Art History
Master of Arts
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 |
| 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 |
| Khorakiwala, Ateya | Arts and Cultural Traditions, Modern Architectural History, History of Modern Landscapes and Built Environments, South Asian Art and Architecture |
| 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 |
| Ryan, Maureen | 18th and 19th century Europe and Noth America History Politics of culture issues, colionalism, national identity, gender and race |
| 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, D | 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 |
