Recognition Award

Established in 2010, the UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award acknowledges members who have demonstrated their unselfish and devoted service to our association and their commitment to our profession’s ideals. These individuals have shown leadership and have made significant contributions to the organization. To honour the UAAC-AAUC conference’s 50th anniversary in 2017, the board decided that, henceforth, a lifetime membership in the association will accompany this award.

The UAAC-AAUC Recognition Award 2025: Eduardo Ralickas

Dr. Eduardo Ralickas is an Associate Professor of Art History at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where he teaches courses in art history, aesthetics, and research methodologies. He holds a joint PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and the Université de Montréal. His current SSHRC-funded research engages critically with the photographic mediations of art-historical knowledge. He is working on a book-length project provisionally entitled Voicing, Pictures: Photography, Realism, and the Performance of Art-Historical Knowledge Narratives.
Ralickas is the former French-language editor of RACAR and English-language Assistant Editor of Parachute. He sits on the editorial boards of RACAR and the Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d’histoire de l’art canadien and is an external member of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art. Ralickas has authored a number of essays that engage critically with the conditions of contemporary art, topics in the history of aesthetics, technology and knowledge in art history, and the intersections of art and politics. He has also translated texts by Bruno Latour and Éric Michaud, and edited texts by Amelia Jones, Caroline A. Jones, David Tomas, and Slavoj Žižek, among others.