Andrea D. Fitzpatrick (they/them; she/her) earned a Ph.D. in art history and critical theory from McGill University in 2005 and has been an Associate Professor of Art History since 2012. Their research focuses on contemporary visual art in all media (especially photography, video, performance, multi-media, and installation), identity, gender, critical race theory, anti-colonial theories, the politics and ethics of representation, as well as images of and resistance to human rights violations during particular wars and conflicts. Currently, they’re exploring contemporary art by diasporic Iranian women in Canada; the life’s work of Iranian-Canadian artist Sadegh Tirafkan; contemporary South African art and exhibitions; Palestinian photographic art and resistance; curatorial support for Global South artists in Documenta exhibitions (#11 - 15) in Kassel, and at the Venice Biennale (#56, 2015); and Holocaust memorials in Berlin. Fitzpatrick has also: presented their research internationally; had their research translated into German, Farsi, and French; and curated exhibitions of Iranian lens-based art at two artist-run centers in Canada (SAW Gallery in Ottawa, and Gallery 44 in Toronto). They are currently working on a book about contemporary art, methodologies, exhibitions, and memorials, and the usefulness of various theoretical and philosophical paradigms to address those areas.

Lorraine Gilbert has been producing and exhibiting photographic works since 1978. These works have been featured in solo, group and two-person exhibitions such as Global Nature, a Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Traveling Exhibition, and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, both touring exhibitions.

Gilbert has been teaching art and photography for the past 25 years, and is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa. 

Jennifer Macklem creates sculpture, video, performances, installations, paintings, drawings and public art. With a national and international exhibition record, her artistic practice is experimental in nature. She has presented her work at artist-run centers, university galleries and museums. She completed her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Parsons School of Design. She earned an MFA at the Université du Quebec à Montreal. 

Originally from Montreal, Jennifer Macklem is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Ottawa, following a tenured position at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. During the mid 1990’s  she served as coordinator/Director/Curator of the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, based in Kelowna, British Columbia. 

Martin Golland was born in Montpellier, France in 1975 and has lived in Istanbul, Puerto Rico, Miami, Victoria (BC), and Toronto before moving to Ottawa. Golland received his MFA from the University of Guelph (2006) and his BFA from Concordia University (1998). Golland has exhibited nationally and internationally. He has received the prestigious Honorable Mention Prize at the 11th Annual RBC Painting Competition; exhibited in various museums and galleries across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Power Plant Toronto, the Musée D’art Contemporain in Montreal, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. Martin Golland is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa.

Multidisciplinary artist Andrew Wright creates conceptually informed works in many media. He has also been preoccupied with using photography in traditional and decidedly non-traditional ways for over 25 years.

Wright has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad with shows in the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Korea, China, and others. He has exhibited at such venues as the London Gallery West, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the University of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, and the Today Art Museum, Beijing.

His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the X'ian Art Museum, China, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, KWAG, the University of Toronto, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada House Canada’s High Commission in London, and private collections around the world.

Andrew Wright is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Jennifer Macklem creates sculpture, video, performances, installations, paintings, drawings and public art. With a national and international exhibition record, her artistic practice is experimental in nature. She has presented her work at artist-run centers, university galleries and museums. She completed her undergraduate studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Parsons School of Design. She earned an MFA at the Université du Quebec à Montreal.

Originally from Montreal, Jennifer Macklem is an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of Ottawa, following a tenured position at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. During the mid 1990’s she served as coordinator/Director/Curator of the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, based in Kelowna, British Columbia.

Lorraine Gilbert has been producing and exhibiting photographic works since 1978. These works have been featured in solo, group and two-person exhibitions such as Global Nature, a Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Traveling Exhibition, and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, both touring exhibitions.

Gilbert has been teaching art and photography for the past 25 years, and is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa.

Andrew Morrow is contemporary Canadian artist living in Chelsea, QC, Canada. Morrow's work is characterized by a restless desire to both inhabit and extend Western historical figurative painting. His current practice exists at the intersection of relationality and art, motivated by a desire for connection and community, and grounded in principles of stewardship and accountability. In his work fragmented and archetypal figures populate shifting, uncertain landscapes, approaching, but never quite attaining the sublime. Reflecting an ongoing commitment to materially-based figurative painting, Morrow's practice includes small and large-scale drawings, paintings, and sometimes, installations.

