Amy Siegel

Amy Siegel is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, curator and educator. Amy’s award-winning artistic work explores archives, gender, and the body through film, installation, performance and media art.

Their work has been shown at galleries, art residencies and festivals, including Nuit Blanche Toronto, Luminato, Third Shift and Summerworks Performance Festival.

From 2018-2023, Amy was the Creative Director of the ReFrame Film Festival, a social justice documentary film festival in Nogojiwanong/Peterborough, Ontario. Amy’s academic research builds on their artistic and curatorial work, connecting feminist media scholarship to queer artistic practice.

Education

Amy Siegel holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University, an MA in Adult Education & Community Development from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and a BA in Communications Studies from Concordia University.

Amy is currently pursuing a PhD in Communication & Culture at York University.

Recent publications

Siegel, A. “The Queer World of Lucas Morneau” exhibition text for Queer Newfoundland Hockey League. London, ON: Forest City Gallery, 2024.

with Poremba, C. “Going Deep: Hybrid Capture in Documentary” in Michael Brendan Baker & Jessica Mulvogue (eds), The Interactive Documentary in Canada, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024.

Siegel, A. “Your head is in the cloud, or, how to grieve in a pandemic.” The Fiddlehead Literary Journal. Fredericton: University of New Brunswick. No. 292 (Summer Creative Nonfiction), 2022: 145-148.

Siegel, A. “Wradical Wrestling: What Happens When Women Run the Ring” in Sharon Mazer, Heather Levi, Eero Laine & Nell Haynes (eds), Professional Wrestling: Politics and Populism. New York: Seagull Books, 2020.

Select artistic work

Thunderdome, The Dawson City League of Lady Wrestlers Archive Project, Klondike Institute for Art and Culture, Dawson City YT, 2024

Sackville I'm Yours...Too, Silver Wave Film Festival, Fredericton NB, 2024, and Dykelands: Queer Art from the Fundy, Independent Media Arts Alliance National Gathering, Halifax NS, 2024, and SappyFest, Sackville NB, 2021

ASL film adaptation: Inose/Field Trip by Yolanda Bonnell and Jesse Popp, CoMotion Festival, Toronto ON, 2022

What’s Not Happening, Struts Gallery, Sackville NB, 2021, and Third Shift Festival, Saint John NB, 2020, co-created with Paul Henderson

Here We Are, Luminato Festival, Toronto ON, 2020, co-created with Yolanda Bonnell and Natasha Greenblatt

Editor: By These Presents: “Purchasing” Toronto by Ange Loft, Toronto Biennial of Art, 2019

Let Me Be Your Plus One, The Ark, Wood Point NB, 2019, co-created with Paul Henderson

The League of Lady Wrestlers, audio documentary for the Doc Project, national broadcast on CBC Radio, 2018

Femme Futures, Gladstone Art Hut, Toronto ON, 2017, co-created with Aubyn O’Grady

The Remember Well, Elsewhere Museum, Greensboro NC, 2015

The Water Thief, OKQuoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival, Sackville NB, 2015, and SummerWorks Performance Festival (Winner Best Performance), Toronto ON, 2014

Young Drones, SummerWorks Performance Festival, Toronto ON, 2014

Out on the Street, Inside Out LGBT Film Festival, Reel Out etc., 2012, co-created with Alex Abramovich

Courses taught

• FILM/MAAC 2998 - Digital Film Production I
• FILM/MAAC 4000 - Digital Film Production III
• FILM/MAAC 3076 – Documentary Film Workshop