Adjunct Faculty

Jessica Bradley is an independent curator and writer, who is fluently bilingual (French) and speaks and reads Italian. She has recently opened her own Gallery, Jessica Bradley Art & Projects, and continues to operate as a private collections consultant. Previously, she has held the positions of Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In addition, she was selected as commissioner for Canada's representation at the Venice Biennial in 1982, 1984 and 1999, and has several years of teaching experience, including undergraduate and graduate courses in contemporary art history and critical theory.

Selected Published Works: Rodney Graham: A Little Thought (editor and introduction), exhibition catalogue in collaboration with Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Vancouver art Gallery; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004. "Rebecca Belmore: Art and the Object of Performance" in Caught in the Act: An Anthology of Performance Art by Canadian Women eds. Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder, Toronto: YYZ Books, 2004. "International Exhibitions: A Distribution System for a New Art World Order," in Beyond the Box: Diverging Curatorial Practices, ed. Melanie Townsend, Banff, The Banff Centre, 2003.

Reesa Greenberg
M.A. University of Toronto

From 1971 to 1999, Reesa Greenberg was Associate Professor of Art History at Concordia University. In addition to publishing numerous essays on contemporary Canadian art and artists, she has written extensively on the theory and practice of exhibition experience in the contemporary museum. www.reesagreenberg.net

Selected Published Works: “The Currency of Time: Muntadas and I Giardini,” CIEL VARIABLE No. 77, Winter. p.10-12, 2007;"Redressing History: Partners and the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection," Kritische Berichte, October, 2005; "From Wall to Web: Displaying Art Stolen from Jews by Hitler," in Obsession, Compulsion, Collection: On Objects, Display Culture and Interpretation, Anthony Kiendl (ed.), Banff: The Banff Curatorial Institute, 92-109, 2004. She co-edited Thinking About Exhibitions with Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy Nairne, Routledge, 1996.

Philip Monk

Philip Monk is Director of the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. Previously he was curator at The Power Plant and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He has curated over sixty exhibitions and published six books, over thirty of his own catalogues and over a hundred and twenty articles, catalogue and book essays, and reviews. Exhibitions at the AGYU have included What It Feels Like for a Girl, Sinbad in the Rented World, Jeremy Blake: Winchester Trilogy, The Atlas Group and Walid Raad, Mike Hoolboom, Istvan Kantor, Horror, Science Fiction, Porn (Fiona Banner, Rosa Barba), Nathalie Melikian, Fiona Tan, Jeremy Deller, Matthew Brannon, Fastwürms, Saskia Olde Wolbers, and Project for a New American Century: Daniel Borins and Jennifer Marman. Some of the exhibitions at the Power Plant were: Liam Gillick, Guy Maddin, Ian Carr-Harris, Liz Magor, Douglas Gordon, Tim Hawkinson, Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.

Selected Published Works: Struggles with the Image: Essays in Art Criticism, Toronto: YYZ Books, 1988. Double-Cross: The Hollywood Films of Douglas Gordon, Toronto: The Power Plant and Art Gallery of York University, 2003. Spirit Hunter: The Haunting of American Culture by Myths of Violence, Toronto: AGYU, 2005. Stan Douglas: Discordant Absences, Cologne: DuMont, 2006. Disassembling the Archive: Fiona Tan, Toronto: AGYU, 2007.

Helena Reckitt
M.A., Oxford University

Helena Reckitt is Senior Curator of Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto. Her previous positions include Senior Director of Exhibitions and Education at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA, Head of Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and Associate Commissioning Editor at Routledge publishers. She has curated solo exhibitions with artists including Yael Bartana, Prema Murthy, Paul P, Hew Locke (with Julie Joyce), and Paul Shambroom (with Diane Mullin and Chris Scoates). Her group exhibitions for The Power Plant include Not Quite How I Remember It, on forms of re-enactment and reconstruction, The Power Plant, June - September 2008 and Auto Emotion: Autobiography, Emotion and Self-Fashioning (co-curated with Gregory Burke), May - August, 2007. Other group shows she has organized include What Business Are You In? on artists and institutional culture and Found Wanting on the aesthetics of the awkward and in-between. Reckitt has taught contemporary art history at Emory University and the Atlanta College of Art and has contribution to magazines and journals including C magazine, Art Papers, The Guardian and n.paradoxa. She is co-editor with Joshua Oppenheimer of Acting on AIDS: Sex, drugs and politics (Serpent’s Tail, 1997) and editor of Art and Feminism (Phaidon Press, 2001).

Kitty Scott
M.A., Royal College of Art, London

Kitty Scott is Director, Visual Arts at the Banff Centre, Banff. Previously she was Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London, and Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Scott has curated numerous exhibitions including To Touch: an installation by Janet Cardiff, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton; Browser, Roundhouse, Vancouver; Bankside Browser, Tate Modern, London; Francis Alÿs: Le temps du sommeil, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Peter Doig, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Sound and Vision, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal; and Paul Chan: 7 Lights, Serpentine Gallery, London. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and journals including Parachute, Parkett and Canadian Art. Most recently, Scott has recently contributed to monographic publications on the work of Peter Doig, Brian Jungen, Daniel Richter and Matthew Barney. She is Visiting Professor at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco; Adjunct Professor at York University, Toronto; University of British Columbia, Vancouver; and University of Ottawa, Ottawa.