Kyla Mallett is the Dean of the Audain Faculty of Art. Prior to this appointment, she was Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art, teaching primarily in Photography, Art and Text, and Graduate Studies. She has served as Assistant Dean of Curriculum, and of Public Engagement in the Audain Faculty of Art, and Assistant Dean of Research and Collaborations in the Faculty of Culture and Community. She completed her MFA at UBC in 2004, and her BFA at Emily Carr in 2000.
Working primarily in photography, text and print media, her practice engages with the intersection of culture and language, using archival and statistical research to examine transgressive activities in such cultural arenas such as adolescence, feminism, academia and art. Past works have examined schoolgirls' notes, girl bullying, gossip, marginalia in library books, hauntings and aura reading. Ongoing projects involving parapsychology and self-help materials focus on marginal and devalued forms of language and communication. Mallett’s work has been exhibited widely, including the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Vancouver Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Modern Fuel (Kingston), Canadian Cultural Centre (Paris), and The Power Plant (Toronto), with solo exhibitions at Artspeak (Vancouver), Catriona Jeffries (Vancouver), Access (Vancouver), ThreeWalls (Chicago), Mount St. Vincent University Gallery (Halifax), The Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge) and Mercer Union (Toronto).
