Bio
Kelsey Perreault
Ph.D. Candidate
BA, MA Art History
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Welcome to my website! My name is Kelsey and I am a 28-year-old Ph.D candidate living in Ottawa, Canada. I am a queer feminist artist, writer, and academic. I hold a BA and MA in Art History from Western University, but I got my start as a fine arts major on the East Coast. My current research is situated at the intersections of human rights, activism, museums, contemporary art, heritage, and memory studies. I am a founding member of the Culture and Crisis Collective, a small group of Carleton scholars committed to exploring and teaching about the role of expressive culture as it responds to contemporary social crises.
Exhibitions & Curatorial Work
2017
Cold Front, McIntosh Gallery, (London)
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2016
Canadian Painters Abroad, Museum London, (London)
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2016
Cabinet of Shadows: The Reliquary for Lost Animals, Artlab Gallery, (London)
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Grants & Awards
2018-19
David and Rachel Epstein Scholarship
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2016-17
SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters
2016
Madeline Lennon Essay Award
2016
Global Opportunities Award, (Poland)
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2015
Highly Commended-The Undergraduate Awards
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2015
International Learning Award, (France)
Education
2017- class of 2022
Carleton University, PhD Cultural Mediations​
2016-2017
Western University, Masters in Art History
2013-2016
Western University, BA (Honours), Art History
2011-2012
NSCAD University, Fine Arts Foundations
Publications
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tba: Journal of Art, Media, and Visual Culture
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"A Shadow Pandemic: Protesting Violence and Mourning Femicide in Mexico City" in Museums, Heritage, and Death (forthcoming 2022)
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"Heritage Ethics and Human Rights of the Dead." Genealogy. (2018) 2:(3) 22; doi:10.3390
"Remembrance as Presence: Promoting Learning from Difficult Knowledge at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights". Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. (2017) 4798.
“Cold Front: An Introduction”. Exhibition catalogue, Cold Front (2017)
“Captive Memory: A History of Animal Display in the Museum”. Exhibition catalogue, Cabinet of Shadows: The Reliquary for Lost Animals. (2016)
“Hidden Histories and Collections: Discovering the Underbelly Project”. Undergraduate Awards, Ireland 2015.