EDUCATION
2022 - Ph.D. Student in Cinema Studies - University of Toronto - Toronto, ON, Canada
2022 - MA in Communication and Culture - TMU | York University - Toronto, ON, Canada
2018 - BFA in Integrated Media (with Distinction) - OCAD University - Toronto, ON, Canada
2014 - Certificate in Design Studies (with Distinction) - Algonquin College • Ottawa, ON, Canada
CERTIFICATES
2021 - Graduate Teaching Development Program: Advanced Teaching Practice - TMU - Toronto, ON, Canada
2021 - Graduate Teaching Development Program: Teaching Foundations in Higher Education - TMU - Toronto, ON, Canada
2019 - Human-Centered Design - eCampus Ontario - Toronto, ON, Canada
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022 - University of Toronto - Graduate Program Award
2022 - University of Toronto - Faculty of Arts & Science Recognition of Excellence Award
2021 - SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship - Masters
2020 - Canada Council for the Arts • Explore and Create Grant
2019 - Ontario Arts Council • Exhibition grant
2017 - Ross Fletcher Film/Video Scholarship
ACADEMIC POSITIONS & EXPERIENCE
2022 - Research Assistant - University of Toronto - Centre for Culture and Technology
2022 - Teaching Assistant - University of Toronto - CIN105 Introduction to Film Study
2022 - Creative Technology Assistant - Ryerson University - The Creative School
2022 - Graduate Assistant - Ryerson University - ENG705 Studies in Visual Cultures
2022 - Graduate Assistant - Ryerson University - ENG611 Film and Literature
2020 - Graduate Assistant - Ryerson University - CMN321 Knowledge Translation
2019 - Teaching Assistant - OCAD University - Expanded Animation Capstone II EXAN 4902
2019 - Teaching Assistant at TAIS - Outreach Program: Animation City
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Clapperton, R., Loney, J., McGregor, N. H., & Shiga, J. (2022, May 26). Learning at the Speed of Flexibility [Keynote Presentation]. OHEIT 2022, Toronto, ON.
Clapperton, R., Loney, J., McGregor, N. H., & Shiga, J. (2022, May 19). Learning at the Speed of Flexibility [Keynote Presentation]. 2022 Learning and Teaching Conference, Toronto, ON.
McGregor, N. H., & Mc Gregor Muro, C. A. (2022, March 18). Bits of Sorrow: Sonification of the Data of Forced Sterilizations in Peru between 1996 and 2000 [Conference Presentation]. The Politics of Sound — Intersections | Cross-Sections Conference, Toronto, ON. https://iscs-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/THE-POLITICS-OF-SOUND-Schedule.pdf
McGregor, N. H. (2021, June 16). Culture and Aesthetic Shifts at 27 Rue de Fleurus: The Gertrude Stein Salon [Conference Presentation]. Curating Social Change — Graduate Symposium on Exhibition, Curation, and Literary Cultures, Toronto, ON. https://mlc.ryerson.ca/news/events/curating-social-change-graduate-symposium-on-exhibition-curation-and-literary-cultures
McGregor, N. H. (2021, April 23-24). Explorations of Volumetric Cinema in Documentary [Conference Presentation]. 2021 Contemporary Art Design and New Media Art Histories Conference, Toronto, ON. https://www.motherboard.live/participantsabstracts/blog-post-title-four-yg4tb-wrz5a
McGregor, N. H., & Mc Gregor Muro, C. A. (2021, March 12-13). welcome_alien [Conference Presentation]. Intersections | Cross-Sections Conference, Toronto, ON. https://iscs-conference.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Futurities-Conferenc-Program-Package-2021.pdf
McGregor, N. H. (2021, February 5-6). Explorations of Volumetric Cinema in Documentary [Conference Presentation]. 15th Annual AHGSA Symposium: Empathy, Montreal, Quebec.
McGregor, N. H. (2021, February 5). Between Belonging and Being Welcomed: Looking at first-generation Latinx-Canadians and the struggle of sounding foreign [Conference Presentation]. 2021 Critical Race and Media Studies flash symposium, Toronto, ON.
McGregor, N. H., & Park, C. (2018, November 12-13). Student Experience Design Lab [Keynote Presentation]. Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase conference, Toronto, ON.
Fernlund, C., Graham, H., Mashabane, T., McGregor, N. H., & Park, C. (2019, March 18). Human-centred Design [Keynote Presentation]. Digital Pedagogy Lab, Toronto, ON. https://digitalpedagogylab.com/human-centered-design/
EXHIBITION HISTORY
McGregor, N., & McGregor Muro, C. (2022). [Unintended]_Collisions. [New Media] Exhibited at Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON. October 1, 2022. https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/festivals-events/nuitblanche/all-art-projects/?project_id=f19f183a-e0b1-42dd-8a93-9d5a174e9dd1
McGregor, N. (2021). Tertulia. [New Media] Exhibited at Light Up The Dark 2022, Public Installation at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, ON.
McGregor, N. (2021). Ethelami. [New Media] Exhibited at BigArtTO 2021, Public Installation at Princess Park Clock Tower, Toronto, ON. November 3 - November 06, 2021.
McGregor, N. & Northey, S. (2020). speaker_consequences. [New Media] Exhibited at IDKF 2020, Internationales Digitalkunst Open Gallery, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg. November 15 - December 30, 2020. https://www.idkf.org/past-versions/idkf-2020/open-gallery-2020
McGregor, N. (2020). Sunken. [New Media] Exhibited at BigArtTO 2020, Public Installation, Toronto, ON. October 7 - October 10, 2020.
