Aaron Peck | |
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Born | 1979 Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Occupation | writer |
Aaron Peck is a Canadian writer and educator.
He is the author of the novella The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis, [1] published by Pedlar Press in 2008, and an art book, Letters to the Pacific, published by Publication Studio in 2010. [2] In 2016, Peck authored the monograph Jeff Wall: North & West, [3] which was nominated for the Melva J. Dwyer Award in the same year. [4]
Peck's criticism has appeared in Frieze, [5] The New York Review of Books Daily, [6] The White Review, [7] Art Agenda, Artforum , [8] Art Papers , Canadian Art , and Fillip . [9] [10]
He is a lecturer at the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, where he won the Ian Wallace Excellence in Teaching award in 2011. [11]
In 2012, Peck was selected to take part in the writers residency at dOCUMENTA in Kassel, Germany. [12] [13] [14]
From 2002 to 2009, Peck was the assistant editor at Greenboathouse Books. [15]
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