Camille Georgeson-Usher

Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene /Scottish scholar, arts administrator, and writer from Galiano Island, British Columbia, unceded territories of the Penelakut and Lamalcha First Nations as well as other Hul’q’umi’num-speaking peoples, and is the ceded traditional territories of Tsawwassen First Nation. Usher is Assistant Professor of modern and contemporary Indigenous art at the University of British Columbia. She studied art history at Concordia University and cultural studies at Queen’s University. Through her research, Usher examines the ways in which people move together through space, how public art becomes a site for gathering, and how intimacies are formed with the everyday from an Indigenous perspective. She uses her practice as a long-distance runner as a methodology for embodied theory and an alternative form of sensing place. Usher is an award-winning writer whose work merges theory with poetry and, at times, science-fiction. She has been published widely across academic books, magazines, art journals and exhibition texts. In addition to her academic work, she serves on several boards and advisory committees across the arts sector and maintains an active independent curatorial and artistic practice.