Graduate Programs
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Completed Theses
2020
2019
Christina Battle - Disaster as a Framework for Social Change: Searching for new patterns across plant ecology and online networks
Thomas D. Baynes - More than a Spasm, Less than a Sign: Queer Masculinity in American Visual Culture, 1915-1955
Jessica Cappuccitti - Rui(N)ation: Narratives of Art and Urban Revitalization in Detroit
Colin Dorward - The Medieval Genesis of a Mythology of Painting
Ido Govrin - Philosophical Archeology in Theoretical and Artistic Practice
Maryse Lariviere - The Simultaneous Book: Women's Writing in Contemporary Art
Santiago Ulises Unda Lara - Collaborative Listening and Cultural Difference in Contemporary Art
2018
Mark Kasumovic - Interfaces of Nearness: Documentary Photography and the Representation of Technology
Rehab Nazzal - Representation of Settler Colonial Violence in Palestine, A Thesis in support of the multi-media exhibition Choreographies of Resistance
Helen Parkinson- The English Landscapes in the Seventeenth Century
2017
2016
Michael Farnan- Representing Wilderness: Community, Collaboration, and Artistic Practice
Helen Gregory- Un-Natural Histories: The Specimen as Site of Knowledge Production in Contemporary Art
2015
Trista Mallory- Standing for Something Not Present: Contested Representations in Contemporary Art
Jennifer Orpana- Faces of (and for) Toronto: Community-Engaged Portrait Projects in the Neoliberal City
2014
David Kemp - The Things We Know but Cannot Explain
Colin E. Miner - A Photographic Ontology: Being Haunted Within The Blue Hour And Expanding Field
Stephanie Karen Radu - Making Ourselves at Home: Representation, Preservation & Interpretation at Canada's House Museums
2013
Patton, Andrew - A Painter's Brush That Also Makes Poems: Contemporary Painting After Northern Song Calligraphy
2012
Gurney, Janice – All Alliance of Fragments: Actor-Network-Theory and the Translation of Things
Jordan, Miriam - Dialogical Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art
Rodgers, Kevin - Out of Order: Thinking Through Robin Collyer, Discontent and Affirmation (1973-1985)
Smith, Matthew - Relational Viewing: Affect, Trauma and the Viewer in Contemporary Autobiographical Art
2011
Ghaznavi, Corinna - Animal: A Curatorial Approach
Hallows, Jason – Demonstration
Villar, Andrés - Latin American Visual Arts in the 1920s
2020
George Kubresli - The Hell of a Boiling Red
Ramolen Mencero Laruan - still, unfolding
2019
Kate Carder-Thompson - Spanning
Johnathan Onyschuk - Bone Meal
Lydia Santia - Inventory
Zhizi Wang - Absence and Proximity
2018
Tyler Durbano - and where is the body?
Sharmistha Kar - Next to a River: Mobility, Mapping, and Hand Embroidery
Raheleh Saneie - SuperNova: Performing Race, Hybridity and Expanding the Geographical Imagination
Matthew Trueman - Slower Than Time Itself
Graham Macaulay - Buffer
2017
Paul Chartrand - Gardening at Arm's Length
Charles Lee Franklin Harris - Lesser Than Greater Than Equal To: The Art Design Paradox
Sarah Munro - The Longest Way Round Is the Shortest Way Home
Samantha Noseworthy - Midheaven
Quin Smallboy – Drum Voice
Quintin Teszeri - On Coming and Going
2016
Juanita Lee Garcia - Beyond the Look of Representation: Defamiliarization, Décor, and the Latin Feel
Mina Moosavipour - Emphatic Tension
Simone Sciascetti - Symbiotic: The Human Body and Constructs of Nature
Jason Stovall - Thin Skin
2015
Sherry Czekus - Crowdsourcing
Lynette de Montreuil - Dust to Dust
Michael Psczonak - Hand-Eye
Niloufar Salimi - Tangled Hair: Uncertain Fluid Identity
Matthew Tarini - Liminal Space: Representations of Modern Urbanity
2014
Hobot, Barbara - What Lies Behind: Speculations on the Real and the Willful
Martin, Jennifer - Turning to see otherwise
Moore, Tegan - Matters of Airing
Oppedisano, Amanda - Liquidation
