Rhiannon Jaye Vogl

PhD Candidate
rhiannon.vogl@mail.utoronto.ca

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Fields of Study

  • Modern/Contemporary

Areas of Interest

  • Contemporary art criticism
  • Athleticism and endurance in contemporary practices

Working Dissertation

Supervisors

Elizabeth Legge

Description

My research is broadly concerned with the intersections of art criticism and publishing with conceptual and postmodern art. My dissertation focuses on self-reflexive modes of art writing in the period between 1970 and 1990.

Biography

Rhiannon lives and studies in Toronto, where she is an active member of the visual arts and endurance running community.

From 2008–2018, Rhiannon was a curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. There, she curated Kiki Smith and Tony Smith: Masterpiece in Focus (2016); New Lines: Contemporary Drawings from the NGC, Art Gallery of Alberta (2014) and Mendel Art Gallery (2014); Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts exhibition (2017–11); as well as Store/Fronts (2015), Mark Soo: House is a Feeling, (2014) and Phil Collins: they shoot horses for NGC @ MOCCA. She assisted with Geoffrey Farmer: A Way out of the Mirror (2017); BGL: Canadassimo (2015); Shary Boyle: Music for Silence (2013) and Steven Shearer: Exhume to Consume (2011) at the Venice Biennale. Independent curatorial projects include Zachari Logan: Hanging Garden, Line Gallery, North Bay (2014) and Isabelle Pauwels, Art Star 5, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (2013).

Rhiannon has written for Momus Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, Bordercrossings, Blackflash and Phaidon Press.

Selected Publications

  • “Shading the Threshold: Howie Tsui’s Phantasmagoria.”Border Crossings Magazine 40, no. 1 (2021): 118–126.
  • “Calling Cards: Chrysanne Stathacos: 1-900 Mirror Mirror.” Blackflash Magazine 38, no. 1 (2021): 12–17.
  • “Webbing the Nest: Luanne Martineau’s The Knitter Woman.” Border Crossings Magazine 39, no. 2 (2020): 60–65.
  • “Gillian King: Sediment” Border Crossings Magazine 38, no. 3 (2019): 171–172.
  • “The Tautological Reeling of Young & Giroux.” Momus (October 18, 2019), online edition.

Recent Awards

  • 2020–2023 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • 2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Doctorate)
  • 2018 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Doctorate)

Education

MA, Carleton University, Art History: Art and Its Institutions
BA (Hons), Carleton University, Art and Culture

Presentations

BlackFlash Spring Launch, Talk with Chrysanne Stathacos, Presented Online, May 10, 2021.
She Said She Said: Women’s Art Writing in Postmodern Canada, Universities Art Association of Canada Annual Conference, Presented Online, October 15, 2020.
PowerTalk with Howie Tsui, PowerPlant, Toronto, Presented Online, September 21, 2020.

Administrative Service

Board Member, Blackflash Magazine, Saskatoon, 2020/9–present
Doctoral Student Representative, Art Museum Advisory Board, University of Toronto, 2019/9–present
Writing Group Coordinator, Department of Art History, University of Toronto, 2020/5–present
Vice President, Graduate Union of the Students of Art (GUStA), University of Toronto, 2019/5–2020/8

Cohort

  • 2018-2019