Art, Art History, and Film Faculty

Sheila Gallagher is an interdisciplinary artist and curator whose work explores perception, belief, and different modes of representation. A hybrid practitioner known for her inventive exploration of materials, she works in many media including video, smoke, drawing, animation, live flowers, and light projections. She has had numerous solo­ exhibitions, and has exhibited widely in galleries, museums, and universities in the U.S. and internationally, including the Moving Image Festival, London; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; and the Dodge Gallery in New York City. She is the co­author of First ­Hand and co­-curator of the Becker Collection, a private archive of Civil War drawings that is currently touring the United States (2012-­2016). Together with Richard Kearney she co­-directs the Guestbook Project , an international peace-building initiative which brings together youths in divided communities to exchange stories. Gallagher is an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at Boston College where she teaches contemporary art practice. She lives and works in Jamaica Plain, MA.