Peters, Jared - Just As It Should Be: Painting and the Discipline of Everyday Life
Solti, Gabriella - From 'Means to Ends': Labour As Art Practice
Yoo, Diana - Across Boundaries
2013
Brown, Kyla – Following the Turn: Mapping as Material Art Practice
Jeresky, Jeremy P. - Communicative Methodologies and Mechanisms in Public Art
Mitrow, Laura – Felted Disruption: An Analysis of Double Coding in the Felt Works of Luanne Martineau
Whitaker, Giles – Some Theoretical Models for a Critical Art Practice
Yabut, Thea – Lines of Necessity
2012
Black, Anthea – Of All Possible Worlds: Mapping Queer Craft and Collaboration
Eurich, Liza – Latency in Process and Perception
Isaacs, Brad - Double Negative: Taxidermy, Photography and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Dioramas”
Klassen, Neil – The Elemental Earth: Renewed Ways of Seeing and Perceiving
Neudorf, Kim - Call and Response: Catachresis and Reciprocity in Painting
O’Connor, Daniel - The Joystick and the Paintbrush: Useless or Meaningful in the Age of Technology
2011
Teigen, Matthew - The Look of Math
Bucknell, Lea – Adhoc Folly Building in Contemporary Art
Garoo, Gautam – Passages (is and was): Tracing Indian Visual Culture and the Sacred through Craft and Contemporary Art
McGeean, Michelle – Tit for Tat: (Re) Production in Sculpture and Architecture
Williams, Robert – We Are What We Pretend To Be: Making the case for Contemporary Painting as Gratuitous
2010
O'Dette, Kelly - Archival Nostalgia
Cushnie, John - Eidolon Prospects: Syncope, Peter Doig, and the Practice of Painting
Kolahdouz-Esfahani, Soheila - Trans-(across, over, beyond): Investigations of Cultural Translation in Visual Arts
Quail, Jamie K. - DIY: Politics and Aesthetics in the Margins and the Mainstream
2009
Beneke, Katja - Exploring the Visual Representation of Teen Idols
Kaipainen, Patrick – No Thing in Particular
Murnaghan, John – Game Over and Over
Rayburn, Nicole – Monstrous Propositions
Wanner, Jennifer – Ecosimulacra
2008
Bonli, Liv – Down the Dark Hall, Up the Stairs
Lei, Chak Man – Dark-Earth Manual: Approaching an Ink-Based Art Practice
Longfield, Brian – The Montage of Gestures
Andrew MacDonald - Fragments
Panic, Slavica – Betwixt and Between
Sparling, Matthew – Military Signifiers on Clothing, Fashion and Portrait Photography
2007
Blair Fornwald – Between Nothing and Something.
Dagmara Genda – Identity and Exile.
Kathryn Immonen – Soft Cover.
Stephen Lavigne – The Space Between Systems.
Derek Liddington – Can I Borrow That? Investigating Strategies of Citation, Mimicry and Inspiration in Art.
Todd Tremeer – Painting History/History Painting.
Conan Masterson – Kaleidoscopic.
2006
Michael Davidge - Weak Thought and the Visual Arts.
Arnold Koroshegyi - Beyond the Circle of Confusion.
Ayako Kurokawa - Past Memories, Present Feeling.
Daniel Wong - Letters to a Young Poet.
2005
Anna Madelska - Cosmopoeisis: World-Making
Brendan Fernandes - The Kenyan Safari Lodge: Fantasizing about an Authentic Vacation Culture
Demian Petryshyn - An Amoebic Urge: A Contemporary View of Artist-run Centre System in Canada
Elizabeth Phillips - Becoming Adaptation: Idiosyncratic Sketches on (Self) Portrait Painting (and Writing)
Kathleen Ritter - At the Doors to the Gallery
Steven Laurie - Celebratory Angst: Performing Masculinity
2004
Debra Dyer - Lost in the Details
Lisa Fedorak - Tainted Strokes
Amy Harrison - Childlikeness
Alex Homanchuk - The City Will Recall
Pamela Wilson - Appropriation and Irony: Post modern Elements in the Work of Three Contemporary Canadian Artists
2003
Pedro Correia - By Design: Ornament and Fascism
Joscelyn Gardner - White Skin, Black Kin: Theorizing the Representation of Creole Identity
Sarah Peterson - RE-VIEWING A History of Landscape and Wilderness Perception
Raffaela Prencipe - 100% Natural: Escape and Identity Within the Suburban Garden
Dana Samuel - Archives in Action: Narrative Technologies and Interactive Art.
