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