Concise, clear and consistent, the catalogue that accompanies the exhibition Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American...

Desire and sex and lust. The conflation of signifiers of sensuality and femininity in female...

Clive Holden’s new work UNAMERICAN UNFAMOUS, recently on display at the Ryerson Image Centre at...

An approach to artmaking that is driven by the prospect of chance, by the accidental,...

“Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture,” which opened at the Power Plant this...

When Mass MOCA’s ambitious survey exhibition, “Oh Canada,” opened its crowded wares to the public,...

The McIntosh Gallery pairing of pop-text artists Jason McLean and Raymond Pettibon yields a marriage...

Moving, powerful, terrifying, “Observance and Memorial: Photographs from S-21, Cambodia” at the Royal Ontario Museum...

Jaret Belliveau is a Moncton-based photographer and filmmaker whose photographic work addresses illness and loss....

Relational viewing is also linked to poststructuralist theory, which has provided a framework for shifting...

Documenting the painter in the act of painting is not a new idea: think of...

Karin Doleske’s most recent series Embedded Paintings from 2012 maintains a heightened interest in placing...

Itamar Jobani’s recent body of sculptural work synthesizes human forms with found and mass-produced objects....

With her reality television project Subjects, Toronto-based artist Zeesy Powers draws a line of flight...

Adel Abdessemed’s Future of Décor at OCAD’s Onsite Gallery is the artist’s first solo exhibition...

Paintings are not talking heads. They can produce a conversation, an interaction, an exchange. They...

Documented over a period of five years, “Dominion Street” presents a visual narrative of love,...

Slightly Unbalanced explores psychological states of being and neurosis. Splintered into four categories including, “Progenitors,”...

Located within Massa Marittima’s public fountain, the Fonte dell’Abbondanza, the mural of a tree featuring...

The methods of collage are full of meaning. In the years succeeding the ‘golden age’...

Dale Chihuly is the enigmatic celebrity artist heralded as the saviour of the decorative and...

Larry Clark’s Tulsa and Nan Goldin’s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency share a close conceptual...

In the chapter “The Ethical Turn of Aesthetics and Politics” from Jacques Rancière’s book Dissensus:...

Tulsa is the first photography book or visual material that accurately documents the emerging drug...

I am interested in how and why autobiographical visual art moves us through our past....

This project considers that the confessional video camera works in similar ways to the confessional....

In former and current academic forums concerning the literary genres of autobiography and confession, the...

Photographed during three stages throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Larry Clark took off from...

Britain’s art community never heard tell of Richard Billingham until he exhibited a staunchly candid...

The landscape of contemporary research on confessional and autobiographical visual art is relatively barren. Few...

In his essay of 1945, The Kiss in Roman Law, Nathan T. Steinlauf contemplated the...

This exhibition investigates the manner in which our private lives precondition the act of seeing....

London, Ontario has often been described as a city that nurtures a rich vein of...

As the exhibition title suggests, (Re)verse Ekphrasis: Works from the McIntosh Collection, flips traditional notions...

This dissertation examines the communicative relationship between contemporary autobiographical art and the viewer. By analyzing...

Indeed, the prevalence of roadside memorials has increased significantly over the past several decades and...

Daniel Johnston is not a secret anymore. In 2005 director Jeff Feuerzeig released the Sundance...

Autobiographical art, as a mode for recollection and self-discovery in the viewer, is a fundamental...

With 'Ray's a Laugh,' Richard Billingham arrests a moment of the mass manufacturing class’s evolution...

It is the objective of this essay to elucidate some of the more common influences...

In examining five painful images from Nan Goldin’s narrative of post-battering self-portraiture, I probe the...