Risa Horowitz
Contact Info
Research Interests
- Photo and lens-based media
- Conceptual, performance and durational practices
- Time and its representation
- Art and science
- Critical landscape theories
- Creative writing
- The relationships between expert-amateur
- hobby-work
- leisure-productivity
Dr. Risa Horowitz has lived and worked in seven Canadian provinces as an artist, educator, writer, and gallery programmer. Her work, which includes photography, video, painting, drawing, performance, electronics, installation, and writing, has been exhibited across Canada and abroad. Horowitz has received numerous federal and provincial arts grants. Her works are in the public collections of Global Affairs Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
In 2021, Horowitz was inducted as an Academician to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. In 2020 Horowitz represented Canadian women artists in A New Light, an exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC that included several paintings from her Trees of Canada series.
In her teaching Horowitz supports students in developing their critical and conceptual practices through lens-based, installation, performance-based, and expanded media.
Accreditation
PhD (Visual Arts), York University, 2012
MFA (Visual Arts), University of Saskatchewan, 2000
BFA (Interdisciplinary Fine Arts Studies, honours), York University, 1995
Research Highlights
- 2023, Wayfinding and Fieldtrips, with the Library Research Collective (R. Horowitz, P. Tremblay, D. Kemp, A. Kurina), part of I/A 360 Immersive Video environment at InterAccess, Toronto. Part of UofR Humanities Research Institute 2022-2023 Fellowship.
- 2022, real-time-slow-motion (all night sun), part of “Seeing Stars”, curated by Layla Bloom and Hondartza Fraga, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
- 2022, Recherchebreen Lagoon, part of “Snow Screening”, at the Cloud Factory, Corner Brook
- 2020, A New Light: Canadian Woman Artists featuring “Trees of Canada” paintings. Organized by Global Affairs Canada with the Canada Council Art Bank and ScotiaBank. Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C, February-May 2020 (gallery then web presentation).
- 2018, I Set Out to Track the Sun, solo exhibiiton at Galleri Svalbard, Longyearbyen, Norway. With catalogue and essay by Rebecca Huxley.
- 2018, “Alba Lunare; Tramonto Della Luna”, part of Arte e Astronomia organized by Lumen London, Chiesa San Francesco, Piazza Garibady, Atina, Italy.
- 2017, Infrontofamidbefore (the combination and assembly of all these possibilities), solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Regina. With essay by Terri Fidelak.
- 2017, “Starfields and Fields”, in What Does the Image Stand For? Curated by Ami Barak, Momenta Biennale, Gallerie de L’UQAM, Montreal. With catalogue.
- 2016, “Starfields and Fields”, part of Landscapes and Silence, curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, Kashi Gallery, Kochi, India, a satellite project of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. With catalogue.