Karina Irvine is a writer and cultural worker based on the unceded, ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. Her current writing explores cultural memory rooted in collective and nonlinear methodologies, and its representation through story, mythology, and visual art. Her art writing has been published in C Magazine, Canadian Art, Fillip, Frieze, among others, and by galleries across Canada.
Reading four voices, Supplement 8 Circum, Fillip, 2026
Proof: on Kara Ditte Hansen’s Clay Witness, Afternoon Projects, 2021
Pockets for air: Tegan Moore’s Foam Fatigue, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, 2021
Laughing at Power, Laughing as Power: On Mike Bourscheid,
C Magazine 146, 2020
Vikky Alexander’s ‘Extreme Beauty’ Is an Escapist Fantasy to Be Bought and Sold, frieze, 2019
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill: Money, C Magazine 143, 2019
Kapwani Kiwanga: Flowers for Africa, C Magazine 137, 2018
Momentary Arrest: Semiopaque Instants in the works of Liza Eurich and Tegan Moore, G Gallery, 2016
Of Panama Papers and Poetry: Jacob Wren on Rich and Poor, Canadian Art, 2016
Kelly Lycan: Little Glow, Susan Hobbes Gallery, 2016
Isabel Nolan: When Seeing is Disbelieving, Canadian Art, 2016
Top 3 Picks of 2015: Telling Things, Canadian Art, 2015
Krista Belle Stewart: Rip Rap, The New Gallery, 2015
Black Mirror: Image and Reality in the Work of Antonia Hirsch, Canadian Art, 2015
Krista Buecking: MATTERS OF FACT, C Magazine 126, 2015
Erin Shirreff: Pictures, BlackFlash Magazine, 2014
Kara Uzelman: Stratiform, C Magazine 119, winner of the C New Critics Award, 2013