March 09, 2025
Alena Robin recently published an article entitled 鈥淭he Painter and the New World: celebrating the centennial of the Canadian Confederation through a hemispheric approach鈥 in a special issue of the Colnaghi Studies Journal on New Perspectives on the Art of Viceregal America.
March 07, 2025
Part-time lecturer Kim Neudorf reviews PhD candidate Raquel Rowe's recent solo exhibition "The Centre of the World Was the Beach," which concluded at Forest City Gallery on March 8.
March 03, 2025
PhD Candidate Behnaz Fatemi invites you to attend her artist talk on March 20 from 6:00pm - 6:30pm at the AWE (Art Windsor Essex). She will be discussing her current exhibition, "Rhythm of Remembering," which is curated by Niku Koochak. The exhibition runs from March 20 - June 29, 2025.
March 02, 2025
Join the Faculty of Information & Media Studies for a conversation about disability art activism and institutional critique featuring Dr. Amanda Cachia and Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware. Dr. Cachia is an art historian and curator who works as Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware is a visual artist, activist, curator, and educator who works as Assistant Professor at McMaster University.
March 01, 2025
"Tim Whiten: Life & Work," is a new book by author and PhD Candidate Carolyn Bell Farrell, published by the Art Canada Institute. The book traces the distinguished fifty-year career of Toronto-based artist Tim Whiten (b. 1941) and his lifelong commitment to investigating the human condition. Bell Farrell joins Tim Whiten in a conversation, moderated by Julian Cox, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario, on Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm at the AGO鈥檚 Baillie Court. This public talk is scheduled in conjunction with the exhibition, Tim Whiten: A Little Bit of Light, curated by Julian Cox, which opens at the AGO on March 26.
February 11, 2025
Join The Department of Visual Arts on Thursday, March 6 at 6:00 pm ET for an artist talk by Sandra Brewster in Conron Hall at 深夜福利站. Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. Her practice is grounded in people of the Caribbean diaspora, who maintain a relationship with "back home". This is a public, free, and hybrid event.
February 09, 2025
The Faculty of Arts & Humanities is honoured to host Wanda Nanibush for the鈥痵econd Robert and Patricia Duncanson Lecture of 2025, held on鈥疢arch 4, 2025. Wanda Nanibush is an Anishinaabe-kwe image and word warrior, curator and community organizer from Beausoleil First Nation, Canada. This hybrid event can be attended in person at Conron Hall or online via Zoom. There is no cost for this event.
February 07, 2025
Join Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Theo Cuthand (Plains Cree, Little Pine First Nation), for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn acting exercises for the screen and how to record a top-notch audition tape using your phone (and some simple accessories!).
February 05, 2025
Be sure to see PhD candidate Racquel Rowe's solo exhibition "The Centre of the World Was the Beach" in its final weeks at Forest City Gallery. Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist from the island of Barbados currently residing in Canada. Her practice is continuously influenced by many aspects of history, matrilineal family structures, diasporic communities, and her upbringing in Barbados.
February 03, 2025
Hosted by PhD candidate Ashar Mobeen, Season 1 of the podcast brings together artists, scholars, and community members engaging with pressing environmental issues through art, science, and practice. Over the coming months, they will explore topics like soil regeneration, Indigenous land stewardship, water, air, and the challenges of textiles and plastics. Season 1 is Supported by the Sustainability Impact Fund at 深夜福利站, and based out of the Centre for Sustainable Curating, in the Department of Visual Arts.
February 01, 2025
Artist Theo Jean Cuthand and curator Wanda Nanibush will provide insight into the development of the current Doris McCarthy Gallery exhibition Love + Numbers, exploring Cuthand鈥檚 groundbreaking thirty-year artistic practice.
January 27, 2025
In partnership with Forest City Gallery, and to celebrate Racquel Rowe's current solo exhibition, "The Centre of the World was the Beach," SASAH hosts a conversation between Rowe and artist Jessica Karuhanga. The artists will be discussing their multi-faceted practices in a discussion moderated by SASAH student Kira McCallum-Schmidt. Rowe is a PhD candidate in Art & Visual Culture in the Department of Visual Arts, and Karuhanga is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts. This hybrid talk will be available in person at 深夜福利站, Digital Creativity Lab, and online (Zoom link will be posted).
January 26, 2025
"Decolonial Conversations" is a conference accompanied by creative projects that will take place at the forks of the Deshkan Ziibi on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, L奴naap茅ewak, and Attawandaron. The conference includes panels on transnational Intimacies; historical and contemporary partitions; the politics of dress, bodies, and activism; racialized histories in national and international contexts; Canadian and global indigenous networks, and global theatre and performance. Conference registration is open now.
Sky Glabush: Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture | Saatchi Gallery
January 24, 2025
Professor Sky Glabush will have his artwork included in an upcoming group exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London, England. "Flowers - Flora in Contemporary Art & Culture" features large-scale installations, original art, photography, fashion, archival objects and graphic design exploring the ongoing influence of flowers on creativity and human expression. The exhibition runs from February 12 - May 15, 2025
January 22, 2025
Professor Sky Glabush is featured in an article in the January 2025 issue (#166) of Border Crossings magazine titled "Sky Glabush: Painting's Alphabet." Art critic Robert Enright interviewed Glabush in response to his recent exhibition, 鈥淭he letters of this alphabet were trees,鈥 which took place at the Stephen Friedman Gallery in New York from September 5 to October 16, 2024.
January 20, 2025
Professor Kirsty Robertson, Director of Centre for Sustainable Curating, and FIMS Associate Professor, Sarah E.K. Smith, were recently interview by CBC Radio. Robertson and Smith co-curated "The Air of Now and Gone," a new exhibition showing at Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa from January 26 - May 5, 2025.
January 16, 2025
The work of 深夜福利站's Indigenous Artist-in-Residence, Theo Jean Cuthand, is currently on display at the Doris McCarthy Gallery in Scarborough. Curated by Wanda Nanibush, "Love + Numbers" covers a selection of Cuthand鈥檚 experimental narrative videos and performances from the 1990s to the present. Cuthand will give an artist talk at the gallery on January 29, 2025.
January 14, 2025
Congratulations to PhD candidate Katie Lawson, whose article "With gardens and garbage, artists are reimagining the life and death of their work" was recently featured by CBC Arts. Lawson works with the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Arts.
January 12, 2025
Professor Kirsty Robertson, Director of Centre for Sustainable Curating, is featured alongside fellow Arts and Humanities Professor Joshua Schuster in an article that discusses the role of art and literature in spurring action on climate change.
January 04, 2025
Cody Barteet publishes "The Making of the Historic Heraldic Window for St. Paul's Cathedral, London (Ontario): Christopher Wallis, Stained Glass, and the Heraldic Arts鈥" in "Journal of History", issue 59, no. 3 (2024): 292-324.
Christopher Wallis: In Balance of Light | ArtLAB Gallery
January 02, 2025
Curated by Dr. Cody Barteet and Natalie Scolia, "Christopher Wallis: In The Balance of Light" is showing in the artLAB Gallery until January 30, 2025. This exhibition showcases the brilliant career of Christopher Wallis (1930鈥2021), one of the most celebrated stained-glass artists of his generation. This exhibition draws from sketches, coloured designs, full-scale cartoons, and completed windows, offering an unprecedented look into his creative process and the breadth of his artistic legacy.
December 23, 2024
Kirsty Robertson and Heather Davis's article 鈥淧lastic Dislocations: Questions of Labour and Environment in Plastic Heart鈥 Sculpture Journal (27 November): 561鈥582, was recently released in the special issue Plastic Art, Plastic Meanings.
December 22, 2024
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Associate Camille-Mary Sharp, whose co-edited double issue of Museum and Society, Mobilizing Museum Minerals, was recently released. The journal is open access and can be found at the link below, and features articles by current and past collaborators with the Visual Arts Department including Eleanor Armstrong, Elysia French, and Eugenia Kisin.
December 20, 2024
Professor Kirsty Robertson's article "Chained to the Gallery: 1970s Protest, Nationalism, and Anti-Racism at the Art Gallery of Ontario" was published in the Canadian Historical Review 105.4
December 06, 2024
"Water (Deshkan Ziibi)鈥 is curated by Christof Migone, Sheri Osden Nault, and Ruth Skinner. Presented by the artLAB Gallery at the Department of Visual Arts, this 12-hour event will be streamed via YouTube and will feature performances by participants Kate Armstrong, Bagida鈥檞aad Alliance, Dickson Bou, Penelope Cain, Shannon Cooney, Tom Cull, Melissa General, Farheen Haq, Kaya Joan, Sharmistha Kar, Claire Liu, Patrick Mahon, Thomas Mahon, Brady Marks, Christof Migone, Laura Millard, Valerie Mills-Milde, Star Nahwegahbo, Sheri Osden Nault, Eli Nolet, Raquel Rowe, Jon Sasaki, Lou Sheppard, Ruth Skinner, Quinn Smallboy, Jordyn Stewart, Mark Timmings, Paul Walde, Michelle Wilson.
December 06, 2024
In partnership with Embassy Cultural House, the FCG annual Members' Show & Sale features the work of 深夜福利站 undergraduate students Amythly, Genevieve Buchanan, Jadhen Pangilinan, Maggie Shook, Jade Williamson; graduate students Sebastian Evans, Jessica Irene Joyce, Moira Hayes; and faculty Ron Benner, Wyn Geleynse, Jamelie Hassan, Patrick Mahon, David Merritt. Other participating artists include a past Indigenous Artist in Residence and many 深夜福利站 alumni.
November 19, 2024
John Hatch presented 鈥淒o Numbers Count in the Visual Arts: A look at some modern examples where they might鈥 for the Art and Math seminar series hosted by the Department of Mathematics, Kansas State University, November 14, 2024聽
October 16, 2024
David Merritt opens a new solo exhibition, "render" at Christie Contemporary in Toronto. This now work explores the act of rendering, which can be understood as both additive and reductive. It can refer to a version of something. It might imply a transformation. The exhibition runs from October 19 - November 16, 2024.
October 09, 2024
G鈥檙ound Textile Waste Tour & Seminar! Visit the Goodwill Commercial Solutions facility in London to get a behind the scenes look at how donated items and textiles are sorted, managed and recycled. Then the following day join artist Lois Klassen for an exploration of textile circularity at the personal level. Register to attend!
October 08, 2024
Cody Barteet publishes "Recovering the Lost Histories of the Meredith Family鈥檚 Tiffany Windows at St. Paul鈥檚 Cathedral, London, Ontario鈥" in "RACAR at 50" issue 49, no. 1 (Spring 2024).
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Jen Zoratti ,Winnipeg Free Press , October 08, 2024
Read the exhibition review "Recentring visual artist Sheila Butler and her female gaze" written by Jen Zoratti and published by the "Winnipeg Free Press". The show "Sheila Butler: Other Circumstances," offers a retrospective look at Butler's practice and is co-curated by Pamela Edmonds and Patrick Mahon. It is currently on view at the School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba.
September 11, 2024
This exhibition brings together 21 artists and writers who engage in decolonial critique, environmental activism, and twenty-first century artistic practices to address what is arguably the problem of our times: environmental catastrophe. Co-curated by Jeff Thomas and Patrick Mahon, the exhibition features a vast array of works, many produced over a two-year period and originally shown at Museum London in 2021-22. Featuring alum Paul Chartrand, Michael Farnan, Sharmistha Kar, Mark Kasumovic, Olivia Mossuto, Quinn Smallboy, Ashley Snook, Andres Villar, Michelle Wilson, Professor Jessica Karuhanga and Ron Benner an Adjunct Professor.
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Stephen Friedman Gallery , August 23, 2024
Stephen Friedman Gallery presents 'The letters of this alphabet were trees', an exhibition of new paintings by Canadian artist Sky Glabush, marking his New York debut. Based in the countryside near London, Ontario, Glabush is celebrated for his brilliantly colored landscapes depicting forests, fields, flowers, sea and sky. In these familiar yet stylized scenes, the exploration of color, light and form is mediated through the use of texture, resulting from mixing sand and oil paint.
August 22, 2024
Professor Kelly Wood artwork is included in the group exhibition "An Opulence of Squander" at the Belkin at the University of British Columbia. "The group exhibition features artworks from the Belkin鈥檚 collection and beyond that critique the imperative for growth at all costs, growth that has contributed to our collective ecological and social conundrum. The works 鈥 including those by Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Mike MacDonald and Kelly Wood 鈥 critique and resist the growth imperative, recognizing both the limits to productivity and the contradictory ideological premises that foster and justify the continued exploitation of labour and nature."
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Jo Jennings ,深夜福利站 News , August 19, 2024
Theo Jean Cuthand, an experimental and narrative filmmaker and indie game developer, joins 深夜福利站 this fall as the new Indigenous artist-in-residence. Cuthand鈥檚 works have been shown in festivals and galleries internationally, including the Tribeca Film Festival, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the National Gallery of Canada. 鈥淭heo is bringing an exciting expertise to 深夜福利站 with his experience in short experimental narrative videos and films about queer identity and love, sexuality, madness and Indigeneity,鈥 said Alena Robin, chair of the department of visual arts. 鈥淭hese are timely topics that are of concern to our students, department, campus and London community.鈥
July 17, 2024
Ecologies in Practice: Environmentally Engaged Arts in Canada, co-edited by Dr. Elysia French and CSC postdoctoral fellow Dr. Amanda White is available to purchase through any local bookstore or online via Wilfrid Laurie University Press (with a current discount). This collection includes contributions from 深夜福利站 alumni and community members including Christina Battle and Tom Cull, as well as many other contributions by artists, scholars, and curators.
July 15, 2024
Two faculty members from the Department of Visual Arts have been named Canada Research Chairs (CRC). The CRC program recognizes the country鈥檚 top scholars across disciplines. Dr. Kirsty Robertson has been named Canada Research Chair in Museums, Art, and Sustainability. Her research aims to develop a better balance between museums鈥 potential to work with the public on pressing issues and their overuse of resources. Jackson Leween, Two Bears (T茅keniy谩hsen Ohkw谩:ri) has been appointed Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology. His work focuses on researching and creating projects centered around Haudenosaunee land-based histories and embodied cultural knowledge in the context of our digital age.
Centre News , July 15, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Kirsty Robertson as she has been awarded a Senior Global Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews, where she will be collaborating with the Centre for Energy Ethics.
July 14, 2024
The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to offer a new course in winter 2025, "Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico" is an exciting adventure in learning that combines of Art History and Photography instruction with Professor Alena Robin and Professor Kelly Wood. Students will discover the rich cultural heritage of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico and its fascinating region. Join the online information session at 2pm on July 24. Registration required.
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Mariya Postelnyak ,Globe and Mail , July 03, 2024
Professor Cody Barteet was interviewed by the Globe and Mail for this article regarding historic churches and the lack of proper protections.
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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News , June 21, 2024
New books written by art history faculty members Sarah Bassnett and John Hatch have been included in 深夜福利站 News' top ten books to read this summer. Both books are available for download or in print; order yours today.
June 21, 2024
Professor Tricia Johnson's solo exhibition "Recent Things" is on view at Satellite Project Space June 19 - July 13. Join us June 20 from 5-7pm for the opening reception. Satellite will have altered hours during this exhibition. Please visit their website for more information.
New publication by Prof. Cody Barteet
June 20, 2024
Barteet, 鈥淭he Retablos of Mani: The Convergence of Maya and Spanish Art,鈥 Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200-1800, edited by Ilene Col贸n Mendoza and Lisanda Estevez. New York and London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2024, 154-167.
June 20, 2024
In continuation of DRAFTS 5: Diasporic Bodies research and exhibition, Body: Material, Performative, Absent focuses on Faseeh Saleem鈥檚 design research on alternative conceptions of the body from a postcolonial lens. Curated by Soheila Esfahani, in this exhibition Saleem explores conceptions of the body and challenges conventional design methods and design thinking in fashion design processes in order to open up for alternative bodies as a methodological foundation.
June 19, 2024
Prof. John Hatch's "Postcards from a Cosmic Traveller: Thomas Ruff鈥檚 Images of Space" has just been published in the most recent issue of Culture and Cosmos, which he also co-edited.
Toronto Star , June 14, 2024
Following the devastating fire at Toronto's historic St. Anne鈥檚 Anglican Church, art history professor Sarah Bassnett highlights the significance of the lost Group of Seven murals created as part of an early 20th-century movement to integrate paintings into architecture.
Art Canada Institute , June 13, 2024
Professor John Hatch has published a new book, Doris McCarthy: Life & Work which explores the career of the Canadian painter, writer and educator. Published by Art Canada Institute, it is available now open access online.
May 29, 2024
An exhibition showcasing works by London artist Philip Aziz opens at Satellite Project Space on Monday, June 3rd. Painted By My Hand: Works from the Collection of Philip Aziz features a selection of paintings, lithographs, and photographs from the personal collection of Philip Aziz (1923 鈥 2009), a renowned London-based artist whose works have been shown in London, Toronto, Detroit, and New York. Curated by Prof. Cody Barteet and Natalie Scola a current PhD candidate in the Department of Visual Arts.
May 25, 2024
At the INSAP 2024: Thirty Years of Astronomy, Art and Inspiration conference hosted by the Ionian University of Corfu, Professor John Hatch presented a paper titled "Touching the Universe: Backyard Science Projects in Contemporary Art" along with PhD candidate, Ashar Mobeen who presented a paper titled 鈥淐osmic Echoes in the Art and Architecture of the Islamic Golden Age鈥.
Canada Foundation for Innovation , May 21, 2024
Professor Jackson 2bears' creative practice has been funded and featured in an article published by Canada Foundation of Innovation.
CBC News , May 07, 2024
'Unclaim. Unsettle. Belong' exhibit is on display at 深夜福利站's McIntosh Gallery until June 1
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Chris Hampton ,CBC Arts , April 16, 2024
The CBC Arts article titled "How do we make public art in a climate crisis?" features the Centre for Sustainable Curating among various Canadian artists and groups who are "dedicated to the exhibition of temporary public art to discuss how they can responsibly do their work 鈥 and how the nature of that work changes 鈥 in the midst of a climate emergency."
April 15, 2024
unclaim. unsettle. belong is on view in the McIntosh Gallery until June 1. This exhibition brings together works by The Coves Collective members Kristin Bennett, Paul Chartrand (MFA '17), Reilly Knowles (BFA '20), Professor Sheri Osden Nault, and Michelle Wilson (PhD '22).
April 15, 2024
The UAAC-AAUC conference will be held in the Department of Visual Arts at 深夜福利站 from October 24 to 26, 2024. We invite the submission of paper proposals until May 31st, 2024.
April 14, 2024
鈥淩escue Politics: Richard Mosse鈥檚 Thermal Imaging and the Containment of Migration,鈥 Oxford Art Journal 46, issue 3 (Dec. 2023): 471-492.
April 04, 2024
Kirsty Robertson recently published a review of Caroline Monnet鈥檚 Uneasy Objects in Momus. "Pizandawatc / The One Who Listens / Celui qui 茅coute, a recent exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto (AMUT), draws its title from the traditional name of artist Caroline Monnet鈥檚 family, prior to the changing of surnames in her traditional territory of Kitigan Zibi by Christian missionaries..."
Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico
March 27, 2024
The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to offer a new course in winter 2025, "Study Trip to Oaxaca, Mexico" is an exciting adventure in learning that combines of Art History and Photography instruction with Professor Alena Robin and Professor Kelly Wood. Students will discover the rich cultural heritage of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico and its fascinating region.
Prof. Sarah Bassnett and Blessy Augustine | Photography and Culture
March 26, 2024
Professor Sarah Bassnett and PhD candidate Blessy Augustine recently guest-edited a special issue of the journal Photography and Culture on 21st-century migration. We are pleased to share the following essays from the special issue...
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Keri Ferguson ,深夜福利站 News , March 15, 2024
"Anthropocene or no Anthropocene, that was the question. And last week, a group of international scientists responded, voting against a proposal to declare the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch to reflect how human activity has altered the planet. The possible naming of the time period was the launching point for visual arts professor Kirsty Robertson鈥檚 museum and curatorial students鈥 year-end project and exhibit meromictic..."
March 05, 2024
Professor Sarah Bassnett recently published an open-access article on how Trevor Paglen鈥檚 work offers insight into the age of machine vision. 鈥淭revor Paglen鈥檚 Border Abstractions in the Age of Machine Vision,鈥 photographies 17, no. 1-2 (spring 2024): 25-42.
Professor Sarah Bassnett Co-Publishes Article on Retrieving Images From Tarnished Daguerreotypes
March 03, 2024
Professor Sarah Bassnett collaborated with Chemistry Professor T.K. Sham and colleagues on an open-access article about retrieving images from tarnished daguerreotypes titled 鈥淩etrieving Images from Tarnished Daguerreotypes using X-ray Fluorescence with an X-Ray Micro Beam with Tunable Energy,鈥 in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, May 鈥 June 2024 issue.
February 06, 2024
Professor Christine Sprengler recently published a chapter titled "Pasts Refracted: Indigenous Histories on Film Beyond the Cinema" in "The Routledge Companion to History and the Moving Image". This volume addresses moving image history through a theoretical lens; modes and genres; representation, race, and identity; and evolving forms and formats.
January 11, 2024
Curated by Soheila Esfahani & Faseeh Saleem, this exhibition features work by: Anah铆 Gonz谩lez, Anna Lidstr枚m, Erika Blomgren and Faseeh Saleem , Jessica Karuhanga, Karin Landahl & Stefanie, Malmgren de Oliveira, Leith Mahkewa, Racquel Rowe, Vidmina Stasiulyte. This exhibition brings together a group of artists from the Department of Visual Arts at 深夜福利站, London, Canada, and design researchers from the Body and Space Research Lab at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Bor氓s, Sweden. Please join us for the closing reception of DRAFTS 5: DIASPORIC BODIES on Thursday, January 25 from 12-2PM in the Cohen Commons. Image: Jessica Karuhanga, Photo Credit: Toni Hafkenscheid, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
January 11, 2024
Presented by The Creative Food Research Collaboratory, 'bread, butter, tea, soup' is a gathering place and a series of food-based artistic interventions presented by the Creative Food Research Collaboratory. In the darkness of winter, before the light begins to return incrementally, we invite all to share in the warmth, comfort and complexity of food; to eat, learn, digest and imagine together. Please join us for a series of artistic activations throughout January. More information about these live events can be found through the link below.
