Meghan Bissonnette
Department of Art & Design Colorado Mesa University 1100 North Avenue Grand Junction, CO 81501 [email protected]
EDUCATION
2014 PhD Art History & Visual Culture, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
2008 MA Art History, Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University
2005 BA Art History, Art History and Contemporary Culture Division, NSCAD University
2004 BFA Fine Arts, Fine Arts Division, NSCAD University
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2017-present Assistant Professor of Art History / Art Gallery Director, Department of Art & Design, Colorado Mesa University
2015-2017 Lecturer of Art History, Department of Art, Valdosta State University
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles 2019 “Margaret Kilgallen: That’s Where the Beauty Is,” Review of Margaret Kilgallen: That’s where the beauty is, Aspen Art Museum, Journal of Visual Art Practice 18, no. 3: 277- 279. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2019.1640439
2018 “Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism,” Review of Her Paris: Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism, Denver Art Museum, Art Inquiries XVII, no. 3: 336- 340.
2018 Nadelson, Louis S., Aparna D.~Nageswaran Palmer, Tom Benton, Ram Basnet, Meghan Bissonnette, Laureen Cantwell, Georgann Jouflas, Eric Elliott, Megan Fromm, and Sarah Lanci. “Developing Next Generation of Innovators: Teaching Entrepreneurial Mindset Elements across Disciplines.” International Journal of Higher Education 7, no. 5: 114- 126. https://doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v7n5p114
2015 “From ‘The New Sculpture’ to Garden Statuary: the suppression of Abstract Expressionist sculpture,” Journal of Art Historiography 13: 1-19. https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/bissonnette.pdf
2013 “Exhibition Review: Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting,” Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Public 47: 242-244.
Articles 2016 “Toxic Sublime and the Dilemma of the Documentary,” Seismopolite: Journal of Art and Politics 14. Reprinted as: Bissonnette, Meghan. “Toxic Sublime and the Dilemma of the Documentary,” ISLARIO 4 (Dec. 2019).
2010 “Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980,” YU Free Press, Issue 1 (Fall): 23.
2006 “Women’s Work: NSCAD Women’s Collective,” Visual Arts News (Winter): 19-20.
Exhibition Reviews 2009 “Ecology Culture,” Review of Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, FUSE (March): 38-41.
2007 “Placing Ourselves,” Review of Consider Here and World Towns, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Visual Arts News (Spring): 24, 26.
2007 “Domestic Lives: Susan McEachern,” Review of Structures of Meaning, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Visual Arts News (Winter): 2-4.
2006 “Digital Transference,” Review of Back/Flash, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Summer): 26, 28.
2006 “Personal Intersections: Sarindar Dhaliwal,” Review of Record Keeping, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Spring): 6-8.
2005 “An Investigation of Space: Ron Shuebrook and Bruce Taylor,” Review of Indefinite Space, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Visual Arts News (Summer): 8-9.
Exhibition Catalogues and Brochures 2011 Bissonnette, Meghan, Anastasia Hare, and Colleen O’Reilly, “Memory Through Fibre: The Presence of Absence,” In Heir/Looms. Montréal: Studio Beluga.
2009 “The Dating Portfolio,” In Susan Bozic: The Dating Portfolio. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
2009 “Chance Encounters: Following the Thread Through Art Green’s Recent Works,” In Art Green. New York: Cue Foundation.
2 2005 “Men and Boys, and the Uses of Pleasure,” In Daniel Barrow: The Face of Everything and Shary Boyle: Songs of Childhood. Halifax: Khyber Centre for the Arts.
2005 Jenkner, Ingrid, and Meghan Bissonnette. Moral Fibre. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery.
Other Publications 2007 Zemans, J. “Policies and Programs of Support for Senior Artists,” D’Art Topics in Arts Policy No. 28 (Dec.). International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies, Sydney.
Manuscripts in Submission “The Afterlife of David T. Hanson’s Waste Land Series.” Manuscript under review with Photography and Culture.
Manuscripts in Preparation Manliness, Metal, and America: David Smith and Abstract Expressionist Sculpture. Book manuscript.