Sarah Rooney is a visual artist who creates works through a layering of registers. Looking to become witness to subtle spatial conundrums her photography-painting networks present reflections on shifts in distance, immediacy and time. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London England before obtaining a BFA from Concordia University and a MFA from York University in Canada. She has exhibited works in Canada and the US, and her painting is represented in the Canada Council Art Bank Collection, as well private collections in Canada, the US and Europe. She has taught at York University and University of Toronto, and she is a Part-Time Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. Sarah Rooney was born in South Africa and spent formative years in Brazil; she lives in Montreal.

Born in Toronto; David McDougall graduated from Queen’s University with a BFA and received his MFA from York University. Beginning his career as a figurative sculptor, he has since broadened his artistic practice to include kinetic and electronic art as well as new media and animation. For the most part, his work revolves around ideas related to technology, A.I., and the environment. David lives and works in Ottawa and is currently a Part-time professor and full-time studio technician in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Ryan Stec is an artist, producer, and designer working in both research and production. Beginning his relationship to the moving image through documentary, his practice has slowly expanded off the edges of the screen, increasingly combining light, color, structure and material with deeper consideration of site and the city.

Stec is a PhD candidate at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. His research is focused on the political potential of temporary and informal interventions in the city, and the exploration of new approaches to mapping temporal phenomena.

He has also been heavily involved in the artist-run culture of Ottawa, Canada since 1998, and since 2005 he has been the Artistic Director of Artengine, a non-profit center for art and technology.

In 1981 Ariane Thézé graduated from the École des beaux-arts d'Angers. In 1982, she moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she obtained a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Université du Québec à Montréal in 1984. She quickly became known as an artist for her work on the representation of the body and exhibited for the first time in 1983 at the Dazibao Gallery in Montreal.

Her first works, photographs of human skins on acrylic polymers suspended from hangers (Déportraitisation, 1983) reveal an artistic approach to the image of the body, and more specifically of her body, by asking questions about identity, desire and memory. In 1986, she returned briefly to France and obtained a second master's degree at the University of Paris I la Sorbonne.

During the 90's her career became international as she exhibited in various museums in France, Spain, Austria and Germany and participated in numerous art film festivals. In 2003, she obtained a doctorate in practical art studies at the Université de Québec à Montréal.

Chantal Gervais’ photo and video works deal with representation, identity, human condition and the relationship between the body and technology. Solo exhibitions include Harcourt House Gallery in Edmonton; Art-Image in Gatineau, Québec; McClure Gallery and Vidéographe in Montreal; Galerie Séquence in Chicoutimi, Quebec; and Karsh-Masson Gallery and Carleton University Art Gallery in Ottawa. She has spoken about her work at institutions such as the National Gallery of Canada. She received the Karsh Award 2014 granted by the City of Ottawa and the Canada Council for the arts’ Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography in 2002. Her work has been supported by several Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the arts and City of Ottawa grants. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Ottawa and an MA in Art and Media Practice from the University of Westminster in London, U.K. She has been a board member at local artist-run centres including Daimon as well as teaching at University of Ottawa and Ottawa School of Art.

Cara Tierney (they/them) is an artist and researcher and earned their PhD in Cultural Mediations from Carleton University. Drawing from Queer Studies, Trans Studies, Pedagogical Studies, visual art in all media (especially performance, photography, video, sculpture and installation) their ongoing research takes a transdisciplinary approach to investigating the way art can be used in the service of social transformation. Through creative practice, scholarly research, and interdisciplinary collaborations their current work seeks to strengthen visual and gender literacy in the service of disarticulating social barriers which inhibit participation in public life for Two-Spirit, trans and gender nonconforming people.  From an intersectional perspective this means always orienting the labour and efforts to be in the service of those most marginalized. Using the emancipatory, consciousness-raising possibilities of radical pedagogies, and the open-ended interpretative strategies fostered in visual cultural production, their work seeks to expand the ways we encounter and produce knowledge, and the way research and academic practices can find meaningful footholds, based in action, which lead to social change.

Born in Montreal, Margo lives in Ottawa. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Concordia University and a Master of Fine Arts from Temple University/Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. She has also studied at the Haystack School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine and the Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. She has experience as a writer and is a faculty member in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa where she teaches drawing, painting and sculpture. During the spring and summer months she also works as a gardener. Deborah Margo's work combines different disciplines including sculpture, drawing and ephemeral installations, questioning architectural and historical contexts of public and private spaces. Focusing on processes and materials relevant to these different contexts, a conversation takes place between a specific site and the materials she works with. Her working process is both conceptual and intuitive, based on research yet open to so-called accidents. Time, change and touch are key preoccupations.

