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BOOK

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

  • “Bringing the War Home,” Solo exhibition at Blizzmax Gallery, Prince Edward County, Canada, July 8-August 6, 2023

  • "POV in PEC", with Graham Metson, Hatch Gallery, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Oct 7-Nov 7, 2021

  • “These Foolish Things Remind Me of You,” with Shani Mootoo, Maison Depoivre Art Gallery, Picton, Ontario, August 25-September 10, 2017.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • “Nature's Wild,” curated by Andil Gosine, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., March 27-June 29, 2025

  • “METAMORPHOSIS 2023,” Lacuna Festival (Lanzarote, Spain) July 1-30, 2023(co-coordinator of Facets of Change roundtable)

  • "Anew,” Maison Depoivre Gallery, Picton, Canada, April 29-June 11, 2023

  • "Memory and Identity," international group show, Cista Arts, London (U.K.), December 2022.

  • “As I See It,” Blizzmax Gallery, group show, Prince Edward County (Canada), July 14-August 14, 2022.

  • “When Did Fairytales Change?”, group show curated by Kseniia Antipina, Liebig12 Art Centre, Berlin, July 15-20, 2022.

  • “CLASH2022,” Lacuna Festival, (online and in Lanzarote, Spain), July 2-31, 2022.

  • "Virtual Realism,” arthistorybabes.com (online exhibition, digital catalogue PDF, podcast), 2021.

CATALOGUES

  • “Order and Progress Redux,” Orden y Progreso, por Laureana Toledo, (Oaxaca Art Gallery), 2021.

  • “Isolation ABC,” bh Yael: Family States (ConverSalon, Toronto), 2021.

  • “What World Do You Live In?” Rebecca Garrett: Search (ConverSalon, Toronto), 2020.

  • “The Sparrow’s Secret Song: Sarindar Dhaliwal and the Space-Time Continuum,” The Radcliffe Line and Other Geographies, (Rodman Hall Art Centre, Reach Gallery, and Robert Mclaughlan Gallery), 2018. Shortlisted for Ontario Association of Art Galleries Art Writing award, 2018.

  • “Jorge Lozano: Splintering Time, Fragmenting Space,” V-Tape, Toronto, 2013.

  • “The Truth-Telling of Ximena Cuevas,” Half-Lies: The Videoworks of Ximena Cuevas, edited by Abina Manning, Video Data Bank, Chicago, 2012.

  • “Annie Pootoogook: Inuit Art and the Limits of Authenticity,” Annie Pootoogook, edited by Nancy Campbell (Illingworth Kerr Gallery in Calgary and Confederation Centre Art Gallery, 2007). Reprinted The Scholar and the Feminist 7:1 (Gender on Ice), Fall 2008, Barnard College Center for Research on Women, reprinted Inuit Art Quarterly 23:2, Summer 2008.

  • “Archaeologies of the Modern,” 2004 Contact Photography Festival Catalog, 2004, pp. 22-28.

  • “Farheen Haq: The Landscape of Impermanence,” TPW gallery, Toronto 2008

  • “To Hell with the Blues: the Transformation of Christine Matuschek,” Grenada Arts Council, 2007.

  • “Devorando o canibal: um conto de precauçâo da apropriaçâo cultural”, Núcleo Histórico, XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, 1998.

ARTICLES

  • “On Marlene MacCallum's Shadow,” IMPACT Printmaking Journal #4, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE at Bristol, UK, 2021.

  • “Honoring the Disappeared in the art of Lorena Wolffer, Rebecca Belmore, and the Walking With Our Sisters project,” Transmotion, 1:2 (2016, pp. 43-51).

  • “Paranoia,” C Magazine 120 (Winter 2014), pp. 14-16.

  • “Erdag Aksel and the Phantoms of Memory,” ArtPapers, May-June 2010, pp. 21-27.

  • “On the 2009 Istanbul Biennial,” Public 40, Spring 2010.

  • “The Body Engraved: performances and interventions of Lorena Wolffer,” C Magazine 105, Spring 2010, pp. 17-26.

  • “Istanbul: Hale Tenger and Mürüvvet Türkyilmaz,” C Magazine 104, Winter 2009, 9-13.

  • “The Mystical Language of the Everyday: Jamelie Hassan’s At The Far Edge of Words,” C Magazine 103, Autumn2009, pp. 36-42.

  • “Stray Dogs and Urban Ghosts: Walking with Francis Alÿs,” Prefix Photo 16: Walking and Consciousness, Fall/Winter 2007 pp. 52-65.

