Johanne Sloan has a BFA from Concordia University, an MA from the Université de Montréal, and a PhD in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Kent, England (1998). Her recent book on Joyce Wieland's 1976 feature film The Far Shore is the culmination of a major research project on the artist, and concerns the question of how landscape was both critiqued and reinvented by this generation of Canadian artists. Other recent publications and conference papers address the artwork of Roni Horn, Mark Dion, Bill Vazan, Ron Terada, Lynne Marsh, Jack Chambers, Janet Werner, Althea Thauberger amongst others. Dr. Sloan is also interested in broader categories of visual culture and the urban environment, and these issues converged in the multi-authored book of essays about the world's fair held in Montreal during the summer of 1967: Expo 67: Not just a souvenir (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Research & Teaching Interests
- Contemporary Art
- Canadian Art since the 1960s
- Landscape Art and Aesthetics
- Visual Culture
- Urban Art and Culture
Distinctions & Awards
2013-2017
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant, 2013 to 2017. (Collaborative Research Project: Networked Art Histories: Assembling Contemporary Art in Canada, 1960s to the present).
2006-2009
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, 2006 to 2009 (Research Project: Visual art and pop culture in Canada, 1967-1992).
2005
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Grant, 2005, for Montreal at street level: revisiting the material, visual, and spatial cultures of the 1960s (Concordia and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2005).
2002-2005
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, 2002 to 2005 (Research Project: Conceptual Landscape Art in Canada during the 1960s and 70s).
2000-2005
Co-investigator, The Culture of Cities Research Project, funded 2000 to 2005 by SSHRC-MCRI (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Major Collaborative Research Initiative).
2000-2001
National Gallery of Canada Research Fellowship, 2000 to 2001 (Research Project: Joyce Wieland and the Concept of Landscape in the 1970s).
1998-2000
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, New York City, 1998 to 2000. (Research Project: Utopia as discourse and practice).
Undergraduate Courses
ARTH 300 Art Historical Methods
ARTH 348 Special Topics in Art and Film
ARTH 351 Studies in the History of Sculpture
- Special Topic: From Sculpture to Installation, 1960 to the Present
ARTH 367 Aspects of 20th Century Art and Architecture
- Special Topic: Survey of 20th Century Art
ARTH 373 Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art
- Special Topic: Site and Space in Contemporary Canadian Art
ARTH 373 Issues in Contemporary Canadian Art
- Special Topic: Visual Art and Pop Culture
ARTH 375 Issues in the Montreal Art Milieu
ARTH 450 Advanced Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture
- Special Topic: The sixties in art and visual culture
Graduate Courses
Master's Seminars
ARTH 610 Selected Issues in North American Art & Architecture
- Special Topic: 20th Century Art and the Culture of Cities
ARTH 610 Selected Issues in North American Art & Architectural History
- Special topic: Montreal Art Practices and Scenes: The 1970s and 80s
ARTH 612 Contextualizing North American Sculpture
- Special Topic: The End of Sculpture?
ARTH 632 Methodology
- Special Topic: The issue of “Visual Culture”
ARTH 641 Issues in Visual and Material Culture
- Special Topic: Landscape as Visual and Material Culture
Doctoral Seminars
ARTH 800 Art History and its Methodologies
- Special Topic: Art History and the "Desire for History"
ARTH 804 Writings on Art
- Special Topic: Traces of the Utopian Discourse
ARTH 805 Networks and Archives
Thesis Supervision
Master's Supervision
Polina Lasenko (in progress)
Kristina Vannan (in progress)
Bettina Perez (in progress)
Sarah Amarica, MA
Working Bodies, Poignant Cloth: Materialising Histories of Labour in Ann Hamilton's indigo blue (1991, 2007) and Ibrahim Mahama's Occupations (2012-)
Convocation: 2018
Mojeanne Behzadi, MA
Iridescent Spirituality: Early Experiments in Expanded Cinema
Convocation: 2017
Andromachi Gagas, MA
The Anxious Subject: Janet Werner and the Disfigured Female Portrait
Convocation: 2017
Corinn Gerber, MA
What you claim, you are: Black Vernacular, Regimes of Visibility, and the Reproduction of We in 'The Queen's English' by Martine Syms
Convocation: 2017
Dario Ré, MA
Performing Symbiosis: Mushrooms and Contemporary Art
Convocation: 2016
Julian Peters, MA
Visual Novels and Comic-Strip Poetry: Avant-garde Experimentation with Comics in the 1960s and 1970s
Convocation: 2014
Samantha Henman, MA
Humour & National Identity in Canadian Contemporary Art: Diana Thorneycroft, Simon Hughes & BGL
Convocation: 2014
Damien Fortin, MA
Materiality and 'l'art intégré': Charles Daudelin's Art in the Urban Context
Convocation: 2014
Megan Bradley, MA
Negotiating the Global
Convocation: 2013
Anne-Marie Proulx, MA
Raymonde April. Voyages dans l’archive et autres histoires
Convocation: 2013
Gwen Baddeley, MA
Street Art Photography: Mapping the Interstices of Urban Experience
Convocation: 2013
Isa Tousignant, MA
Plush Love: Animal Anthropomorphism in Contemporary Art
Convocation: 2013
Karolina Tomaszewska, MA
Autobiographic Narrative in Drawings by Napachie and Annie Pootoogook
Convocation: 2012
Wahsontiio Cross, MA
Louis Karonhiaktajeh Hall & the Art of Resistance
Convocation: 2011
Stephanie D'Amico, MA
Reviewing Realism: Eric Fischl, Will Cotton and the Legacy of American Photorealism
Convocation: 2011
Viola McGowan, MA
No One Has A Monopoly Over Sorrow: Representing Trauma and the Everyday in Contemporary Art
Convocation: 2011
Robin Simpson, MA
What We Got Away With: Rochdale College and Canadian Art in the Sixties
Convocation: 2011
Maria Noel Secco, MA
Neo-Mexicanism and NAFTA: Exhibiting National Identity
Convocation: 2010
Gentiane Bélanger, MA
Points of Interest at the Center for Land Use Interpretation: A Tour in the Margins of Social Ecology
Convocation: 2008
Zoë Chan, MA
Wild Boys: Primitivism and Male Youth in Larry Clark's Photography and Films
Convocation: 2008
Geraldine Davis, MA
On Ewen's Moons
Convocation: 2008
Eve De Garie-Lamanque, MA
L'Esthetique de la trace anonyme. Étude comparative des cas de Betty Goodwin et de Christian Boltanski
Convocation: 2008
Tatiana Mellema, MA
Big Dirty Secrets: The Works of Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley
Convocation: 2008
Merrilee Wolsey, MA
Perceiving Sound Waves: An Auditory Exploration of Image, Sculpture and Architecture
Convocation: 2008
Amanda Beattie, MA
The Crossroads and Ecology: The New Landscapes of Robert Smithson, Edward Burtynsky and Susan Liebovitz Steinman
Convocation: 2006
Laurent Piché-Vernet, MA
En Temps et Lieu, le programme d'art public de la Vancouver Art Gallery et les dynamiques urbaines
Convocation: 2006
Tanina Drvar, MA
Vandalism and Public Art in Montreal: A Discussion of Works by Mark Lewis and Robert Prenovault
Convocation: 2005
Anja Bock, MA
Exhibiting Trauma: Ydessa Hendeles at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich
Convocation: 2004
Stephanie Gibson, MA
Jeff Wall and The Painter of Modern Life: Modernity, Contemporary Photography, and the Challenge of Postmodernism
Convocation: 2004
Doctoral Supervision
Tracy Valcourt, Humanities (Primary Supervisor, in progress)
Andrew Forster, Humanities (Primary supervisor, in progress)
Martha Robinson (Primary Supervisor, in progress)
Rachel Harris, PhD (Primary Supervisor)
Picturing Fairyland: Illustrated Fairy Tale Books and the Rise of the Child Reader-Viewer in the Victorian Era
Convocation: 2017
Caroline Beaudoin, PhD (Primary Supervisor)
Everyday Landscapes: Picturing Places of Labour, Leisure and Industry in Québec's Eastern Townships, 1900-2015
Convocation: 2017
Bruno Andrus, PhD (Primary Supervisor)
Trajectoires fluides et croisements lumineux: histoire du verre d'art au Québec dans le contexte d'Expo 67
Convocation: 2017
Felicity Tayler, PhD Humanities (Primary Supervisor)
Conceptual Nationalisms: Conceptual Book-works, Countercultural Imaginaries and the Neo-Avant-Garde in Canada and Quebec, 1967-1974
Convocation: 2016
Fiona Annis, PhD Humanities (Primary Supervisor)
Seeking the After-Image: Swan Songs, Place, and the Photographic Image
Convocation: 2014
Michael Rattray, PhD
Functional Anarchism(s) and the Theory of Global Contemporary Art
Convocation: 2014
Mark Clintberg, PhD
Food, Crime, and Ornament: Representations and Actions Toward Ingestion in Contemporary Art
Convocation: 2013
Adad Hannah, PhD Humanities (Primary Supervisor)
Extending the Instantaneous: Pose, Performance, Duration, and the Construction of the Photographic Image from Muybridge to the Present Day
Convocation: 2013
Charles Gagnon, PhD (Co-Supervisor)
Touching and Making: Encounters with Matter
Convocation: 2012
Peter Conlin, Humanities (Co-Supervisor)
The Radical Mundane and Mundane Radicals: Cultural Self-Organization and London Social Centres
Convocation: 2011
Luke Nicholson, PhD
Anthony Blunt and Nicholas Poussin: A Queer Approach
Convocation: 2011
Anna Wacławek, PhD
From Graffiti to the Street Art Movement: Negotiating Art Worlds, Urban Spaces, and Visual Culture, c. 1970-2008
Convocation: 2009
Anja Bock, PhD
The Crossover of New Media Immersion and Site-Specificity: Contemporary Art and Spatial Experience
Convocation: 2009
Ted Hiebert, PhD Humanities (Co-Supervisor)
In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty and Postmodern Identity
Convocation: 2007
Postdoctoral Supervision
Petra Halkes, PhD
Art History, 2003-2005
Graduate Committees
MFA Committees
Cam Forbes, 2016
Jeanette Johns, 2015
Celia Perrin-Sidarous, 2015
Corri-Lynn Tetz, 2015
Jacynthe Carrier, 2012
Jacinthe Robillard, 2012
Sherry Walchuk, 2012
Patrick Dunford, 2011
Dil Hildebrand, 2008
Patrick McEown, 2008
Rosalie Gagné, 2007
Rick Leong, 2007
Adrienne Spier, 2003
Mary Wong, 2003
Maxe Fisher, 2001
Jo-Anne Balcaen, 2000
MA Committees
Pamela Mackenzie, 2015
Eliana Stratica Mihail, 2014
Marie-France Daigneault Bouchard, 2013
Emma Kreiner, 2013
Taylor Leedahl, 2013
Mikhel Proulx, 2013
Noni Brynjolson, 2012
Jessa Alston-O’Connor, 2011
Nicole Burisch, 2011
Valérie Coté, 2011
Emily Kirkman, 2011
Mark Clintberg, 2008
Erandy Vargas, 2008
Susannah Wesley, 2008
Tammer El Sheikh, 2007
Reid Cooper, 2006
Avery Larose, 2005
Julie Lavigne, 2005
Peter Gallo, 2004
John Latour, 2004
Irmela Dymytruk, 2004
Robert Darcey Nichols, 2002
PhD Committees
Steve Lyons (Art History, Concordia University, 2018)
Julia Roberge Van Der Donckt (Art History, Université de Montréal, 2017)
Liana Bellon (Art History, McGill University, 2016)
Julie Belisle (Art History, Université du Québec à Montréal, 2015)
Corina Reian (Art History, Université de Montréal, 2015)
Kate Steinman (Art History, University of British Columbia, 2015)
Karla McManus (Art History, Concordia, 2014)
Anite de Carvalho (Histoire de l’art, Université de Montréal, 2013)
Erin Silver (Art History, McGill University, 2013)
Zoe Tousignant (Art History, Concordia, 2013)
Nuria Carton de Grammont (Art History, Concordia, 2012)
Heather Davis (Communication Studies, Concordia, 2012)
Peter Gallo (Art History, Concordia, 2012)
Corina Ilea (Art History, Concordia, 2012)
Michelle Veitch (Queen’s University, Art History, 2009)
Luc Lévesque (Aménagement, Université de Montréal, 2008)
Dorothy Barenscott (University of British Columbia, 2007)
Joan Borsa (Humanities, Concordia, 2006)
Mikaela Bobiy (Art History, Concordia, 2005)
Marie Fraser (Art History, Université de Montréal, 2005)
Joy Senack (Humanities, Concordia, 2005)
Raymond Idoux (Art History, UQAM, 2004)
Clive Robertson (Communications, Concordia, 2004)
Edith-Anne Pageot, (Art History, Université de Montréal, 2003)
Sheelagh Gourlay (Humanities, Concordia, 2002)
Curtis Collins (Art History, McGill, 2001)
John Collins (Art History, McGill, 2001)
Nina Roy (Art History, McGill, 2001)
Elizabeth Mulley (Art History, McGill, 2000)
Aurora Wallace (Communications, McGill, 2000)