Since 1984, Margo has exhibited in Canada, Mexico and the United States, participating in solo and group projects.

Rosalie Favell is a photo-based artist, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage, she uses a variety of sources, from family albums to popular culture, to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary aboriginal woman.

Over the course of her long career, Favell’s work has appeared in exhibitions in Canada, the US, Edinburgh, Scotland, Paris, France, Taipei, Taiwan and Melbourne, Australia. Numerous institutions have acquired her artwork including: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.), and Global Affairs, Canada. She has received numerous grants, and won prestigious awards such as the Ontario Arts Foundation – Paul DeHuek/Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, the Chalmers Fellowship, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunten Award and the Karsh Award. A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Rosalie holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico and a PhD (ABD) from Carleton University in Cultural Mediations. In Ottawa Rosalie has taught at Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Discovery University.

Allison O’Connor is a Franco-Canadian multidisciplinary artist and art administrator working at the intersection of ecology and public art. Her practice emphasizes the symbiotic relationship between artists, audiences, and the ecological context they occupy. Allison generates artworks that consider the environment and its inhabitants by utilizing environmental sciences and consultative practices. She is an MFA graduate from the School of Visual Arts of New York City, in Art Practice, receiving the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for her thesis writing on the use of public art for ecological remediation. This methodology is applied in her role as part of the City of Ottawa's Public Art Program, where she commissions and implements public art.

Originally from France, Jérôme Havre is a Toronto based artist inspired by the production of natural history dioramas in museums and zoos. He develops in his creations reflexive spaces through immersive processes. He looks for ways to do this through presentation, the creation of situations, or setting the stage with his sculptures and inviting the public to take part “in the show.” Jérôme's work interrogates issues of identity, territory and community through the representation of nature. That is, the manner in which it is presented and yet can be more readily perceived through our cultural filters. According to Jérôme, “nature is deliberately altered in order to deceive us and keep order.” Jérôme completed his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his time at the School of Fine Arts he was awarded three scholarships that enabled him to pursue different art practices: silk printing techniques in New York (Cooper Union), printing techniques in Barcelona (Bellas Artes) and painting and video in Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin - HDK) in the workshop of Marwan Kassab Bashi. Jérôme uses textiles, sculpture, digital prints, photographic images, murals, sound recording, and videos to create scenographic installations. For him, the use of a technological process is not only to accomplish a specific task, but a necessary form of expression itself.

Jakub Zdebik received his PhD from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at The University of Western Ontario specializing in Contemporary French Aesthetic Theory. After he obtained his PhD, he became Visiting Research Fellow at The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University. His monograph, entitled Deleuze and the Diagram: Aesthetic Threads in Visual Organization, was published by Continuum Press and is based on his doctoral dissertation. This book explores the notion of organizational aesthetics and its representation through the concept of the diagram as it can be observed in modern and contemporary art. He has translated French texts by Guattari and Jean-Clet Martin. He curated an exhibition for the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio entitled Art as Information. He is also working on a monograph on the concept of the map-image.

He has taught at several Canadian universities such as Concordia University, University of Guelph, Carleton University, Trent University as well as teaching at the University of Ottawa for the past several years.

Andrea D. Fitzpatrick (they/them; she/her) earned a Ph.D. in art history and critical theory from McGill University in 2005 and has been an Associate Professor of Art History since 2012. Their research focuses on contemporary visual art in all media (especially photography, video, performance, multi-media, and installation), identity, gender, critical race theory, anti-colonial theories, the politics and ethics of representation, as well as images of and resistance to human rights violations during particular wars and conflicts. Currently, they’re exploring contemporary art by diasporic Iranian women in Canada; the life’s work of Iranian-Canadian artist Sadegh Tirafkan; contemporary South African art and exhibitions; Palestinian photographic art and resistance; curatorial support for Global South artists in Documenta exhibitions (#11 - 15) in Kassel, and at the Venice Biennale (#56, 2015); and Holocaust memorials in Berlin. Fitzpatrick has also: presented their research internationally; had their research translated into German, Farsi, and French; and curated exhibitions of Iranian lens-based art at two artist-run centers in Canada (SAW Gallery in Ottawa, and Gallery 44 in Toronto). They are currently working on a book about contemporary art, methodologies, exhibitions, and memorials, and the usefulness of various theoretical and philosophical paradigms to address those areas.

