I received my PhD in Art History from Stanford University in early 2023. My dissertation is titled “The Fountain: Art, Sex and Queer Pedagogy in San Francisco, 1945–1995.” I’m back in my hometown of Montreal now.
*NOW*
I hold the 2024–25 General Idea Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
I’ll be speaking on the Society for Cinema and Media Studies panel “Public Intimacies: Rethinking Sexology and Sex Ed Media Cultures” at their 2025 conference in Chicago.
I guest-curated five film/video screenings (running March 20 to April 10, 2025) to accompany the exhibition a field of bloom and hum at the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, and will also participate in a symposium for it.
I’m co-curating the presentation of the exhibition Three Way Mirror: Daniel Barrow, Glenn Gear, Paige Gratland at the Stewart Hall Art Gallery in Pointe Claire, QC, opening Sunday, April 13, 2025 from 2–5pm and running until June 22. I also wrote an essay for their exhibition at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna.
My cover story “The Scene of the Crime” on artist Lyle Ashton Harris was published in Camera Austria 168 (2024).
I wrote a short text on Mike Hoolboom’s film In the Theatre for the book Mike Hoolboom: Work, edited by Clint Enns (Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute, 2025).
My article “‘Manhandle the Merchandise’: Michael Snow’s Breakfast (Table Top Dolly)” was published in Pop Cinema (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), edited by Glyn Davis and Tom Day.
My article “The Remains of Jerome Caja and Charles Sexton” was published in the Archives of American Art Journal 63.2 (2024).
I wrote a short text on John Greyson’s video The World Is Sick (sic) for the collection Toronto Living with AIDS, edited by Ryan Conrad (Toronto: PUBLIC Books, 2024).
My essay “Trying to See What Isn’t There” was published in Afterimage51.3 (2024).
My essay on Gregg Bordowitz’s film Fast Trip, Long Drop was reprinted in Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly, edited by Sam Ashby (London: SPBH Editions, 2024).
I wrote some of the artist biographies for C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz’s exhibition catalogue for Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art (Los Angeles: Inventory Press with Williams College Museum of Art, Vincent Price Art Museum, and Independent Curators International, 2024).
My article with August Klintberg, “Why Can’t I Be Two People?: Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemer’s The Same Problem” was published in the Journal of Canadian Art History 43. 1–2 (2022) special issue on collaboration edited by Erin Silver and Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere.
*RECENT*
I guest-curated the annual retrospective program for the 2024 Berlin Porn Film Festival. San Francisco Sexual Babylon consisted of six film programs that highlighted the San Francisco Bay Area as the epicenter of the sexual revolution, and a place where artists of all kinds worked to advance sexual liberation. It ran from Tuesday, October 22 to Sunday, October 27 at Kino Moviemento, Berlin.
I guest-curated That Directionless Light of the Future: Rediscovering Russell FitzGerald from the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery collection at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, which ran from September 3 to December 8, 2024. The webpage above includes the exhibition brochure, the full curatorial essay, installation shots, and audio of my curatorial tour from the opening reception. There was also a panel in tandem with the show on the topic of “Difficult Kinship” at UBC on November 22, 2024.
I participated in « Draguer » le musée et ses sources : la queerness face aux archives, the Centre Pompidou’s Bibliothèque Kandinsky’s 9th summer school and its journal in July 2023.
My essay “The End of the Line” about Nelson Henricks’ work for was published in the Vidéographe online publication accompanying his win of the 2024 Robert-Forget Award.
I wrote the text for Kyle Alden Martens’ exhibition Spun Through the Heel at Patel Brown, Montreal, April 25 – June 1, 2024.
I curated a four-screening series, Vibrations for a New People, for the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, May 3–4 (in person) and May 10–11, 2024, 7pm. Special guest Glenn Belverio made this blog post about it. I also wrote an essay, “Morbid Symptoms,” for the Walker’s online Reader.
