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Nicole Burisch

Ceramics

Director, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University · BFA · Class of 2004

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Nicole Burisch is a curator, critic, and cultural worker. She is a settler of German/Scottish/Irish/English descent, born and raised in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton, AB) and currently living and working in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyaang (Montreal, QC). Her projects focus on discourses of craft, feminism, performance, publishing, labour, and materiality within contemporary art. She has written extensively on contemporary art, craft, and performance art with over 40 published texts in catalogues, magazines, and journals. Her research (with Anthea Black) into curatorial strategies for politically engaged craft practices is included in milestone publications The Craft Reader (Berg) and Extra/ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art (Duke University Press), and together they co-edited The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art, and Design. She has occasionally done collaborative performances as one-third of the Ladies Invitational Deadbeat Society and one-fourth of The Brick Factory. Burisch has organized dozens of exhibitions and has worked with organizations including FOFA Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, Optica, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, She Works Flexible, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Artexte, Walter Phillips Gallery, Centre des arts actuels Skol, and the Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival. She is currently the Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University.