  • “The Pleasures of the Road: Sarindar Dhaliwal’s Radiant Art,” Canadian Art 23:1, Spring 2006, pp.68-71.

  • “Mapping the Disaster: Walid Ra’ad’s Atlas Group Project and the Lebanese Civil Wars,” Prefix Photo 6, May 2003, pp. 31-41.

  • “The Ambivalent Yearnings of Shirin Neshat,” Prefix Photo 4, November 2001, pp. 49-54.

  • “Dead,” Public 19 (Lexicon), 1999-2000, pp. 47-50.

  • “To Knit the Country with Iron Bars: Art and Politics in Contemporary Turkey,” Fuse 21 (2), Spring 1998, pp. 20-29.

  • “Ritual Practices: Projecting Art and Magic across Borders,” Fuse 19 (5), Fall 1996, pp. 20-29. Reprinted Performing Politics (35 year anniversary issue), Fuse 4 (1), Summer 2011.

  • “From Atzlán to Tenochtitlán: The Transformation of Utopian Space,” Public 12, Summer 1995, 131-139.

  • “Blood, Vengeance, and the Anxious Liberal: Images of Natives and Non-Natives in Recent Movies,”, Cineaction 33/34, Fall 1993, pp. 43-45. Reprinted Social Problems in Canada, edited by Adie Nelson and Augie Fleras (Toronto: Prentice-Hall, 1995).

  • “Misadventures in the Desert: The Sheltering Sky as Colonialist Nightmare,” Inscriptions 6, Winter 1992, pp. 82-97.

  • “Sacred Landscapes/Colonial Dreams: The Desert as a Site of Escape,” Lusitania 4, Winter 1992, pp. 25-33.

  • “Battle Stations: War, Memory, and the Family,” Cineaction 30, Winter 1992, pp. 4-7.

  • Motecuzoma’s Mirror: Writing and Militarism in Aztec Mexico,” Discours social/Social Discourse: International Research Papers in Comparative Literature 3/4, 1990-1991, pp. 33-40.

  • “Holy Men in the Wilderness: The Mission and Sainte-Marie among the Hurons,” Cineaction 19/20, Winter/Spring 1990, pp. 35-41.

  • “Land and Submission: Standing on the Golden Shore,” Provincial Essays VIII, Summer 1989, p. 5-12.

  • “Disappearing America: Bataille’s reading of the Aztec Sacrificial Economy,” Discours social/Social Discourse: International Research Papers in Comparative Literature 1/2, 1989, pp. 221-228.

  • “Speaking Christian: Orthodoxy and Difference in Sixteenth-Century Spain,”, Representations 23, Summer 1988, pp. 118-134.

  • “The Imperial Signifier: Todorov and the Conquest of Mexico,” Cultural Critique 9, Spring 1988, pp. 197-219.

  • “A Geography of Terrorism,” Borderlines 5, Summer 1986, pp.10-13.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

  • "Orden y progreso abreviado o El Lamento del turista," in La Tierra baldía, edited by Laureana Toledo, (Mexico City, Quarentena Ediciones, 2023), pp. 171-178

  • “Çölde Talihsiz Serüvenler: Sömürgeci Kabus Olarak Esirgeyen Gökyüzü,” in Oryantalizm, Hegomanya ve KültürelFark, edited by Fuat Keyman, Mahmut Mutman, MeydaYegenoglu (Istanbul, Iletisim Press,1999), pp. 161-181.

  • “Global Smorgasbord,” in Foodculture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art, edited by Barbara Fischer (Toronto: YYZ Books, 1999). Reprinted Maisonneuve 7, 2004, pp. 25-26.

  • “White Indians: Appropriation and the Politics of Display”, in Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation, edited by Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1996), pp. 225-233. Reprinted The Well Crafted Argument, edited by Fred Whire and Simone Billings (Worcester: Houghton-Mifflin,2004).

EDITORIAL

  • Artistic Director, Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 2020 to present.

  • Editor, Public 36: Emergency, 2008 (with Kathryn Walter).

  • Editor, Public 25: Shop: Globalization and Visual Culture, 2003 (with Dot Tuer and Rebecca Garrett).

  • Editor, Fuse 22:1: Caribana and Carnival (with Richard Fung), Winter 1999.

  • Editor, Public 16: Entangled Territories: Imagining the Orient (with Walid Ra’ad), January 1998.

REVIEWS

  • “Asher Mains—Society: Cocoa,” ARC magazine, April 2016.

  • “Kathryn Walter: Remnants,” C Magazine 87, Fall 2005, p. 46.

  • “Arthur Renwick: Delegates of Earth and Sky,” Canadian Art 21: 2, Summer 2004, p. 84.

  • “Fantasies of Conquest”, review of If Only I Were an Indian (1995), directed by John Paskievich, and Indian Princesses and Cowgirls: Stereotypes from the Frontier, by Marilyn Burgess, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis, artist project by Rebecca Belmore (Montreal: OBORO, 1995), Fuse 19: 1, Fall 1995, pp. 47-49.

  • “Political Cartographies”: review of Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, ed. Suzanne Lacy (Seattle: Bay Press, 1995)”, Fuse18:5, Summer 1995, pp. 32-33.

ARTIST PROJECTS

  • Rise, bookwork collaboration with Marlene MacCallum, 2020.

VIDEO

  • regret relief, 4:21” video, exhibited Fastnet Short Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, 24-27 May, 2012

  • Friday, 5” video, a collaboration with Shani Mootoo, exhibited at a Pride 2010 event, Toronto; exhibited at Alice Yard art centre, Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 2011.

CURATORIAL

  • Jorge Lozano: Splintering Time, Fragmenting Space, V Tape, January 26-February 23, 2013

BOARDS

  • Advisory Board, Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies, 2020 to present.

  • Upper Management curatorial collective, co-founder 2009.

  • Collective member and Board, Public Access collective, 1989-2010.

  • Board of Directors (vice-chair), Fuse Magazine, 1995-2000.Editorial board, Topia, A Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 1996-1998.

JURIES

  • AluCine Experimental Video jury, June-July, 2010

  • Ontario Arts Council Works In Progress jury (Literature), July 2002

  • Ontario Arts Council Writers’ Reserve (through Public and Fuse) (4)

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, York University

  • M. A. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta

  • B.A. Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University

TEACHING

  • Assistant Professor, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, 2003-2005

  • Lecturer, Department of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art and Design, 1991-2003

  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts, Bilkent University, 1996-1997

  • Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Toronto, 1995

  • Lecturer, Department of Native Studies, Trent University, 1993-1994

  • Course Director, Department of Fine Art, Atkinson College, York University, 1990

  • Lecturer, Department of Social Science, Al Fateh University, 1983-1984

OTHER

  • "The Rivoli,” cover image of Janus Unbound: Journal of Critical Studies #1, 2021.

  • Art lectures, fundraiser for Baxter Arts Centre, Bloomfield, Ontario, 2014

  • Conference paper, “Disciplining colonized space: ongoing paradigms of natural law,” New Geographies: Studies in Postcoloniality and Globalization, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, March 24-26, 2011.

  • Panel organizer and chair, “Colonial Resistance and Negotiation: War and the Society against the State,” Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, October 2004.

  • Chair and respondent, “Vid Inglevics” panel, Art Gallery of Ontario, May 2004.

  • Workshop participant, “Mixtec Pictographic Writing: Codex Zouche-Nuttal,” University of Texas, March 14-19, 2004.

  • Organizing committee for “Caribana” panel, Fuse magazine, February 1999.

  • Organizing committee for “New Orientalisms” panel, for 1998 Istanbul Biennial, 1996-1997.

  • Workshop facilitator, “Diversity in the Rights Movement: Overcoming Barriers to Understanding”, Northwest Indian College, Lummi, Washington State, February-March 1994.

  • Workshop facilitator, Mercer Union Centre for the Arts, Toronto. Title: “Issues of Cultural Diversity in the Toronto Arts Community”, November 1994.

  • Workshop facilitator (with Beverley Pierro), under auspices of Canadian Alliance in Solidarity with the Native Peoples (CASNP), National office, 1991-1994.

AWARDS, HONOURS, GRANTS

  • SSHRC General Research Grant, “The Past as Present: Contemporary Constructions of Mexican Nationalism,” 2003

  • Ontario Arts Council ,Works in Progress Grant, Yellow Babylon, 2003

  • Toronto Arts Council, Grant to Senior Writers, Yellow Babylon, 1999

  • Cannibal Culture named Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book in Human Rights, 1997

  • Ontario Arts Council Arts Writers’ Grant, “Ritual Practices,” 1996

  • Ontario Arts Council Writer’s Reserve Grant, “From Atzlan to Tenochtitlan,” 1995

  • Ontario Arts Council, Works in Progress Grant, Cannibal Culture, 1994

  • Ontario Arts Council, Arts Writers’ Grant, Cannibal Culture, 1994

  • Ontario Arts Council, Writer’s Reserve Grant, “White Indians,” 1994

  • Netherlands Government Research Scholarship (with the University of Amsterdam), 1986-87

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1985-1987