WRITING
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Edited Books:
2021 Eli Baxter, Aki-Wayn-Zhi: A Person as Worthy as the Earth, ed. Matthew Ryan Smith (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press).
Edited Exhibition Catalogues:
2019 Skawennati: From Skyworld to Cyberspace, exhibition catalogue, ed. Matthew Ryan Smith (London: McIntosh Gallery).
2017 Coolie, Coolie Viens, exhibition catalogue, ed. Matthew Ryan Smith (Brantford and London: Glenhyrst Art Gallery and McIntosh Gallery).
Book Chapters:
2024 “A Long Time Ago in the Final Frontier: Picturing Indigenous Futurism in Star Trek and Star Wars,” exhibition catalogue essay
(Seattle and Los Angeles: University of Washington and Gene Autry Museum of the American West, 2024).
2018 “Indigenous Graffiti and Street Art as Resistance,” Aesthetics of Resistance: On the Multiple Forms of Graffiti, Palgrave Macmillan Series on Culture and
Creativity (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan).
2017 “Tell-Sale Signs: Unsanctioned Graffiti Interventions in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg,” Public Art in South Africa: 1999-2014 (Bloomington, IN: University
of Indiana Press).
Academic Articles:
2023 Article reprint: “Andil Gosine's Cane Portraiture and the aesthetics of indenture,” Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies 3 (2023).
2021 Article (co-written with Joseph Sanchez): “Joseph Sanchez’s Soft Light,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies,” Canadian Journal of Native
Studies 40.1 (2020), 159-164.
2019 Article: “Strange Brew: Art, Protest, and the Anti-Fracking Movement," Afterimage: Journal of Media Arts and Criticism 46.1 (March).
2015 Interview: “Climbing “Internet Mountains”: A Conversation with Clive Holden,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Fall,
2015).
2015 Article: “Relational Manoeuvres in Autobiographical Video Art,” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 38.1 (2015).
2015 Interview: “Of Clouds and Cocoons: A Conversation with Xiaojing Yan,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 14.4 (July/August, 2015).
2015 Article: “Performative Appropriation of Video Art on YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion,” Journal of Curatorial Studies 4.1 (February, 2015).
2014 Article: “Family Photography and the Documentation of Trauma in Contemporary Art,” Studies in Visual Arts and Communication 1.1 (June, 2014).
2014 Interview: “Blackbirds and Growing Pains: A Conversation with Rutherford Chang,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Fall, 2014).
2014 Exhibition review: “Bill Burns: Dogs and Boats and Airplanes Choir,” The Senses and Society, 9.1 (2014): 113-117.
2013 Review: “Clive Holden: Mediated Algorithms,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism Vol. 40, No. 6.
2009 Article: “Reconsidering the ‘Obscene’: The Massa Marittima Mural,” Shift: Queen’s Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture, 2.
Encyclopaedia Entries:
2024 “Birchbark Etching,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/birchbark-etching
2023 “Six Nations Pottery,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/six-nations-pottery
2016 “Indian Group of Seven,” Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism, www.rem.routledge.com
2016 “Paul-Emile Borduas,” Routledge Encyclopaedia of Modernism, www.rem.routledge.com
Book Reviews:
2025 Rick Rubin, “The Creative Act: A Way of Being,” Journal of Artistic Research
2025 Andrew Satake Blauvelt et. al., “Scott Hocking: Detroit Stories,” Venue: a digital journal of the Midwest Art History Society
2025 Jeffrey Gibson, “An Indigenous Present,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies
2024 Rebecca Bengal, “Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists,” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticsm
2024 Adam Kuper, “The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions,” Journal of Curatorial Studies
2017 Heather Igloliorte, Julie Nagam, Carla Taunton, “Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital,” First American Art Magazine
2016 “Journey to the Heart of the First Peoples Collections,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies
2016 Scott Macdonald, “American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary: The Cambridge Turn,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Film Studies
2014 Todd Schultz, “Torment Saint: The Life of Elliott Smith, Intersections: Canadian Journal of Music
2014 Ruth B. Phillips, “Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums,” TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
2013 Gary Wyatt, “Seekers and Travelers: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest Coast,” Canadian Journal of Native Studies
2013 Karen Kramer et. al., “Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art,” WRECK: Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Essays:
2025 “This Seems Personal: Autobiography in Search of Community,” Visual Arts News (web).
