Tia Halliday
Tia Halliday B.F.A, B.Ed, M.F.A, Ph.D. (Candidate) is an internationally recognized artist, currently residing in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Tia is also a tenured faculty member in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Calgary where she is active in both Graduate and Undergraduate programs. In 2017, she was independently nominated for the highly prestigious Sobey Art Award (National Gallery of Canada) which is the largest award for a Canadian artist under 40. Tia has acquired numerous public grants and awards for her work in performance, drawing, painting, photography and digital video. Tia has showcased her work in various solo and group exhibitions at museums, artist-run centres and galleries across Canada and abroad, including exhibiting in the most recent Alberta Biennial (2017), the Glenbow Museum (2019) and was identified as one of Canada’s top female artists through her inclusion in the XX (Chromosome) Exhibition at Herringer Kiss Gallery (2020). Halliday’s work has been highlighted in numerous publications including:, The Washington Post, Frieze, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Art, The Edmonton Journal, and the Calgary Herald among others. Tia completed her BFA with Distinction from the Alberta University of the Arts and attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Tia obtained an MFA degree from Concordia University in Montreal, specializing in studio art and theory. Tia attended the Master of Teaching program at the Werklund School of Education (University of Calgary) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree with a focus on research-creation practice, perceptions of the body in contemporary art through the lens of social media and post-secondary art education.
Praxis Statement
Tia brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to mentoring students in graduate-level research projects that include multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to artistic and educational research. With a comprehensive research background in both practice-based studio art and post-secondary education, Tia is highly capable of mentoring students within and between both research areas. Tia is often cited by students as deeply committed, bringing an energizing and supportive approach to supervision. Tia supports students with a complex understanding of various intersecting research areas and is highly engaged with assisting students in developing pathways for rich and fruitful practice. Tia has diverse experience supervising and leading graduate students whose interdisciplinary practice-based research includes (but is not limited to) inquiry into the relationship of painting and feminist labour practice, architecture and site-specific performance, visual art and contemporary dance, painting and political media, drawing and ecology, sculpture and scientific inquiry within the lens of biographic memory, installation and socially-based practice, contemporary dance and virtual reality. Tia is very interested in interdisciplinary research projects that break down disciplinary barriers to ask questions and define insight that could not normally have been conceived upon if abiding by disciplinary lines.