Nikole McGregor

Nikole McGregor is a new media artist, researcher, and first-year Ph.D. student at the Cinema Studies Institute. Nikole combines research-creation methods with phenomenology and aesthetics to explore perceptual narrative systems and alternative modes of storytelling. In her work, Nikole draws inspiration from surrealism, the dada movement, and hypertexts in paintings and medieval manuscripts. Nikole has a MA in Communication and Culture from Toronto Metropolitan University and York University and a BFA in Integrated Media from OCAD University.

Selected Work

• Despair
• Speaker Consequences
• Welcome Alien

Awards

• 2022 University of Toronto - Graduate Program Award
• 2022 University of Toronto - Faculty of Arts & Science Recognition of Excellence Award
• 2021 SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters
• 2020 Canada Council for the Arts • Explore and Create Grant
• 2019 Ontario Arts Council • Exhibition grant
• 2017 Ross Fletcher Film/Video Scholarship