DEBORAH CARRUTHERS
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    • Artist Statement
    • Bio
  • Exhibitions / Residencies/Performances
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • reiterator – Endpoint Collective* workbyseoul.05 Gallery, Seoul, North Korea, March, 2025
      • creek* - Nu Ears Ensemble - Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, June 2024
      • slippages - the Alkali Collective, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2023
      • reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron- Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec - April 2022
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • FLOW— Deborah Carruthers and Sydney Lancaster Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - 2024
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2022
      • Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, October 2021- February 2022 >
        • More About ​Safe Passage
        • More About the Paintings ...
      • Announcing the Coming of the Sun, Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA , 2021
      • The Aura of the Already Said - Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio - 2019
      • Souvenir / Souvenir - Montréal, Québec 2017 >
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Press
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Essay ​Culte du Souvenir
        • Souvenir / Souvenir: About the Exhibition ...
        • Souvenir / Souvenir : Invitation card
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • A Hole in the Ground: Inter Arts Matrix - Kitchener, ON 2023
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal, Qc 2018 >
        • Ecstacies of Influence - December 16, 2018 - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre - Montréal
      • The Past Sealed Away - Peter Wall Institute Artist in Residence - Vancouver, BC 2017 - 2018
      • What's in a Song ? Between the Song and the Silence: Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2017
      • In The Hole - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2017
      • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2016 >
        • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Installation
  • Graphic Scores
    • creek* - 2024 >
      • creek* -Instructions for Play and Score
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Video Score with Audio
      • About Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Instructions for play and score
      • slippages in the Studio: About my process >
        • slippages Athabasca -Photographs
        • slippages Immense Immensities
        • slippages Notebook
        • slippages Athabasca Painting
      • slippages - Performance Videos
    • Between the Song and the Silence: Berlin 2017 - 2021 >
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Studies for Hobrechtsfelde Iteration 2020
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration 2017
      • My Muses
      • What's in a Name?
      • Taking Flight ... The Process
      • Swan Song... A summary of my process for my MFA research
  • Portfolio
    • Mortsaf for My Father : the Series ... >
      • Mortsaf for My Father : the Paintings ...
      • Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage
    • Allegory for a New Ice Age ... Photographs
    • The Past Sealed Away : the Series >
      • The Past Sealed Away ... Painting
      • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
      • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
      • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré - Photographs
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées - Photographs
    • Mortsaf - Paintings
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts - Installation
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
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  • Contact

Curriculum Vitae

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All images: Money Doesn't Grow On Trees Does It? ​ No.85, No.91, No.96, No.95, No.86, No.83 , ​No.8, No. 6 -  2015
Ongoing Project: Berlin 
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES (SELECTED)

2025 –
reiterator – Endpoint Collective*
workbyseoul.05 Gallery, Seoul, North Korea, March 23, 2025
—Performance of my score creek* by jazz guitarist Choi Sung Ho, exhibition of photographs and prints (Roth and Hart) featuring live interventions by Deerman
*The Endpoint Collective’s practice relates to anthropocentric and environmental concerns, and consists of Canadian artists Deborah Carruthers (Montréal, QC, Canada) and Gabriel Deerman (Seogwipo, Jeju-do, South Korea); as well as Americans Margaret Hart, (Boston, MA, USA) and Mark Roth (New York, NY, USA).
 
2024 – Artists in the Archive —Endpoint Collective*
Grossman Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA, July 2024–January 2025
–Exhibition of paintings, multimedia works, and installations in conjunction with panel participation in an international interdisciplinary conference on climate change and the environment, Thinking About Climate Change: Art, Science, and Imagination in the 21st Century.
 
2024 – creek*
Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, June 2-3, 2024
–World premiere performances of graphic score, creek* by the Nu Ears Ensemble directed by Dr. Kathryn Ladano.
 
2024 – FLOW— Deborah Carruthers and Sydney Lancaster
Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
—Curated by Sheila McMath, artistic director of Inter Arts Matrix; includes exhibition of new graphic score, creek*, related other works.
 
2023 – slippages
The Peggy Corkum Music Room, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
–Performance of graphic score, slippages, by the contemporary chamber music group, the Alkali Collective, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and screening of slippages video, a collaboration with Edmonton artist Sydney Lancaster.
 
2023 – The Past Sealed Away
Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA
–Two series of paintings and photographs related to environmental change: Re-Viewed:  the Athabasca Glacier, 2023, paintings related to trip reviews of the glacier; Allegory for a New Ice Age, 2019, large format photographs.

2022 – What Remains Unexplained 2.0 : The Endpoint Collective*
Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, US
​–Paintings, video, and sound installations
 
2022 – What Remains Unexplained: The Endpoint Collective*
621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, February 2022
–Re: environmental changes - Paintings, video, and sound installations
 
2022 – reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron
Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
–Installation of new graphic scores with accompanying audio video presentation, public talk    
 
2021 – reading between the lines: Zurich iteration
Sonic Matter – Openlab, Zürich, Switzerland: process presentation of graphic score, panel discussions, workshops
 
2021 – Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan,
–Group exhibition of 12 artists including my multidisciplinary series, Mortsaf for My Father with new works; new score and installation safe passage
 
2021 – Announcing the Coming of the Sun: The Endpoint Collective
Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA
–Painting installation

2021 – Ecstasies of Influence
Musée d'Art Contemporain Montréal (MACM), Montréal, Québec, Canada
–Artistic collaborations and interdisciplinary artistic research of matralab (where I am an invited artist), directed by Sandeep Bhagwati

2020 – The (notso) Short Fest
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
–Group exhibition of video with artist talks/panel discussions

2019 – Ecstasies of Influence - Pune
Flame University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
–Presentation of collaborative composition with classical South Asian emsemble , Flame University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, August 2019 (recording publication pending)
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2019 – Regenerations: The Endpoint Collective
Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, US
–Paintings, video, and sound installations

2018 – Ecstasies of Influence - Montréal
Concordia University, matralab, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September - December 2018
–Presentation of collaborative composition, Gesu Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
 
2018 – slippages
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
–World premiere 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.
–Screening of slippages video, a collaboration with Edmonton artist Sydney Lancaster, and painting installation

2017 - Mountain Dew
Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
–Group Exhibition, Banff Centre Project Space
 
2016 - Souvenir / Souvenir 
Maison de la culture de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal, Québec, Canada
–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. Public artist talks, workshops with  Secondary V students
 
2016 - Canon in Bee
International Experimental Art Space, Berlin, Germany
–Solo exhibition of monoprints, public workshops

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

RESIDENCIES / CONFERENCES / PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)

2025 – Images of Music (Conference) – Montréal, Québec, Canada
In conjunction with the Montreal/New Musics Festival; international conference presented by matralab (Concordia University), Hexagram (Université du Québec à Montréal) and the SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec): presentation with Nour Symon on our graphic score practices.

2024 - CIRCUIT: Musiques contemporaines (Publication), Montréal, Québec, Canada
Invited as presenting artist for the issue Musique et temps critiques, Vol 34 No 3
 
2024 – Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities (Conference) –Montréal, Québec, Canada 
International conference presented by Concordia University and the SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec Performance/presentation on Creating New Rules of Engagement
 
2023 –A Hole in the Ground - Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (Residency)
A site-specific serial collaboration for 10 artists, curated by Sheila McMath, artistic director of Inter Arts Matrix
 
2019 – Flame University, Pune, Maharashtra, India (Residency)
Artistic collaborations and interdisciplinary research: exploration of Hindustani instrumentation-performance, student workshops.
 
2017-2018 – Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia (Artist-in Residence)
UBC scholars and leading international researchers working on innovative research beyond disciplinary boundaries. Invited as inaugural artist-in-residence. Public workshops and presentations

2017 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts: BAiR Spring Intensive (Residency) - Banff, Alberta, Canada, Spring 2017:
Internationally juried residency at the Banff Centre to develop and create alongside other artists, writers, and curators from the Banff Centre and its International Curatorial Institute. Public artist talks, workshops with Secondary III-V students.

