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Ruth Beer

Professor, Faculty of Art and Faculty of Graduate Studies

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Education:

BFA
MFA
PhD

Bio

Ruth Beer is a Vancouver-based artist and researcher whose interdisciplinary work includes sculpture, video, photography and tapestry projects that have been exhibited nationally and internationally. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Art (Sculpture and Interdisciplinary Visual Art) and in the Faculty of Graduate Studies teaching undergraduate students as well as teaching and supervising graduate students.

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Research Interests

Ruth's interdisciplinary artistic practice examines and envisions contested geographies and landscapes in transition. Her most recent exhibitions include "Shifting Ground-Muuttuva Maa" at the Rovaniemi Art Museum Finland (2024) and solo exhibitions at the Burnaby Art Gallery and Art Gallery at Evergreen (2024/25). She has received several public art commissions to create large scale sculptures for the City of Richmond, Burnaby, North Vancouver, Vancouver and Surrey, B.C. Ruth’s artistic research projects supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) include "Land, Sea, Sky: Digital Infrastructure in Transition in Northern Landscapes and Communities" (2025-2029), an on-going project "Shifting Ground: Mapping Energy, Geographies and Communities in the North" (2019-2025) and a previous research creation project "Trading Routes: Grease Trails, Oil Pipelines".

24/25 Courses

Course Name Department Course Code Term
Praxis PRAX 300 26/SP

Description

This third year course offers the opportunity for students to develop their practice within the discourse of contemporary and historical art discourse. Students will acquire a critical vocabulary for understanding their own trajectories in dialogue with the context and history of art, through group critiques, discussions of pertinent writings, and individual and group presentations of research on a variety of subjects related to their area of practice. A Dialogues course is an investigation of artistic practice premised on a student's own interest to situate their work in a broader discourse and professional realm. They will learn skills related to completing projects, making presentations, speaking in public, leading discussions, writing, and integrating research and knowledge within their creative practice. Weekly meetings will allow for critiques of self-directed studio projects, discussion of assigned readings, and presentations of research projects.

This course is subject to priority rules; see here.

Pre-requisites

No prerequisites.