Jakub Zdebik received his PhD from the Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at The University of Western Ontario specializing in Contemporary French Aesthetic Theory. After he obtained his PhD, he became Visiting Research Fellow at The Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art at Concordia University. His monograph, entitled Deleuze and the Diagram: Aesthetic Threads in Visual Organization, was published by Continuum Press and is based on his doctoral dissertation. This book explores the notion of organizational aesthetics and its representation through the concept of the diagram as it can be observed in modern and contemporary art. He has translated French texts by Guattari and Jean-Clet Martin. He curated an exhibition for the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio entitled Art as Information. He is also working on a monograph on the concept of the map-image.

He has taught at several Canadian universities such as Concordia University, University of Guelph, Carleton University, Trent University as well as teaching at the University of Ottawa for the past several years.

Lorraine Gilbert has been producing and exhibiting photographic works since 1978. These works have been featured in solo, group and two-person exhibitions such as Global Nature, a Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Traveling Exhibition, and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, both touring exhibitions.

Gilbert has been teaching art and photography for the past 25 years, and is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa.

Jinny Yu's practice is an inquiry into the medium of painting as a means of trying to understand the world around us. Her work presented at the 56th Venice Biennale addresses themes about migration, which resonate with larger political concerns globally. Yu works simultaneously to scrutinize conventions and to explore new possibilities within the medium of painting, oscillating between the fields of the abstract painting and the object. Her work has been shown widely, including exhibitions in Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, UK and USA.

Multidisciplinary artist Andrew Wright creates conceptually informed works in many media. He has also been preoccupied with using photography in traditional and decidedly non-traditional ways for over 25 years.

Wright has exhibited widely in Canada and abroad with shows in the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Korea, China, and others. He has exhibited at such venues as the London Gallery West, Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the University of California, Berkeley, Oakville Galleries, and the Today Art Museum, Beijing.

His works can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the X'ian Art Museum, China, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, KWAG, the University of Toronto, the Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada House Canada’s High Commission in London, and private collections around the world.

Andrew Wright is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Lorraine Gilbert has been producing and exhibiting photographic works since 1978. These works have been featured in solo, group and two-person exhibitions such as Global Nature, a Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography Traveling Exhibition, and The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social at The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, both touring exhibitions.

Gilbert has been teaching art and photography for the past 25 years, and is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa.

is a visual artist who creates works through a layering of registers. Looking to become witness to subtle spatial conundrums her photography-painting networks present reflections on shifts in distance, immediacy and time. She studied at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London England before obtaining a BFA from Concordia University and a MFA from York University in Canada. She has exhibited works in Canada and the US, and her painting is represented in the Canada Council Art Bank Collection, as well private collections in Canada, the US and Europe. She has taught at York University and University of Toronto, and she is a Part-Time Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa. Sarah Rooney was born in South Africa and spent formative years in Brazil; she lives in Montreal.

Ryan Stec is an artist, producer, and designer working in both research and production. Beginning his relationship to the moving image through documentary, his practice has slowly expanded off the edges of the screen, increasingly combining light, color, structure and material with deeper consideration of site and the city.

Stec is a PhD candidate at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University. His research is focused on the political potential of temporary and informal interventions in the city, and the exploration of new approaches to mapping temporal phenomena.

He has also been heavily involved in the artist-run culture of Ottawa, Canada since 1998, and since 2005 he has been the Artistic Director of Artengine, a non-profit center for art and technology.

Justin Wonnacott was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1950. He is a photographer who also teaches, curates and writes about his subject from time to time. His photography practice spans 40 years. Recent projects include a large body of work dealing with public art in Canada's capital, an extensive examination of Ottawa's Somerset Street West made over a decade, images of fish titled “I remember and I forget”, “Necessary Pictures” which is made within the genre of street photography and most recently, images from the Atlantic and Gulf of St Lawrence shores. These portfolios are all accompanied by publications.

His work is represented in many institutional collections in Canada including the National Gallery of Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, the National Archives of Canada, the Carleton University Art Gallery, the Department of Foreign Affairs, the Ryerson University Image Centre, the Ottawa Art Gallery and others.

He currently teaches photography at the University of Ottawa in the department of fine arts, he has also taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Ottawa School of Art.

Cara Tierney (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist, PhD candidate, part-time professor, curator and consultant.

