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Selected Works of Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D., is the Curator of the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

He is also the literary editor of First American Art Magazine and the Canadian section editor of the Art Market Dictionary. . 

Matthew has published extensively on art and visual culture in publications including Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Prefix Photo, ESSE Arts + Opinions, Briarpatch, Blackflash, C Magazine, Alternatives Journal, First American Art, Artinfo Canada, Magenta, ArtUS, Contemporary Canadian Glass, Visual Arts News, and FUSE.

Matthew has also published in several academic journals including Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, The Senses and Society, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Criticism, WRECK: Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, and Shift: Queen’s Journal of Visual and Material Culture.

For guest lectures, writing opportunities, and other engagements, please contact: matthewryansmith733@gmail.com

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About Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D., is the Curator of the Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

He is also the literary editor of First American Art Magazine and the Canadian section editor of the Art Market Dictionary. . 

Matthew has published extensively on art and visual culture in publications including Canadian Art, Border Crossings, Prefix Photo, ESSE Arts + Opinions, Briarpatch, Blackflash, C Magazine, Alternatives Journal, First American Art, Artinfo Canada, Magenta, ArtUS, Contemporary Canadian Glass, Visual Arts News, and FUSE.

Matthew has also published in several academic journals including Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, The Senses and Society, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Criticism, WRECK: Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, and Shift: Queen’s Journal of Visual and Material Culture.

For guest lectures, writing opportunities, and other engagements, please contact: matthewryansmith733@gmail.com

Present	Sessional Professor, University of Toronto
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Art Practice, Visual Studies, Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism, and Politics and Social Change

Contemporary Art, Curatorial Studies, Autobiographical Art, Photography, Relational Aesthetics, Affect Theory, Trauma Theory, and Spectatorship

Selected for Artinfo Canada's "Top 30 Under 30"
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2011-2012
Western Research Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 2008-2010
Graduate Student Teaching Award (Nomination), 2010
Dean's Entrance Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, 2008
UTAPS Bursary, University of Toronto, 2007-2008
Millenium Bursary, York University, 2004
Dean's Entrance Scholarship, York University, 2003

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Skawennati: From SkyWorld to Cyberspace

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Andil Gosine: Coolie, Coolie, Viens

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Contribution to Book

Indigenous Graffiti as Postcolonial Resistance

Aesthetics of Resistance: On the Multiple Forms of Graffiti (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Contribution to Book

Tell-Tale Signs: Unsanctioned Graffiti Interventions in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg

Bronze Warriors and Plastic Presidents: Public Art in South Africa, 1999-2015 (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

My chapter for the edited anthology Public Art in South Africa: 1999-2014 engages the much-neglected visual discourse of graffiti-as-public-art and ...

Articles (96)

Strange Brew: Art, Protest, and the Anti-Fracking Movement

Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Criticism (2019)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

This article examines how contemporary artists respond to the technique of hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as “fracking.” Drawing on ...

(Forthcoming) Assiniboine Actor, Poet, and Playwright William S. Yellow Robe ...

First American Art Magazine (2019)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

William S. Yellow Robe Jr. (b. 1960) was raised on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana and is an ...

(Forthcoming) Tradition and Condition: A Conversation with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

First American Art Magazine (2019)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (b. 1957)is a visual artist of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent based in Vancouver, British Columbia. At ...

Moose Cree Artist Quinn Smallboy

First American Art Magazine (2019)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Clay Cultures and Muddy Waters: Northeastern Woodland Ceramics

First American Art Magazine (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Kinngait in Scale: Embassy of Imagination and the Next Generation ...

Inuit Art Quarterly (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Mi'kmaq Interdisciplinary Artist Jordan Bennett

First American Art Magazine (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Mi'kmaq Poet, Artist, and Educator Michelle Sylliboy

First American Art Magazine (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Ojibwe Actor and Poet Mary Black

First American Art Magazine (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Wasauksing Ojibwe Author & Journalist Waubgeshib Rice

First American Art Magazine (2018)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Annie Pootoogook: In Memorium

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Exploring Native Graphic Design: Damian Jim

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

In Search of Hózhó: Notes on Performance and Performance Art

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Mark Stebbins: Pixel, Paxel, Puxel

Galerie Simon Blais (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Métis Poet Gregory Scofield

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Secwepemc Interdisciplinary Artist Tania Willard

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

The Curtain Falls: An Interview with Jeff Bierk

Blackflash Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

This Other Me: Uses of the Alter Ego in Contemporary ...

First American Art Magazine (2017)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

Scandalous Images, Divine Light: Photography and the Aesthetics of Scanography

Prefix Photo (2016)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

"I Write for my Family": A Conversation with Tanya Lukin ...

First American Art Magazine (2016)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.

(Forthcoming) Ed Pien: The Borders of Empathy

Art Gallery of Mississauga (2016)

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D.