Faculty

JENNIFER FISHER

BFA (NSCAD), MA, PhD (Concordia)
Associate Professor: Contemporary Art, Canadian Art History, Curatorial Studies
Department of Visual Arts, York University

jefish@yorku.ca

Jennifer Fisher is an art historian, critic and curator specializing in contemporary art and culture studies. In her research, she engages cultural studies approaches to examine contemporary art, curatorial practice, display culture and the aesthetics of the non-visual senses. She is a founding member of the curatorial collaborative DisplayCult which produced the exhibitions CounterPoses (1998), Vital Signs (2000), Museopathy (2001), and Linda Montano: 14 Years of Living Art (2002), among other projects.

Dr. Fisher served for six years as assistant editor of Parachute magazine, and has published widely on contemporary art, curatorial practice, display culture and the aesthetics of the non-visual senses. Her writings have appeared in Art Journal, n-paradoxa and Public, and recent anthologies such as The Senses in Performance (Routledge) and Caught in the Act (YYZ). She is the editor of Technologies of Intuition (2006), an anthology of texts, interviews and artists' projects on the theme of intuition.

Professor Fisher was Contemporary Art Fellow at the Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Canada, and has held research affiliations at the Society for Fellows in the Humanities at Cornell University and the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She joined York University’s Visual Arts Department in 2004.