Fields of interest of professors — Department of Visual arts

Christine CONLEY – PhD, University of Essex

  • Feminism and art
  • Issues of gender and difference
  • Trauma and issues of secondary witnessing
  • The ethics of performance
  • Conceptualism and photography
  • Curatorial practice

Penny COUSINEAU-LEVINE – M.A.V., State University of New-York

  • History and Theory of Photography
  • Canadian art and identity
  • Masquerade in photography and performance art

Josée DUBEAU – MFA, Université du Québec à Montréal

  • Lightness in Architecture
  • Contemporary Drawing and Sculpture
  • Organizational Systems

Andrea D. FITZPATRICK – PhD, McGill University

  • The aesthetics, politics, and ethics of contemporary art and visual culture (photography, film, video, and photojournalism)

Chantal GERVAIS – MA Universiter of Westinster

  • Traditional and digital photography
  • Video

Lorainne GILBERT – MFA, Concordia University

  • Traditional and digital photography, video, publishing and graphic design,
  • The science and biology of nature
  • Buddhist philosophy: to learn to know the nature of mind and reality

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Martin GOLLAND - MFA, Fine Arts, University of Guelph

  • Contemporary issues in painting: materiality, representation, expanded notions of the real, the haptic and the optic.

Martha HANNA – MA, York University

  • History and theory of contemporary Canadian photography
  • History and theory of 20th century art and photography
  • History, theory, and practice of museums and galleries

Celina JEFFERY – PhD, University of Essex

  • Theory and Practice of curating
  • Contemporary art, globalization and navigation (Psycho-geographies)
  • Spirituality, trauma and recovery

Jennifer MACKLEM – MA, Université du Québec à Montréal

  • Sculpture, public sculpture, animation/video, painting, drawing, installation
  • Mind body relationship: subjectivity and objectivity. animals and natural history
  • Popular cultural ideas around psychology, spirituality, fiction, narrative
  • Cross disciplinarity - visual art and literature, music, natural science  

Deborah MARGO – MFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.

  • Installation and object-making
  • Sculpture, drawing, painting, photography and writing
  • Post-minimalism and process art

Christine MAJOR – MA, Université du Québec à Montréal

  • Mediation of images
  • Relationship between manmade environments and animal habitats
  • Alterity
  • New painting

Lee-Ann MARTIN - Master 's Degree, Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto

  • Aboriginal art
  • Contemporary aboriginal art
  • A boriginal perspectives
  • Cultural hybridity
  • Performance
  • Artistic mobility

Diana NEMIROFF - MA Art History, Concordia University

  • Contemporary Canadian art
  • First Nations art
  • 20th century feminist art
  • The history of museums and alternative venues for exhibitions
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Edith-Anne PAGEOT – PhD, Université de Montréal

  • Modern and contemporary art in Canada
  • Psychoanalysis, feminism
  • Digital art, ecology

Leslie REID – Slade School of Art, University of London

  • Painting, photography, drawing, printmaking and writing
  • Representation of motherhood in the visual arts
  • Light and Perception

Catherine RICHARDS – B.A., University of Ottawa

  • Volatile sense of ourselves
  • Invisible circuits of electricity and systems of information Art
  • Emotion and Data
  • Spectator's role in new technologies (electro-magnetic and others)

Chantal RODIER – B.A., University of Ottawa

  • Contemporary art, visual and media arts
  • Arts management, partnerships
  • Furthering the arts in Canada and internationally

Sarah ROONEY – M.F.A., York University, Toronto

  • Visual Arts
  • Contemporary Landscape: memory, movement
  • Literature: languages, words, modes of translation
  • Painting in the Expanded Field: architecture, animation, sound

Stefan ST-LAURENT – Bachelor of Media Arts, Photographic Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto

  • Video, performance and interdisciplinary art
  • Curatorial work which often focuses on unexplored or ignored areas of the contemporary art world
  • Human-animal artistic collaborations
  • Catalogue production, graphic design and writing

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Carole WAINIO – M.F.A., Concordia University

  • Narration, imagery of story books
  • Notion of experience
  • Psycho-social transformations of recording medium

Justin WONNACOTT

  • Traditional and digital photography and the histories of photography
  • Constructed imagery and montages
  • Relationship to pictures as an image maker and from the image consumer's perspective
  • Public art and how artworks are informed by political opinions and circumstances

Andrew WRIGHT – M.F.A., Windsor University

  • Photographic Technologies and Perception
  • Interpretation of Phenomena

Jinny M.J .YU – M.B.A., Schulich School of Business

  • Contemporary Painting and Drawing
  • Visual manifestations of social structures
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