Peter M. Flannery

Peter Flannery (he/him) is the Curator at the Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery. In 2019, Peter completed his Master of Arts in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Guelph. His thesis, The Aesthetics of Collective Identity and Activism in Toronto’s Queer and HIV/AIDS Community, examines the role of art and visual culture produced by Toronto-based artists from the 1970s to the present day in the formation of queer identities and socio-political change during the gay liberation movement and the reduction of stigma and access to treatment in the HIV/AIDS crisis. He has previously worked at the Woodstock Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Guelph, Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art, as well as the School of Fine Art and Music and Archival & Special Collections at the University of Guelph. His work has been published in Ornamentum Magazine and he was the 2018 recipient of the SLSA Edward Bruns Graduate Essay Prize and in 2019 was awarded the Lambda Foundation Scholarship in LBGT Studies.