Postgraduate artistic research in the Faculty of Fine Arts

Montreal, one of the world’s largest francophone cities, is home to Concordia, an anglophone university located in its downtown core. We offer artistic research degrees more closely aligned with European models. Annual tuition for international students in the province of Quebec is one-third of what most art schools charge in the United States. Find Europe in Canada!

Graduate programs
With a Humanities PhD established in 1973, Concordia University has one of the longest standing cross-disciplinary doctoral programs in North America. Our Individualized Program, created in 1979, was also ahead of its time, allowing students to choose MA or PhD supervisors from any sector of the university.

These transdisciplinary degrees are joined by discipline-specific postgraduate research streams in Studio Arts, Design, Cinematic Arts, Film Studies, Art Education, Art History, and Creative Arts Therapies.

Faculty and labs
Unique in Canada, Concordia is the largest comprehensive Faculty of Fine Arts in North America housed within a research university. We have nine departments with expertise in arts-based scholarship, visual, performing, design, digital and therapeutic arts. Meet nine of our exciting faculty members.

Art Education
Associate Professor Vivek Venkatesh
Vivek Venkatesh is the holder of the UNESCO co-Chair in Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism. He is the director of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, co-founder and director of Project SOMEONE and co-founder/co-curator of the multimedia and musical projects Landscape of Hate and Landscape of Hope. 

Art History
Professor Martha Langford
Martha Langford is the Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and a professor in the Department of Art History. She is a leading scholar in Canadian art history and is editor-in-chief of Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadienand co-editor, with Sandra Paikowsky, of the Beaverbrook Foundation Series on Canadian Art History of McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Contemporary Dance
Professor Michael Montanaro
Michael Montanaro is a trans-disciplinary artist best known for his work in the field of contemporary dance and mixed media. As Director of the Topological Media Lab, he works with students and artists in the conception, development and realization of the lab’s diverse research streams.

Creative Arts Therapies
Associate Professor Janis Timm Bottos
Associate Professor Janis Timm-Bottos founded the Art Hives, a grassroots movement that encourages communities to come together for arts-based social gatherings that build real connections and a sense of community. The Art Hives network has grown to more than 135 art hives around the world.

Design and Computation Arts
Professor Jason Edward Lewis
Jason Edward Lewis is a Concordia University Research Chair in Computational Media and the Indigenous Future Imaginary. He is also the director of the Initiative for Indigenous Futures, which is focused on how Indigenous communities imagine themselves seven generations in the future. He co-founded and co-directs the award-winning Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace research network that investigates how Aboriginal people can participate in the shaping our digital media future.

Mel Hoppenhiem School of Cinema
Associate Professor Masha Salazkina
As Concordia University Research Chair in Transnational Media Arts and Cultures, Masha Salazkina’s work incorporates transnational approaches to film theory and cultural history with particular focus on different forms of film education. 

Music
Professor Sandeep Bhagwati
Professor Sandeep Bhagwati is a multiple award-winning composer, theatre director and media artist. As Canada Research Chair for Inter-X Arts at Concordia University from 2006-2016, Professor Bhagwati founded and currently directs matralab, a research/creation center for intercultural and interdisciplinary arts.

Studio Arts
Assistant Professor Nadia Myre
Nadia Myre is an award-winning Indigenous and Quebec artist from Montreal who is interested in having conversations about identity, resilience and the politics of belonging. As Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Material Practice, she explores how objects, ideas, history and knowledge are transmitted, mediated and mistranslated between different cultures.

Theatre
Assistant Professor Shauna Janssen
Shauna Janssen is the Director of the Institute for Urban Futures, a Concordia University Research Chair in Performative Urbanism and a core member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. She is also a core working group member and researcher with the international research platform for Performance and Design.