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Curatorial Projects
Jun 2010 Co-curator (forthcoming), This is uncomfortable, group exhibition (with Arpi Kovacs), Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON
Oct 2009 Assistant curator, The Leona Drive Project, group exhibition curated by Janine Marchessault and Michael Prokopow, Oct 23-31, 2009, Willowdale, ON
Aug 2008 Curator, Term Projects, group exhibition, Aug 14-23, 2008, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
Feb 2008 Curator, Animator Statement, part of Vtape’s Curatorial Incubator v. 5, VIDEO ANIMATION: “What’s Up, Doc?” Feb 8 – 22, 2008, V tape, Toronto, ON
May 2007 Co-curator, Sleepwalker Project 5 | Private Viewing (with Shaun Dacey), group exhibition, May 4 – 25, 2007, Toronto, ON
Feb 2006 Co-curator, Shoes of Memory: Holocaust Ceramic Work by Jenny Stolzenberg (with Dr. Roberta Kremer), February – September 2006, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Vancouver, BC
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Published Writing and Papers Presented
Apr 2010 Review (forthcoming), “Exhibition Making with Ghosts: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion at the Art Gallery of York University,” Fillip, no. 11.
Apr 2010 Feature, "Gerald Ferguson: Last Landscapes," Canadian Art website, April 1, 2010 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2010/04/01/gerald-ferguson).
Apr 2010 Book review (forthcoming), “Kenneth Hayes’ Milk and Melancholy,” Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, NY (Winter 2010).
Mar 2010 Feature, “Faces: CSA Space, Vancouver,” Canadian Art (Spring 2010).
Mar 2010, Exhibition text, "Betty Goodwin and the afterlife of images" for Oakville Galleries' exhibition "Betty Goodwin: From the collection of Salah J. Bachir," curated by Marnie Fleming, March 13-June 5, 2010.
Mar 2010 Feature, "Lord Dalhousie: A Collector Ahead of his Time," Canadian Art website, March 4, 2010 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2010/03/04/lord-dalhousie).
Jan 2010 Review, "We Interrupt This Program: Print Ads and TV Spots by Artists," esse, no. 68 (Winter 2010).
Jan 2010 Review "Stephen Appleby-Barr, 'The Invisible College'," esse, no. 68 (Winter 2010).
Jan 2010 Feature, "Lex Vaughn: A Chat on Second City and Saskatchewan," Canadian Art website, Jan. 14, 2010 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2010/01/14/lex-vaughn).
Dec 2009 Book chapter, “Photographic Traces of Presents Past,” Emergence: Contemporary Canadian Photography, Toronto: Gallery 44 and Ryerson University Press, 2009.
Oct 2009 Review, “Cedric Bomford: Scaling the Heights of Creative Critique,” Canadian Art website, Oct. 1, 2009 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/10/01/cedric-bomford).
Oct 2009 Feature, “Amy Lockhart mines the subconscious,” No More Potlucks, issue no. 5 (Oct 2009).
Oct 2009 Conference paper, ““Affective displacements and the critique of global capital in Stan Douglas’s Every Building on 100 West Hastings,” 2009 Universities Art Association of Canada conference, Edmonton, AB.
Sep 2009 Review, “Jon Sasaki, Jessica Vallentin, ‘The Old College Try’,” esse, no. 67 (Fall 2009).
Sep 2009 Review, “Sarah Massecar, Sandra Meigs, Arlene Shechet, ‘feelers’,” esse, no. 67 (Fall 2009).
Sep 2009 Book review, “James Elkins’ Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art,” C magazine, issue 102 (Fall 2009).
Mar 2009 Catalogue essay, "Night of the Living Documents." Robert Lendrum: Living Documents, Dr. Frankenstein's Guide to Self-Portraiture. Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Mar 2009 Review, “Gakona: Art Goes Electric in Paris,” Canadian Art website, Mar. 19, 2009 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2009/03/19/gakona).
Jan 2009 Conference paper, “Local and global tensions in the circulation of Stan Douglas’ Every Building on 100 West Hastings” (working title), Context and Meaning: the 8th annual Graduate Visual Culture conference at Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, accepted by blind jury.
Dec 2008 Workshop paper, “Local and global tensions in the circulation of Stan Douglas’ Every Building on 100 West Hastings” (working title), The Toronto Photography Seminar, Toronto, ON.
Dec 2008 Feature, “Do Curators Need University Curatorial Programs?” C magazine, issue 100 (Winter 2008), p. 26-32.
Dec 2008 Review, “Stan Douglas: Humor, Irony and the Law,” Canadian Art website, Dec. 4, 2008 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2008/12/04/stan-douglas)
Nov 2008 Review, “theanyspacewhatever: Collapsing Institutional Spaces, Or Having Fun Trying,” Canadian Art website, Nov. 27, 2008 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2008/11/27/theanyspacewhatever)
Sept 2008 Catalogue essay, “Introduction,” Jacqueline Treloar: Discovering the Phoenix. Exhibition catalogue. Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON.
