## Breadcrumb 1. [Home](/index%2Ephp/) 2. [Overview](/index%2Ephp/academics) 3. [Faculty Members](/index%2Ephp/academics/explore-faculty) 4. [Charles Reeve](/index%2Ephp/markdownify/node/4001) # Charles Reeve ![](https://ultima7-its.ocadu.ca/bios/creeve/portrait) creeve@ocadu.ca Faculty Information Acting Dean, Faculty of Arts & Science Faculty of Arts & Science Office Areas of Expertisemodern culture contemporary culture subjectivity life writing autobiography Charles Reeve is Associate Dean of Arts & Science and Professor of Visual and Critical Studies at OCAD University. He is the author of Artists and their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back (Routledge, 2022), co-editor, with Samir Gandesha, of To Hell with Poverty: Gang of Four's politics and philosophy (Bloomsbury, forthcoming), co-editor, with Rachel Epp Buller, of Inappropriate Bodies: art, design, and maternity (Demeter, 2019) and co-producer, with Epp Buller and Elena Marchevska, of the podcast "Renewing the World," which explores the contemporary culture of maternality and mothering. He has written widely on modern and contemporary art and culture for such publications as frieze, Art History, RACAR, Biography, a/b, the London Review of Books, the Literary Review of Canada and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and curated exhibitions featuring such prominent artists and designers as Jess Dobkin, Karim Rashid, Rirkrit Tirivanija and Adel Abdessemed. He is on the steering committee of the Scholars at Risk—Canada Network and is a past president of Continuum Contemporary Music, the OCAD University faculty union and l’Association d’art des universités du Canada/the Universities Art Association of Canada. ### Works #### The Photographer as Autobiographer by Arnaud Schmitt (review) Biography - An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Published: October 7th 2023 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85194929949&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity Published: October 7th 2022 #### Cutural workers of the world, unite! \[Rezension von: Everything is relevant : writings on art and life, 1991-2018 / Ken Lum. - 2020 // Heritage and debt : art in globalization / David Joselit. - 2020\] Art history Published: October 7th 2021 [View Article »](https://id.culturegraph.org/gateway-bayern:BV047577566) #### Inappropriate Bodies Art, Design, and Maternity Published: December 31st 2019 #### Mercenary Criticism \[Rezension von: Donald Judd writings / edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray. - New York, NY : Judd Foundation, 2016\] Art history Published: October 7th 2018 [View Article »](https://id.culturegraph.org/gateway-bayern:BV044896720) #### Putting the “Lie” in “Line”: Eric Hebborn's Drawn to Trouble Published: October 7th 2018 #### Public Published: October 7th 2014 [View Article »](https://id.culturegraph.org/K10Plus:1496262611) #### Andy Warhol's Deaths and the Assembly-Line Autobiography Published: October 7th 2011 #### The role of the University Art Museum and Gallery Art Journal Published: October 7th 2006 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-64249171252&partnerID=MN8TOARS) #### Jeff Wall’s Suburban Vampires Crime and ornament ; ed. by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward Published: October 7th 2002 [View Article »](https://id.culturegraph.org/OBV:990052292210203331) #### Godly Untruth Published: October 7th 1997 #### COLD METAL: DONALD JUDD'S HIDDEN HISTORICITY Art History Published: October 7th 1992 [View Article »](http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84984145870&partnerID=MN8TOARS) ### Education #### PhD **Type:** Art History Cornell University University of British Columbia #### Diploma **Type:** Art History University of British Columbia #### Bachelor of Arts **Type:** English/Psychology University of British Columbia ### Employment #### Associate Dean/Professor **Type:** Faculty of Arts & Science/Visual & Critical Studies OCAD University