Gabby Moser
@gabbymoser.bsky.social
Art critic, curator, art historian. Associate Professor Art History + Research Chair/Director of the Jarislowsky Institute for Canadian Art History at Concordia University. Founding member of EMILIA-AMALIA (she/her).
Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.
October 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Some decisive shots of Montreal life, in black and white, currently on view in the McCord Stewart Museum’s “Pounding the Pavement” exhibition curated by Zoë Tousignant.
Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social
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October 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Morris Lum’s forthcoming “Chinatowns” book, which I helped him to photo edit and sequence, is on today’s @cnn.com style page! The book is out October 28 with a book launch planned in Montreal for December 11. @morrislum.bsky.social
www.cnn.com/2025/10/01/s...
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With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
With one of my oldest and dearest in Montreal.
Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall
September 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Montreal is really showing off in this late summer segue into fall
From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.
August 9, 2025 at 9:35 PM
From yesterday’s lovely and generous studio visit with Emma Nishimura. Furoshiki paper printed with photogravures of her family photographs of ancestors and kin incarcerated during Japanese internment in Canada.
The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.
August 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The first of three conversations as part of Kate Wong’s SITE project at Mercer Union unfolded today, asking why Toronto’s art institutions are in crisis and what can be learnt from their symptoms.
So long, York U office.
August 8, 2025 at 7:55 PM
So long, York U office.
Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life
May 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Paris in May is a study in having a very nice life
I love this animal.
April 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I love this animal.
Featuring @stephaniespringgay.bsky.social, Reed H. Reed and Hannah Jickling, and PhD students in the Faculty of Education Shannon Hyatali and Zoey Roy. Free and open to all.
March 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Featuring @stephaniespringgay.bsky.social, Reed H. Reed and Hannah Jickling, and PhD students in the Faculty of Education Shannon Hyatali and Zoey Roy. Free and open to all.
I really needed this. Thank you to the 200+ people who showed up for Open Hearing on Sunday to shout, read poetry, demand transparency, start unionizing and tell jokes together. Sitting at the kids table was super fun. More to come soon. Love, EMILIA-AMALIA
March 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I really needed this. Thank you to the 200+ people who showed up for Open Hearing on Sunday to shout, read poetry, demand transparency, start unionizing and tell jokes together. Sitting at the kids table was super fun. More to come soon. Love, EMILIA-AMALIA
And if you ever encounter a completely enticing and bewildering textile based work laid horizontally on the gallery floor accompanied by a cheesy photo of a mountain sunset and wonder what new artist made this work the answer is always Mike Kelley, back in 1991
February 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And if you ever encounter a completely enticing and bewildering textile based work laid horizontally on the gallery floor accompanied by a cheesy photo of a mountain sunset and wonder what new artist made this work the answer is always Mike Kelley, back in 1991
The collections based show on movement in sculpture is also full of pleasant surprises by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mona Hatoum, David Hammonds and Xaviera Simmons
February 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The collections based show on movement in sculpture is also full of pleasant surprises by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Mona Hatoum, David Hammonds and Xaviera Simmons
Took a much needed break to see the Orphism and sculpture shows at the Guggenheim. Picabia, Delaunays, Duchamp never get old
February 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Took a much needed break to see the Orphism and sculpture shows at the Guggenheim. Picabia, Delaunays, Duchamp never get old
Alice Ming Wai Jim, Marissa Largo and Alexandra Chang celebrating 10 years of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas (ADVA) journal at #caa113
February 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Alice Ming Wai Jim, Marissa Largo and Alexandra Chang celebrating 10 years of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas (ADVA) journal at #caa113
Paulina Choh’s paper on the use of group portraits in photo albums as evidence of identity claims under conditions of internment in early 1900s America was fascinating. #caa113
February 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Paulina Choh’s paper on the use of group portraits in photo albums as evidence of identity claims under conditions of internment in early 1900s America was fascinating. #caa113
Kirsty Robertson on this recently uncovered 1966 photograph of Eva Hesse washing wire, coated in asbestos, in a bathtub, part of the production of her work “Metronomic Irregularity” at #caa113. Part of @siobhanangus.bsky.social and Kevin Hong’s excellent panel “Chemical Intimacies”
February 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Kirsty Robertson on this recently uncovered 1966 photograph of Eva Hesse washing wire, coated in asbestos, in a bathtub, part of the production of her work “Metronomic Irregularity” at #caa113. Part of @siobhanangus.bsky.social and Kevin Hong’s excellent panel “Chemical Intimacies”
Christopher Williams-Wynn at #caa113 on socially motivated participatory and community art in the UK in the 1970s, including Stephen Willats’s works in the “wastelands” of The Lurky Place
February 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Christopher Williams-Wynn at #caa113 on socially motivated participatory and community art in the UK in the 1970s, including Stephen Willats’s works in the “wastelands” of The Lurky Place
@katerinakorola.bsky.social on the toxic impacts of colour photography development in East Germany’s Filmfabrik Wolfen. Look at these amazing psychedelic images of women working in the factories, one of whom reported “the darkroom was my life”
February 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@katerinakorola.bsky.social on the toxic impacts of colour photography development in East Germany’s Filmfabrik Wolfen. Look at these amazing psychedelic images of women working in the factories, one of whom reported “the darkroom was my life”
Call for Participation: “Open Hearing” is an open discussion around the future of the Toronto art ecosystem. Inspired by the Art Workers Coalition’s event in New York in 1969, the hearing intends to generate conversation, ideas & solutions for the wide range of problems facing our community.
February 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Call for Participation: “Open Hearing” is an open discussion around the future of the Toronto art ecosystem. Inspired by the Art Workers Coalition’s event in New York in 1969, the hearing intends to generate conversation, ideas & solutions for the wide range of problems facing our community.
I participate in a totally normal sport.
January 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I participate in a totally normal sport.
Rescheduled for this Thursday at 12 pm EST (Toronto time)!
I'll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House photographic archive: a fascinating record of radical social work, extra curricular education and extra curricular civic education.
I'll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House photographic archive: a fascinating record of radical social work, extra curricular education and extra curricular civic education.
January 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Rescheduled for this Thursday at 12 pm EST (Toronto time)!
I'll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House photographic archive: a fascinating record of radical social work, extra curricular education and extra curricular civic education.
I'll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House photographic archive: a fascinating record of radical social work, extra curricular education and extra curricular civic education.
Thank you, Issues magazine shop and tahsine al hassane for the amazing collage workshop. I brought all my pals from York U’s Faculty of Education to work and think together about images as research method.
Check out tahsine’s amazing work: tahsinthegood.com/about
Check out tahsine’s amazing work: tahsinthegood.com/about
December 4, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Thank you, Issues magazine shop and tahsine al hassane for the amazing collage workshop. I brought all my pals from York U’s Faculty of Education to work and think together about images as research method.
Check out tahsine’s amazing work: tahsinthegood.com/about
Check out tahsine’s amazing work: tahsinthegood.com/about
Next week: I’ll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House’s use of photography and extra curricular activities as a form of civic education — a chapter in progress from my book on photography, race and citizenship in Canada around and after 1948 with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Next week: I’ll be giving a talk about the University Settlement House’s use of photography and extra curricular activities as a form of civic education — a chapter in progress from my book on photography, race and citizenship in Canada around and after 1948 with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social
And to Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's work: cargocollective.com/jacquelineho...
November 29, 2024 at 5:46 PM
And to Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn's work: cargocollective.com/jacquelineho...