The Department of Art History and Art Conservation is the place at Queen’s to explore and understand our visual world--past, present, and future. With a diverse array of distinguished scholars in global arts, architecture, museum studies, and material culture, we are a vibrant and inclusive community committed to fostering innovative, rigorous, and socially-engaged learning, creativity, and research.
M.A.C. Candidate
Art Conservation
Stream: Treatment
Specialization: Paintings
Areas of Interest: Ancient East Asian art, contemporary mixed-media art on canvas, in-painting techniques and strategies.
Justina Hoi-Nam Yu graduated with distinction from OCAD University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drawing & Painting, and a minor in Art History in 2022. She completed chemistry courses at Toronto Metropolitan University and Queen’s University while working as an Archivist for Toronto Artist JJ Lee. Justina’s role as an archivist allowed her to polish skills in technical photography, database creation and organization, condition assessment, and communication with other key players in Lee’s exhibition, “In My Yesterday.” Justina’s main interests in conservation include modern methods of conserving ancient East Asian art, treatment of contemporary mixed-media paintings, and finish work such as in-painting strategies. Outside of Art Conservation, Justina is a 5th Degree Taekwondo Master , former Team Canada athlete, and coach at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC).
The graduate students from Prof. Una D'Elia's class, ARTH 841: Moving Images: Sculptures, Ritual, and Living Traditions created a digital exhibition project has now been published.
Please join us on Thursday, February 15 at 3 pm - 5pm, in the Art and Media Lab at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts for the closing ceremony for the exhibition Liu Shiming: Spirit of Daily Life, curated by (Queen’s PhD student in Art History) with the assistance and support of the
Every two years, the Venice Biennale turns the city of Venice, Italy, into a massive, dynamic exhibition, featuring the work of hundreds of artists from over 75 countries and regions. ARTH 380 is a 4-week, 6-credit travel study course that gives students the extraordinary opportunity to experience Venice and its Biennale firsthand.
Professor and Bader Chair in Art Conservation
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
Aaron has wide ranging research interests related to the scientific analysis of art and archaeology. He has ongoing research towards the development of non-destructive techniques of analysis including X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF), fibre optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), hyperspectral imaging, Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Raman spectroscopy. Aaron ongoing research interests include historic artist’s pigments and their degradation pathways, and inorganic material sciences as applied toward the study of ancient metallurgy, ceramics, glazes, glasses. He also is interested in the technical history of artifacts and their manufacturing processes.
Aaron received his honours H.B.A. in Anthropology and Law & Society from York University and his M.S. in Archaeological Materials from The University of Sheffield. Aaron received his Ph.D. in Archaeometallurgy from University College London. He co-directed the Archaeometallurgy Laboratory at Lehigh University, was a guest scientist at NIST, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. He serves on the Scientific Vetting Committee for TEFAF and as a forensic materials export for the Court of Arbitration for Art. Aaron was the Mellon Foundation Professor in Conservation Science at Buffalo State University, and he is currently the Bader Chair in Art Conservation at Queen’s University.
The new yearly art conservation Newsletter is out. Learn what exciting new things happened during the last school year: Art Conservation Newsletter 2022-2023
