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Transart Institute

Low-Residency PhD, MFA & Academy courses in Creative Research
est. 2004

Transart Institute for Creative Research offers international low-residency MFA and practice-based PhD programs for working artists in a highly individualized format. Transart has been on the forefront of low-residency, interdisciplinary, international creative research programs since 2004. Developed and run entirely by artists, the Institute offers several practice-based curricula: PhD, MFA and A

cademy courses, generating space for experimentation and thinking in any form. We champion self-directed, curious, flexible and socially engaged creative research working independently and/or collectively.

29/01/2026

✨ Alum News ✨
We’re excited to share upcoming performances by Transart alum Freya Björg Olafson ( ) ✨

🎭 MÆ – Motion Aftereffect
An intermedia performance exploring the perceptual and embodied effects of emerging XR technologies—VR, AR, MR, spatial computing—alongside altered states, metaphysical practices, and expanded notions of reality, time, and space.

📍 Winnipeg
🗓 Jan 30 & 31 at 7:30pm
🗓 Feb 1 at 4:00pm
🎙 Artist talk following the Sunday matinee with moderator Shawna Dempsey

📍 Québec City
🗓 Feb 12 & 13 at 8pm
🗣 French translation + post-show discussion moderated by Carol-Ann Belzil-Normand

MÆ – Motion Aftereffect weaves internet-sourced monologues, motion capture, video, sound, and XR environments to situate virtual technologies alongside psychedelic and metaphysical explorations—asking how we perceive, embody, and navigate reality today.

Freya Björg Olafson is an intermedia artist working across video, animation, audio, XR, motion capture, painting, and performance. The work was longlisted for the Lumen Prize for Art & Technology and has been supported by numerous international arts councils and research residencies.

🔗 Tickets + more info
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20/11/2025

🌊 PEER-SUPPORT | MENTORING | STUDIO-SPACE

Are you navigating the complexities of a research-creation thesis? We invite you to find clarity and community on Toronto Island.

Join artist Simon Pope this February for a dedicated residency at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts for a unique opportunity to step outside your institution and dive deep into your creative practice in a supportive, peer-led environment.

WHAT TO EXPECT: This week-long intensive offers a balance of solitude and solidarity. Enjoy ample self-directed studio time alongside group dialogues addressing the specific challenges of Masters and Doctoral research. ✨ Topics include: Methodologies, academic writing, and strategies for project examination. ✨ Support: One-to-one tutorial meetings to diagnose and develop your specific project.

WHO THIS IS FOR: Creative practitioners currently enrolled in (or preparing for) a Masters or PhD programme. Whether you are just starting or refining your final thesis, this space is for you.

📍 Location: Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Island (Treaty land of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation).
🗓️ Dates: February 2026 (Reading Week).
💸 Fee: $850 CAD (Includes private bedroom, shared studio, kitchen access, and shuttle).
⏳ DEADLINE TO APPLY: Friday, November 28, 2025 (11:59 pm EST).

🔗 https://www.transartinstitute.org/

30/04/2025

If you’re in this week, join artist, writer and TT Guest Faculty Dean Kenning () for a book launch and an exhibition.

BOOK LAUNCH
Thursday 1 May, 6pm,
📍The Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art

Diagram Research Group (David Burrows, John Cussans, Dean Kenning, Mary Yacoob () will be in discussion for the launch of their book Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury, 2025)

With invited academics, Dr. Winnie Soon () artist & Director of UG Art & Technology (Slade School of Fine Art UCL); Duncan Greig, Professor of Genetics (Centre of Life's Origins and Evolution/CLOE); and Martin Holbraad, Professor of Anthropology (UCL Anthropology).

For information and to attend, e-mail David Burrows: [email protected].

EXHIBITION
Saturday 3 May, 6 - 9pm
📍St. Chads, Kings Cross

Capital Drawing Club (Andrew Cooper , Dean Kenning , John Russell .a.russell) are showing new disco-infused Marxist animations in the exhibition WORK.

Curated by Benjamin Orlow

Accessibility: the space is wheelchair accessible. There is one step to reach the bathroom.

01/04/2025

"What if more-than-human beings are collaborators, co-creators, performers, and/or mentors?"

This speculative question shapes the methodologies and practices developed by in her solo exhibition ‘Marismas de Mareas Olvidadas Forgotten Tidal Mudflats’ at

Join andrea for a closing performance ‘UNTITLED (PROCESSION)’ on Thursday April 3, 5:30 PM, with Muyassar Kurdi, On Ka’a Davis, Theo Armstrong/Luxury Bones, and Tidal Mudflats

Now dry in the space, the mud carries the memory of its past wetness, shaped by intertidal plants and sediments. The installation asks us to reflect on who shares the edges and what it means to heal without erasing. How do we engage with mudflats, long deemed polluted and dangerous due to environmental abuse?

Paul Robeson Campus Center Gallery
350 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Newark, NJ

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27/03/2025

Join us this weekend for the two upcoming public talks:

Fleeting Space, Gyungju Chyon
Saturday 29 March from 22:00-22:30 UTC

The Fleeting Space workshop focuses on shifting, fleeting atmospheric phenomena. Working with atmospheric elements such as light reflection, refraction, shadow, air movement, heat, sound, and smell. For the public talk Gyungju Chyon will share her practice-based research focused on heightening the ephemeral, sensorial relationship between materials and environmental elements such as light and air.

