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Cara Tierney

Transgender Media Lab PhD Fellow

Degrees:M.F.A. (University of Ottawa), M.A. Canadian Art History (Carleton University), B.A. Art History and Visual Arts (Mount Allison University)
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Cara Tierney (they/them) is a white transdisciplinary artist, educator and settler who lives and works on the traditional unceded land of the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation in the area of Odawa (so-called Ottawa, Canada). Proudly trans, their creative practice is concerned with gender, power and local activism while their academic work investigates the interrelationships of education, art and gender creativity. They hold a MA in Canadian Art History from Carleton University, a MFA from the University of Ottawa and they are a PhD candidate at the Institute for Comparative Analysis in Literature, Arts and Culture at Carleton University.