McGregor, N. & Northey, S. (2020). speaker_consequences. [New Media] Exhibited at Coming Home, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON. July 29 - August 31, 2020. http://g1313.org/8016/coming-home-july-29-aug-9/
McGregor, N. (2020). Aches. [New Media] Exhibited at New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON. May 16, 2020. https://pdome.org/2020/new-toronto-works-6/
McGregor, N., & McGregor Muro, C. (2019). Welcome_alien. [New Media] Exhibited at Resistance, Roundtable-Residency, The Dragon Academy, Toronto, ON. August 15 - 16, 2019.
McGregor, N. (2019). Toronto: Another Profile. [New Media] Exhibited at Yonge and Dundas Square, Public Installation, Toronto, ON. March 15 - April 15, 2019.
McGregor, N., & McGregor Muro, C. (2019). jāpeɡ. [New Media] Exhibited at Soft Refractions, Xpace Gallery, Toronto, ON. January 18 - February 16, 2019. http://www.xpace.info/exhibition-event/soft-refractions-curated-by-mary-chen-and-theresa-wang/
McGregor, N. (2018). Wand-ing. [New Media] Exhibited at Xpace External Space, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON. October 10 - December 22, 2018. https://www.xpace.info/exhibition-event/nikole-hidalgo-mcgregor-wand-ing/
McGregor, N. (2017). Despair. [New Media] Exhibited at Sites of Reconstruction, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, ON. November 17 - December 9, 2017. https://www2.ocadu.ca/event/sites-of-reconstruction
McGregor, N. (2017). Deep Portraits. [New Media] Exhibited at Festival of the Body, The Great Hall in the Sharp Centre for Design, Toronto, ON. March 9 - March 16, 2017.
PUBLICATIONS, CATALOGUES, AND ANTHOLOGIES
McGregor, N. H., & Mc Gregor Muro, C. A. (2021). welcome_alien. Intersections | Cross-Sections Conference 2021 Proceedings (pp. 29-35). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mW6C-PSPmuwUTsSyF87hdPnbIoZbg40V/view
McGregor, N. H. (2019). On Women Taking Up Space. In D. Fellini & A. Callander (Eds), RESISTANCE (pp. 30). Roundtable Residency.
Roberts, S. (2019). Nikole & Carlos McGregor. In D. Fellini & A. Callander (Eds), RESISTANCE (pp. 21). Roundtable Residency.
Cheng, M., Wang, T. (2019). Soft Refractions. In E. Gove (Ed), Volume (Vol.10, pp. 9-12). Xpace Cultural Centre. https://www.xpace.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/VOLUME_3_spreadreduced.pdf
Snow, D. (2018). Wand-ing. In E. Gove (Ed), Volume (Vol.10, pp. 59-160). Xpace Cultural Centre. https://www.xpace.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/VOLUME_3_spreadreduced.pdf
McGregor, N. H. (2016). Unravel. In C. Bartleman (Ed), Reflection (pp. 10-11). OCAD University.
RESIDENCIES
2019 - Roundtable Residency - Dragon Academy - Toronto • ON • Canada
2019 - Animating Artist Health - Toronto Animated Image Society - Toronto • ON • Canada
DIRECTOR SCREENING HISTORY
2020 - New Toronto Works in Victoria - The fifty-fifty arts collective • Vancouver, BC
2020 - New Vancouver Works & New Toronto Works - Vivo Media Arts • Vancouver, BC
2020 - Nocturne Screening: NTW - Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative • Halifax, Nova Scotia
2020 - Punk Cinema Festival - Amsterdam • Netherlands
2020 - FLUX Moving Image Film Festival - Oxford • England
2019 - VisuElles Film Festival - Ottawa • ON • Canada
2019 - HUMANO International Human Rights Film Festival - Tijuana • México
2019 - Rendezvous with Madness Festival - Toronto • ON • Canada
2019 - 13th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase - Anijam - Toronto • ON • Canada
2019 - 11th CMS International Children’s Film Festival (ICFF) - Lucknow • India
2018 - Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Montréal • Canada
2018 - Anim!Arte: 14th International Student Festival of Brazil - Rio de Janeiro • RJ • Brazil
2018 - La Truca Festival Internacional de Animación - Cali • Colombia
2017 - Animax Skopje Fest - Skopje • Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
2017 - Sommets du cinéma d’animation - Montréal • Canada
2017 - CUTOUT Contemporary Animation & Digital Art Festival- Querétaro • México
2017 - Multivision 15th International Festival of Animation Arts - St.Petersburg • Russia
2017 - Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media Art Festival - Kyiv • Ukraine
2017 - Anim!Arte: 13th International Student Festival of Brazil - Rio de Janeiro • RJ • Brazil
2017 - Augmented Cinema Film Festival - Toronto • ON • Canada
2017 - OCAD U Moving Image Festival - Toronto • ON • Canada
2017 - University of Toronto Film Festival - Toronto • ON • Canada
2016 - Durham Region Film Festival (DRFF) - Oshawa • ON • Canada
2016 - University of Toronto Film Festival - Toronto • ON • Canada
COLLECTIONS
Four Seasons Hotel - d|bar - permanent collection, seasonal display
COLLECTIVES AND COLLABORATIONS
Member of the art collective "DeBugReBoot" - Artist
Member of the video game collective "Boxed Meat Revolution"- Art Director
Member of the animation collective "RotoJam Collective" - Animator