Graduate Programs
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Program Assistant
Parveen Grewal
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Graduate Chair
Christof Migone
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Completed Theses
2023
Shelley Kopp -
Sonya de Lazzer -
Ashley Snook -
2022
Katie Oates -
Eeva Siivonen - Michelle Wilson -
2021
Ellen Moffat -
2020
Stephanie Anderson -
Christina Battle -
Julia Krueger -
2019
Thomas D. Baynes -
Jessica Cappuccitti -
Colin Dorward -
Ido Govrin -
Maryse Lariviere -
Santiago Ulises Unda Lara -
2018
Mark Kasumovic -
Rehab Nazzal - Helen Parkinson -
2017
Heidi Kellett -
2016
Michael Farnan - Helen Gregory -
2015
Trista Mallory - Jennifer Orpana -
2014
David Kemp -
Colin E. Miner - Stephanie Karen Radu -
2013
Andrew Patton -
2012
Janice Gurney - All Alliance of Fragments: Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things
Miriam Jordan - Dialogical Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art
Kevin Rodgers - Out of Order: Thinking Through Robin Collyer, Discontent and Affirmation (1973-1985)
Matthew Smith - Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art
2011
Corinna Ghaznavi - Animal: A Curatorial Approach
Jason Hallows - Demonstration
Andrés Villar - Latin American Visual Arts in the 1920s
2023
Alyssa Sweeney - Sam Wagter -
2022
2021
Matthew Brown -
Jerome Conquy -
Anahi Gonzalez Teran -
Declan Hoy -
Yas Nikpour Khoshgrudi -
Faith Patrick -
Rebecca Sutherland -
2020
Ramolen Mencero Laruan -
Sepideh Tajalizadeh Dashti -
2019
Kate Carder-Thompson -
Johnathan Onyschuk -
Lydia Santia -
Zhizi Wang -
2018
Tyler Durbano -
Sharmistha Kar -
Raheleh Saneie -
Matthew Trueman -
Graham Macaulay -
2017
Paul Chartrand -
Charles Lee Franklin Harris -
Sarah Munro - Samantha Noseworthy -
Quin Smallboy -
Quintin Teszeri -
2016
Juanita Lee Garcia -
Mina Moosavipour -
Simone Sciascetti -
Jason Stovall -
2015
Sherry Czekus -
Lynette de Montreuil -
Michael Psczonak -
Niloufar Salimi -
Matthew Tarini -
2014
Barbara Hobot - Jennifer Martin - Tegan Moor - Amanda Oppedisano -
Jared Peters - Gabriella Solti -
Diana Yoo -
2013
Kyla Brown -
Jeremy P. Jeresky -
Laura Mitrow - Felted Disruption: An Analysis of Double Coding in the Felt Works of Luanne Martineau
Giles Whitaker -
Thea Yabut -
2012
Anthea Black - Of All Possible Worlds: Mapping Queer Craft and Collaboration
Liza Eurich - Latency in Process and Perception
Brad Isaacs - Double Negative: Taxidermy, Photography and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Dioramas”
Neil Klassen - The Elemental Earth: Renewed Ways of Seeing and Perceiving
Kim Neudorf - Call and Response: Catachresis and Reciprocity in Painting
Daniel O’Connor - The Joystick and the Paintbrush: Useless or Meaningful in the Age of Technology
2011
Lea Bucknell - Adhoc Folly Building in Contemporary Art
Gautam Garoo - Passages (is and was): Tracing Indian Visual Culture and the Sacred through Craft and Contemporary Art
Michelle McGeean - Tit for Tat: (Re) Production in Sculpture and Architecture
Matthew Teigen - The Look of Math
Robert Williams - We Are What We Pretend To Be: Making the case for Contemporary Painting as Gratuitous
2010
Kelly O'Dette - Archival Nostalgia
John Cushnie - Eidolon Prospects: Syncope, Peter Doig, and the Practice of Painting
Soheila Kolahdouz-Esfahani - Trans-(across, over, beyond): Investigations of Cultural Translation in Visual Arts
Jamie K. Quail - DIY: Politics and Aesthetics in the Margins and the Mainstream
2009
Katja Beneke - Exploring the Visual Representation of Teen Idols
Patrick Kaipainen - No Thing in Particular
John Murnaghan - Game Over and Over
Nicole Rayburn - Monstrous Propositions
Jennifer Wanner - Ecosimulacra
2008
Liv Bonli - Down the Dark Hall, Up the Stairs
Chak Man Lei - Dark-Earth Manual: Approaching an Ink-Based Art Practice
Brian Longfield - The Montage of Gestures
Andrew MacDonald - Fragments
Slavica Panic - Betwixt and Between
Matthew Sparling - Military Signifiers on Clothing, Fashion and Portrait Photography
2007
Blair Fornwald - Between Nothing and Something.
Dagmara Genda - Identity and Exile.
Kathryn Immonen - Soft Cover.
Stephen Lavigne - The Space Between Systems.
Derek Liddington - Can I Borrow That? Investigating Strategies of Citation, Mimicry and Inspiration in Art.
Conan Masterson - Kaleidoscopic.
Todd Tremeer - Painting History/History Painting.
2006
Michael Davidge - Weak Thought and the Visual Arts.
Arnold Koroshegyi - Beyond the Circle of Confusion.
Ayako Kurokawa - Past Memories, Present Feeling.
Daniel Wong - Letters to a Young Poet.
2005
Steven Laurie - Celebratory Angst: Performing Masculinity
Brendan Fernandes - The Kenyan Safari Lodge: Fantasizing about an Authentic Vacation Culture
Anna Madelska - Cosmopoeisis: World-Making
Demian Petryshyn - An Amoebic Urge: A Contemporary View of Artist-run Centre System in Canada
Elizabeth Phillips - Becoming Adaptation: Idiosyncratic Sketches on (Self) Portrait Painting (and Writing)
Kathleen Ritter - At the Doors to the Gallery
2004
Debra Dyer - Lost in the Details
Lisa Fedorak - Tainted Strokes
Amy Harrison - Childlikeness
Alex Homanchuk - The City Will Recall
Pamela Wilson - Appropriation and Irony: Post modern Elements in the Work of Three Contemporary Canadian Artists
2003
Pedro Correia - By Design: Ornament and Fascism
Joscelyn Gardner - White Skin, Black Kin: Theorizing the Representation of Creole Identity
Sarah Peterson - RE-VIEWING A History of Landscape and Wilderness Perception
Raffaela Prencipe - 100% Natural: Escape and Identity Within the Suburban Garden
Dana Samuel - Archives in Action: Narrative Technologies and Interactive Art.
2002
Sarah Beveridge - Private Intervention into Public Spaces
Paul Dreossi - Blood, Sweat, and Gears: An Examination of Performed Representations of Masculine Subjectivity
Robyn Foster - Escape Hatch: Escape from Everyday Lived Reality through Transitional Objects
Larry Glawson - Photography, Sex and Dancing
Mark Schilling - The Spectres of Brecht and Benjamin: “New” Media, Access, Resistance
2001
Lucia M. Cipriano - Ruses Not Muses
Jennifer Dorner - Between Departure and Arrival: Exploring Site Production
Chris Down - "The Impossibility of Painting is Merely a Feeling"
Adriana E. Kuiper - Semi-Detached
Larisa MacSween - Everyday Girl Anxieties and Superhero Alter Ego Fantasies
2000 & prior
David Armstrong - Erratics and Errata: Printing between Horizons (2000)
Dana J. Dansereau - One Day: Technology, Tactics and Time (2000)
Toni Latour - Conflicts and Contractiions: Questions of Excess, Autonomy and Value within Artistic Production (2000)
Paola V. Poletto - Moonscapes and Menus: Artistic Production, Personal Experience and the Analogy of Hibernation (2000)
Maymee Ying Lum - Filum (2000)
Olexander S. Wlasenko - Ethnic Limbs: Diasporic Memory (2000)
Shinobu Akimoto - L.M.R. (Last Month's Rentor Living Making Reflex) (1999)
Kim Dawn Graham - (in) between the space(s) of terror i find fragments of my memory (1999)
Marc G. Lebreche - A Visual Re-Presentation of the World and the Philosophical Self (1999)
Christine Shaw - Locomotion (1999)
Christy L. Thompson - Carrying Wet Laundry & Starting Fires (1999)
David Grenier - Homo Sweet Homo (1998)
Franklyn George - Stories and Iyahlogues (1997)
Shelley Niro - A Journey Through Iroquois Myths, Legends, Icons and History (1997)
Andy Patton - Some Current Problems with Painting (1997)
Kim Simon - Otherwise Than Seeing (1997)
Sharon Switzer - Waltzing in Now-Time (1997)
2022
Moira McKee -
Imogen Wilson -
Etienne Lavallee - Decades of Resistance: The Performance Work of Rebecca Belmore
Ashar Mobeen - Wonders of the Ancestral Puebloans: Astronomers, Engineers, and Magicians of the Four Corners
Carina Pagotto - Examining Stereotypical Versus Authentic Depictions of Italian and Canadian Culture Through The Recreation of Familial Venetian/Trevisane-styled Italian Cards
Asleysha Ramasamy - Bollywood Film and Art: A study on the Bollywood Art Project (B.A.P.) as a Living Memorial in India
Abby Vincent - Capturing a blur, composing a glitch: Documentarism, uncertainty and slippery images in Hito Steyerl’s November (2004) & Lovely Andrea (2007)
2021
Ioana Dragomir -
Elena Solomon -
Ana Moyer - “A Gift Our Ancestors Left for Us:” An Examination of Tattooing Through the Artwork of Ningiukulu Teevee and Sarah Whalen-Lunn
Tessa Oxtoby - Monumental Supremacy? The Iconoclasm, Adaption and Appropriation of Monuments and Space in Relation to The Black Lives Matter Movement
2020
Avery Lafortune -
Adriana Berardini - The Aesthetics of Intimacy: Viewing Nan Goldin and Zoe Leonard through Affect and Activism
Katarzyna Czarniecka - Materiality of Photography from the Perspective of Landscape Representations
Kimberlyn Hawkins - THEMUSEUM: A Case Study in the Role of Social Media on Museum Practices and Curation
Harper Wellman - Caught in Between: The Memorials of Diana, Princess of Wales
2019
Nakasuk Alariaq -
Claire Bartleman -
Brianna Lagacé - Leah Abaza - Aura in the Digital
Iraboty Kazi - Renaissance Portraits of Dante & Florentine Civic Identity Ira Kazi
Meghan O'Neill - A Staircase of Citizen Participation: Preservation of The Old Towns in Tbilisi, Tallinn and Edinburgh
2018
Regan Benner - The 24-hour Death and Disaster Cycle
Shayla MacDonald - Copycat Commercialism: A Marxist Critique of Louis Vuitton’s Masters collection
Michelle Rosenblat - Helen Levitt: American Woman, Jewish Sensibility
Jessica Sealey - Looters or Liberators? The Subjugation of the Egyptian Body Through 深夜福利站 Intervention, Looting, and Collecting
Bruno Sinder - “Performing Citizenship, Picturing Identity: Family Photography and Post-War Portuguese Immigration”
Madelaine Tripp - The Art of Nothing
2017
Kelsey Perreault’s -
Beatriz Asfora - Memory, Trauma, and the Act of Collecting
Christie Dreise - Infrastructure Canada – A Tour of ‘Everyday’ Canadian Spaces
Kylie Kelly - Exposing the Secret Museum: Perceptions of Sexuality, Pornography, and Morality in Ancient Pompeii
Shelley Kopp - The Vision for Pluralism at The Aga Khan Museum: A potent tool or a paltry gesture?
Caroline Rabideau - The History of Art History at 深夜福利站
Mackenzie Sinclair - Kara Walker’s The Marvelous Sugar Baby and the Activation of American History
2016
Claude Bock - The Effects of Truth and Reconciliation on Contemporary Indigenous Art within Canada
Taylor Davidson - “Life Beyond Itself”. Religion and Aesthetics in William Morris’ Printed Textiles, 1881-1888
Genevieve Flavelle - The night before utopia: queer feminist art praxis at the Feminist Art Gallery
Keely McCavitt - 3D Technologies and the Future of Repatriation in Canada
Kelly McKenzie - Laughing in the Face of Apocalypse: Kelly Richardson has a Sense of Humour
Katie Oates - “A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes
Carling Spinney - No Vacancy: Alternative Spaces for Exhibition
2015
Ruth Skinner -
Kimberly Barton - Luanne Martineau: Aesthetic Ontologies in Fiber and Flesh
Grace Bedwell - Sitting in the Museum of Modern Art: Collecting Alvin Lucier’s Seminal Work, I Am Sitting in a Room
Emily Jackson - Taking the Landscape Out of the Frame: Embodied Writing, “Writing In”, and Decolonizing Landscape Art in Canada
Lisa Lawlis - The Word War I Destruction Of Notre Dame De Reims And Medievalism In America
Kelly McKenzie - Laughing in the Face of Apocalypse: Kelly Richardson has a Sense of Humour
Brad Morosan - The Best Defense is a Good Offense: A Brief Look at Defensive Architecture
Nicole Rutberg - Emma Sulkowicz and FORCE: Restoration and Restitution in Contemporary Anti-Rape Activist Art
Quintin Teszeri
2014
Nicole C. Borland -
Amy Gaizauskas -
Karly A. McIntosh -
Margherita N. Papadatos -
Elyse N. Tsotsos -
2013
Samantha Angove - We Come in Piece: Art Exhibitions, Science Fiction & Postcoloniality
Cierra Webster - Theorizing Queer: Homonationalisms and the Art Institution
Stephanie Wittich - Reminiscences: The Medievalisms of Wassily Kandinsky
2012
Stephanie Anderson - Use it or Lose it: Inuit Art and the ‘Soft Power’ of Canadian Cultural Diplomacy
Jordana Franklin - The Personal is Presentable: Transgressing the Public-Private Divide Through the Art of Sophie Calle and Tracey Emin
Stefani Klaric - Narrative Brought to Life: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Sophia Quick - Putting in Time: Long-Durational Performance Art Spectatorship
Laura Ritchie - Material Labour: Artistic Work and the Creative Industries
Melissa Ruhloff - Re-Inventing the Group of Seven: Appropriation and Criticality in Contemporary Canadian Art
2011
Emma Arenson - Fragmentation and Representations of Disability in Monuments
Simon Bentley - Jack Chambers and the New Spanish Realists
Carrie Kitzul - en/Gendered Hierarchies: Representations of Nation, Gender, and Class in the Work of Miwa Yanagi and Yoshiko Shimada
Geddesa Mahabir - The Construction of the Late-Renaissance Individual
Ahlia Moussa - Point of Origin
Hillary Walker-Gugan - Domestic Pleasures: The Aesthetic Experience of Eldon House
2010
Julia Cyr - Visions of Power: The Art Patronage of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Claire Feagan - Surrealist Castle Culture: Gothic Traces in Surrealist Aesthetics
Rosanna Mortillaro - Built Form and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Pope Sixtus V and the Lateran Palace
Jennifer Orpana - The Visual Griots of Mali: Nation Building and Cultural Negotiation with Youth Outreach Photography
Diana Poulsen - But Today We Collect Videogames: Citation, Appropriation, The Open Work and the Neo-Baroque in Videogames
Stephanie Radu - Sarah Lucas's Food for Thought
Erin Rothstein - Pablo Picasso and Primitivism: An Exploration of "Non-深夜福利站" and Medieval Influences in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Jon Sarma - Art and Artificiality: The Re/De(con)struction of "Natural" Gender in 1990s Visual Culture
2009
Danielle Manning - Naturalism Re-visioned
Sonja Peters - Coney Island in Early Twentieth Century Photography and Film
Kylie Serebrin - Navigating Surrealist Cinemaphilia
Andrea Skelly - Containers of Electronic Art
2008
Krystle Copeland - The Annunciation: Visual, Spatial, and Textual Ideologies
Eunjoo Lee - Unpainted Sky: 17th and 18th Century Naturalism in Korea and Europe
Melissa Smith - Sixteenth Century Developments in Emblematics
Maria Szabo - Kaleidoscope Vision: Modern Perspectives in the Work of Pegi Nicol MacLeod
Rima Puteris - Performing Absense: Ana Mendieta and Janine Antoni
2007
Leanne Carroll - The ‘Hoax’ of Minimalism: Robert Morris and the Octoberists.