2016 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts: BAiR Text (Residency) - Banff, Alberta, Canada Spring 2016
Juried thematic residency for artists whose practices engaged with text worked with writers and critics. Public artist talks

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

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, East Indies
Research with scientists and naturalists on cave-dwelling oilbirds.
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2010 - The Automatiste Revolution: Its International Resonances (Symposium) - Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA − Developed and presented international public symposium in conjunction with the Albright-Knox Museum exhibition The Automatiste Revolution.  

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 
2010 – Present – Member of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation – Le front des artistes Canadiens) Executive - Board of Directors, 2010 – 2016 

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 - 2018; Co-Chair Board of Directors 2015 – 2018
 
2025 – Present – Associate Composer of CMC (Canadian Music Centre / Centre de musique canadienne)
 
2025 – Present – Professional Member of CLC (The Canadian League of Composers / La Ligue canadienne des compositeurs)
 
2024 – Present – Member – Canadian New Music Network – Réseau Canadien pour les musiques Nouvelles

2019 –  Present - Member – Berliner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik e. V. (Berlin Society for New Music e. V.)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 
2017 - School of Art, Design, and Architecture, Plymouth University, United Kingdom (Transart Institute, New York and Berlin) - MFA Creative Practice: Recipient of Transart Earth Awareness Prize

1986 -Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada -BA (Double Major): Specialization-Psychology/Major-Applied Social Science 
  
1988-1990 (Incomplete) - Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada - BSc Biology
 
My work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, in addition to private foundations. It is held in private and public collections in Canada, the USA, and Europe, and notably, the Canadian Woman Composers Archive
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​ We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
Nous remercions le Conseil des Arts du Canada de son soutien.
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  • Home
    • Artist Statement
    • Bio
  • Exhibitions / Residencies/Performances
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • reiterator – Endpoint Collective* workbyseoul.05 Gallery, Seoul, North Korea, March, 2025
      • creek* - Nu Ears Ensemble - Open Ears Festival, Kitchener, Ontario, June 2024
      • slippages - the Alkali Collective, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 2023
      • reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Terri Hron- Black Box, matralab, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec - April 2022
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • FLOW— Deborah Carruthers and Sydney Lancaster Inter Arts Matrix, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada - 2024
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective, Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2022
      • Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, October 2021- February 2022 >
        • More About ​Safe Passage
        • More About the Paintings ...
      • Announcing the Coming of the Sun, Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA , 2021
      • The Aura of the Already Said - Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio - 2019
      • Souvenir / Souvenir - Montréal, Québec 2017 >
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Press
        • Souvenir / Souvenir - Essay ​Culte du Souvenir
        • Souvenir / Souvenir: About the Exhibition ...
        • Souvenir / Souvenir : Invitation card
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • A Hole in the Ground: Inter Arts Matrix - Kitchener, ON 2023
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal, Qc 2018 >
        • Ecstacies of Influence - December 16, 2018 - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre - Montréal
      • The Past Sealed Away - Peter Wall Institute Artist in Residence - Vancouver, BC 2017 - 2018
      • What's in a Song ? Between the Song and the Silence: Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2017
      • In The Hole - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2017
      • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta 2016 >
        • A Ubiquity of Sparrows : Banff Installation
  • Graphic Scores
    • creek* - 2024 >
      • creek* -Instructions for Play and Score
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Video Score with Audio
      • About Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Instructions for play and score
      • slippages in the Studio: About my process >
        • slippages Athabasca -Photographs
        • slippages Immense Immensities
        • slippages Notebook
        • slippages Athabasca Painting
      • slippages - Performance Videos
    • Between the Song and the Silence: Berlin 2017 - 2021 >
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Studies for Hobrechtsfelde Iteration 2020
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration 2017
      • My Muses
      • What's in a Name?
      • Taking Flight ... The Process
      • Swan Song... A summary of my process for my MFA research
  • Portfolio
    • Mortsaf for My Father : the Series ... >
      • Mortsaf for My Father : the Paintings ...
      • Mortsaf for My Father: ​Safe Passage
    • Allegory for a New Ice Age ... Photographs
    • The Past Sealed Away : the Series >
      • The Past Sealed Away ... Painting
      • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
      • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
      • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré - Photographs
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées - Photographs
    • Mortsaf - Paintings
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts - Installation
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
  • C V
  • Contact