The Department of Visual Art and Art History presents the 2025 Goldfarb Lecture in Visual Art
Extraction and Photography
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of grad studies at York University the Department of Visual Art and Art History is excited to present the 2025 Goldfarb lecture in Visual Arts featuring a conversation between Abraham Oghobase (MFA ’21) and Siobhan Angus (PhD ’20).
Wednesday, January 29, 2025
6:30 p.m.
FREE
Room 004 Accolade East Building (ACE)
83 York Boulevard
York University
4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON
This free public lecture is generously supported by Joan and Martin Goldfarb.
Abraham Onoriode Oghobase (b. 1979 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a visual artist living and working in Toronto, Canada. In his photography-based practice, he engages with issues around knowledge production, land, colonial history and representation by deconstructing traditional modes of making, and by experimenting with the narrative and material potential of images and objects. Oghobase’s work has been exhibited widely, including in the Nigeria Pavilion at the 60th La Biennale di Venezia International Art Exhibition; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver; Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; Pace Gallery, London, KADIST, Paris; and Art Twenty One, Lagos. His work is held in the permanent collections of institutions including the AGO; MoMA; Art Institute of Chicago; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki. Oghobase holds an MFA in Visual Arts from York University, Toronto.
Siobhan Angus works at the intersections of art history, media studies, and the environmental humanities. Her current research explores the visual culture of resource extraction with a focus on materiality, labor, and environmental justice. Angus is an assistant professor of media studies at Carleton University and holds a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture from York University. Her research has been published in Environmental Humanities, liquid blackness, and October. Camera Geologica: An Elemental History of Photography, (Duke University Press 2024) was awarded the 2024 Photography Network Book Prize.
Photo: Abraham Onoriode Oghobase
