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Tim Chandler
Tim Chandler is writer and art historian who is currently a PhD student in Art History at Concordia University in Montreal. His research investigates how failure was used as a narrative device in 19th-century art writing to communicate avant-gardeness. Prior to Concordia, he worked at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery as the TD Curator of Education Fellow from 2016 to 2018, and completed his Master’s in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Guelph in 2016. In addition to his academic pursuits, Chandler also self-publishes zines and pop culture criticism.
Thesis Title: Modern Lives: Failure, Criticism, and the Avant-Garde, 1860-1914
Supervisor: Dr. John Potvin
Research Interests:
- Failure
- Biography
- Historiography
- Nineteenth-Century French Art
- Discourse Analysis
- Semiotics
- Comparative Literature
Teaching:
- ARTH 366: Nineteenth-Century Art and Architecture: Romanticism and Modernism
- ARTH 388: Art and Narration: Biography
Teaching Assistantships:
- ARTH 200: Perspectives of Art History
- ARTH 298: Evolution through Architecture and Urbanism
- ARTH 300: Art Historical Methods
- ARTH 373: Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art: Conceptual art, Fluxus art, and Performance Art Networks between 1960-1990
Publications and conferences:
- 2024 Reclaim, Reframe, Resist: Art History Graduate Student Association Annual Graduate Conference Organizer, Grant and Funding Coordinator
- 2023 “Composing Annie Pootoogook: Tropes and Inquity in Neocolonial Biography,” Ampersand: An American Studies Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (Summer 2023).
- 2022 Moderator, “Écritures de l’échec: performativité, mise en scene, et postures de l’artiste” Repenser l’échec, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
- 2021 “Symbols of Modernity: Failure, Biography, and the Avant-Garde in Nineteenth-Century Paris.” 2021 Conference of the Universities Art Association of Canada
- 2021 “Is Toronto Growing? Community Building, Unconventionality, and Autobiography in Comic Festivals” Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics
- 2017 “What I Did with My Useless Art History Degree,” Art History Visiting Speaker Series University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
- 2017 Organizer, 2017 Creative Time Summit: Of Homelands and Revolutions, Koerner Hall and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
- 2016 “Engineering Failure: Measuring Historiographical Changes through Manet and Duchamp,” The Margin is the Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
- 2014 “Engineering Failure: A Historiographical Analysis of Artist Biography,” Graduate Colloquium, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario
- 2014 “Jack Bush and William Ronald: Nationalism in Canadian Painting,” Lunchtime Lecture Series, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario