Marina Dumont-Gauthier

PhD Candidate
marina.dumontgauthier@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Photography
  • Modern/Contemporary
  • Latin American

Areas of Interest

  • History and theory of photography
  • Twentieth-century visual culture
  • Latin American art and transatlantic studies

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Jordan Bear

Description

Marina's dissertation reassesses the role played by female photographers in the wake of Argentina’s photographic avant-garde and its subsequent development in the country. Her research focuses on the works of German-born photographers Annemarie Heinrich (1912-2005), Grete Stern (1904-1999), and Gisèle Freund (1908-2000). Her broader objective is to explore the ways in which their works absorbed, reflected, impacted, and even transformed the fabric of Argentine culture.

Biography

Marina Dumont-Gauthier is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. She received an Honours Bachelor of Arts with High Distinction (2012), and a Master of Arts (2013) from the University of Toronto. After achieving her MA, she worked in the Department of Canadian Art at Waddington’s Auctioneer & Appraisers and occupied the position of Assistant Gallery Director at Thompson Landry Gallery.

Since starting her PhD, Marina completed a research internship in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2017) and was the Graduate Intern of the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2019–20). She was also a doctoral fellow at Northrop Frye Centre and the School of Cities (2021-2022). Since 2022, Marina is the Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Her doctoral research is funded by the Ontario Graduate Scholarship and the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Award.

Selected Publications

Honours, Awards and Grants

  • 2022 School of Cities Graduate Fellowship
  • 2021–22 Northrop Frye Centre Doctoral Fellow
  • 2019 SGS Research Travel Grant
  • 2019 Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS)
  • 2016–20 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award

Education

MA, University of Toronto, 2013
BA (Hons) with High Distinction, University of Toronto, Specialist in Art History and Minor in Latin American Studies, 2012

Presentations

“The Forgotten Modernist: Annemarie Heinrich in Argentina.” Proceedings of the College Art Association (CAA), Emerging Latin American Scholars Panel, March 2022 (virtual).
“Modernity in Flux: Transatlantic Exposures and Buenos Aires’s Photographic Avant-Garde.” Proceedings of the 5th Semi-Annual Graduate Student Colloquium, Rutgers University, The Developing Room, November 2021 (virtual).
“The Rise to Fame of Grete Stern’s Sueños Series.” Proceedings of the Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC), Systems of Value: Creating a Market for Photography 1950–1990 Panel, October 2021 (virtual).
"Ballgowns, Diamonds, and Politics: A Revised Look at Gisele Freund's Most Infamous Photo-Reportage." Proceedings of the 4th Annual Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Apr 2020 *Cancelled due to COVID-19

Administrative Service

Co-President of the Graduate Union of the Students of Art (GUStA), University of Toronto, 2018-2019
Co-Chair of the Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “The Art of Passage: Transnational Encounter and the Convergence of Cultures,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, 2017-2018
Symposium Committee, Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, “The Secret Arts and the Art of Secrets,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, 2016-2017
Departmental Representative for the University of Toronto Graduate Students’ Union, University of Toronto, 2016-2017

Cohort

  • 2016-2017