Adrian Blackwell teaches as an Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, and has taught architecture and urbanism at universities in Chongqing, Michigan, Harvard and Toronto. His practice involves photography, video, sculpture, urban theory, and design, responding to the political and economic forces inscribed in physical spaces. His projects unfold alongside research focused on the local and global effects of neoliberal urbanization and the inherent paradoxes of public space and private property. Blackwell’s work has been exhibited at artist-run centers and public institutions across the globe, the most recent of which was with the Canadian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale.