and navigation (Psycho-geographies)
- Spirituality, trauma and recovery
Courses taught
- ART6973 – The Work of Art in Context/ L’oeuvre mise en contexte théorique
- ART3170 – Modern Art and the Crisis of Representation
- ART3171 – Art, Utopia and the Avant-garde
- ART3180 – Art after Modernism
- ART3344 – Museum Studies and Artistic Practice
- ART4119 – Curating for contemporary art
- ART4115 – Contemporary Art and Spirituality
Selected publications
2011, Jeffery, C. ‘To See a World in A Grain of Sand: On the Aesthetics of Interpenetrability’, Art and Religion, Ed. Loren Lerner, Montreal: McGill Press, TBP
2011, Jeffery, C. ‘Marie Jeanne Musiol: Black Holes’, Prefix Photo, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art: TO, Spring Issue
2009, Jeffery, C. ‘I Am Not Here: Identifying Contemplation in the Cool Spaces of Contemporary Art’, Drain Magazine: A Journal of Art and Culture, www.drainmag.com, ‘Cold’ Issue,Vol. 6, No.1, September, 2009
2007, Jeffery, C. and Minissale, G., Global and Local Art Histories, (Eds.), (Newcastle: CSP)
2005 - Present, Co-founder and editor of Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art And Culture, www.drainmag.com
Curatorial
2011-12 (Forthcoming), Jeffery, C. Preternatural, Museum of Nature (Andrew Wright, Mariele Neudecker, Sarah Walko, Marie-Jeanne Musiol), St. Brigid’s (Adrian Göllner and Avantika Bawa), Patrick Mikhail Gallery (Shin Il Kim) in Ottawa, Canada
2011, Jeffery, C. and Avantika Bawa, Hold On, (Marek Ranis, Satellite Bureau, Mansoor Ali, Josh Smith, Stuart Kheeler), Gallery Maskara, Mumbai, India, Summer
2007, Jeffery, C. Afterglow, (featuring Ghada Amer, Patrick Blanc, Maja Godlewska, Hervé Half, Ju Yeon Kim, Alfredo Jaar and Bill Viola), SCAD Lacoste Campus and Galleries, France, Summer
2007, Jeffery, C. Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse, Atlanta College of Art Gallery (ACA)/SCAD, Atlanta, USA, May
2007, Jeffery, C. and Minnissale, G. Lines of Flight (featuring Rafael Lozano Hemmer, Thomson and Craighead, Peter Horvath and David Crawford), Winner of Curatorial Competition to represent Leonardo Education Forum at CAA. Hunter College, NYC. Feb.
Awards and Achievements
- Canada Council, Assistance to Professional Independent Critics and Curators, 2011
- Finalist, Capital Educator’s Award, 2010
- Winner, Leonardo Educator’s Forum (Curatorial), CAA, New York, 2007