2024 “Of the Twig Eater: The Quiet Revival of Moose Hair Embroidery,” First American Art Magazine 44 (Fall).
2024 “From the Skin of the Tree: New Directions in Birchbark Etching,” First American Art Magazine 43 (Summer).
2024 “Vernacular Art: The Everyday Monumental,” Border Crossings (Winter).
2024 “Painting with the River: The Doris Slater Titus Story,” Canada’s History (February-March).
2023 “Unsettling the Southwold Earthworks,” First American Art Magazine 40 (Fall).
2023 “Every Pot Tells a Story”, Studio Magazine 18.2 (Fall / Winter).
2023 “Raw Canvas Riot: Brenda Draney’s Negative Space,” Blackflash Magazine 40.1 (Summer).
2021 “The Wabanaki Canoe & the Science of Perfection,” First American Art Magazine 31 (Summer).
2021 “Money Rock: The “Ring of Fire” and Anishinaabay Stewardship of the Land,” Briarpatch Magazine (3 May).
2021 “The Neo-Woodland Movement,” First American Art Magazine 30 (Spring).
2021 “Outer Places, Other Spaces: Skawennati’s Virtual Futurism,” First American Art Magazine 29 (Winter).
2020 “Lightning Struck: The Spiritual Surrealism of Joseph Sanchez,” exhibition brochure essay (Winnipeg: Urban Shaman Gallery).
2020 “Curating Before and After the Pandemic,” Centred.ca (17 April).
2020 “Point of Contact: The Quillwork of Then and Now,” First American Art Magazine 27 (Summer).
2019 “Andil Gosine's "Cane Portraiture" and the Aesthetics of Indenture,” Blackflash Magazine 36.3.
2018 “Clay Cultures and Muddy Waters: Contemporary Northeast Ceramics," feature article for First American Art Magazine (Fall).
2018 “Kinngait in Scale: Embassy of the Imagination and the Next Generation of Inuit Artists," feature article, Inuit Art Quarterly (Winter).
2018 “Highway Wherever: On Jack Chambers’s 401 Towards London No.1,” Exhibition Essay, Woodstock Art Gallery.
2017 “This Other Me: Uses of the Alter Ego in Contemporary Art," feature article, First American Art Magazine (Fall).
2016 “In Search of Hózhó: Notes on Performance and Performance Art," feature article, First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2016 "Weaving Emotion: Andrew MacDonald’s “Affective Relations”," exhibition catalogue essay, “Affective Relations,” Norfolk Arts Centre, Norfolk, ON.
2016 “Scandalous Images, Divine Light: Photography and the Aesthetics of Scanography,” PREFIX Photo (Fall, 2016).
2016 “The Archive in Contemporary Indigenous Art,” feature article for First American Art Magazine (Summer, 2016).
2016 “Hard Science,” feature article for Magenta Magazine (Spring, 2016).
2016 “It's Hip to be Square: The Pixel Revolution in Contemporary Art,” feature article for Blackflash Magazine (Winter).
2016 “March of the Landwriters: Indigenous Public Art Interventions,” feature article for First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2016).
2015 “Asleep and Awake: Indigenous Video Art and the Politics of Presence,” feature article for First American Art Magazine (Summer, 2015).
2015 “Notes on Curating Autobiographical Art,” feature article for ESSE arts + opinions 84, Exhibitions (2015).
2015 “Awol Erizku: The Only Way is Up,” feature article for Blackflash Magazine (Spring, 2015).
2015 “Storming Canada: Carl Ray, Indigenous Representation, and the Sacred Legends,” feature article for First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2015).
2015 “Memories of a Hungry Dog,” Exhibition catalogue essay for Connexion Artist-Run Centre (2014).
2014 “Hennessey Youngman and the New Art Criticism,” Feature article for ESSE arts + opinions 81 (2014).
2014 “Nicolas Galanin: Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan,” Feature article for First American Art Magazine, 4 (2014).
2014 “Trans-Canada Art Tour,” Feature article for Alternatives Journal (May/June, 2014).
2014 “Art and the Ones Missing: Art, Ceremony, and Accountability in China and Canada,” Feature essay for Briarpatch Magazine, Summer, 2014.
