Visual Arts
The program provides a period of intensive conceptual and technical development for those students wishing to pursue a professional career in advanced contemporary art. The M.F.A. degree is also the standard qualifying degree for teaching visual arts at the post-secondary level. The M.F.A. program is dedicated to helping students understand both the making and theorizing of the art object against the background of the diverse intellectual environment of a major university. Students in the program may work in any area of contemporary art production including painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, three-dimensional and installation work, photography, digital, multimedia, or in any interdisciplinary form.
Faculty Members
| 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 |
| Frei Njootli, Jeneen | |
| 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 |
| Mansoor, Jaleh | Cultural Industries, Modernism, Twentieth Century European Art, Formalism, Marxist Feminism, Marxism and Critical Theory |
| McGeough, Michelle | Arts and Cultural Traditions, Indigenous art history, methodologies and Two-Spirit/Indigenous queer critique |
| Monteyne, Joseph | Arts and Technologies, Renaissance/early modern art and print culture |
| Orell, Julia | |
| Pina, Manuel | Images |
| Roy, Marina | Intersection between materials, history, language, and ideology |
| Salgirli, Saygin | architecture of fourteenth-century Bursa, the first Ottoman capital |
| Shelton, Anthony | Mexican and Andean visual culture, critical museology, development of folk art, aesthetics |
| Silver, Erin | Artist or Author Social Identity, Artistic and Literary Marginality, Artistic and Literary Movements, Schools and Styles, Social Movements, Canadian contemporary art, Queer art, Feminist art histories, Activism and visual culture, Performance studies, Movement culture |
| Smith, Tai | Arts and Technologies, Economical Contexts, Modern and Contemporary Art and Design, media theory, Politics of Media and Mediation, Gender, Textiles |
| Soussloff, Catherine | Art, Art History, European Art, Performance Art, Performance Studies, Art Theory, Aesthetics, Philosophy of art, historiography and theory of European art |
| Thauberger, Althea | |
| Watson, Donald Scott | Contemporary Canadian art, art issues and art theory |
| Zeigler, Barbara | Visual Art (Print Media, Printmaking, Drawing, Installation Art, Video, and Collaborative/Public Art), Environmental Politics, Animal Studies, BC Salmon Populations |