Research Catalogue

Donna Szőke (she/her) is an artist, a settler in Canada with Hungarian, Irish, Scottish, and Jewish ancestors, and is an Associate Professor of Visual Arts.  Her work circulates as permanent public art, ephemeral public art, galleries, film festivals, books, and a smart phone app. Her work investigates ideas of immanence, embodied perception, the fluidity of lived experience, and non-visual knowledge. Her research-creation has been shown in Canada, the United States, France, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Cuba, Turkey, UAE, and South Korea. She has received grants for her artwork from Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and others. Szőke’s artworks are collected in two permanent Canadian public art collections, five temporary public art collections, the TIFF Film Archive, and video library collections. She received the Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity at Brock University in 2017.