MORGAN SEARS-WILLIAMS
www.morgansearswilliams.com | msearswilliams@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2022 – Present Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
March 2024 – Present, Social Media Coordinator, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
November 2022 – September 2024 Coordinator, Critical Image Forum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
April 2021 – August 2022 Program and Outreach Manager, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
April 2018 – April 2021 Member Services and Program Outreach Co-ordinator, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
April 2018 – April 2020 Programming Committee, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto
January 2017 – April 2018 Content Writer for #ArtCrush Series, OCAD U Photography Blog, Toronto
July 2017 – March 2018 Distribution Assistant, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto
September 2016 – Present Art Co-ordinator, The RUDE Collective, Toronto
April 2016 – September 2016 Educational Assistant, Spadina Museum, Toronto
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Impermanent Embrace, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto
2017 SOFT: transformative queer love and care, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024 Proof 30, Gallery 44: Otherwise Sensibilities, Toronto
2024 most beautiful touch, ACME Obscura, La Coruña, Spain
2024 Bageroo, S(8) Festival, Madrid, Spain
2024 Aqueous Nerve: MFA Graduate Exhibition, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
2024 Slips and Stickiness, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Virtual and IRL
2024 Entangled Embodiments, UBC Graduate Symposium, Vancouver
2023 Solitarium, AHVA Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2022 sway / pull, The 8fest, Toronto, Ontario
2021 SOFT, The Art of Being Queer Online Exhibition, U.K.
2020 Narrative Healing, Feminist Art Collective, Toronto, Ontario
2020 when we see each other, The 8Fest, Toronto, Ontario
2019-2020 Femme4Femme, Left Contemporary, Windsor, Ontario
2019 Femme4Femme, Femmewave Festival, PinBar, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2019 Work In Progress, Gallery 44, Toronto
2019 SOFT, The Art of Being Queer, Pineapple Black Gallery, Middlesbrough, UK
2017 OFF Festival, European Month of Photography Exhibitions, Bratislava, Slovakia.
2017 Career Launcher, Artscape Youngplace in collaboration with OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Femme4Femme, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto
2017 Turmoil, Osaka University of the Arts, Osaka, Japan
2017 Bed of Roses, Contact Photography Festival, Fleishman Gallery, Toronto
2017 Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Gender and the Lens, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto
2016 Fake Geek Girls Like Us, Annex Art Center, Toronto
2016 I Want to be Proud: Cheryl Pope in collaboration with OCAD Students, OCAD Great Hall, Toronto
2016 Girls Girls Girls: A Feminist Art Show, Northern Contemporary, Toronto
2015 Seen, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto
2015 Fake Geek Girls Like Us, Annex Art Center, Toronto
2014 Third Times The Charm, Annex Art Center, Toronto
2012 Modern Fumes, Modern Fuel Art Gallery, Kingston
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Behind and Beyond the Curtain: Conversation between Morgan Sears-Williams and Maddie Alexander, Femme Art Review
2024 Submerged: Photographic artist Morgan Sears-Williams creates images in collaboration with one of Canada’s oldest surviving queer spaces, Women Alternative Photo Group
2020 behind the curtain, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto
2019 $5 b4 midnight, art/iculation Magazine, Queer and Now
2019 SOFT, PhotoEd Fall Issue #56 “The Power of Documentary Photography “
2019 PhotoEd Spring Issue #55, Spring 2019.
2019 Abandoning, Tiny Spoon Experimental Literary Magazine Issue #1, April 2019.
2019 the sound of sun on my skin, Acta Victoriana, 143.1
2017 SOFT: transformative queer love and care, She Does The City, Toronto
PROGRAMS & CULTIVATOR
2023 MakeShift: Handmade, Homemade and Remade Productions, UBC Graduate Symposium, Vancouver
2020 Unapologetic: What’s Obscene Here?, Online Screening with CFMDC and VUCAVU, co-programmed with Genne Speers
2020 behind the curtain, Xpace Cultural Centre and DMG Toronto
2018 Eyeblink: Hashtag Solidarity, RUDE Collective with Xpace Cultural Center, Pleasure Dome and Gardiner Museum.
2017 First Thursday, RUDE Collective programming with the AGO. Interactive art, DJ, performance and video works on September 7, 2017
RESIDENCIES
2023 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Toronto
2022 Film Farm, Mount Forest, Ontario
2021 Womxn’s Island Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands
2018 Gallery 44 Production Membership, Toronto
2017 Career Launcher Residency with Artscape Youngplace, Toronto
2016 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands, Toronto
2015 Art Camp Residency, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2024 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Art
2023 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Master’s Graduate Scholarship, Government of Canada
2022 Roloff Beny Scholarship Award, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2022 Chalmers Professional Development Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2022 Career Catalyst, Ontario Arts Council
2017 Career Launcher Residency and Exhibition, Artscape Youngplace and OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Honorary Mention for Integrated Media awards, OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Pandora Y. H. Ho Memorial Award, OCAD University, Toronto
2017 Honorary Mention for the 2016-2017 Diversity and Equity Excellence Awards for Students at OCAD University
WRITING
2023 Same as it ever was, Feminist Photography Network online exhibition
2017 – 2018 Friday #ArtCrush, Interview Series of OCAD University Photography Students
2017 Review of Manuela Morales piece ‘After Darkness,’ Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto
WORKSHOPS & ARTIST TALKS
2024 Feeling Images, OCAD University, Toronto
2024 Queer Grief/Grievance, University Art Association Conference, London, Ontario
2023 Mentorship with artist Maddie Alexander, Eco-processing and alternative processes, Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Islands
2021 Unsettling the Feminist/Queer Archive: A Roundtable Discussion, X University, Toronto
2018 Artist Talk, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Lavender Menace: Panel Discussion, Toronto Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Elements of Photographic Composition, Polson Park Public School, Kingston, Ontario
2017 Alternative Queer and DIY Archives, Cedarbrae Library with OKAY Collective, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2017 On Allyship and Showing up, Etobicoke School of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Camera Basics, Art Camp Residency, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS
2016 Sexual Assault: The Road Show, part of the ‘Preventing Sexual and Gender Based Violence on Campus’ workshop by the Diversity, Equity and Sustainability Initiatives at OCAD U.
COMMITTEES AND GROUPS
2022 Graduate Symposium Committee, Department of Art History and Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2022 Board Member, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver
2018 Toronto Media Arts Centre Programming Committee, CFMDC Representative, Toronto, Ontario
2016 – Present The RUDE Collective, Art Co-ordinator, Toronto
2016 Curriculum Innovation Committee, Student Representative, OCAD U
2016 Photography Program Curriculum Innovation Committee, Student Representative, OCAD U