DEBORAH CARRUTHERS
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    • Artist Statement
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  • Exhibitions / Residencies/Performances
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective
      • 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
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018 >
        • slippages - Press
        • 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
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal 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 >
        • The Past Sealed Away... Article
      • 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
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Graphic Score for Canoe Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Press
      • 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
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration
      • 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 ... Painting
    • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
    • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
    • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées
    • Mortsaf
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
  • C V
  • 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)
 
2023 (Upcoming) – topologies
Cuttle Lake, Ontario, Canada, Fall 2023
-Performance of graphic score for quintet and float planes, in which the conductor conducts through navigation - to be filmed.

2022- What Remains Unexplained 2.0
Kingston Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, US,  October 2022
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*The Endpoint Collective -Re: environmental changes - Paintings, video, and sound installations
* 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).

2022 – reading between the lines & Emerald Ash: Deborah Carruthers and Teri Hron
Black Box, matralab, Concordia University,  Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Installation of of new graphic scores with audiovisual presentation  

2022 – What Remains Unexplained
621 Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida, US 
*The Endpoint Collective -Re: environmental changes - Paintings, video, and sound installations

2021 – reading between the lines: Zurich iteration
Sonic Matter – Openlab, Zürich, Switzerland: process presentation of graphic score (In person/online), panel discussions, workshops (online)
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2021 – Beyond the Stone Angel: artists reflect on the death of their parents
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
-Group exhibition of twelve artists - my multidisciplinary series, Mortsaf for My Father, will be presented-includes new works
 
2021 (Cancelled) – When Birds Fall Silent, the Wind Responds - Hobrechtsfelde
Hobrechtsfelde, Germany, June 2021
-Artistic collaboration with Sandeep Bhagwati of a site-specific chorale performance- installation inspired by my graphic score Between the Song and the Silence
 
2021 – Announcing the Coming of the Sun
Adjacent to Life Gallery, New York, New York, USA
*The Endpoint Collective -Re: environmental changes - Painting installation
 
2021 – Ecstasies of Influence
Musée d'Art Contemporain Montréal (MACM), Montréal, Québec, Canada
Presents the artistic collaborations and interdisciplinary research of matralab, directed by Sandeep Bhagwati
-Online presentations of collaborative compositions with matralab in Montréal
 
2020 – The (notso) Short Fest
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Group exhibition of videos with artist talks/panel discussions

2019 – Ecstasies of Influence - Pune
Flame University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Artistic collaboration and interdisciplinary research including exploration of Hindustani instrumentation and performance (recording pending)
-Presentation of collaborative composition, Flame University, Pune, Maharashtra, India, August 2019
 
2019 - Regenerations
Zygote Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, US
​*The Endpoint Collective -Re: replication and regeneration - Paintings, video, and sound installations
 
2018 – Ecstasies of Influence - Montréal
Concordia University, matralab, Montréal, Québec, Canada,
-Presentation of collaborative composition, Gesu Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, December 2018
 
2018 – slippages
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
-World premiere performance of 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
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2017 - Great and North
Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy, August - October 2017
​-Group exhibition of Canadian  works in the Luciano Benetton Collection
 
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.
 
2016 - Canon in Bee
International Experimental Art Space, Berlin, Germany
-Solo exhibition of 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: Beautiful Ghosts; Persistent Desire
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-created with musician Jen Reimer
 
RESIDENCIES AND CONFERENCES (SELECTED)

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 by the Institute to as artist-in-residence.

2017 – Building Your Career – CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation – Le front des artistes Canadiens) National Conference – Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Panel participant on professional development and copyright

2017 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts: BAiR Spring Intensive (Residency) - Banff, Alberta, Canada, Spring 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 - Banff Centre for Creativity in the Arts: BAiR Text (Residency) - Banff, Alberta, Canada Spring 2016
- An internationally juried residency at the Banff Centre, the Text Residency was a thematic residency in which artists whose practices engaged with text were invited to work with writers and critics.
 
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, East Indies
-Research with scientists and naturalists on cave-dwelling oilbirds.

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.  

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ART FAIRS

2012, 2013, 2014 - 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)

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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 in Psychology and Major in Applied Social Science 
 
2001 - 2015 – Mentorship with artist Françoise Sullivan 
 
1988-1990 (Incomplete) - Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada - BSc Biology

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
 
2021 – Present – Member of ELAN (English Language Arts Network)

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

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
 
My work has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts et des lettres 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.
​ 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
    • Exhibitions ... Now You See Me... >
      • What Remains Unexplained 2.0: The Endpoint Collective
      • 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
    • Performances ... Once Upon a Time ... >
      • Ecstacies of Influence - Le Gesù, Amphithéâtre -Montréal - December 2018
      • slippages - The UBC Symphony Orchestra - Chan Centre - Vancouver - October 2018 >
        • slippages - Press
        • 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
    • Residencies ... Home Away From Home ... >
      • Ecstasies of Influence : matralab, Concordia University - Montréal 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 >
        • The Past Sealed Away... Article
      • 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
    • reading between the lines - 2022
    • safe passage - 2021 >
      • safe passage: Graphic Score for Canoe Installation
    • slippages - 2018 >
      • slippages - Press
      • 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
      • Between the Song and the Silence: Graphic Score- Banff Iteration
      • 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 ... Painting
    • The Past Sealed Away... Prints
    • The Past sealed Away: Athabasca - Photographs
    • Immense Immensities Miniature Watercolours
    • In The Hole
    • Souvenir sacré
    • Souvenir sacré - Opasatika
    • Fleurs sacrées
    • Mortsaf
    • Genetics for Cowboys
    • Beautiful Ghosts
    • Niagara Tondos
    • Twinned
  • C V
  • Contact