2002
Sarah Beveridge - Private Intervention into Public Spaces
Paul Dreossi - Blood, Sweat, and Gears: An Examination of Performed Representations of Masculine Subjectivity
Robyn Foster - Escape Hatch: Escape from Everyday Lived Reality through Transitional Objects
Larry Glawson - Photography, Sex and Dancing
Mark Schilling - The Spectres of Brecht and Benjamin: “New” Media, Access, Resistance
2001
Lucia M. Cipriano - Ruses Not Muses
Jennifer Dorner - Between Departure and Arrival: Exploring Site Production
Chris Down - "The Impossibility of Painting is Merely a Feeling"
Adriana E. Kuiper - Semi-Detached
Larisa MacSween - Everyday Girl Anxieties and Superhero Alter Ego Fantasies
2000 & prior
David Armstrong - Erratics and Errata: Printing between Horizons (2000)
Dana J. Dansereau - One Day: Technology, Tactics and Time (2000)
Toni Latour - Conflicts and Contractiions: Questions of Excess, Autonomy and Value within Artistic Production (2000)
Maymee Ying Lum - Filum (2000)
Paola V. Poletto - Moonscapes and Menus: Artistic Production, Personal Experience and the Analogy of Hibernation (2000)
Olexander S. Wlasenko - Ethnic Limbs: Diasporic Memory (2000)
Shinobu Akimoto - L.M.R. (Last Month's Rentor Living Making Reflex) (1999)
Kim Dawn Graham - (in) between the space(s) of terror i find fragments of my memory (1999)
Marc G. Lebreche - A Visual Re-Presentation of the World and the Philosophical Self (1999)
Christine Shaw - Locomotion (1999)
Christy L. Thompson - Carrying Wet Laundry & Starting Fires (1999)
David Grenier - Homo Sweet Homo (1998)
Franklyn George - Stories and Iyahlogues (1997)
Shelley Niro - A Journey Through Iroquois Myths, Legends, Icons and History (1997)
Andy Patton - Some Current Problems with Painting (1997)
Kim Simon - Otherwise Than Seeing (1997)
Sharon Switzer - Waltzing in Now-Time (1997)
2020
Avery Lafortune - Clothed in History: Costume and Medievalism in Fantasy Film and Television
Adriana Berardini - The Aesthetics of Intimacy: Viewing Nan Goldin and Zoe Leonard through Affect and Activism
Katarzyna Czarniecka - Materiality of Photography from the Perspective of Landscape Representations
Kimberlyn Hawkins - THEMUSEUM: A Case Study in the Role of Social Media on Museum Practices and Curation
Harper Wellman - Caught in Between: The Memorials of Diana, Princess of Wales
2019
Nakasuk Alariaq - Sanaugavut: Art from Kinngait
Claire Bartleman - Affective and Sensuous Critique in the Undergraduate Art Classroom
Brianna Lagacé - Animated Art History: A Look into Disney’s Representation of Artwork in Film
Leah Abaza - Aura in the Digital
Iraboty Kazi - Renaissance Portraits of Dante & Florentine Civic Identity Ira Kazi
Meghan O'Neill - A Staircase of Citizen Participation: Preservation of The Old Towns in Tbilisi, Tallinn and Edinburgh
2018
Regan Benner - The 24-hour Death and Disaster Cycle
Shayla MacDonald – Copycat Commercialism: A Marxist Critique of Louis Vuitton’s Masters collection
Michelle Rosenblat – Helen Levitt: American Woman, Jewish Sensibility
Jessica Sealey – Looters or Liberators? The Subjugation of the Egyptian Body Through Western Intervention, Looting, and Collecting
Bruno Sinder – “Performing Citizenship, Picturing Identity: Family Photography and Post-War Portuguese Immigration”
Madelaine Tripp – The Art of Nothing
2017
Kelsey Perreault’s - Remembrance as Presence: Promoting Learning from Difficult Knowledge at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Asfora, Beatriz - Memory, Trauma, and the Act of Collecting
Dreise, Christie - Infrastructure Canada – A Tour of ‘Everyday’ Canadian Spaces
Kelly, Kylie - Exposing the Secret Museum: Perceptions of Sexuality, Pornography, and Morality in Ancient Pompeii
Kopp, Shelley - The Vision for Pluralism at The Aga Khan Museum: A potent tool or a paltry gesture?
