Michelle Chang
Student
Master of Arts in Art History (MA)
Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory comprises three streams of research-based learning and practice: Art History, with a particular focus on theoretical and critical discourses concerning the social impact of art and visual representation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels; Critical and Curatorial Studies, examining through research and exhibition projects issues in contemporary visual culture and display; and Visual Art, with an undergraduate curriculum placing art production, academic learning and a graduate emphasis on preparation for participation in the field of contemporary international art.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Adriasola Munoz, Ignacio Alberto | investigates responses by artists and intellectuals to the crisis of aesthetic and political representation triggered by the failed protests against the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960, and in particular their reliance on depictions of the sexual and geographical margins in their articulation of an aesthetics of political disaffection. |
| Claxton, Dana | film, video, photography, single- and multi-channel video installation, and performance art |
| Georgopulos, Nicole | Art history and theory; French art; nineteenth-century art and visual culture; art and science; gender and early feminism |
| Gu, Xiong | Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space., Installation, painting, drawing, photography, contemporary art theory |
| James, Gareth | histories of iconoclasm in which the social divisions and inequities that mark and delimit artistic practice are registered most emphatically |
| Koh, Germaine | Visual art |
| Makris, Georgios | Arts of Byzantium; Material culture and archaeology of monasticism; Dissemination and usage of portable objects across the eastern Mediterranean; Medieval monastic culture |
| Mansoor, Jaleh | Cultural Industries; Formalism; Marxism and Critical Theory; Marxist Feminism; Modernism; Twentieth Century European Art; Cultural Industries, Formalism, Marxism and Critical Theory, Marxist Feminism, Modernism, Twentieth Century European Art |
| Mitchell, Karice | Visual art |
| Monteyne, Joseph | Renaissance/early modern art and print culture; early modern landscape and eco-criticism; Renaissance/early modern art and print culture, early modern landscape and eco-criticism |
| Orell, Julia | History of Chinese Art; Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties; Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media; Art and the production of knowledge; Cultural and historical geography; History of cartography; Art and the production of knowledge, Construction of place, site, region, and empire in painting and other visual media, Cultural and historical geography, History of Chinese Art, History of cartography, Landscape painting of the Song and Yuan dynasties |
| Peck, Alexandra | Social and cultural anthropology; Other studies related to history and archaeology; Art history and theory; Native tribes and First Nations in the Pacific Northwest; historical Northwest Coast art; Salish (Coastal and Interior) art; Anthropology/anthroplogical methods; Material culture, archaeology, museums |
| Pina Baldoquin, Manuel | Images |
| Porto, Nuno | Self-representation of African identities in contemporary Afro-Cuban Art and in Kenyan photography, Modern and contemporary arts of Africa and the African Diasporas, Curatorship and social justice, Social museology, History of collections, Photography |
| Roy, Marina | Intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology |
| Salgirli, Saygin | Ottoman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Mediterranean Art, Architectural History; Ottoman Art, Islamic Art, Medieval Art, Early Modern Art, Mediterranean Art, Architectural History |
| Shelton, Anthony | Mexican and Andean visual culture, critical museology, development of folk art, aesthetics |
| Shirazi, Sadia | transregional histories of modernism and contemporary art; histories of art; art and activism; race and racialization; migration and diaspora; gender and sexuality; black and postcolonial thought |
| Silver, Erin | Activism and visual culture; Artist or Author Social Identity; Artistic and Literary Marginality; Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles; Canadian contemporary art; Feminist art histories; Movement culture; Performance studies; Queer art; social movements; Activism and visual culture, Artist or Author Social Identity, Artistic and Literary Marginality, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Canadian contemporary art, Feminist art histories, Movement culture, Performance studies, Queer art, Social Movements |
| Smith, Tai | Arts and Technologies; Economical Contexts; Gender; media theory; Modern and Contemporary Art and Design; Politics of Media and Mediation; Textiles; Arts and Technologies, Economical Contexts, Gender, Media Theory, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design, Politics of Media and Mediation, Textiles |
| Starling, Dan | |
| Thauberger, Althea | Art history and theory; Curatorial and related studies; Visual arts and media arts; Biopolitics and institutional critique/reform; Media philosophy; Photographic history/theory; Settler decolonization, and site-based art and activism |
| Usher, Camille | Art theory and analysis; Contemporary art; Indigenous visual culture; curatorial practices; Museum studies; feminism and performance; public art and graffiti |