Rosalie Favell is a photo-based artist, born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Drawing inspiration from her family history and Métis (Cree/English) heritage, she uses a variety of sources, from family albums to popular culture, to present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary aboriginal woman.

Over the course of her long career, Favell’s work has appeared in exhibitions in Canada, the US, Edinburgh, Scotland, Paris, France, Taipei, Taiwan and Melbourne, Australia. Numerous institutions have acquired her artwork including: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography (Ottawa), Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, D.C.), and Global Affairs, Canada. She has received numerous grants, and won prestigious awards such as the Ontario Arts Foundation – Paul DeHuek/Norman Walford Career Achievement Award, the Chalmers Fellowship, the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunten Award and the Karsh Award. A graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, Rosalie holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico and a PhD (ABD) from Carleton University in Cultural Mediations. In Ottawa Rosalie has taught at Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and Discovery University.

Originally from France, Jérôme Havre is a Toronto based artist inspired by the production of natural history dioramas in museums and zoos. He develops in his creations reflexive spaces through immersive processes. He looks for ways to do this through presentation, the creation of situations, or setting the stage with his sculptures and inviting the public to take part “in the show.” Jérôme's work interrogates issues of identity, territory and community through the representation of nature. That is, the manner in which it is presented and yet can be more readily perceived through our cultural filters. According to Jérôme, “nature is deliberately altered in order to deceive us and keep order.” Jérôme completed his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. During his time at the School of Fine Arts he was awarded three scholarships that enabled him to pursue different art practices: silk printing techniques in New York (Cooper Union), printing techniques in Barcelona (Bellas Artes) and painting and video in Berlin (Universität der Künste Berlin - HDK) in the workshop of Marwan Kassab Bashi. Jérôme uses textiles, sculpture, digital prints, photographic images, murals, sound recording, and videos to create scenographic installations. For him, the use of a technological process is not only to accomplish a specific task, but a necessary form of expression itself.

As a professor of art history and theory, curator, writer and editor, Celina Jeffery seeks to create new avenues of creative research and scholarship. Jeffery uses curatorial strategies (online and in situ) as a spring board for interdisciplinary collaborations that seek to focus upon environmental degradation.

Celina Jeffery holds a Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the University of Essex (2002), and is an associate professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She co-founded and is the editor of Drain Magazine: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture, 2004-Present. Her new book, The Artist as Curator, was published by Intellect in Sept. 2015. She also co-edited Global and Local Art Histories, 2007 with Gregory Minissale. She has curated over 15 exhibitions internationally, both in gallery spaces and non-traditional spaces.

In May, 2015, Jeffery was the recipient of a four year SSHRC Insight Grant to support the research for Ephemeral Coast.

Andrea D. Fitzpatrick completed a Ph.D. in contemporary art and critical theory from McGill University in 2005. Since joining the University of Ottawa in 2007, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on international art and visual culture through various theoretical lenses including gender theory, post-colonial theory, post-structuralism, and theories of globalization. The politics and ethics of representation are key points of interest, primarily in photographic art, performative practices, and documentary media responding to current wars and conflicts. Contemporary art from the Middle East, particularly Iranian photographic and video art, is her active research area.

Sheena Gourlay's research specializes in feminist art in Quebec that demonstrates the way that it emerged and evolved at the conjuncture of feminism, the visual arts and discourses of nation.

Stefan St-Laurent, multidisciplinary artist and curator, is born in Moncton, New-Brunswick, lives and works in Ottawa. He was the invited curator for the Biennale d’art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda in 2008, and for the 28th and 29th Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul in 2010 and 2011. From 2002 - 2011, he worked as Curator of Galerie SAW Gallery, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Visual arts at Ottawa University since 2010.

Sylvie Boivin plays a vital role in the Department of Visual Arts as the current Administrative Officer.

Yekta Çetinkaya is a visual artist from Istanbul, Turkey currently living and working in Ottawa. He graduated from the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the University of Ottawa in 2022. He currently works at the Department of Visual Arts as the Marketing and Store Manager.

David lives and works in Ottawa and is currently a Part-time professor and full-time studio technician in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Ottawa.

Michel Vallières plays a vital role in the Department of Visual Arts as he aids students with their sculptural projects, and manages the woodshop.