Lisa Steele
Professor, Associate Chair Visual Studies
lisa.steele@utoronto.ca
416 946-8150
office: room 227D
Lisa Steele(Associate Chair, Visual Studies Program) and Kim
Tomczak have collaborated since 1983 in video, performance,
installation and photo-text, investigates issues of the body, the
individual’s relationship to society and, more recently, the
delicate connection among fear, faith and death. Their recent
exhibition "...before I wake" continues this inquiry with
photographic prints, video installations and single-channel works
on display at the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris June 5 -
September 13, 2003.
As co-founders of the media arts centre Vtape, and long-time
anti-censorship activists, they continue to be active in the
artist-run culture. Both have extensive involvements with Boards of
Directors, Tomczak with the Toronto Arts Council where he served as
President from 1998-2002 and Steele as Treasurer of the Centre For
Aboriginal Media. Their artworks have been exhibited nationally and
internationally in galleries, museums and festivals and are in many
collections including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National
Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). They
were awarded the Bell Canada Award for excellence in video art in
1992 and the Toronto Arts Award for Media Arts in 1993 and the
Governor General's award for Visual and Media Arts in 2005.
Both produce curatorial projects and Steele writes on video
and media and is co-editor of the book Video re/VIEW: the (best)
source for critical writing on Canadian artists’ video (Toronto,
1996) with Peggy Gale.
Full CV