About




                        Photo by Meghan Krauss, 2022
Amanda White (she/her) is a white settler artist/scholar living and working on the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee peoples in Toronto, Canada.

Amanda is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Curating in the Department of Visual Art at Western University and is also the Co-initiator of the Creative Food Research Collaboratory.

Her work sits at the intersection of art, environmental and cultural studies with a focus on plants. She has exhibited and published her work  widely with support from SSHRC, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council among others.

Amanda holds a PhD from Queen’s University and a MFA (Visual Art) from the University of Windsor. Her  ongoing works-in-progress include several collaborative and solo studio-based projects, a forthcoming co-edited book and a graphic novel. Amanda has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in studio art, art history and cultural studies at universities including; Queen’s, Western, UofT, McMaster, and supervises research-creation graduate projects at Queen’s University.


Get in touch: amanda.white (at) uwo.ca



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