Gabrielle Moser

Gabrielle Moser is an Associate Professor in Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, and Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Her work bridges art history, curatorial practice, and feminist theory, focusing on photography’s role in constructing citizenship, race, and colonial power structures.

• PhD in Art History
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Brown University (2017)

Her research explores photography history, curatorial studies, citizenship, colonialism, and critical public pedagogy. She examines how photographic archives intersect with Indigenous sovereignty, racialized representation, and decolonial movements. Her current book project, Citizen Subjects: Photography and Sovereignty in Post-War Canada, analyzes how marginalized communities used photography to assert global citizenship after 1947.

Her recent publications include feminist curatorial methodologies, climate change critiques, and reparations in visual culture. She has held fellowships at the Paul Mellon Centre, the Image Centre, and the British Library.

• Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2017)
• Paul Mellon Centre Fellow
• Image Centre Fellow
• British Library Fellow
• University of British Columbia Fellow

Moser supervises graduate research in Art History (MA and PhD) and co-founded the feminist working group EMILIA-AMALIA. She has taught at OCAD and York Universities, emphasizing experiential learning through museum partnerships and archival research.