Maegan Harbridge, BFA, MFA, PhD candidate

Education

2020-current

  • PhD candidate, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto

2015

  • Summer Institute of Art, European Graduate School, Switzerland

  • Master of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Guelph

2013

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

Publications and Presentations

2024

  • Care/full Looking: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Account of Painting, Genealogy of the Posthuman, forthcoming: June 2024

  • Care/full Looking: Notes Towards a Posthumanist Account of Painting, Beyond Humanism Conference Series “Technologies-Ecologies and the Networks of Posthuman Care”, conference presenter, Posthumanities Research Centre, Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz, July 2024

2023

  • “A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” Ecocene: Journal of Environmental Humanities, June 2023

  • “The Affect of “Unfixing” the Canadian Tundra,” conference presenter, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Toronto

2022

  • “A Shadow is a Colour, a Body is a Shape, an Edge is a Line: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting, Part 1” 2, Borderland, November 2023

  • “A Shadow is a Colour, a Body is a Shape, an Edge is a Line: Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” Part 2, Borderland, November 2023

2012

  • “Contemporary Landscapes”; artist talk, Cityscape Gallery, Vancouver

  • Undersides; web publication, Vancouver

  • Reimaging Water; exhibition catalogue, Vancouver

  • Goodnight Goodluck; exhibition review, Tri-City News, Vancouver

  • Goodnight Goodluck; exhibition review, Where Magazine, Vancouver

  • Goodnight Goodluck; art on transit, BC Translink, Vancouver

2010

  • Uitkyk: exhibition catalogue, Distell Foundation publication, Cape Town

Solo Exhibitions

2023

  • Entangled Terrains, Special Projects Gallery, York University

2015

  • Silver Mirror Woven Veil, G Gallery, Toronto

2012

  • Goodnight Goodluck, Port Moody Art Centre, Port Moody Selected Exhibitions

2010

  • No Matter How Temporary, Knysna Art Gallery, Knysna, South Africa

Selected Exhibitions

2024

  • Fresh Paint / New Construction, Art Mûr, Montreal

2023

  • Intelligence Unboud, Foreign Objekt, Berkeley California

2022

  • Colour and Form, Etobicoke Civic Center Gallery, Toronto

  • With-and-For, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto

2015

  • This is a Demo, Summer Institute of Art, European Graduate School

  • Auto Feeling, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto

2014

  • Back to the Future, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto

  • So It Goes, Boardinghouse Gallery, Guelph

2013

  • Biggie Smalls, Zavitz Gallery, The University of Guelph

  • Same Difference, Boardinghouse Gallery, Guelph

  • play/ground, IE Gallery, Emily Carr University, Vancouver

  • Graduation Exhibition, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver

  • The Landscape of Abstraction, Gam Gallery, Vancouver

2012

  • Going to Sea; Maritime Museum, Vancouver

  • Ethereal Landscapes; Cityscape Gallery, North Vancouver

  • Reimaging Water, Emily Carr University, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver

2010

  • Uitkyk; Distell Foundation, Cape Town

2009

  • Animal; VEO Gallery, Cape Town

2008

  • Arternative Gallery, Cape Town

2007

  • Discourse; Iart gallery, Cape Town

Awards

2023

  • Lawrence Heisey Graduate Award in Fine Arts

  • Academic Excellence Fund

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2022

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

  • Academic Excellence Fund

2021

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2020

  • York University Graduate Scholarship

  • York University Graduate Fellowship

2018

  • City of Zurich Subsidized Artist Studio

2016

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2015

  • University of Guelph Dean’s Scholarship

  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship

2014

  • College of Arts Graduate Travel, Research and Creation Award

  • Ontario Graduate Fellowship

2013

  • Ténot Fondation Bursary

  • Tony Sherman Graduate Scholarship

  • University of Guelph Dean’s Scholarship

  • Board of Graduate Research Scholarship

  • Masters Growth Fund Entrance Scholarship

2012

  • John David Carr Memorial Scholarship

  • Kwi Am Choi Scholarship

2006

  • Langara College Drawing Award

2005

  • Langara College Bursary

Non-refereed Contributions

2023

  • “Care/full Looking: Some Notes Towards a Posthuman Account of Painting,” blog post, Foreign Objekt: Intelligence Unbound. Posthuman Art Network, online

  • “A Line is an Edge, is a Colour, is a Shadow: Noticing the Queerness of Form in Visual Arts Practices,” blog post, Foreign Objekt: Intelligence Unbound. Posthuman Art Network, online

  • Journal of Posthumanism, Peer reviewer

2022

  • A Beginner’s Guide to Painting; Interview, Excalibur

  • For the Love of Painting, facilitator of community painting group, Toronto

Residencies

2023

  • Foreign Objekt Residency and Intelligence Unbound Program, Posthuman Art Network, online

2014

  • CAMAC, France

Teaching

2023

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Course Director VISA 2024 – Painting: Colour and Composition

2020-2023

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2021 – Painting: Approaches to the Human Figure;

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2024 – Painting: Colour and Composition

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2081 – Introduction to Drawing;

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant VISA 2025 – Painting: Techniques and Materials

  • York University, Toronto School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design Graduate Teaching Assistant ARTH 3710 – Memory and Place

2020-21

  • Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto Assistant to the Director

2013-2015

  • The University of Guelph, Guelph School of Fine Art and Music Graduate Teaching and Research Assistant