Art Got Me Here, with Perri Lynch Howard
Sunday 30 March from 13:00-14:00 UTC

Perri Lynch Howard will share her trajectory as an artist, tips and tricks for successfully operating an art business, and "workshop" some questions from participants. Howard is an artist dedicated to forging new narratives from the front lines of climate change. Working in the context of extreme environments is an essential aspect of Howard’s practice, driving her curiosity to seek a deeper sense of place, beyond the dichotomy of near and far.

Find more information and register: https://www.transartinstitute.org/tt-public-talks

Images: i. 10 Kinds of Fog by little wonder. Film by Garret Linn ii. Perri Lynch Howard

05/03/2025

✨ "Everything is Borrowed" ✨ Explore the ephemeral with multidisciplinary visual artist, and Transart PhD candidate, Juliette M. Ludeker's solo exhibition; a captivating dialogue on impermanence and temporality through photography. 🌿

📅 Exhibition runs until March 21, 2025
📍 Richard B. Talkin Family Art Gallery, Howard Community College, Columbia, MD

Image: '1:43:05 (October 10, 2022)' and 'Today, With or Without You', digital photographs courtesy of Juliette M. Ludeker.

More information: https://www.howardcc.edu/discover/arts-culture/horowitz-visual-and-performing-arts-center/art-galleries/gallery-exhibitions-2024-25/name-46973-en.php

28/02/2025

Exciting news! MFA alums Honi Ryan & Abi Tariq, resident artists at POUSH, are showcasing their collaborative exhibition, "Expectation is the Mother," in the RIFT space.

For 10 years, these performance artists have collaborated, and now they're anticipating their biggest project yet: the birth of their child. 🧚🏽‍♂️ Explore their monochrome installation, a visual dialogue reflecting waiting, anticipation, and the unknown featuring Abi's chalkboard text notations and Honi's gestural abstractions.

📅 Feb 22 - Mar 15
🕒 Fri & Sat, 3-6 PM or by appointment
📍 153 Av. Jean Jaurès, 93300 Aubervilliers, Greater Paris

26/02/2025

Thrilled to announce MFA alum Miriam Schaer's artist book, "Ancient Armor," is featured in the Brooklyn Museum's 200th-anniversary exhibition, "Solid Gold"!

This stunning "girdle book," crafted from a gold-treated girdle and filled with images of women warriors, is part of the museum's permanent collection.

Catch it Nov 16, 2024 - July 6, 2025.

More info on Miriam's website!

Miriam Schaer Brooklyn Museum
Photo: Ancient Armor, Girdle Book by Miriam Schaer

19/02/2025

🔥 Support LA fire relief with the art of MFA alum Jaye Alison!

The exhibition "Abstract Memories" runs Jan 31 - Mar 8 at Knox Gallery (Monterey, MA).

These bold, expressive paintings capture the emotional journey of life in California, influenced by the experience of wildfires, and the transition to a new chapter. Jaye is generously donating 25% of all sales to support LA firefighters and fire survivors.

Visit Knox Gallery at Monterey Library,
452 Main Street.

Learn more at https://jayealison.com/

Photo: Le Jardin II - Acrylic, Latex & Graphite on Bristol, 15 x 14" Courtesy of Jaye Alison Moscariello

13/02/2025

Join PhD candidate Stefanie B Denz at The Port Moody Arts Centre for "Interwoven Realms: A Journey Through Life, Space, and Transcendence", an exhibition running from January 16 to March 2, 2025.

https://www.pomoarts.ca/exhibitions-events-page/interwoven-realms

The show explores themes of presence, connection, and the multifaceted layers of existence, ranging from the natural world to the vast cosmos bringing together the works of Amy Wiebe Lau, Yasir Ali, and Stefanie Denz.

"Edges of Wilderness," reflects her deep connection to nature. Drawing on her experiences growing up on Vancouver Island and working as a tree planter in BC, Denz's paintings capture the beauty and mystery of the natural world, exploring the concept of "wildered-ness" and its connection to humanity.

Discover more about Stefanie Denz and her work at https://www.stefanie-denz.com/

Image: ‘What the River Gave’, oil on duralar and canvas board, 40''x40'' Courtesy of Stefanie Denz.

05/02/2025

We are excited to share that a small Transart cohort will be attending the new thematic residency this month at the Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts on Toronto Island (Ontario, Canada), led by longterm TT supervisor and artist Simon Pope. The week-long program during reading week, is designed to provide additional, extra-institutional peer-support for creative practitioners undertaking graduate (Masters and PhD) research-creation projects.

Participants will engage in peer-led discussions, present work-in-progress, receive individual feedback on their projects, and explore research-creation methodologies including academic writing strategies, and effective presentation techniques.

Simon Pope is an artist with over 25 years experience of working within art schools and universities, convening MA/MFA programmes and supervising doctoral students. He holds a practice-led research degree (DPhil) from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford and is currently a Research Associate at the University of Exeter (UK), an Eccles Fellow at the British Library, and a supervisor for Transart Institute/Liverpool John Moores University’s practice-led PhD programme. More information at: simonpope.info

Image: Discussion Island, Simon Pope (2018). Production still.

31/01/2025

Watch Alessandra Cianetti & Tara Fatehi lead a fascinating discussion on « Mishandled Archive, » exploring Tara’s journey from PhD research to publication, challenging conventional understandings of history by engaging with archives through dance, photography, and more.

Watch session at : https://www.transartinstitute.org/tt-public-talks

Image: Book cover: Mishandled Archive by Tara Fatehi Irani. Published by LADA (2020

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