August Klintberg is an artist who works in the field of art history. He is represented by Pierre François Ouellette art contemporain in Montreal, Canada, and is an Associate Professor in the School of Critical and Creative Studies at AUArts. He earned his Ph.D. in Art History at Concordia University in 2013, where he was also an Assistant Professor, LTA. In 2010 he conducted Ph.D. research at Oxford University, St Peter's College, with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. He completed his M.A. at Concordia University (2008), his B.F.A. at the Alberta College of Art & Design (2001), and was an exchange student at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design (1999-2000). His research interests include installation, artist's cinema, edible art practices, sensory design in museums, and queer theory.
Education
2013 PhD, Art History, Concordia University. Thesis: “The Artist’s Restaurant: Taste and the Performative Still Life”
2008 MA, Art History, Concordia University. Thesis: “Commodified Generosity and Relational Abductions: The Multiples of Felix Gonzalez-Torres”
2001 BFA, Drawing, Alberta College of Art + Design (now AUArts)
Selected Grants & Fellowships
2026
Explore Grant, “Make Sense: Accessible Solutions in Museums and Galleries,” Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2026
Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (with Anthea Black)
2023-present
Insight Grant, “Queer Operatives: Writing, Making, and Transmitting Queer Canadian Art Histories,” Co-applicant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
2022
Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Marie Tremaine Fellowship, Bibliographical Society of Canada
2021
Explore and Create Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts (with Benny Nemer)
Explore and Create Research Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
Recent Publications
Single-Authored Refereed Chapters and Articles
2026
“They Only Come Out at Night: 1970s, 80s, and 90s queer DJ set list
ephemera as bibliographical evidence,” The New Americanist 4:1/2: 34-61.
2023
‘“Join, or Die”: Queer Print Activism in the Episcopal Church, 1978-
1985,’ Printing History 33 (Summer): 55-67.
2022
“Wieland Effects: Luis Jacob and the Ladies Deadbeat Invitational Society,” Journal of Canadian Art History 41 1/2: 101-122. Special issue co-edited with Johanne Sloan.
2019
“Sticky: The Vazaleen Posters,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada 57: 67-84.
Co-Authored Refereed Articles
2022
“‘Why can’t I be two people?’: The collaborative queer self in Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay’s The Same Problem,” co-authored with Jon Davies, Journal of Canadian Art History 43:1/2.
2016
“Haunted by Queer Affect: Geoffrey Farmer’s The Intellection of Lady Spider House and Allyson Mitchell’s Killjoy’s Kastle,” co-authored with Jon Davies, The Journal of Curatorial Studies 5:1. Special Issue: Curating the Affective Turn, 56-75.
Recent Conference Presentations
2026
“Drawing in the dark: Mikiki’s SHADOWLANDS.” Presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, Montreal.
2025
“Montreal Methodologies: Site-specific approaches to archives and pedagogy.” Co-presented with Johanne Sloan at “Trois décennies d’histoire de l’art à Montréal/Three Decades of Art History in Montreal, Doc-Inter (1994-2024).” Conference at Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and UQAM.
2023
"Conjuring cruising: strategies in the sexual archives.” Presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada annual conference, Banff.
2022
‘Join or Die: Gay Print Activism in the Episcopal Church, 1975-1983.’ Presented at the American Printing History Association, Los Angeles.
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The gift (that I protect) 1
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Passion Over Reason / La passion avant la raison
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It happens at night.
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Polaroid
