Making-Thinking in the Visual Arts

Making-Thinking in the Visual Arts presenting:

SUKAINA KUBBA: TRACE, PEEL, TRANSFER

Sukaina Kubba is an Iraqi-born artist whose work is rooted in material and cultural research, material experimentation, storytelling and drawing connections. Kubba has exhibited at Western Exhibitions, Chicago and Patel Brown, Montreal; in Toronto at Venus Festival, two seven two gallery, Patel Brown, Greater Toronto Art Triennial at MOCA, Mercer Union SPACE Billboard Commission, the plumb, The Next Contemporary, Art Gallery of Ontario and Aga Khan Museum; and in Scotland at Dundee Contemporary Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow International and Kendall Koppe. In 2026 Kubba will have exhibitions at Carleton University Art Gallery, Oakville Galleries and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, her first institutional solo in Canada. Kubba has attended residencies at the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York and La Wayaka Current, Chile. She is a sessional lecturer in Visual Studies at the University of Toronto, and was previously a curator and lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art.

Making-Thinking in the Visual Arts: A Visual Art and Art History Speakers’ Series

How do the processes of making and thinking intersect, or become entangled, in the work of artists, critics, curators, and art historians? This provocative question anchors this new Speakers’ Series presented by the Department of Visual Arts and Art History of York University. The series brings together a dynamic roster of local and international voices to explore the rich terrain of contemporary art making, curatorial innovation, and critical art historical research. From studio to seminar, from exhibition to essay, this series invites us to consider how making and thinking about art are not separate acts, but deeply intertwined modes of understanding expression today.

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