MVS Proseminar

The annual Master of Visual Studies Proseminar offers visual studies graduate students in curatorial studies and studio art the opportunity to connect and exchange with field-leading international and local artists, curators, writers, theorists, and other creative scholarly practitioners and researchers. Since its inception in 2006, more than 200 acclaimed speakers have joined us for the MVS Proseminar series. 

2025/2026

  • Juana Berrío
  • Liam Gillick
  • Allison Glenn
  • Juliet Kothe
  • Peter Morin
  • Lucy Raven
  • Alexandre Singh
  • Aimée Zito Lema 

Visit the 2025/26 Visual Studies Public Lecture page for dates and details.

2024/2025

  • Erika Balsom

  • Prem Krishnamurthy

  • Tanya Lukin Linklater

  • Pio Abad

  • James McAnally

  • Cooking Sections

  • Jamillah James

2023/2024

  • Amina Ross

  • Zach Blas

  • Tina Rivers Ryan

  • Aisha Sasha John

  • Hearth

  • Corina L. Apostol

  • P. Staff

  • Cassils

  • Elisa Giardina Papa

2022/2023

  • Brett Story
  • Nasrin Himada
  • Alexis Kyle Mitchell

2021/2022

  • Cassandra, Cassandra

  • Laurie Kang

  • Stephanie Dinkins

  • Nato Thompson

  • Kapwani Kiwanga

  • Srimoyee Mitra

  • Erin Gee

  • Alison Kobayashi

  • Erin Gee

  • Cheryl SIm

2006-2020

  • John Paul Ricco 

  • Mark Cheetham 

  • Scott Sorli 

  • Barbara Fischer 

  • Helena Reckitt 

  • Rina Greer 

  • Gilles Forest 

  • Johan Lundh 

  • Miguel Ventura 

  • Guillermo Gomez-Pena 

  • AA Bronson 

  • Ian Carr-Harris 

  • Sue Lloyd 

  • Beauvais Lyon 

  • Philip Jonlin Lee 

  • Johanna Schall 

  • Laylah Ali 

  • Charles Atlas 

  • Marnie Fleming 

  • Jessica Bradley 

  • Gerardo Mosquera 

  • Philip Monk 

  • Michael Corris 

  • Diana Nemiroff 

  • Gerald McMaster 

  • Jeanne Randolphe 

  • Richard Rhodes 

  • Catherine de Zegher 

  • Alison Syme 

  • Lisa Steele + Kim Tomczak 

  • Barbara Fischer 

  • Carl Knappett 

  • Nancy Campbell 

  • Jean Baptiste Joly 

  • Gilles Forest 

  • Gregory Burke 

  • Louis Grachos 

  • Gareth Moore 

  • Warren Neidich 

  • Amish Morrell 

  • An Te Liu 

  • Dot Tuer 

  • Helena Reckitt 

  • Karl Beveridge & Carole Conde 

  • Andy Payne 

  • Ilan Sandler 

  • Sophie Hackett 

  • Ann Demeester 

  • Blair French 

  • Melanie O’Brian 

  • Juan Gaitan 

  • Daniel Kotter 

  • John Massey 

  • Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher 

  • Reesa Greenberg 

  • Luiz Camnitzer 

  • Ihor Holubizky 

  • Adrian Blackwell 

  • Elodie Royer and Yoann Gourmel 

  • Karen Mizra and Brad Butler 

  • Biljana Ciric 

  • Emelie Chhangur 

  • Celine Condorelli 

  • Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster 

  • Kitty Scott 

  • Ed Pien 

  • Deanna Bowen 

  • Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet 

  • William Kentridge 

  • Georges Didi-Huberman 

  • Bendan Fernandes 

  • Nina Könnemann 

  • Andrew Hunter 

  • Ulrich Wegenast 

  • Thomas F. McDonough 

  • Charles Stankievech 

  • Brady Peters 

  • Ahmet Ogut 

  • Su Ying Lee 

  • Mari Carmen Ramirez 

  • Trevor Paglen 

  • Eyal Weizman 

  • Laura J Kurgan 

  • Anna-Sophie Springer 

  • Hillel Schwartz 

  • Jonathan D. Katz 

  • Abbas Akhaven 

  • Luis Jacob 

  • Georgina Jackson 

  • Stefan Kalmar and Richard Birkett 

  • Wendy Coburn 

  • Millie Chen 

  • Stephen Andrews 

  • Judy Radul 

  • Amy Fung 

  • Georgiana Uhlyarik 

  • Joanne Tod 

  • Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky (Public Studio) 

  • Srimoyee Mitra: 

  • Candice Hopkins 

  • Charles Esche 

  • Wanda Nanibush 

  • Gerald McMaster 

  • Zoe Todd 

  • Maryam Jafri 

  • Sven Lutticken 

  • Bonnie Devine 

  • Victor Burgin 

  • Caren Kaplan 

  • Jon Davies 

  • Richard Hill 

  • Paul O'Neill 

  • Greg Staats 

  • Leanne Simpson 

  • Vera Frenkel 

  • Fred Moten 

  • Robin D.G. Kelley 

  • Mason Leaver Yap 

  • Keller Easterling 

  • Kelly Robin 

  • Walid Raad 

  • Isaac Julien 

  • Wanda Nanibush 

  • Tanya Lukin Linklater 

  • Duane Linklater 

  • Candice Hopkins 

  • Charles Esche 

  • Zoe Todd 

  • Karyn Recollet 

  • Anders Kreuger 

  • November Paynter 

  • Abbas Akhavan 

  • Candice Hopkins 

  • Barbara Fischer 

  • Ken Lum 

  • Vasif Kortun 

  • Wanda Nanibush 

  • Rebecca Belmore 

  • Kader Attia 

  • Denise Ferreira da Silva 

  • Léopold Lambert 

  • Julia Paoli 

  • Candice Hopkins 

  • Adrian Stimson 

  • Stefan Benchoam 

  • Frances Loeffler 

  • Julian Cox 

  • Nadim Samman 

  • Dehlia Hannah 

  • Johan Grimonprez 

  • Revital Cohen & Tuur van Balen 

  • Naeem Moheianen 

  • Moyra Davey 

  • Ville Kokkonen 

  • Florencia Kolombo 

  • Wanda Nanibush 

  • Rebecca Bellmore 

About the MVS Program

The Master of Visual Studies (MVS) is an intimate, two-year program in either Studio Art or Curatorial Studies. These two streams of study operate at a field-leading intersection of liberal-arts academic research, studio and curatorial professional practices and methodologies, and a unique program identity grounded in a critical approach to discursive practices in exhibition. 

The artistic research and scholarship that emerges from both program pathways reflects increasingly complex modes of art and exhibition-making, filtered through philosophy, cultural theory, criticism and diverse material practices. Situated within one of the world’s leading research institutions, the MVS programs focus on art and its presentation as research, fostering interdisciplinary exchange within the greater Daniels Faculty and across the University of Toronto.