Rabideau, Caroline - The History of Art History at Western University
Sinclair, Mackenzie - Kara Walker’s The Marvelous Sugar Baby and the Activation of American History
2016
Bock, Claude - The Effects of Truth and Reconciliation on Contemporary Indigenous Art within Canada
Davidson, Taylor - “Life Beyond Itself”. Religion and Aesthetics in William Morris’ Printed Textiles, 1881-1888
Flavelle, Genevieve - The night before utopia: queer feminist art praxis at the Feminist Art Gallery
McCavitt, Keely - 3D Technologies and the Future of Repatriation in Canada
McKenzie, Kelly - Laughing in the Face of Apocalypse: Kelly Richardson has a Sense of Humour
Oates, Katie - “A Fleeting Moment in a Floating World”: The Women of the Beat Generation Through Allen Ginsberg’s Eyes
Spinney, Carling - No Vacancy: Alternative Spaces for Exhibition
2015
Ruth Skinner - In Time but not of Time: Jessica Eaton and Erin Sherreff's Counterpoints of View
Kimberly Barton
Grace Bedwell - Sitting in the Museum of Modern Art: Collecting Alvin Lucier’s Seminal Work, I Am Sitting in a Room
Emily Jackson - Taking the Landscape Out of the Frame: Embodied Writing, “Writing In”, and Decolonizing Landscape Art in Canada
Lisa Lawlis
Kelly McKenzie
Brad Morosan - The Best Defense is a Good Offense: A Brief Look at Defensive Architecture
Nicole Rutberg - Emma Sulkowicz and FORCE: Restoration and Restitution in Contemporary Anti-Rape Activist Art
Quintin Teszeri
2014
Nicole C. Borland - Creative Interventions and Urban Revitalization
Amy Gaizauskas - A Wishy-Washy, Sort-of-Feeling: Episodes in the History of the Wishy-Washy Aesthetic
Karly A. McIntosh - Come Together: An Exploration of Contemporary Participatory Art Practices
Margherita N. Papadatos - A Space Without Memory: Time and the Sublime in the Work of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller
Elyse N. Tsotsos - Presenting the Fashion Object: Analyzing the exhibition Fashioning the Object: Bless, Boudicca, Sandra Backlund
2013
Angove, Samantha - We Come in Piece: Art Exhibitions, Science Fiction & Postcoloniality
Webster, Cierra – Theorizing Queer: Homonationalisms and the Art Institution
Wittich, Stephanie – Reminiscences: The Medievalisms of Wassily Kandinsky
2012
Anderson, Stephanie – Use it or Lose it: Inuit Art and the ‘Soft Power’ of Canadian Cultural Diplomacy
Franklin, Jordana – The Personal is Presentable: Transgressing the Public-Private Divide Through the Art of Sophie Calle and Tracey Emin
Klaric, Stefani – Narrative Brought to Life: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Quick, Sophia – Putting in Time: Long-Durational Performance Art Spectatorship
Ritchie, Laura – Material Labour: Artistic Work and the Creative Industries
Ruhloff, Melissa – Re-Inventing the Group of Seven: Appropriation and Criticality in Contemporary Canadian Art
2011
Arenson, Emma - Fragmentation and Representations of Disability in Monuments
Bentley, Simon - Jack Chambers and the New Spanish Realists
Kitzul, Carrie - en/Gendered Hierarchies: Representations of Nation, Gender, and Class in the Work of Miwa Yanagi and Yoshiko Shimada
Mahabir, Geddesa - The Construction of the Late-Renaissance Individual
Moussa, Ahlia – Point of Origin
Walker-Gugan, Hillary – Domestic Pleasures: The Aesthetic Experience of Eldon House
2010
Cyr, Julia - Visions of Power: The Art Patronage of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici in Sixteenth-Century Florence
Feagan, Claire - Surrealist Castle Culture: Gothic Traces in Surrealist Aesthetics
Mortillaro, Rosanna - Built Form and Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Pope Sixtus V and the Lateran Palace
Orpana, Jennifer - The Visual Griots of Mali: Nation Building and Cultural Negotiation with Youth Outreach Photography
Poulsen, Diana - But Today We Collect Videogames: Citation, Appropriation, The Open Work and the Neo-Baroque in Videogames
Radu, Stephanie - Sarah Lucas's Food for Thought
Rothstein, Erin - Pablo Picasso and Primitivism: An Exploration of "Non-Western" and Medieval Influences in Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
Sarma, Jon - Art and Artificiality: The Re/De(con)struction of "Natural" Gender in 1990s Visual Culture
2009
Manning, Danielle - Naturalism Re-visioned
Peters, Sonja - Coney Island in Early Twentieth Century Photography and Film
Serebrin, Kylie - Navigating Surrealist Cinemaphilia
Skelly, Andrea - Containers of Electronic Art
2008
Copeland, Krystle - The Annunciation: Visual, Spatial, and Textual Ideologies
Eunjoo Lee – Unpainted Sky: 17th and 18th Century Naturalism in Korea and Europe
Smith, Melissa - Sixteenth Century Developments in Emblematics
Szabo, Maria – Kaleidoscope Vision: Modern Perspectives in the Work of Pegi Nicol MacLeod
Puteris, Rima - Performing Absense: Ana Mendieta and Janine Antoni
2007
Carroll, Leanne – The ‘Hoax’ of Minimalism: Robert Morris and the Octoberists.