Aug 2008 Review, “Close to You: Crafty Pop Culture,” Canadian Art website, Aug. 28, 2008 (www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2008/08/28/close-to-you)
Aug 2008 Curatorial essay, “When Exactly Is This Due? Making art against the clock,” Term Projects. Exhibition catalogue. XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON.
Jul 2008 Review, “Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion,” Canadian Art website, July 24, 2008 (http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2008/07/24/rebecca-belmore)
Apr 2008 Review, “Images Festival: So Long, AV Club,” Canadian Art website, Apr. 10, 2008 (www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2008/04/10/images-festival)
Feb 2008 Curatorial essay, “Animator Statement,” Curatorial Incubator v. 5, VIDEO ANIMATION: “What’s Up, Doc?”. Exhibition catalogue. V tape, Toronto, ON.
Mar 2006 Symposium paper, “Visualizing geography, imagining Empire: the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee’s Slide Lecture Series, 1902-1945,” Second Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Jan 2006 Critical essay, “Visual Representations of the Holocaust,” Zachor|Remember: The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre newsletter, no. 1, January 2006
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Related Employment and Volunteer Experience
June 2009 – present Assistant Editor, Canadian Art magazine, Toronto, ON
Responsible for writing copy for the magazine and website, including reviews of art exhibitions, gallery listings and book reviews; copy editing; and coordinating picture research.
Sept 2007 – June 2009 Editorial Intern, Canadian Art magazine, Toronto, ON
Jun 2008 – April 2010 Board Member, Pleasure Dome film and video collective, Toronto, ON
Member of the Board of Directors and Programming Collective that organizes, curates and presents experimental film and video programs and related catalogues.
June – Aug 2008 Interim Marketing and Development Coordinator, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Responsible for coordinating the gallery’s marketing initiatives, including press releases, ads, publication of members’ newsletters and the biannual magazine SWITCH.
April – Aug 2008 Curatorial Intern, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Assisting Senior Curator Helena Reckitt with the planning and presentation of exhibitions, organizing and editing publications, leading tours of the gallery with the public.
Jan 2007 – Sept 2007 Animateur, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON
Responsible for assisting the public with enquiries about exhibitions; designing and presenting tours and workshops to school groups; assisting with day-to-day operations of the gallery.
Nov 2006 – May 2007 Curatorial Intern, Volunteer, Sleepwalker Projects, Toronto, ON
Assisted curator Alissa Firth-Eagland with programming for an experimental window front gallery space on Queen Street West. Duties include communicating with artists; installing art pieces; developing public programming and opening events; writing and distributing publicity.
May 2005 – Sept 2006 Program Assistant, Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre, Vancouver, BC
Duties included developing public programming for exhibits; curating and installing exhibitions; organizing travelling exhibitions; maintaining the archives.
Sept 2003 – Aug 2006 Research Assistant, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at UBC, Vancouver, BC
Assisted with gallery monitoring, research, producing public education materials, and event assistance. Researched and developed a walking tour of public sculptures on campus.
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Professional Development
Nov 2007 Registrant for workshop, Gallery Proposals: Learn how to package your proposals professionally and target appropriate galleries, facilitated by Emelie Chhangur, Assistant Curator at the AGYU, Women's Art Resource Centre (WARC), Toronto, ON
March 2006 Registrant for workshop, Building Co-operatives and Collectives, Melanie Conn and the BC Co-operative Association, Vancouver, BC
Oct 2005 Registrant for conference, Print Media and New Culture Conference, The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Vancouver, BC
March 2005 Registrant for conference, New Technologies, New Forms: Ninth Annual Graduate Conference, The Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Studies Students’ Collective, UBC, Vancouver, BC
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Grants and Awards
2009 Canada Graduate Scholarships Program – Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, $35,000/year (2009-2012)
2009 Joyce Zemans Prize, Art History Department, York University, $250, awarded annually to a graduating student demonstrating academic excellence
2009 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, $15,000 (awarded but not held, 2009)
2008 Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG) Educator Award for Gallery Program awarded to Oakville Galleries Education Team for Exploring Gairloch Gardens program (part of design and facilitation team of winning program)
2008 Canada Graduate Scholarships Program – Master’s Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2008 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, (awarded but not held)
2007 Entrance Scholarship, York University
2006 Dean’s List, University of British Columbia
2001 Tricolour Bursary, Queen’s University - International Study Centre in Sussex, England
2001 Top Mark in the Province (100%), English 12 British Columbia provincial exam
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Education
2009-2013 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Art History and Visual Culture,
York University, Toronto, ON
June 2009 Master’s Degree (MA), Art History
Graduate Diploma, Curatorial Studies in Visual Culture
York University, Toronto, ON
Aug 2006 Bachelor’s Degree (BA), Art History and Nineteenth Century Studies
University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, BC
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