Grace Day

Grace (she/her) is a current MA student in Art History at Concordia University. She is from Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia and received her BA in 2022 from the University of King's College with Combined Honours in Early Modern Studies and English, as well as a Certificate in Art History and Visual Culture from Dalhousie University. Grace's undergraduate thesis examined self-portraits of Early Modern Italian women and how they were used to establish artistic identities within a discipline dominated by men and also comment on the gendered expectations and standards placed upon women. For her MA thesis, Grace plans to continue examining the self-portraits of Early Modern women and consider how self-representation changes throughout an artist's lifetime. She will look at visible shifts in self-perception and how women artists grappled with the unrelenting process of aging through self-portraits.