Evans, Siân – The Book of Kells’ Ornament and Audience.
Kennedy, Jennifer – Paris vu Par: New Wave, Modernism and the Cinematic City.
Villar, Andrés – Espana típica: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s “Vision of Spain” at the Hispanic Society of America
2006
Adam Stead - Acting, Ausstattung and Audience in Medieval Germany.
Riva Symko - Vitalizing Sounds, Visionary Sights.
Iuliana Strambeanu - Cinematic Experiments in Multimedia Installations.
Bettina Urcuioli - Materiality and the Aura.
2005
Susan Edelstein - Eclipsed Environments: Redefining the Space of Home.
Marina Folescu - On Stillness and Movement in Videos by Bill Viola, Mark Lewis and Stacey Lancaster.
Amanda Morhart - Giorgio Vasari: Imitation and Invention in Painting and Lives.
Irina Radchenko - Rembrandt's 'seeing eye' and Protestant Aesthetics.
Carol-Ann Ryan - Guido Molinari, Claude Tousignant, and Geometric Abstraction in the 1960s: The Canadian Contribution.
Michael Windover - Living Art Deco Style: An Investigation of Toronto's Hybrid Modernity. [more]
2004
Mark Schilling - Andy Warhol's Contaminated Modernism
Beitske Sybrandy - The Evolution of the Skate and its Representation in Dutch Landscape Painting of the 17th Century.
Jolaine Frizzell - Framing, Framer, Framed: A Dialogue of Psychoanalysis in the Work of Mary Scott
2003
Mary Kavanagh - Collecting Dust: Sensual Acts and Recollection as Transformative Gesture.
Laura Petican - Arte Povera: The Persistence of the Baroque.
2002
Sarah Demelo - Self Portraits without Selves: Gender Performance and Photographic Self Portraiture.
Kristen Hutchinson - The Fragmented Figure in Contemporary Art: Works of Robert Gober and Louise Bourgeois.
Sarah Lippert - Gustave Moreau and the Paragone: An Investigation of the Ut Pictura Poesis Legacy in the Work of a Nineteenth-Century History Painter.
Tara Wittman - Paradox and Play in Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades.
2001
Craig Buckley - "Continuing Misfortune" Reconsidered: Automatism between Art and Science.
Jessica Marshall - Viollet-le-Duc’s Writing and Reconstruction: Gothic and Otherwise.
Carrie L. Vassallo - The Early Years of Art History in English-Speaking Canada: McMaster, Toronto, and Queen's Universities, CA. 1930-1945.
Ryan Whyte - Charm and Subjectivity in Walter Pater: A Comparative Study.
2000 & prior
Marco Ranjan Deyasi - Collecting & Colonialism at Eldon House: Theories of Collecting, Tourism, and the British Empire, as they relate to the Harris Collection at Eldon House, London, Ontario, Canada. (2000)
Joanna Eve Schreyer - Balance of Wealth: An Economic Interpretation of a Gdansk Triptych. (2000)
Dennis M. P. Zimmer - Painting as Property: An examination of the Various Influences that Transformed the collections of Édouard de Rothschild and Paul Rosenberg. (2000)
Peter Johnathan Bates - The Canadian Corporate Art Collection: The Hidden Museum. (1999)
Jennifer A. Cottrill - Fortuitous Encounters. (1999)
Barbara Edwards - Toronto Art: A History of Connectedness, 1970-98. (1999)
Melinda Ellison - Images of Venus in Epithalamic Art of the Italian Renaissance, 1460-1540. (1999)
C. Brent Epp - Architecture and Urban Culturation in Vienna. (1999)
Christine A. Sprengler - Imag(in)ing the Fifties. (1999)
Claire Sykes - August Sander and the Task of the Photographer. (1999)
Catherine Ann Thomas - Trans: Intersections of Art, Life and the Art Gallery. (1999)
Kimberly Anne Wahl - The Machine in Early Twentieth-Century Art. (1999)
Marci Hatch - The Value of Forgeries: A Meaningful Tool of Art. (1998)
Jennifer Paparao - Installation Art: Towards a Questioning of Boundaries. (1998)
Joel Robinson - An Architecture of Soul-Modernity, Libeskind and the Spiritual. (1997)