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1987-2014 (Creation)
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- Levitt, Nina
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58 cm of textual records
564 photographs : b&w & col., col. slides ; 35mm
37 negative strips : b&w & col.; 35mm & 60cm
6 photo negatives : b&w
2 contact sheets : b&w
8 videocassettes : VHS
59 compact discs
17 DVDs
1 floppy disc
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Nina Levitt is a Canadian artist who works primarily in photography, installation, and video. Levitt obtained a BA from Toronto Metropolitan University in 1980 and an MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1997. Her work has been extensively shown throughout Canada, and has also been showcased in the US and the UK. Her practice examines the representation of women in popular culture and often involves the recovery and manipulation of existing images. Her work has been recognized with dozens of grants including a SSHRC Research Creation Grant, and has been widely published and reviewed, including feature articles in Parachute #100 and Canadian Art. Her exhibitions include Nuit Blanche (2006), Otherworldly in Melbourne and Manchester (2007), The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture(Vancouver Art Gallery; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Edmonton Art Gallery, 2002) and a commission for the 100th anniversary of Women’s College Hospital, Toronto (2011), Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2014) and in/future at the Cinesphere, Ontario Place in 2016.
Since 2004, she has been an Associate Professor at York University. Previously, she was the Program Coordinator of the Toronto Photographers Workshop (Gallery TPW) between 1984-1991, and taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the New Media program at Toronto Metropolitan University.
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Fonds consists of records documenting Canadian artist Nina Levitt’s work as a photographer, artist, academic and university instructor. Records include correspondence, both personal and professional; research material; draft writing; contracts; exhibition schematics and promotional material; graduate school papers; as well as photographs, CDs and DVDs containing images of artwork; and videocassettes.
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French
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2026/02/25 E. Thomas. Creation.