Writing
2012
Jan 2012 Review, “Critics’ Pick: ‘Coming After‘,” Artforum.com.
Jan 2012 Review, “Models for taking part,”esse no. 74 (Winter 2012).
Jan 2012 Review, “You had to go looking for it,”esse no. 74 (Winter 2012).
2011
Nov 2011 Book Review (forthcoming), “Curating and the Educational Turn, Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson (eds.) (2010) and Raising Frankenstein: Curatorial Education and Its Discontents, Kitty Scott (ed.) (2011),” Journal of Curatorial Studies, no. 1, Fall 2011.
Nov 2011 Review, “Critics’ Pick: Didier Courbot,” Artforum.com.
Nov 2011 Feature, “Exhaustive images: surveillance, sovereignty and subjectivity in Google Street View,” commissioned as part of the “Photography in the Age of Biopolitics: Apparatus, Capture, Trace” series edited by Kate Steinmann, Fillip, no. 15, Winter 2011.
Oct 2011 Review, “Critics’ Pick: Barbara Astman,” Artforum.com.
Oct 2011 Exhibition Essay (reprinted from 2009 essay), “Night of the Living Documents” for the exhibition Robert Lendrum: Living Documents, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nov. 4 to Dec. 10, 2011.
Sept 2011 Review, “Suzy Lake, Political Poetics,”esse, no. 73 (Fall 2011).
Sept 2011 Review, “Alex Kisilevich and Geoffrey Pugen,”esse, no. 73 (Fall 2011).
June 2011 Review, “Marcel Dzama: Behind Every Curtain,” C magazine, no. 110 (Summer 2011).
May 2011 Review, “Kelly Mark, Public Disturbance,” esse, no. 72 (Spring/Summer 2011).
May 2011 Review, “Luis Jacob, Pictures at an Exhibition,” esse, no. 72 (Spring/Summer 2011).
March 2011 Review, “Geoffrey Farmer: Playing Stateside,” Canadian Art website, March 17, 2011.
March 2011 Journal article, “Phantasmagoric places: local and global tensions in the circulation of Stan Douglas’ Every Building on 100 West Hastings,” Photography & Culture (Berg), vol. 4 issue 1, peer reviewed.
January 2011 Review, “Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby,” esse, no. 71 (Winter 2011).
January 2011 Review, “To Be Real,” esse, no. 71 (Winter 2o11).
January 2011 Journal article, “Working-through public and private labour in Sophie Calle’s Prenez soin de vous“, n.paradoxa, volume 27, January 2011.
2010
November 2010 Catalogue essay, “Zeesy Powers’ Projected Realities,” Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
October 2010 Reviews, “Site Exercises,” “The Storyteller” and “Yorden Molles,” ARTnews, October 2010.
September 2010 Review, “Steve Lyons and Susan Lakin, Monitors,” esse, no. 70 (Autumn 2010).
September 2010 Review, “Sarah Clifford-Rashotte, No Poetry,” esse, no. 70 (Autumn 2010).
July 2010 Review, “Kutlug Ataman: Home Movies,” Canadian Art website, July 8, 2010.
June 2010 Curatorial essay, “This is uncomfortable,” Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON.
June 2010 Feature (interview with Shauna McCabe), “Dig Up My Heart: Agricultural Aesthetics,” Canadian Art website, June 24, 2010.
May 2010 Review, “No Soul For Sale: Independents’ Day,” Canadian Art website, May 20, 2010.
May 2010 Review, “Adrian Blackwell, Model for a Public Space [knot],” esse, no. 69 (Spring 2010).
May 2010 Review, “Katie Bethune-Leamen, Dazzle Shizzle,” esse, no. 69 (Spring 2010).
May 2010 Feature (interview with Scott Watson), “Breathless Days 1959–1960: Retro Active,” Canadian Art website, May 6, 2010.
Apr 2010 Review, “Exhibition Making with Ghosts: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion at the Art Gallery of York University,” Fillip, no. 11.