Cristina S. Martinez is an interdisciplinary art historian who holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century British art, William Hogarth, the history of copyright law, Canadian art and artistic practices of appropriation. Professor Martinez is the official biographer for the entry on Jane Hogarth in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and is co-editor of the volume Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, published with Cambridge University Press (2024).

Sheena Gourlay is interested in current art practices and their relation to contemporary theories. Her work has examined the shifts in the visual arts since the 1970s, with special attention to feminist and postcolonial art practices and their relationship with museum practices and the discourses that position and present them. Her primary areas of teaching are Canadian, postmodern, and Indigenous art. She also teaches in Feminist and Gender Studies where she gives courses on feminist theories and methodologies, gender and globalization and anti-colonial and antiracist feminisms, amongst others. Prior to beginning her teaching career, she worked in the artist-run centre system for a number of years in Saskatoon (AKA Gallery) and in Montréal (La Centrale).

Andrea Kunard has an extensive background in photography, both historical and contemporary, Canadian and international. She earned her PhD in 2004 from Queen’s University, and taught survey and seminar courses on the history of photography, Canadian Art (historical and contemporary), and museology for over a decade at Carleton University, Queen's University and Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University. She has published in numerous academic journals, magazines and books such as the International Journal of Canadian Studies, Early Popular Visual Culture, The Journal of Canadian Art History, Muse, BlackFlash, Encyclopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, and Photography: Crisis of History (edited by Joan Fontcuberta).

Stefan St-Laurent, multidisciplinary artist and curator, is born in Moncton, New-Brunswick, lives and works in Ottawa. He was the invited curator for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and for the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. From 2002 - 2011, he worked as Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual arts at Ottawa University since 2010.

Anna (Ania) Paluch (she/her) is a Polish-Canadian part-time Art History professor at the University of Ottawa, whose PhD research in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University was about transnational dialogues between Indigenous North American and Eastern European artists, filmmakers and activists. She is also an independent lecturer, curator and artist, being invited to speak at Embassy of Poland events and other Polish community endeavours. Her workshops focus on Polish folk art and forgotten histories, as well as activism for marginalized communities in Poland and Canada. She has spoken at conferences in Canada, USA, UK, Austria, New Zealand, and Germany, and participated in the East Call Curatorial Residency, hosted by Easttopics (Budapest, Hungary) in 2020 (Virtually). Other than academia, she has worked at Minwaashin Lodge for nearly 10 years, at their Indigenous women's shelter and street outreach team.

Recently Published work: “The Baltic Waterways: Mapping Cross-Cultural and Ecological Awareness of the Baltic Sea”, Ephemeral Coast : Visualizing Coastal Climate Change. Ed. Celina Jeffery. Wilmington: Vernon Press,2022.

Chinatsu Kobayashi was born in Tokyo, Japan. She studied philosophy at the University of Ottawa, with a thesis partly on Collingwood’s aesthetics. After obtaining supplementary credits in Art History at McGill, she began doctoral studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal, during which she spent time as visiting student at the University of Oxford. She wrote her second doctoral thesis on John Ruskin’s aesthetic theory and its influence on British Arts and Crafts and the beginning of Art Nouveau in Europe. She has published a number of papers on Collingwood’s aesthetics, including an edition of some of his letters, and she is now working on publishing parts of her thesis on Ruskin as independent papers. She is also working on Op Art, the conceptions of ‘art as experience’ and the role of interaction in visual arts. She has taught numerous art history classes at the University of Ottawa, in English and in French, covering such topics as contemporary art, globalization in art, and theories of new media art.

Talia M. Boileau plays a vital role in the Department of Visual Arts as the current Information Officer.

Yekta Çetinkaya is a visual artist from Istanbul, Turkey currently living and working in Ottawa. He graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa in 2022. He currently works at the Department of Visual Arts as the Marketing and Store Manager.

Sasha Phipps is an Ottawa-based French-Canadian artist working in video, installation, painting, and public art interventions. He received a college diploma in 3D animation at La Cité collégiale in spring 2006 and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa in the spring of 2010. He maintains an artistic practice in the city of Ottawa and works as the photography and media arts technician for the visual arts department at the University of Ottawa.

Michel Vallières plays a vital role in the Department of Visual Arts as he aids students with their sculptural projects, and manages the woodshop.