Meet the Artist
Elyse
Longair
Interdisciplinary Art Media and Design
“My artistic praxis references and engages with simple images, using collage and collage aesthetics. The simple images encourage us to rethink and reflect on the role of imagination, opening up new possibilities for imagined futures. In my current series of collage-based work, I aim to explore how fragmented worlds of a reconstructed past may question our notions of time and reshape our thinking of the future. ”
Elyse Longair is an emerging artist currently completing her MFA studies in the Interdisciplinary Art Media & Design program at OCAD University, Canada. Her thesis research, In Defense of the Poor Image, is supported by her primary advisor, Dr. Julian Jason Haladyn and her secondary advisor, Dr. Miriam Jordan Haladyn. Fall 2021, she will be pursuing a Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies Ph.D. at Queen's University. Her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions nationally. Presently, Elyse is an RBC Emerging Artist at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.
OCAD U - Graduate Studies
Interdisciplinary Master's in Art, Media and Design (MA, MDes and MFA)
Major In progress, 2021
University of Victoria
Bachelor of Fine Art: Double Major in Art History & Visual Art
Major Completed, 2011
Collage Simple Image Future Imagination Worldbuillding Sound Photography Science Fiction Critical Theory and Criticism Art History Screen Culture
2021, RECENT CONFERENCES
2021, RECENT EXHIBTIONS
2021, Altered Images at Hand: A Contact Scotiabank Photography Festival Exhibition and Artist Talk
Propeller Art Gallery (Virtual)
2021, (Re) Worlding Creative Futures, Curated by Fizza Mir
Intersections | Cross-Sections Exhibition: Joint Program in Communications and Culture between Ryerson and York Universities (Virtual)
2021, Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties
Louisiana State University (Virtual)
2021, OCAD U Graduate Student Project Grant
OCAD U Graduate Studies
2021, 2020 RBC Emerging Artist ★
Power Plant Contempory Art Gallery
2021, 2020, 2019 OCAD U Dean's Scholarship
OCAD University Graduate Studies