www.envisioninglgbt.com Envisioning Global LGBT Human Rights Professor Nicol is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work is grounded in the tradition of the artist as activist, probing issues of human rights, social justice and struggles for social change. Nicol’s research, writing and creative projects include video art and documentary as well as critical writing in LGBT …
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Nina Levitt
An artist working in photography, installation and video, Nina Levitt’s practice examines the representation of women in popular culture and often involves the recovery and manipulation of existing images. Her work has been recognized with dozens of grants including a SSHRC Research Creation Grant, and has been widely published and reviewed, including feature articles in Parachute #100 and Canadian …
Yam Lau
Yam Lau’s creative work and research explore new expressions and qualities of space, time and image. His most recent works combine video and computer-generated animation to re-create familiar spaces in varied dimensionalities and perspectives. In addition to his new media work, he is actively involved in the local art community. Certain aspects of his practice, …
Leslie Korrick
Formerly of the interdisciplinary Fine Arts Cultural Studies program at York University, Dr. Leslie Korrick is an Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Art and Art History in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design and is appointed to the graduate programs in Art History & Visual Culture and Science & Technology …
Katherine Knight
Katherine Knight is nationally recognized for her photographic and installation works, which often incorporates black and white stills, text and archival material. Her work explores the intersection of private and public experience through landscape-based approaches. Professor Knight has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows across Canada and in the United States, and her works …
Hong Kal
Hong Kal teaches visual art and culture of East Asia. She has written about expositions and museums in relation to the formation of national identity. Her current research focuses on trauma art, socially engaged art, and artistic intervention in urban development in Korea. Her research was supported by Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Stanford University (2003-2005), …
Janet Jones
Professor Jones’ teaching and research interests combine creative work and academic study, focusing on studio art and cultural theory, and how these two areas interrelate. The influence of critics on artists has been a topic of particular interest in her writings. Her current research focuses on the present situation of painting in relation to modernism …
Anna Hudson
Anna Hudson is an art historian, curator, writer and educator specializing in Canadian art, curatorial and Indigenous studies. Formerly Associate Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Hudson is now a professor in the Graduate Program in Art History, Department of Visual Art & Art History at York University. Hudson’s collaborative curatorial credits include …
Brian Grosskurth
Professor Grosskurth’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art history and theory. His current research interests includes work on contemporary art and philosophy, contemporary public sculpture and the relations between the arts during the Romantic era. Selected Published Works ‘Mourning and Mimesis’, Oxford Art Journal (Autumn 2009) “Solitude as Style: Berlioz and the Topography of Sound’ in Regarding …
Sarah Parsons
Professor Sarah Parsons teaches courses in the history and theory of photography, modern art, Canadian art, and art crime. My research focuses on the history and theory of photography. My current research project, “Feeling Exposed: Photography, Privacy, and Visibility in Nineteenth-Century North America,” is funded by a SSHRC Insight Grant (2019 – 2024). This project …