2014 “Ghost Dance: The Crisis of Categorization in Indigenous Art,” Feature essay for Blackflash Magazine (Winter, 2014).
2013 “The Birds and the Bees: Heather Sanders’s “Freaky Friday” Series,” Exhibition brochure essay, College Art
Association ARTexchange (New York City, 2013).
2012 “Schizophrenic Aesthetics: Itamar Jobani’s ‘People of the 21st Century,’” Exhibition catalogue essay, Julie M. Gallery,
Toronto and Tel Aviv, 2012.
2012 “Some Things Last a Long Time,” Exhibition brochure essay, McIntosh Gallery, London, 2012.
2012 “Subjective Screens: Zeesy Powers’ reality TV asks viewers to feel for others,”” Feature essay for Magenta Magazine
(Vol. 3, No. 1, 2012).
2010 “Greying the Grey,” Exhibition catalogue essay for Intersections, McIntosh Gallery, Toronto and London: Art Metropole
and University of Western Ontario (Department of Visual Arts), 2010.
2009 “(Re)verse Ekphrasis: Works from the McIntosh Collection,” (Re)verse Ekphrasis: Works from the McIntosh Collection,
Exhibition brochure essay (University College, University of Western Ontario, 2009).
2008 “Some Thoughts on the Cut in Collage: Pollock, Fontana, Matta-Clark, Ono,” Feature essay for artUS (no. 22, 2008).
2008 “Dale Chihuly: The Chandeliers and other Critical Insight into his Work,” Feature article for Contemporary Canadian
Glass, Fall, 2008.
Articles & Interviews:
2025 “Muscogee and Cherokee Writer Eddie Chuculate” First American Art Magazine 46 (Spring).
2024 “Mohawk / Tuscarora Author and Poet January Rogers,” First American Art Magazine 45 (Winter).
2024 “Cherokee Nation/Pawnee Painter & Sculptor Daniel Horsechief,” First American Art Magazine 44 (Fall).
2024 “Yanktonai Dakota Author Mona Susan Power,” First American Art Magazine 43 (Summer).
2024 “Navajo/Hopi Jeweler, Musician & Woodworker J.J. Otero,” First American Art Magazine 43 (Summer).
2024 “Dine Artist Shonto Begay,” First American Art Magazine 43 (Summer).
2024 “Syilx Author Brian Thomas Isaac,” First American Art Magazine 42 (Spring).
2024 “In Memoriam: Sam English,” First American Art Magazine 41 (Winter).
2024 “Dine Poet, Journalist, and Photographer Boderra Joe,” First American Art Magazine 41 (Winter).
2024 “Potawatomi Multidisciplinary Artist David Martin,” First American Art Magazine 41 (Winter).
2023 “In Conversation: Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas,” exhibition review, Centred.ca (Winter).
2023 “Lhaq'temish Glass Artist Dan Friday,” First American Art Magazine 40 (Fall).
2023 “Ho-Chunk Graphic Novelist Jim Terry,” First American Art Magazine 40 (Fall).
2023 “Cree Writer, Poet, and Lawyer Michelle Good,” First American Art Magazine 39 (Summer).
2023 “Report: Kelly Greene’s Residency at Western University,” First American Art Magazine 39 (Summer).
2023 “Norval Morrisseau: Untitled (Moose),” Waddington’s Spring Fine Art Auction (Spring).
2023 “Norval Morrisseau: Untitled (Mother and Young),” Waddington’s Spring Fine Art Auction (Spring).
2023 “Norval Morrisseau: Untitled (Four Birds),” Waddington’s Spring Fine Art Auction (Spring).
2023 “Osage / Muscogee Ceramic & Textile Artist Antia Fields,” First American Art Magazine 38 (Spring).
2023 “Cherokee and Kiowa Writer and Poet Oscar Hokeah,” First American Art Magazine 38 (Spring).
2023 “Métis Artist, Curator, and Writer David Garneau,” First American Art Magazine 37 (Winter).
2023 “Inuk Writer, Educator, and Poet Norma Dunning,” First American Art Magazine 37 (Winter).
2022 “Blake Debassige: In Memorium,” First American Art Magazine 36 (Fall).
2022 “Warm Springs, Wasco, and Yakama Artist Lillian Pitt,” First American Art Magazine 36 (Fall).
