Risa Horowitz

Biography

Dr. Risa Horowitz has lived and worked in seven Canadian provinces as an artist, educator, writer, and gallery programmer. Her work has been exhibited across Canada and abroad. She is represented in Toronto by MKG127 Gallery. Dr. Horowitz has received numerous visual and media arts and awards as well as the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her research in visual arts and practice-based scholarship. She has taught photography, digital imaging, and critical issues for studio artists at York University and Grenfell College. At the University of Regina she teaches photo-based media and extended/conceptual practices at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Responding to the disciplining of art practice through its ongoing entrenchment within university structures, Dr. Horowitz's art practice tends toward blurring the boundaries between expert-amateur, hobby-work, and leisure-productivity. Her current project, Imaging Saturn, has involved becoming an amateur astronomer and astro-photographer. Horowitz is photographing the the planet each year of its 29 year orbit, and creating works in drawing, video, cross-stitch, and kinetic/electronic sculpture. The project has been supported by the Saskatchewan Arts Board and a Canada Council for the Arts Grant to New Media and Audio Artists.

Research Interest

Photo-based media; time-based, conceptual, collecting, and durational practices; amateurism and hobby; practice-based research.