Elyse Longair is an artist, curator and image theorist, currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University under the supervision of Alicia Boutilier. Longair’s research focuses on collage history, collage as research creation and institutional strategies of collecting and curating collage. Summer, 2023, thanks to the David Edney Research Award, Longair will studied collage in Paris at The Centre Pompidou. Spring 2023, she participated in the Banff Artist in Residence, at The Banff Center for the Arts where she focused on her studio practice and also researched collage at the Walter Phillips Gallery. Winter 2023, she was awarded Exposure Emerging Photographer of the Year Award by Exposure Photography Festival earning her a solo exhibition at Contemporary Calgary next winter. Fall 2021 – 2022, Longair studied and curated collage at The Agnes Etherington Art Centre. From 2019 – 2021 she completed her Master of Fine Arts at OCAD University under the mentorship of Dr. Julian Haladyn. From 2020-2021, she was an RBC Emerging Artist at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery. Longair’s ‘simple image’ theory in collage re-imagines the role of images away from the overt-complexity that dominates our world, opening up new possibilities for imagined futures.
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