2022 “Willow Cree Writer, Journalist & Curator Paul Seesequasis,” First American Art Magazine 36 (Fall).
2022 “Cree Writer and Poet Randy Lundy,” First American Art Magazine 35 (Summer).
2022 “Lakota Novelist David Heska Wanbli Weiden,” First American Art Magazine 34 (Spring).
2022 “Muscogee Creek and Citizen Band Potawatomi Artist Daniel McCoy Jr.,” First American Art Magazine (Summer).
2022 “Diné Painter, Digital Artist & Graphic Designer Damian Jim,” First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2022 “Peter B. Jones: Onondaga Artist and Potter,” First American Art Magazine (Spring).
2022 “Mvskoke Poet & Educator Jennifer Foerster,” First American Art Magazine (Spring, 2022).
2021 “Blackfeet Author and Educator Stephen Graham Jones,” First American Art Magazine (Spring, 2021).
2021 “Cheyenne / Arapaho Novelist Tommy Orange,” First American Art Magazine (Summer, 2021).
2021 “Choctaw Author, Playwright, and Educator LeAnne Howe,” First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2021 “Seneca Painter G. Peter Jemison,” First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2020 "Form & Relation: Contemporary Native Ceramics,” First American Art Magazine 28 (Fall).
2020 “Alutiiq Carver Lena Snow Amason,” First American Art Magazine (Summer).
2020 “Mohawk Photographer & Filmmaker Shelley Niro,” First American Art Magazine (Fall).
2020 “Muscogee/Cherokee Poet, Musician, and Author Joy Harjo,” First American Art Magazine (Summer, 2020).
2020 “Oglala Lakota Painter Keith Braveheart,” First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2020).
2020 “Ojibway Author, Educator, and Knowledge-Keeper Eli Baxter,” First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2020).
2020 “Tlingit/Dena'ina Author, Editor, and Playwright Vera Marlene Starbard,” First American Art Magazine (Spring, 2020).
2019 “Poet and Indigenous Rights Activist Suzan Shown Harjo,” First American Art Magazine (Summer, 2019).
2019 “Moose Cree Artist Quinn Smallboy,” First American Art Magazine ( 2019).
2019 “Assiniboine Actor, Poet, and Playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr.,” First American Art Magazine (Fall, 2019).
2019 “Tradition and Condition: A Conversation with Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun,” First American Art Magazine (Fall, 2019).
2018 “Mi'kmaq Interdisciplinary Artist Jordan Bennett,” First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2018).
2018 “Mi'kmaq Poet, Artist, and Educator Michelle Sylliboy,” First American Art Magazine 18 (Spring).
2018 “Ojibwe Actor and Poet Mary Black,” First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2018 “Wasauksing Ojibwe Author & Journalist Waubgeshib Rice,” First American Art Magazine 20 (Fall).
2017 “The Food Bank Will Always Be Part Of My Family Story,” Huffington Post (February 8).
2017 “Mark Stebbins: Pixel, Paxel, Puxel,” introduction for exhibition brochure, Galerie Simon Blais (March).
2017 “Secwepemc Interdisciplinary Artist Tania Willard,” First American Art Magazine 15 (Summer).
2017 “Metis Poet Gregory Scofield,” First American Art Magazine 15 (Summer).
2017 “Annie Pootoogook: In Memorium,” feature article for First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2017 “The Curtain Falls: A Conversation with Jeff Bierk,” feature interview for Blackflash Magazine (Winter).
2017 “Exploring Native Graphic Design: Damian Jim,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine (Winter).
2016 "David Urban," exhibition review for Magenta Magazine (Summer/Fall).
2016 “Jason McLean: Son of a Salesman,” exhibition review for Border Crossings Magazine (Summer).
2016 “Ho-Chuck Visual Artist and Designer Jodie Webster,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine (Fall, 2016).
2016 “Diné poet and educator Orlando White,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine 16 (Fall).
2016 “Indigenous Art: New Media and the Digital,” First American Art Magazine 16 (Fall).
2016 “Cherokee Writer, Poet, and Educator Santee Frazier,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine (Summer).
2016 “Dzawada̱’enux̱w First Nation Artist and Educator Marianne Nicolson,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine
(Summer).
