Invited Presentations:

·          Guest lecture: “In the Present Tense: Contemporary Art and Curatorial Writing,” Department of Visual Arts, Brock University, February 7, 2025.

·          Presentation: “Connecting with Community Objects: Brantford’s “Grand Exhibit,” Galleries Ontario, 30 April, 2024.

·          In conversation: “Matt Bahen and Matthew Ryan Smith,” Presented as part of the ADAC Canadian Art Hop, McIntosh Gallery, Western University, ON, 27

April, 2024

· Lecture: "Art, Avatars, and Outer Space,” Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, 13 October, 2022.

·         Panel: "Walking the Line: Reaching Art World Insiders and the General Public,” We Have Words For Art: Indigenous Art Writing Symposium, Norman, OK, 26

February, 2021.

·         Lecture: "Contemporary Indigenous Art Now,” Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, 23 April, 2020.

·         Lecture: "The Events of Expo ‘67 and the Formation of the Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.,” Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, ON, 21 March, 2020.

·         Lecture: "What is Banksky?,” North York Central Library, Toronto, ON, 20 September, 2018.

·         Guest Lecture: "Indigenous Art in Canada," Third Age Learning Lecture Series, Guelph University, ON, 20 September, 2017.

·         Workshop: “Effective Management of Collections with Volunteers,” Ontario Association of Art Galleries (OAAG), Museum London, London, ON, 21 April, 2016.

·         Workshop: “Matthew Ryan Smith & Andil Gosine,” Visual Arts After Indenture International Workshop, York University, Toronto, ON, 18 March, 2016.

·         Guest Lecture: “Curation Now,” Big Night Out, Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, 11 March, 2016.

·         Guest Presentation: “Andil Gosine’s Cane Portraiture,” Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursday Event “No Place Like Home,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, 4

February, 2016.

·         Guest Lecture: “Indigenous Video Art Now,” Yukon School of the Arts, Dawson City, Yukon Territories, 12 October, 2015..

·         Guest Presentation: “The Autobiographical Impulse,” Art Gallery of Ontario: First Thursday Speaker Series, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 5 March, 2015.

·         Guest Lecture: “Point and Shoot: The Ethics of Tourist Photography,” Art House Café Lecture Series, Grimsby Art Gallery, 21 February, 2014.

·         Guest Lecture: “Heritage Tourism,” Western University, 26 January, 2012.

·         Guest Lecture: “Everyday Documentary Photography,” Western University, 16 February, 2011.

·         Panel: “Let’s Make This Uncomfortable,” Gallery TPW, Toronto, 26 June, 2010.

·         Presentation: “Sunday Scene,” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, 9 May, 2010.

Refereed Conferences:

·         Paper: “Upload: The Impulse to Recreate Contemporary Artworks and their Circulation in the Digital Sphere,” Universities Art Association of Canada  (UAAC), OCAD

University, Toronto (23 October), 2014.

·         Paper: “Bill Burns: Dogs and Boats and Airplanes,” BRAFFTV Film and Media International Conference, Victoria College, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2013.

·         Paper: “Us and Them: Jacques Rancière and the ‘Ethical Turn’ in Autobiographical Photography,” Culture, Policy, Urban Space and the City, Western University, London,

2012.

·         Paper: “Larry Clark and Nan Goldin: Towards Structuring the Community of the Excluded in Autobiographical Photography,” Underhill Graduate Colloquium, Carleton

University, Ottawa, 2012.

·         Paper: “White Picket Fences and Apple Pie: Larry Clark’s Un/Common Suburbs,” Revisiting Suburbia, York University, Toronto, 2011.

·         Paper: “Flashlight Glimpses: Autobiographical Art as Self-Fashioning,” Universities Art Association of Canada, University of Guelph, Guelph, 2010.

·         Paper: “On Longing in Confessional Art,” 3rd Biennial International Conference: Eros, Nipissing University, Bracebridge, 2010.

·         Paper: “The Politics of Disclosure: Conversations between Autobiographical and Confessional Art,” In Transit, University of Western Ontario, London, 2010.

·         Paper: “Larry Clark: The Revolution of Tulsa and its Dissolution of the American Dream,” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Joint National

Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2009.

·         Paper: “Culture Trumps Content: The Irony of Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh,” I Don’t Care to Discuss It: Art, Media, and the State in a Globalized Economy, University

of Western Ontario, London, 2009.

·         Paper: “Therapy and the Photographic Camera in Confessional Art: The Case of Nan Goldin’s Self-Portraiture,” The Aesthetics of Excess, University of Western Ontario,

London, 2009.

·         Paper: “Osculum, Basium, and Savium: Representations of the Kiss in Roman Wall Painting,” Reconsidering Europe, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2008.

·         Paper: “Representations of the Kiss in Roman Wall Painting,” Constructing Identities, University of Toronto, Toronto, 2008.