Curriculum Vitae
All images: Money Doesn't Grow On Trees Does It? No.85, No.91, No.96, No.95, No.86, No.83 , No.88, No. - 2015
Ongoing Project: Berlin 2018 |
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES (SELECTED)
2020 (Upcoming) - Between the Song and the Silence Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Summer 2020 -Performance of graphic score and exhibition of large format photographs, prints, assemblage, sound. 2019 - Regenerations Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, US, March 2019 -Group exhibition of international artists related to replication and regeneration 2018 – Slippages Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2018 -Performance of my graphic score, Slippages, by the UBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Jonathan Girard, the Director of Orchestras at UBC and Wall Scholar for 2018-2019 -Presentation of companion video designed and edited with artist Sydney Lancaster -Exhibition of painting installation I would like to acknowledge the support of Canada Council for the Arts, the University of British Columbia School of Music , and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. 2018 – Ecstasies of Influence Concordia University, matralab, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September - December 2018 -Artistic collaboration and interdisciplinary research: “Ecstasies of Influence” (E°I) [is a] research-creation project [which] explores inter-artistic ways of conceiving, creating and composing musical performances and productions, influenced by dialogues with and transfers from other artistic practices (excerpt from the grant application). -Presentation of collaborative composition, Gesu Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 2018 2017 - Great and North Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy, August - October 2017 -Group exhibition of Canadian works in the Luciano Benetton Collection 2016 - Souvenir / Souvenir Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 2016 - January 2017 -Solo exhibition of multimedia works: large format photographs, paintings, assemblage, and sound. 2016 - Opasatika Galerie 815, Hearst, Ontario, Canada -Solo exhibition of large format photographs, paintings, video, and sound. 2016 - Canon in Bee International Experimental Art Space, Berlin, Germany -Exhibition of drypoint monoprints 2016 -A Ubiquity of Sparrows 36th Street Project Space, New York, New York, US - Solo exhibition of photographs and text 2015 -Loose Affairs Somos Project Space, Berlin , Germany - Group exhibition 2013 - L’Héritage de Borduas: huit artistes autour de Françoise Sullivan Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada - Group painting exhibition concurrent with Paul-Émile Borduas –les années new yorkaises (1953-1955), with catalogue 2012 - Genetics for Cowboys WARC Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada − Multimedia installation including paintings, photography, and sound 2011 - Beautiful Ghosts CRAM International Gallery, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada − Beautiful Ghosts - Multimedia installation; Persistent Desire - Sound installation 2011 - Seeds in Disguise Balls Falls Conservation Center, Jordan, Ontario, Canada − Solo exhibition in conjunction with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) traveling exhibition 2011 - Nuit Blanche Toronto - Fly By Night Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada − Beautiful Ghosts - Multimedia installation; Persistent Desire - Sound installation 2010 - Nuit Blanche Montréal – Poetics of Space New City Gas, Montréal, Québec, Canada − Screening of video documentation of performance piece 2009 - Second International Festival of Performance Art Athens, Greece − Screening of video documentation of performance piece Poetics of Space 2009- Poetics of Space New City Gas, Montréal, Québec, Canada − Multi-media performance piece co-authored with musician Jen Reimer 2008 - Fragments Galerie Crescent Contemporain, Montréal, Québec, Canada – Painting exhibition RESIDENCIES AND CONFERENCES (SELECTED) 2019 (Upcoming) LoBe International (Residency) - Berlin, Germany: Studio residency with solo exhibition 2017-2018 - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia ( Artist-in Residence ) The Institute brings together UBC scholars with leading international researchers to "work together on innovative research, develop new thinking that is beyond disciplinary boundaries, and engage in intellectual risk-taking." The Institute has a varied program of scholars in residence, visiting scholars, distinguished professorship, multiple speaker series, and major special events. I have been invited by the Institute to be its inaugural artist-in-residence. 2017 – Building Your Career – CARFAC National Conference – Panel participant on professional development and copyright for national conference 2017 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts: BAiR Spring Intensive (Residency) - Banff, Alberta, Canada, April - May 2017: An internationally juried residency at the Banff Centre where selected artists are invited to develop and create alongside other artists, writers, and curators from the Banff Centre and its International Curatorial Institute. 2016 - Atelier Topaz ( Residency) - Opasatika, Ontario, Canada- Research and creation residency 2016 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts : BAiR Text (Residency) - Banff , Alberta, Canada 2016 - If You Build It, Will They Come? - Transart Institute, New York, New York: Created and led professional development workshops regarding residency creation and practice development 2014 - Artists for Artists: Art, Activism, and Adaptation (Symposium): Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2013 - Artists for Artists: Mentorship, teaching strategies and other tools for visual artists: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada − Led workshops on mentoring strategies 2012 - Asa Wright Nature Centre (Residency) - Trinidad, West Indies 2010 - The Automatiste Revolution: Its International Resonances (Symposium) - Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA − Developed and presented international symposium in conjunction with the Albright-Knox Museum exhibition The Automatiste Revolution. 2009 - University of Calgary (Residency) - Calgary, Alberta, Canada − Invitational residency looking at the intersects between art and science: worked with scientists Dr. Morley Hollenberg and Dr. Christian Sensen; my research there culminated in the installation Genetics for Cowboys. ART FAIRS 2012, 2013, 2014 - Toronto International Art Fair Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 2013 - Toronto International Art Fair Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 2012, 2013 - The Armory Show New York, NY, with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 2012 - VIP Art Fair 2.0 with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) CURATORIAL WORK (SELECTED) 2011 - Souvenirs / Remembrances: Carolyn Wren and Tobey C. Anderson - Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada 2010 - Echoes : Works Inspired By Françoise Sullivan’s Danse dans la neiges, 1948 Niagara Artists Centre, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada - In addition to the work of Jean-Paul Riopelle, Luis Jacob, Tom Scott, and Carolyn Wren, Echoes is comprised of poetry readings and forums alongside an exhibition of ephemera including a signed copy of the Refus Global manifesto from 1948. 2010 - Françoise Sullivan: Making Her Mark - CRAM International Gallery, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada EDUCATION AND TRAINING Ongoing – Mentorship with artist Françoise Sullivan begun in 2001 2017 - MFA Creative Practice, School of Art, Design, and Architecture, Plymouth University, United Kingdom (Transart Institute, New York and Berlin ) - Recipient of Transart Earth Awareness Prize 1986 - Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada - BA -Specialization: Psychology and Major: Applied Social Science 1980 - Vanier College, Montreal, Québec, Canada - Diploma of College Studies - Social Science 1980 1990 (Incomplete) - Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada - BSc Biology PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2010 – 2016 Member of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation – Le front des artistes Canadiens) Executive - Board of Directors 2010 – Present - Member of RAAV (Regroupment des artistes en arts visuels du Québec) , Board of Directors - 2010 - 2018 , Vice President Executive - Board of Directors - 2012-2017 2013 - Present - Member of CARCC (Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective [also known as CoVA-DAAV] - Board of Directors - 2013 - Present; Co-Chair Board of Directors 2015 - Present |