Charles Stankievech is a Canadian artist whose research has explored the notion of ‘fieldwork’ in the embedded landscape, the military industrial complex, and geopolitics. His work has been shown at institutions including the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; MASS MoCA, Massachussetts; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréa, North Adams (US); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (CA); Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and the Venice (IT) and SITE Santa Fe Biennales (US), among others. He has lectured at dOCUMENTA (13) and the 8th Berlin Biennale and his writing has been published by Sternberg Press, e-flux, Verso, MIT and Princeton Architectural Press. Stankievech has participated in such residencies as The Banff Centre (CA); Fogo Island; Marfa Fieldwork (US); Atlantic Centre for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (US); Museumsquartier Vienna; and the Canadian Military. In 2015, he won the OAAG award for best solo exhibition Monument as Ruin. He is an editor of Afterall Journal out of London, and founded the art and theory press K. in Berlin in 2011. In 2007, he was a founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City (CA) (under joint governance by the indigenous sovereign nation of Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in). He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto (CA).