Joyce Zemans
Joyce Zemans is a Canadian art historian, curator, cultural policy specialist and academic. She is known as the first woman to serve as York University's Dean of Fine Arts and as director of the Canada Council for the Arts (1988-1992). Zemans received her BA in French (1962) and her MA in art history (1966) from the University of Toronto, with additional courses at the Courtauld Institute University of London (1961). She was hired as a lecturer in art history (1966–1975) by OCA in Toronto, chaired the Department of art history (1970–1972) and served as founder and the first chair of the Department of Liberal Arts Studies (1973–1975). She was then hired by York University in Toronto as Associate Professor of Art History (1975–1995) and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts (now the School of Arts Media Performance and Design) (1975–1981), and as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts (1985–1988).
In 1992, she returned to teaching at York, then as acting director of the graduate program in art history (1994–1995), later developing the diploma in curatorial studies. In 1995, she was honoured with a University Professorship. She was appointed Robarts Chair in Canadian Studies (1995–1996). In 1994, she became co-director of the MBA Program in Arts, Media and Entertainment Management in York's Schulich School of Business and served as co-director and director of that program for over 25 years, retiring in 2020 as Senior Scholar; University Professor Emerita.
She has written Chapters in books including one on Frederick Horsman Varley in Frederick H. Varley (1983), and on "The History of Abstract Painting in English Canada", in The Visual Arts in Canada: the Twentieth Century (Oxford, 2007). She has written or co-authored numerous articles on the themes of 'Where Are the Women?' in Canadian art, and on the National Gallery of Canada's program of reproductions of Canadian art in the Journal of Canadian Art History.
Creator Id: 859Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: Canada
Province of Birth: Ontario
Year of Birth: 1940
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Writer
Gender: Female
Mediums: critique, curation, text-based
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