Siân Evans - The Book of Kells’ Ornament and Audience.
Jennifer Kennedy - Paris vu Par: New Wave, Modernism and the Cinematic City.
Andrés Villar - Espana típica: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s “Vision of Spain” at the Hispanic Society of America
2006
Adam Stead - Acting, Ausstattung and Audience in Medieval Germany.
Riva Symko - Vitalizing Sounds, Visionary Sights.
Iuliana Strambeanu - Cinematic Experiments in Multimedia Installations.
Bettina Urcuioli - Materiality and the Aura.
2005
Susan Edelstein - Eclipsed Environments: Redefining the Space of Home.
Marina Folescu - On Stillness and Movement in Videos by Bill Viola, Mark Lewis and Stacey Lancaster.
Amanda Morhart - Giorgio Vasari: Imitation and Invention in Painting and Lives.
Irina Radchenko - Rembrandt's 'seeing eye' and Protestant Aesthetics.
Carol-Ann Ryan - Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant, and Geometric Abstraction in the 1960s: The Canadian Contribution.
Michael Windover - Living Art Deco Style: An Investigation of Toronto's Hybrid Modernity.
2004
Jolaine Frizzell - Framing, Framer, Framed: A Dialogue of Psychoanalysis in the Work of Mary Scott
Mark Schilling - Andy Warhol's Contaminated Modernism
Beitske Sybrandy - The Evolution of the Skate and its Representation in Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century.
2003
Mary Kavanagh - Collecting Dust: Sensual Acts and Recollection as Transformative Gesture.
Laura Petican - Arte Povera: The Persistence of the Baroque.
2002
Sarah Demelo - Self Portraits without Selves: Gender Performance and Photographic Self Portraiture.
Kristen Hutchinson - The Fragmented Figure in Contemporary Art: Works of Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois.
Sarah Lippert - Gustave Moreau and the Paragone: An Investigation of the Ut Pictura Poesis Legacy in the Work of a Nineteenth-Century History Painter.
Tara Wittman - Paradox and Play in Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades.
2001
Craig Buckley - "Continuing Misfortune" Reconsidered: Automatism between Art and Science.
Jessica Marshall - Viollet-le-Duc’s Writing and Reconstruction: Gothic and Otherwise.
Carrie L. Vassallo - The Early Years of Art History in English-Speaking Canada: McMaster, Toronto, and Queen's Universities, CA. 1930-1945.
Ryan Whyte - Charm and Subjectivity in Walter Pater: A Comparative Study.
2000 & prior
Marco Ranjan Deyasi - Collecting & Colonialism at Eldon House: Theories of Collecting, Tourism, and the British Empire, as they relate to the Harris Collection at Eldon House, London, Ontario, Canada. (2000)
Joanna Eve Schreyer - Balance of Wealth: An Economic Interpretation of a Gdansk Triptych. (2000)
Dennis M. P. Zimmer - Painting as Property: An examination of the Various Influences that Transformed the collections of Édouard de Rothschild and Paul Rosenberg. (2000)
Peter Johnathan Bates - The Canadian Corporate Art Collection: The Hidden Museum. (1999)
Jennifer A. Cottrill - Fortuitous Encounters. (1999)
Barbara Edwards - Toronto Art: A History of Connectedness, 1970-98. (1999)
Melinda Ellison - Images of Venus in Epithalamic Art of the Italian Renaissance, 1460-1540. (1999)
C. Brent Epp - Architecture and Urban Culturation in Vienna. (1999)
Christine A. Sprengler - Imag(in)ing the Fifties. (1999)
Claire Sykes - August Sander and the Task of the Photographer. (1999)
Catherine Ann Thomas - Trans: Intersections of Art, Life and the Art Gallery. (1999)
Kimberly Anne Wahl - The Machine in Early Twentieth-Century Art. (1999)
Marci Hatch - The Value of Forgeries: A Meaningful Tool of Art. (1998)
Jennifer Paparao - Installation Art: Towards a Questioning of Boundaries. (1998)
Joel Robinson - An Architecture of Soul-Modernity, Libeskind and the Spiritual. (1997)