Part-Time Faculty
Kanwal Syed completed her under-graduation as a studio-artist, with major in sculpture from National College of Arts, Pakistan. In 2012, she completed her M.A in Art History from University Sains Malaysia, entitled Caught in The Middle: Socio-Political Imageries in Contemporary Art in Pakistan Post 9/11 (2001-2013). She is the author of two published texts in peer-reviewed international journals. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History at Concordia University and recipient of FRQSC research grant 2018. Her research interests encompass Pakistani Art with an emphasis on shifting artistic representations of female subjectivities in Contemporary Pakistani art discourse post 9/11 and War on Terror.
Part-time faculty at the Department of Art History, Concordia university
Course ARTH389: Issues in Ethnocultural Art History
Guest Lectures
“Feminism in Contemporary Pakistani Art,” ARTH 381 - Feminism & Art History, May 2017
“#NotaBugSplat: Media Art in Pakistan Post-9/11,” ARTH 358- Studies in the History of Media Art - Special Topic: Screen Culture. Concordia University.Oct.2017.
“Alternative Medias: Use of Textile as Resistance in Risham Hossain Syed’s Tent of Darius (2017).” Communication 355-Media and Governance.McGill University. Oct.2017.
Teaching Assistantship
TA-ARTH 200 - Perspectives of Art History, 2014-2015-2016
TA-ARTH 298 - Montreal: Evolution through Architecture and Urbanism, 2017
Awards and Grants
Recipient of Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Spciété et Culture (FRQSC) (2018)
Concordia Full Tuition Recruitment Award (2014- 2017)
Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship Award (2014-2015)
Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship Award (2014-2015)
Experience
Research Assistant to Professor Alice Ming Wai Jim(2017)
Exhibition Tour inUrdu, Sovereign Acts ii, Curated by Wanda Nanibush at Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery. Montreal, 2017
Part of EAHR curating team, DissonanceIntegrations exhibit at Z art-space, Montreal, April 2016
Participation in the 2nd School of the ArtsResearch Colloquium “Nurturing Research Culture: Contextualizing Practice andTheory” organized by School of Arts, University Sains Malaysia. 8-9 May 2014
Syed, Kanwal., and Sarena Abdulla. “Chronicling Pakistan’s Art Movements from Traditional to
Contemporary: (1960- 2011),” Wacana Seni Journal of Arts Discourse, Jil. /Vol.14 (2015): 31-56.
Syed, Kanwal. “The Usage of Morbid Themes and Imageries in Contemporary Art: A Case Study,
“12: A Group Exhibition in Anticipation of the 2012 Apocalypse,”’ Mediterranean Journal of
Social Sciences, Vol.4, No (2013):128-136.
Conferences
Syed, Kanwal.“Redefining Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Pakistani Art” in penal session Inquiry and Agency, presented at Thirteenth International Conference on The Art in Society, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, June 2018.
Syed, Kanwal. “How the West Sees Us.” in the panel Rethinking Contemporary AsianArt Exhibitions in the Global Arena, presented at UAAC-AAUC, Montreal, Oct.2016.
Syed, Kanwal. Panel Moderator,“BIPOC Imaginary Space: Memory and Resistant,”in No Neutral Art, No Neutral Art History, AHGSA Annual Conference,Concordia University, Montreal, Oct.2016.
Syed, Kanwal. “The Usage of Morbid Themes and Imageries in Contemporary Art: A Case Stud of “12: A Group Exhibition in Anticipation of the 2012 Apocalypse,”’ presented at Conference ICHSS, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 2013
