Mark A. Cheetham

Background

About Mark A. Cheetham

My research centres on the imbrications of artwriting and art making in modern and contemporary art. I have written on the history, theory, and current practice of abstract art, the reception of Kant’s thinking in the visual arts and the discipline of art history, on art historical methodology, and on recent Canadian and international art. I was the Project Director of a 3-year SSHRC initiative called CACHET (Canadian Art Commons for History of Art Education & Training), 2013-16, which linked five institutions and 20 researchers. See I am the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute Fellowship, a University of Toronto Connaught Research Fellowship and Chancellor Jackman Research Fellowship in the Humanities, several Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grants, the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching (Western U, 1998), and the Northrop Frye Award for teaching (UofT, 2006). In 2006, I received the Art Journal Award from the College Art Association of America for “Matting the Monochrome: Malevich, Klein, & Now,” and in 2008, the Curatorial Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, for “The Transformative Abstraction of Robert Houle,” in Robert Houle: Troubling Abstraction. Exh. Cat. McMaster University Art Gallery, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2007. My book Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature since the ‘60s was published by Penn State UP in 2018. My exhibition Struck by Likening: The Power & Discontents of Artworld Analogies was on view at the McMaster University Museum of Art from September – December 2017. ‘Ecologies of Landscape’ showed at Barbara Edwards Contemporary in 2018-19. I am also part a national research project addressing settler-colonial practices in the art history of Canada.