Guest Lecture Series: Thaddeus Holownia

Thaddeus Holownia is a visual artist, teacher, letterpress printer, publisher, and winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Artistic Achievement Award. Holownia’s work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, including The Nature of Nature: The Photographs of Thaddeus Holownia 1976–2016, at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; The Terra Nova Suite, a twenty-five year survey of his work in Newfoundland & Labrador at the Provincial Gallery (The Rooms) in St. John’s Newfoundland; 24 Tree Studies for Henry David Thoreau, at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the Heckscher Museum in Huntington, New York. His 1998 mid-career retrospective exhibition, Extended Vision: Photographs by Thaddeus Holownia 1978–1997, organized by the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, traveled across Canada and to the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. Holownia is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Fulbright Fellow, and an elected member of the RCA. After a forty-one-year teaching and administrative career in the Department of Fine Arts at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick, Holownia recently retired. He now spends his time at his studio in Jolicure, New Brunswick. Please join us as Holownia discusses his work, and particularly his many close collaborations with writers, out of which his extraordinary publications have emerged.

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