Matthew Ryan Smith

Matthew Ryan Smith, Ph.D. is a freelance writer, independent curator, and sessional professor based in London, ON. Matthew has published extensively on art and culture in publications including Canadian Art, Prefix Photo, ESSE, Briarpatch, Blackflash, C Magazine, Alternatives Journal, First American Art, Artinfo Canada, Magenta, artUS, Contemporary Canadian Glass, Visual Arts News, FUSE, and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Criticism. He has also published in several academic journals including (forthcoming) Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, (forthcoming) Photography and Culture, (forthcoming) Intersection: Canadian Journal of Music, (forthcoming) Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, The Senses and Society, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Canadian Journal of Native Studies, WRECK: Graduate Journal of Art History, Visual Art & Theory, and Shift: Queen’s Journal of Visual and Material Culture. Matthew can be contacted at: matthewryansmith733@gmail.com