SHAUNA JEAN DOHERTY
is a new media art curator & critic based in Victoria, BC the unceded territory of the Lekwungen peoples, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ First Nations.
contact: shaunajeand@gmail.com
CURRENT PROJECTS
BIOGRAPHY
Shauna Jean Doherty has curated new media exhibitions at artist-run centres and regional galleries across Canada since 2012. In 2021 she received the Joan Yvonne Lowndes Award from the Canada Council for the Arts for curatorial excellence.
Her writing and exhibitions examine the cultural impacts of digital technologies and engage themes that include cyberfeminism, glitches, and techno-dystopias. She has participated in media art intensives in Germany, the Netherlands, and France.
Her written work has appeared in C Magazine, Canadian Art Magazine, and the Journal of Curatorial Studies and has been published in English, French and Russian.
She has led workshops on new media art criticism and the history of new media art for InterAccess/C Magazine and the Mackenize Art Gallery, respectively. In 2019 she co-taught Intro. To Curatorial Practices in the Graduate School at OCAD University.
Doherty has worked in artist-run centres and regional galleries across Canada including as Program Assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Programming Coordinator at InterAccess in Toronto, Distribution and Outreach Manager at VIVO Media Arts Centre in Vancouver, and Gallery Assistant at Hamilton Artists’s Inc.
Doherty graduated from OCAD University with an MFA in Art Criticism and Curatorial Practice and completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree (Hons), double majoring in Book and Media Studies and Semiotic Theory and Communications at the University of Toronto.
She has curated exhibitions, video screenings, and events for a decade in a variety of commercial, public, and artist-run spaces which include, Vtape (Toronto), EMMEDIA (Calgary), The Centre For Art Tapes (Halifax), The Art Gallery of Ontario, The Museum of Vancouver, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and FIELD Contemporary (Vancouver). Her exhibitions have been included in programming for Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto), the Images Festival (Toronto), and Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver).
The Canada Council for the Arts has funded her professional development activities in Canada, Germany, France, and The Netherlands as well as her research activities in Toronto.