Visual and media artist Dr Risa Horowitz is a Associate Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina.

Horowitz’s practice blurs boundaries between expert-amateur, hobby-work, and leisure-productivity. Much of her work has involved collecting and durational practices that pay attention to time and its presentation. Her work includes photography, video, painting, drawing, performance, electronics, installation, and writing. Horowitz has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and several provincial funding bodies. Her works are in the public collections of Global Affairs Canada, the Canada Council Art Bank, the Saskatchewan Arts Board, and in private and corporate collections. In 2020, Horowitz represented Canadian Women Artists in A New Light, an exhibition at the Canadian Embassy in Washington DC (where one of her arctic works is on permanent display) that included several paintings from her Trees of Canada series. In 2021, Horowitz was inducted as an Academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Urban Erratics, Piles of things, and Other Urban Landscape Observations

This practice-based research will tie multiple threads of practice together through the collaborative
production of an immersive video installation at InterAccess Media Arts Centre. It is thematically
grounded in human relations and interventions with the environment, and motivated by exploration
and critique of immersivity as a genre, a technique, and a trope towards being out of the world.