2016 “Stone Sounds: A Conversation with Native Pueblo Sculptor Cliff Fragua,” feature interview for First American Art
Magazine (Spring).
2016 ““I Write for my Family”: A Conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater,” feature interview for First American Art Magazine
(Spring).
2015 “Reading the Talk,” Museum London, exhibition review for First American Art Magazine (Fall).
2015 “7: Professional Native Indian Artists Inc.,” McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON, Exhibition Review for First
American Art Magazine (Summer).
2015 “In-Between Worlds: A Conversation with Meryl McMaster,” Magenta Magazine (Summer/Fall).
2015 “Focusing on First Nations Art,” Alternatives Journal (Summer).
2015 “Algonquin Interdisciplinary Artist Nadia Myre,” First American Art Magazine (Spring).
2015 “Tlinglit-Unangax Interdisciplinary Artist Nicholas Galanin,” Feature interview for First American Art Magazine (Spring).
2015 “Amber Church: Yukon Artist in Action,” Feature interview for Alternatives Journal (September).
2015 “Before and After the Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists of the Great Lakes,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, exhibition
review for Canadian Art Magazine (Winter).
2015 “On Dominion Street: A Conversation with Jaret Belliveau,” Exhibition catalogue interview for Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
New Brunswick (ABC Art Books).
2014 “A Conversation with Sky Glabush,” Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (March 3).
1971," Book review for Prefix Photo Magazine (Summer).
2014 “Due South” Artist Jason McLean Interview,” Feature interview for Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art (October).
2014 “All in the Family: Adad Hannah’s Latest Project Examines a Painterly Past,” Feature interview for Magenta Magazine
(Summer, 2014).
2014 “Casting the Negative: Iris Häussler, An Te Liu and Jennifer Rose Sciarrino,” Review for Magenta Magazine (Summer).
2014 “Kenojuak Ashevak: In Memoriam,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON exhibition review for First American Art Magazine
(Spring, 2014).
2014 “Kim Ondaatje,” Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa, ON, exhibition review for Alternatives Journal (April, 2014).
2014 “Derek Sullivan,” Jessica Bradley Gallery, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for Canadian Art Magazine (Winter, 2014).
2014 “Lovesick Child,” A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for First American Art Magazine (Winter, 2014).
2014 “Trade Marks,” Prefix ICA, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for Magenta Magazine (Vol. 5, No. 1).
2013 “Doug Ischar: Undertow,” VTAPE and Gallery 44 Centre for Photography, Toronto, ON, Review for Magenta Magazine”
(Vol. 4, No. 2).
2013 “Clive Holden: Unfamous Faces in American Places,” exhibition essay, Ryerson Image Centre.
2012 “The Participating Witness: An Interview with Jaret Belliveau,” Feature interview for Visual Arts News (Fall, 2012).
2012 “Artinfo Canada’s Best of 2012,” Sky Goodden and Benjamin Bruneau co-authors, Artinfo Canada (21 December, 2012).
2012 “Aboriginal Artists Engage Urban Youth Culture in Urgent and Timely “Beat Nation,” Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for Artinfo Canada, 2012.
2012 “Reviewing the Sobey Art Award Finalists, a Zeitgeist Emerges,” MOCCA, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for Artinfo
Canada, 2012.
2012 “Jason McLean Meets Raymond Pettibon, and it Works,” McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, ON,
exhibition review for Artinfo Canada, 2012.
2012 “The ROM's “Observance and Memorial" Brings Tortuous History to Testimony,” Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON,
Artinfo Canada, 2012.
2012 “Amy Shackleton: Elaine Fleck Gallery,” Elaine Fleck Gallery, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for Magenta Magazine, Vol. 3,
No. 2 (2012).
2011 “Adel Abdessemed: The Future of Décor,” OCAD OnSite Gallery, Toronto, ON, exhibition review for C Magazine, Vol. 111
(2011).
2010 Contributor: Helena Reckitt, et. al., Artist texts for Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant Contemporary Art
Gallery, Toronto.
2010 “Autobiography and the Family Frame: Jaret Belliveau’s Dominion Street at Gallery TPW,” Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON,
exhibition review for Fuse Magazine, 33.3.
2009 “Songs of the Self: Slightly Unbalanced,” Museum London, London, ON, exhibition review for Fuse Magazine, 32.3.