Jinny Yu is a visual artist and Professor of Painting at the University of Ottawa. Her work explores belonging and place through abstraction as an ethical, transcultural, and political inquiry. Her paintings interrogate perception, embodiment, and responsibility, rethinking abstraction as a site of critical encounter. Since the early 2000s, she has exhibited internationally, including Don’t They Ever Stop Migrating? during the 56th Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Jinny Yu: At Once at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2024). She is Principal Investigator of the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex.
Ming Tiampo is Professor of Art History, co-director of the Centre for Transnational Cultural Analysis, and cross-appointed to the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Culture at Carleton University. She is a specialist of transnational modernisms, with a particular interest in worlding, global microhistories, circulation, and comparative diasporas. Her project, Mobile Subjects: Contrapuntal Modernisms (1945-1989) investigates the circulation of artists from the decolonizing world through the colonial and artistic capitals of London and Paris.
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Celina Jeffery is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Ottawa. Her research-practice primarily involves curating exhibitions that consider the visual cultures of climate change and oceanic degradation, including the SSHRC funded Ephemeral Coast http://www.ephemeralcoast.com (2015-2020). She is also the co-founder and editor of the online journal Drain: A Journal of Contemporary Art and Culture (2006-present), www.drainmag.com. She has curated over twenty climate themed exhibitions internationally.
Felicity Tayler, MLIS, PhD, is a Research Data Management Librarian at the University of Ottawa, and is a founding member of the Data Literacy Research Institute, where she is the Lead of the Ethical Data Cluster. As a Research Associate of the Humanities Data Lab, she has published Digital Humanities pedagogical resources, endorsed by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. An occasional visual artist and curator, she has produced exhibitions and published scholarly writing exploring co-publishing relationships in literary and artistic communities.
Advisory Board Members
Analays Alvarez, Associate Professor, Université de Montréal
Amber Berson, co-lead, Art+Feminism Wikipedia project and Executive Director, Visual Arts Centre
Emelie Chhangur, Director/Curator, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Tammer El-Sheikh, Associate Professor, York University
Alyssa Fearon, independent curator
David Garneau, Professor, University of Regina
Andrew Gayed, Assistant Professor, OCADU
Linda Grussani, independent scholar & curator
Vicki S. Kwon, Associate Curator of Korean Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum
Henry Heng Lu, Executive Director, Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Society
Roxanne Lafleur, DH Support Specialist, University of Ottawa
Marissa Largo, Associate Professor, York University,
Michelle Lavallée, Director, Department of Indigenous Ways and Decolonization, National Gallery of Canada
Godfre Leung, Curator, Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
Tak Pham, Curator, Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Cheryl Sim, Director & Curator, PHI Foundation
Haema Sivanesan, Director, Visual Arts, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
Research Assistants
Candide Mawoko is a PhD candidate in History specializing in Congolese sociopolitical history, with a focus on Kinshasa. Her research examines identity formation, urban governance, agency, and gender among non-elite city residents during the Mobutu era (1970–1992). For the Rolodex project, she serves as editor and writer, supporting research development and content production.
Tia Carey Wong is an undergraduate student at the University of Ottawa, majoring in Art History with a minor in Digital Humanities. She is an Administrative Assistant on the Rolodex team, undertaking technical support, research, and artist relations.
Leah Evangelista Woolner is a Filipina-Canadian visual artist and an MFA student at the University of Ottawa. Her artistic practice is an invitation to inhabit sensation and to acknowledge alternative epistemologies. Leah joined the Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex as the Project Coordinator.
Pansee Atta is an Egyptian-Canadian artist, researcher, and curator whose practice takes a decolonial approach to cultural archives, particularly those relating to ancient and modern Egypt. Her art has been exhibited in Canada, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands, and Egypt, and her research unpacks the ways that Egyptian repatriative efforts have shaped understandings of Pharaonic objects.
Past Research Assistants
- Nura Ali
- Kayla Eli
- Ashley Carmichael
- Erin Galt
- fin-xuan lee
Canadian BIPOC Artists Rolodex 