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# Stephen Foster

 ![](https://ultima7-its.ocadu.ca/bios/sfoster/portrait) 

 sfoster@ocadu.ca 

 

 

 Faculty Information Professor, Tenured   
 Faculty of Art 



 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



<a id="main-content" tabindex="-1"></a>Stephen Foster is an electronic media artist and researcher of mixed Haida and European heritage   
whose work deals with issues of Indigenous representation in popular culture through personal   
narrative. Foster’s multi-channel video and interactive video installations, photography and single   
channel video works have been presented in galleries and film and media festivals across Canada   
as well as in New Zealand, Sweden, Germany and the United States. He has presented lectures   
and has participated on panels for new media, video art and contemporary Indigenous art at   
national and international venues. Currently, Foster is the Dean, Faculty of Art at the Ontario   
College of Art and Design University (OCADU) in Toronto. Before moving to OCADU he   
served as Head of the Creative Studies Department was Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and   
Research, both at UBC Okanagan University.   
Foster’s interactive installation entitled The Prince George Métis Elders’ Documentary Project   
has been exhibited at various galleries and festivals and in 2009 the project was nominated for the   
Best New Media Work at the ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto. His   
interactive web-art project entitled Kiss and Tell was also nominated in 2010 at ImagineNative   
and has been collected by NT2 at the Université du Québec à Montréal. His current projects   
include a multi-phase digital photo and interactive video installation project entitled Re-mediating   
E.S. Curtis Project, which has been exhibited at variety of galleries in BC including the Kelowna   
Art Gallery, the Vernon Public Art Gallery in 2013 as well as the Surrey Art Gallery and Kootney   
Art Gallery in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Recently, Foster has participated in the group   
exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum, entitled Native Portraiture: Power and Perception (2019-   
2021), where he exhibited two large scale lightboxes from the Remediating E.S. Curtis Project:   
Toy Portrait series. In 2017 He participated in the exhibition Transformer: Native Art in Light   
and Sound at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York. The   
exhibition included the interactive audio and video installation, Raven Brings the Light, which   
was purchased by the Smithsonian in 2019. Stephen Foster continues to create new work in   
photography, video and sound while he fulfills his role as a Dean in Canada’s oldest and largest   
post-secondary art school.

 

 

 

 

  ###    Employment        

#### Dean

**Type:** Faculty of Art

Ontario College of Art and Design