This guide is intended to provide links to Library guides and selected resources which may be of interest to students and researchers at Simon Fraser University.
Contact info
If you need help, please contact Sylvia Roberts, Liaison Librarian for Communication & Contemporary Arts at 778.782.3681 or sroberts@sfu.ca or Ask a librarian
Help with course assignments
CA 117 Modern Art History (Fall 2020)
CA 127: Dance History Research (Fall 2024)
CA 160 Introductory Studio in Visual Art I (Fall 2024)
CA 312 / 826 Performing Black Identities Across Diasporic Spaces (Summer 2022)
CA 304 Professional practices in the Contemporary Arts (Summer 2024)
CA 355 Social (Spring 2025)
CA 812 Literature Research Guide for MFA researchers (Fall 2023)
CA 821 Research Methods in Comparative Media Arts (Fall 2023)
Contemporary Arts subject guides
Recommended sources for databases, journal articles, dictionaries, encyclopedias, online music, videos, images, internet resources and more.
Library media collections
New Contemporary Arts books
- Bernhard Leitner : sound space sculpture : catalogue raisonné /
- Meredith Monk : calling /
- Andrew Pierre Hart : bio-data flows and other rhythms -- a local story /
- Pio Abad : to those sitting in darkness /
- Jin-me Yoon /
- Mickalene Thomas : all about love /
- Wrong is not my name : notes on (Black) art /
- The sleepers /
- Thomas Schütte /
- Tau Lewis /
- Jin-me Yoon : life & work /
- Pictures on the wall : building a Canadian art collection /
- Magdalena Suarez Frimkess : the finest disregard /
- Jack Shadbolt : in his words /
- Pan Daijing /
- The history war : Ukraine /
- Burtynsky : extraction/abstraction.
- Casa Susanna : the story of the first trans network in the United States, 1959-1968 /
- Youth, power, performance : applied theatre with systemically marginalized youth /
- Shamūs Mutabakkarah : asāṭīr Muʿāṣirah min al-Khalīj al-ʿArabī = Evaporating suns : contemporary myths from the Arabian Gulf /
- Brendan Fernandes : inaction /
- Life dances on : Robert Frank in dialogue /
- Tim Etchells : let's pretend none of this ever happened : neon and other works /
- The living tradition : perspectives on modern Indian art /
- Andrea Büttner /
- Art and artifact : murals from the Minneapolis Uprising /
- Kapwani Kiwanga : die Länge des Horizonts = the length of the horizon /
- Jan St. Werner : space synthesis /
- Vitamin txt : words in contemporary art.
- Korean feminist artists : confront and deconstruct /