Simon Glass

Simon Glass is a Toronto-based visual artist. He is a Professor in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University and teaches photography and cross-disciplinary art. Glass graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1983 where he trained as a photographer and visual artist. He completed an M.A. in Media and Communication (with Distinction) at the European Graduate School in 2005.

In his artistic practice original, archival and found photography is combined with mystical, liturgical and biblical Hebrew text and other historic texts. His work has also traversed sculpture and installation. In recent work, he confronts the history of Zionism and the ongoing occupation of Palestine.

Glass practiced freelance photography for twenty years and his artwork has been exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts.