Cheryl Simon

Born in Ottawa, Cheryl Simon has lived and worked in Montreal since 1983. Initially a practitioner, she later became a writer and critic with a particular interest in the affective and political dimensions of amateur media technologies and personal archives. At different times, in different lives she has made artworks from found and family photographs and studied and written about the part played by domestic film/photography in the construction of self and group identities and the role of popular cultural narratives contesting/negotiating the same. Other research interests include the aesthetics of archival and forensic practices in the digital age, how changes in media forms see corresponding variations in human cognition and perception and, more recently, the social and cultural implications of proliferating algorithms in the world of online communication.

Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Montreal and across the country, and her essays have been published in a range of academic and arts journals as well as anthology and monographic publications. She currently teaches seminars related to critical theory in the MFA Program at Concordia University. [Source: VOX, 2025]