Apr 2010 Feature, “Gerald Ferguson: Last Landscapes,” Canadian Art website, April 1, 2010.
Apr 2010 Book review, “Kenneth Hayes’ Milk and Melancholy,” Invisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, NY (Winter 2010).
Mar 2010 Feature, “Faces: CSA Space, Vancouver,” Canadian Art (Spring 2010).
Mar 2010, Exhibition text, “Betty Goodwin and the afterlife of images” for Oakville Galleries’ exhibition “Betty Goodwin: From the collection of Salah J. Bachir,” curated by Marnie Fleming, March 13-June 5, 2010.
Mar 2010 Feature, “Lord Dalhousie: A Collector Ahead of his Time,” Canadian Art website, March 4, 2010.
Jan 2010 Review, “We Interrupt This Program: Print Ads and TV Spots by Artists,” esse, no. 68 (Winter 2010).
Jan 2010 Review “Stephen Appleby-Barr, ‘The Invisible College’,” esse, no. 68 (Winter 2010).
Jan 2010 Feature, “Lex Vaughn: A Chat on Second City and Saskatchewan,” Canadian Art website, Jan. 14, 2010.
2009
Dec 2009 Book chapter, “Photographic Traces of Presents Past,” Emergence: Contemporary Canadian Photography, Sarah Parsons, ed. (Toronto: Gallery 44 and Ryerson University Press, 2009).
Oct 2009 Review, “Cedric Bomford: Scaling the Heights of Creative Critique,” Canadian Art website, Oct. 1, 2009.
Oct 2009 Feature, “Amy Lockhart mines the subconscious,” No More Potlucks, issue no. 5 (Oct 2009).
Sep 2009 Review, “Jon Sasaki, Jessica Vallentin, ‘The Old College Try’,” esse, no. 67 (Fall 2009).
Sep 2009 Review, “Sarah Massecar, Sandra Meigs, Arlene Shechet, ‘feelers’,” esse, no. 67 (Fall 2009).
Sep 2009 Book review, “James Elkins’ Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art,” C magazine, issue 102 (Fall 2009).
April 2009, Blog, 22nd Images Festival.
Mar 2009 Catalogue essay, “Night of the Living Documents,” for Robert Lendrum’s solo exhibition “Living Documents, Dr. Frankenstein’s Guide to Self-Portraiture” at Ryerson Gallery, Toronto, ON.
Mar 2009 Review, “Gakona: Art Goes Electric in Paris,” Canadian Art website, Mar. 19, 2009.
2008
Dec 2008 Feature, “Do Curators Need University Curatorial Programs?” C magazine, issue 100 (Winter 2008).
Dec 2008 Review, “Stan Douglas: Humor, Irony and the Law,” Canadian Art website, Dec. 4, 2008.
Nov 2008 Review, “theanyspacewhatever: Collapsing Institutional Spaces, Or Having Fun Trying,” Canadian Art website, Nov. 27, 2008.
Sept 2008 Catalogue essay, “Introduction,” Jacqueline Treloar: Discovering the Phoenix, exhibition catalogue, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, ON.
Aug 2008 Review, “Close to You: Crafty Pop Culture,” Canadian Art website, Aug. 28, 2008.
Aug 2008 Curatorial essay, “When Exactly Is This Due? Making art against the clock,” for group exhibition “Term Projects,” XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON.
Jul 2008 Review, “Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion,” Canadian Art website, July 24, 2008.
Apr 2008 Review, “Images Festival: So Long, AV Club,” Canadian Art website, Apr. 10, 2008.
Feb 2008 Curatorial essay, “Animator Statement,” Curatorial Incubator v. 5, VIDEO ANIMATION: “What’s Up, Doc?”, exhibition catalogue, V tape, Toronto, ON.
2006
Jan 2006 Critical essay, “Visual Representations of the Holocaust,” Zachor|Remember: The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre newsletter, no. 1, January 2006.
