Selected Publications

“Just Enough and Not More: Economy and Grace in Jude Abu Zaineh’s Dearly Beloved,” in Jude Abu Zaineh: Dearly Beloved (Windsor: Artcite, 2024).

“No Theory without Conversation: Gathering at the Wakes of Painting,” in Gathering Fictions: Michel Daigneault and Janet Jones (Markham and Woodstock: Frederick H. Varley Art Gallery of Markham and Woodstock Art Gallery, 2024)

With Zainub Verjee, “The Making of the Black Star Collection at The Image Centre: Framing the Move from a Commercial Entity to a Cultural Institution and the Conundrum of Outstanding Significance/National Importance,” in Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie, eds, Facing Black Star (Toronto and Cambridge: The Image Centre and MIT Press, 2023)

“Call and Response: Love and the art of painting in the work of Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas,” in In Conversation: Ron Shuebrook and Frances Thomas (Woodstock: The Woodstock Art Gallery, 2023)

“The Effects of Scarcity Culture: Arts Workers on their Last Day,” BlackFlash Magazine, 40:1 (Summer, 2023)

“Light and Shadow: One Painting, Two Lives,” The Malahat Review, 221 (Winter, 2022)

“Getting the Show on the Road: Planning for Travelling Exhibitions,” dotArt, July 27, 2022.

“Pointing to the Art World’s Possibilities: A Speculative Future: Part 5,” Akimblog, June 2, 2021.

With Renée van der Avoird, “Holding Space,” Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) blog, November 20, 2020.

“More than welcome,” Canadian Art, June 16, 2020.

Erika DeFreitas and Emily McKibbon, “arriver avant moi devant moi, with text by Emily McKibbon” in C Magazine, 144 (Winter, 2020): n.p.

“Tombstone Copy (for Carl Andre)” in Room, 42:2 (Summer, 2019): 58-59

Contributor, with Francisco-Fernando Granados, Ricky Varghese and Fan Wu, Erika DeFreitas: It is now here that I have gathered and measure yes (Toronto: Gallery TPW, 2019)

“The Seraphim,” in Body & Soul, ed. Susan Scott (Halfmoon Bay BC: Caitlin Press, 2019)

“On Rejection,” for The New Quarterly’s Magazine as Muse writer resources, tnq.ca. Co-written with Jagtar Kaur Atwal, Lina Barkas, Leonarda Carranza, Hege Jakobsen Lepri, Tamara Jong, Obim Okongwu and Laura Sky. Uploaded February 8, 2018.

“No Uncomplicated Landscape,” exhibition essay for After 150, Art in House, February, 2018.

“Burning at the Close,” in Room, 40:3 (Fall, 2017)

“Impossible Gardens,” commissioned text for Erika DeFreitas: Impossible Gardens, June 2 – July 8, 2017, Angell Gallery.

“Cowboy Monkey Rodeo,” in PRISM international, 55:3 (Spring, 2017): 72-73.

Notes on Photographs (London, Ontario: Baseline Press, 2016).

“The Seraphim,” in The New Quarterly, 139 (Summer, 2016): 11-16.

Contributor, Nathalie Herschdorfer, ed. The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Photography (London: Thames & Hudson, 2015)

Contributor, Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, The Monkey’s Raincoat, 2015.

“Latencies,” in The New Quarterly, 132 (Fall, 2014): 8-13.

Guest writer, exhibition publication, My Apocalypse, Hungerford Building, (Rochester, New York: June, 2012)

Contributor, “Meet the Next Generation of Museum Workers!” Muse: the Journal of the Canadian Museums Association, 29 no. 1-2 (Jan./Feb. 2011): 42-45.

Selected Awards

2021

Winner, Creative Non-Fiction Contest, “Light and Shadow: One Painting, Two Lives”, Room, guest judged by Dr Njoki Wane

2018                         

Shortlist, Short Form Prize, “Tombstone Copy (for Carl Andre)”, Room, guest judged by Hiromi Goto 

2018

Nomination, 43rd Annual Pushcart Prize, “Burning at the Close,” nominated by Room editorial board

2015                         

Honourable Mention, Best New Magazine Writer, National Magazine Awards (Canada)

2015

Shortlist, Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize, The Malahat Review 

2014

Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award, “Latencies,” The New Quarterly