My article “‘Landscapes’: Andy Warhol and Victor Hugo’s collaborations in gay sex and art” was published in Porn Studies journal in April 2024.
I co-curated the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar “Queer World-Mending” with artist Steve Reinke, June 17–23, 2023 at Skidmore College, NY. You can find the list of artists here, the program listing here and the publication here. I later presented the curated program Unshielded in the Tang Teaching Museum’s “Whole Grain: Experiments in Film & Video” screening series on Monday, March 18, 2024.
My paper “The Word Made Flesh: On John Bentley Mays’s ‘Miracles of Emanuel Jaques'” is in RACAR 48.1 (2023). I presented it at the UAAC Conference at the University of Toronto on October 29, 2022 on the panel Queer Episodes of Canadian Art and at the General Idea Symposium at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, on June 4, 2022.
I have an essay called “Defaced” in Chris Curreri (Kingston, ON: Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Contemporary Calgary, 2023), edited by Emelie Chhangur.
EDITING
I edited an anthology of video artist Colin Campbell’s scripts and other writings (short fiction, articles, talks, excerpts of his two novels, etc.) for Concordia University Press entitled More Voice-Over: Colin Campbell Writings. It has been reviewed by Charles Reeve in RACAR, Francisco-Fernando Granados in C Magazine and Keith Garebian in Literary Review of Canada.
I also edited issues #5 and #6 (2021) of Little Joe magazine with Sam Ashby.
CURATING
“I Almost Ran Over Liza Minnelli Today”: Colin Campbell and Lisa Steele in L.A., 1976–77 was on view at the ONE Gallery, West Hollywood, from July 8 until September 23, 2018. Press: Artforum Critic’s Pick. It toured to VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal (February 11–June 26, 2021) and Or Gallery, Vancouver (November 19, 2022–January 28, 2023). Press from tour: Le Devoir, Vie des Arts and ReIssue.
Shary Boyle & Emily Vey Duke: The Illuminations Project was on view at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, from February 3 until April 29, 2018. Press: Halifax Magazine, Visual Arts News, The Coast, Akimbo, and Rachel M Thornton.
See my Curating page for all other exhibitions and screenings.
WRITING
I reviewed the exhibitions Velvet Terrorism: Pussy Riot’s Russia at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and The Lives of Documents—Photography as Project at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal for Camera Austria (issues 165, 163).
I reviewed Rui Mateus Amaral, Paul P. and Scott Treleaven’s book Scott Burton: Garden Court for C Magazine online (May 24, 2023).
I had the great pleasure of writing personal ads for horses (“Horse 4 Horse”) with illustrations by Logan MacDonald for Hazel Meyer’s project DEEP HORSE TEXTS (2022).
I wrote “Where Nostalgia Languishes: Josh Faught and San Francisco” for the CCA Wattis Institute Library’s 2022 Open Call.
I wrote a short text for students about David Wojnarowicz’s Untitled (One Day This Kid…) for Smarthistory.
I wrote “Cinema for the Dead?: Queer Diaristic Film & Video” for A Companion to Experimental Cinema (Wiley Blackwell, 2022), edited by Federico Windhausen.
My PhD advisor Richard Meyer and I have “A Dialogue” in A Concise Companion to Visual Culture (Wiley Blackwell, 2021), edited by Aubrey Anable, Joan Saab and Catherine Zuromskis.
A personal introduction to the films of Curt McDowell was published on the Friends of Canyon Cinema platform in December 2021.
My essay “Stuck Aesthetics” on artist Séamus Gallagher was published as part of the exhibition We Buy Gold, curated by Michèle Pearson Clarke, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2021.
My article “Sell Your Parents: Marketing the Handwriting of Julia Warhola and Phung Vo” was published in Master Drawings 58, no. 3 (2020).
I wrote a short memorial text for RM Vaughan (1965–2020) to accompany the curated program A Selection of Dazzling Scarves: Films & Videos by RM Vaughan for CFMDC and Vtape.
“The Fountain” for The Hoosac Institute 6 (2020).