Devon Smither

Devon Smither is associate professor of art history and museum studies at the University of Lethbridge. Her research examines how art and visual culture have shaped ideas of Canada, with a focus on modern art, nation-building, women artists, and gender bias in art historiography. Her current project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Parallel: The History and Archives of Artist-Run Centres in Canada, analyzes artist-run centres as a distinctive Canadian cultural model shaped by equity-driven practices, experimentation, and regional networks. She is a founding member of Open Art Histories and the Prairie Art Network. Smither is also co-author of CanadARThistories: Reimagining the Canadian Art History Survey (2022), the first open educational resource on Canadian and Indigenous art histories. She has published in RACAR: Canadian Art Review, the Journal of Historical Sociology (now Sociology Lens), and the Literary Review of Canada. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto.