Dr. Reilley Bishop-Stall is a settler Canadian art historian whose research is centered on Indigenous and settler representational histories, contemporary art and visual culture with a specific focus lens-based media, archival practice and ethics, anticolonial and activist art. Dr. Bishop-Stall received her PhD from McGill University and was awarded the university’s Arts Insights Dissertation Award for the year’s most outstanding dissertation in the Humanities. Her work has been published in a number of books and peer-reviewed journals including Photography & Culture, Art Journal Open, and The Journal of Art Theory and Practice. Before joining the faculty at McGill, Dr. Bishop-Stall held a Horizon Postdoctoral fellowship with the Inuit Futures in Arts Leadership: The Pilimmaksarniq/Pijariuqsarniq Project, and a Limited Term Appointment in the Histories of Photography at Concordia University.
Selected publications:
[Forthcoming] “Past Projections: Revenants, Resilience and Archival Intervention in Meryl McMaster’s Ancestral.” “The Women, They Hold the Ground”: Indigenous Women’s Digital Media in North America. Eds. Kaarmen Crey and Joanna Hearne. University of Minnesota Press. 2025.
“Smile; Social Issues; Swing:” Bias and Contradiction in Evolving Archival Descriptions of Indigenous Subjects.” Facing Black Star. Eds. Thierry Gervais and Vincent Lavoie. Toronto: MIT Press/Ryerson Image Centre. Fall, 2023.
“An Inuit Approach to Archival Work.” Co-authored with Heather Campbell. The Routledge Companion of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United States. Eds. Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton. Routledge. Fall, 2023.
“The Art of the Apology: Apathy, Accountability and the Politics of Redress.” Art Journal Open (December, 2020)