John Kissick CVWebsite |
John Kissick was born in Montreal in 1962. He received his MFA from Cornell University in 1987. At Penn State University’s School of Visual Arts, he was Full Professor, Head of Painting and then Head of Critical Studies. He has also taught in adjunct capacities at University of Ulster (Belfast Art College) and the University of California--Berkeley Extention, and was Dean of the Faculty of Art at the Ontario College of Art & Design from 2000 to 2003. His exhibition record includes numerous solo exhibitions in Canada and the United States and is in a number of important national public collections. In 2005, Kissick was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy for the Arts. In May 2010, he will have a retrospective exhibition at the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, with a catalogue including essays by Roald Nasgaard, Liz Wylie and Jason Lahr. Kissick is also an author of numerous catalogue essays and articles for periodicals. He wrote the art history text Art: Context and Criticism (1992/6). |
