Tammer El-Sheikh
Tammer El-Sheikh is an Art Historian at York University in Toronto. His research and writing have centred on the topic of identity in the writing of art history and in contemporary art. His doctoral research focused on Palestinian-American critic Edward Said's contribution to the field of Art History, specifically to that part of the discipline that deals with colonial and postcolonial identities. His writing and scholarship have appeared in the journals ARTMargins and Arab Studies Journal, in...See more
Tammer El-Sheikh is an Art Historian at York University in Toronto. His research and writing have centred on the topic of identity in the writing of art history and in contemporary art. His doctoral research focused on Palestinian-American critic Edward Said's contribution to the field of Art History, specifically to that part of the discipline that deals with colonial and postcolonial identities. His writing and scholarship have appeared in the journals ARTMargins and Arab Studies Journal, in the magazines Canadian Art, Parachute, ETC Magazine, C Magazine, in exhibition catalogues both within Canada and abroad, and online at the contemporary Canadian art website AKIMBO.ca. From 2013-18 El-Sheikh taught undergraduate and graduate courses on Postcolonial Theory and Global Contemporary Art, The History and Practice of Art Criticism, Censorship and Popular Culture in North America and Beyond, Orientalism and Art, and Approaches to Research and Writing Between the Arts, Sciences and Humanities at Concordia University. He is currently an Assistant Professor within the Visual Art and History Department at York University. His work with the Hybrid Bodies group began while at Concordia University in 2015, with his writing on the work of Hybrid Bodies artists and researchers appearing in a catalogue published by their Faculty of Fine Arts in 2016. See less
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