2009 Selectors: Dot Tuer
Dot Tuer is a writer, art critic and cultural historian whose publications include catalogue essays and critical texts on photography, video, new media, postcolonial theory and colonial history. Most recently, she published a collection of her writings, Mining the Media Archive: Essays on Art, Technology and Cultural Resistance (YYZ Books, 2005). Tuer has lectured and written for the Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Dia Center for the Arts, the Sydney Biennale, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, among others. She is the recipient of senior Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Awards for her critical writing and fiction. Most recently, she received a Canada Council Critics and Curators grant to initiate research on a new book on issues of postcolonialism in Canadian art. She is professor of Art History and Humanities at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