AWARDS, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS
2019 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Colorado Mesa University, $1396
2018 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Colorado Mesa University, $1500
2017 Faculty Professional Development Grant, Colorado Mesa University, $2000
2016-2017 IDEA Center Pedagogical Innovation Grant, Valdosta State University, $4000
2011 W. Lawrence Heisey Graduate Award in Fine Arts, York University, $4000
2008-2011 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, CGS Doctoral Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $105,000
2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, $15,000
2006 York University Graduate Entrance Scholarship, $4000
2006 Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), $17,500
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JURIED AND INVITED EXHIBITIONS
2020 North by Northwest: Women’s Work, Yellowstone Art Museum, dates TBD, Billings, MT. Juror: Jill Ahlberg Yohe (Juried, International)
2020 Texas National 2020, Stephen F. Austin State University Galleries, April 18-June 13, Nacogdoches, TX. Juror: Annette Lawrence (National, Juried)
2020 Small Works Juried Exhibition, Five Points Center for the Visual Arts, February 14- March 8, Torrington, CT. Juror: Power Boothe (National, Juried)
2020 Valdosta National 2020, Valdosta State University Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery, January 21-February 7, Valdosta, GA. Juror: Didi Dunphy (National, Juried)
2020 2D National Exhibition, Armstrong Gallery of Fine Art, Georgia Southern University, January 13-31, Savannah, GA. Juror: Brian Ralph (National, Juried). First Place Award.
2019 10% Hope, Omnia Contemporary, October 4-25, Grand Junction, CO. (Group, Regional, Invited)
2019 National Juried Painting Exhibition, University of Southern Mississippi Gallery of Art and Design, October 16-November 12, Hattiesburg, MS. Juror: Bill Scott (National, Juried)
2019 Gender in the Balance, National Juried Exhibition, Barrett Art Center, August 3- September 14, Poughkeepsie, NY. Juror: Judith K. Brodsky (National, Juried)
2019 Femme, Omnia Contemporary, March 1-29, Grand Junction, CO. (Group, Regional, Invited)
2018 Works on Paper II, Omnia Contemporary, December 7-28, Grand Junction, CO. (Group, Regional, Invited)
2018 Works on Paper, Omnia Contemporary, June 1-29, Grand Junction, CO. (Group, Regional, Invited)
2018 XX, Omnia Contemporary, March 2-30, Grand Junction, CO. (Group, Regional, Invited)
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION
Panels Organized 2020 “Teaching in the Trenches: Pedagogical Strategies for the Teaching-Intensive Institution,” CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
4 2016 “Online Pedagogy in the Visual Arts,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, UQÀM, Montréal, Canada.
2015 “Art/Work: Labour in Modern and Contemporary Art,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada.
Papers Presented 2019 "The Post-Apocalyptic Imagination: Envisioning Ruins in Historical and Contemporary Visual Culture," CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY.
2018 “David T. Hanson’s Waste Land Series,” The Left Conference - Photography and Film Criticism, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
2018 “Remembering the Present: Imagined Ruins in Visual Culture,” SECAC Annual Conference, Birmingham, AL.
2018 “The Aesthetics of Environmental Ruins,” Panel: “Photographing Disappearance,” CAA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
2017 “Ruin Lust in Post-Apocalyptic Visual Culture,” Panel: “Moving Image Cultures,” CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY.
2016 “At Work: Labor and the Early Reception of David Smith,” Panel: “Minimalism: Beyond Objecthood,” SECAC Annual Conference, Roanoke, VA.
2016 “Examining Ruin Lust in the Visual Landscape of Recent Apocalyptic and Post- Apocalyptic Films,” Panel: “At the World’s End: Contemporary art, visual culture, and extinction studies,” AAH Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
2016 “Using Creative Visual Exercises with Non-Art Majors,” TIES Conference, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA.
2015 “The Art of Aging in the Photography of John Coplans, Suzy Lake, and Cindy Sherman,” Facing the Challenges of Aging and Dying, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
2013 “Considering Terminal Iron Works: Labor and Industry in the Reception of David Smith's Sculpture,” New Directions in US Studies: Reimagining the 1950s and 1960s, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2012 “’The Art of Architecture for Art’: Frederick Kiesler’s Galaxy,” Panel: “Us and It: Sculpture and the Critique of Display Culture,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.
2009 “David Smith and the Erasure of Abstract Expressionist Sculpture,” Panel: “Corrosion, Erosion, Erasure,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
5 2007 “Expression in Forged Steel: David Smith and His Critics,” Panel: “Modernism in 3D,” Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC) Annual Conference, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2017-present Colorado Mesa University History of Art: Renaissance to Present Nineteenth Century Art Development of Contemporary Art Topics: Women Artists Topics: Art Criticism Criticism and Research: Theory and Method
2015-2017 Valdosta State University Introduction to the Visual Arts Art History Survey II Issues in Art Criticism Women in the Visual Arts Contemporary Art Art of the Apocalypse
2012 University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada Display: Visual Culture in Western Europe (Sessional Instructor)
2011-2014 OCAD University, Toronto, Canada Introduction to Visual Studies I and II (Teaching Assistant)
2007-2014 York University, Toronto, Canada Critical Issues in the Studio (Course Director) Introduction to Art History (Teaching Assistant) Introduction to Visual Culture (Teaching Assistant) Medieval Art (Teaching Assistant) Renaissance Art and Architecture (Teaching Assistant) Modern Art (Teaching Assistant)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2014-2015 Researcher/Professional Writer, for Dr. Carla Rice, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada, “Bodies in Translation”
2014 Editor, Faculty & Curriculum Development Centre, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
6 2010 Curatorial Assistant, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, “Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada”
2009-2010 Curatorial Intern, Contemporary Curatorial Department, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2006-2007 Research Assistant, for Joyce Zemans, Director, Arts and Media Administration Program, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada
2005-2006 Research Assistant, for Dr. Jayne Wark, NSCAD University, Halifax, Canada, “Conceptual Art in Canada”
SERVICE TO PROFESSION
2018-2021 Student and Emerging Professionals Committee, College Art Association
2017 Copyeditor, Art Inquiries, peer-reviewed journal
2016 Manuscript Review, Art History Pedagogy & Practice, peer-review e-journal
2015 Manuscript Review, Art appreciation open access textbook, University of North Georgia Press
DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY SERVICE
2017-present Colorado Mesa University Interdisciplinary Public Venues Re-Opening Committee (university) Assessment Committee (university) Film and Animation Search Committee (department) Retirement Committee (university) Art Editor, Pinyon (national journal of poetry, prose and art)
2015-2017 Valdosta State University Faculty Senate (university) Executive Committee (college) Recruitment Materials Committee (department) Art Education Search Committee (department) Gallery Committee (department)
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PRESS & INTERVIEWS
2019 Rinaldi, Ray Mark. “Special Report: In Grand Junction, connecting creativity to all aspects of civic life,” Confluence Denver, October 10. Interviewed and featured. https://www.confluence-denver.com/features/grand_junction_new.aspx
2019 “Barrett Art Center exhibit explores theme of gender,” USA Today, August 14. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2019/08/14/gender-balance-explores-genders-place- art-culture/1997366001/ Artwork featured.
2019 Oral history interview for the NSCAD Feminist Collective Oral History Project. February 25.
2017 Wiseman, Melanie. “Arts: The Art Scene, Seen Through New Eyes,” Spoke + Blossom Issue 1 (Fall), 28-29. Interviewed for feature article.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2015-2016 Writing Across the Curriculum, seminar, Valdosta State University
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
(Upcoming) Kalina Winska: Atmospheric Gaze, Georgia State University Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (anticipated date 2021).
(Upcoming) Epilogue: Patricia Coates, Emily Ritter, Tali Weinberg, Kalina Winska, Pragovka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (anticipated date October-December, 2020).
2011 Co-curated with Anastasia Hare and Colleen O’Reilly, Duy Khuong Pham: Paper Work, November 7-December 11, VS VS VS, Toronto, Canada. http://vsvsvs.org/portfolio/gallery/duy-pham--paper-work
2010 Co-curated with Anastasia Hare and Colleen O’Reilly, Ernest Reverie, June 24-August 30, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
College Art Association Southeastern College Art Conference Universities Art Association of Canada
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