CV
EDUCATION
2010 (in progress) Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
University of Dundee
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
Dundee, Scotland UK
2005-2007 Master of Fine Arts
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB
2000-2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts
Mount Allison University
Sackville, NB
SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2018 (upcoming) unearth
location TBD
Yellowknife, NT
2017 landsleeper
Centrespace Gallery
Dundee, Scotland, UK
2015 Orbits and Occults: It won't be the end of things
biting dust (performance), curated by Amy Ash, Gerald Moore Gallery
London, England, UK
2014 (stolons)
Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
Yellowknife, NT
2014 vessel
Environmental site-specific installation work
Folk on the Rocks Music Festival
Yellowknife, NT
2013 splitting (the) difference
Yellowknife Artist Run Community Centre
Yellowknife, NT
2013 (stolons)
Centrespace Gallery, Visual Research Centre
Dundee, Scotland, UK
2009 dwell.
The Banff Centre - Art in public spaces (performance)
Banff, AB
2007 .presents from the invisible.
Nickle Arts Museum
Calgary, AB
2006 towards a barren air; you are still felt there
Little Gallery
Calgary, AB
2006 .(passage).
Little Gallery
Calgary, AB
2005 Symbiosis
Northern Frontier Visitors Centre
Yellowknife, NT
2005 Dissection
STRUTS (START) Gallery
Sackville, NB
SELECTED DUO, GROUP EXHIBITIONs and PROJECTS
2017
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2012
2011
2010
2010
2009
2008 /10
2007
2006
2006
2006
The Stories Beneath Our Feet
Public commission project (permanent)
City Hall, The City of Yellowknife
Relate North
Kimura Gallery - University of Alaska
I was there
curated by Madeline McCaffrey
Centre of Memory and Testimony Studies
Wilfred Laurier University
Orbits and Occults: It won’t be the end of things
biting dust
curated by Amy Ash
Gerald Moore Gallery
Distant Transmission
Cross Waves Series
curated by Janna Graham
New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA)
Ruins
biting dust
curated by Alexis Dirks
BMO Gallery Space – Centre Square
Phantom limb
Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts
Pharmakon. (I bare my own opposite)
curated by Fast and Dirty Collective
Art Gallery of Alberta
TPS Reports: Performance Documents
curated by Flounder Lee
SpaceCamp MicroGallery
Material Considerations
The Works International Art and Design Festival
four person exhibition: curated by Jennifer Forsyth
The Sketchbook Project
Exhibition: Brooklyn, NY, Los Angeles, CA, Seattle, WA, Atlanta, Georgia USA.
Housed in the permanent collection at the Brooklyn Art Library
We Made a Deal with the Devil,
Traveling art show: Ottawa, ON, Montreal, QC, Quebec City, QC, Fredericton, NB, Moncton, NB, Halifax, NS, Toronto, ON (Nuit Blanche), Brooklyn, NY, USA
Sweetest Little Thing
STRUTS Gallery
La Moustache
Traveling drawing show: Brooklyn, New York USA, Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON
Co-emergence
Mezzanine Gallery
Public art (permanent)
The City of Yellowknife
close[d]
Little Gallery
Yellowknife, NT
Anchorage, AK, USA
Waterloo, ON
London, England, UK
Toronto, ON
Yellowknife, NT
Sackville, NB
Edmonton, AB
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Edmonton, AB
Sackville, NB
Calgary, AB
Yellowknife, NT
Calgary, AB
SELECTED PRESS/ARTICLES/TALKS
2018 (upcoming)
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2010
2010
2008
2008
2007
2006
Authored “Harvesting / Trapping / Braiding (practice towards an emergent Northern methodology)”. Gavin Renwick’s: book “Counterpoint: The Aesthetics of Post-Colonialism”
“Relate North” exhibition catalogue. Arctic Sustainable Arts & Design Thematic Network
Co-authored with Morgan Moffitt, and Zoe Todd, "Interrupting the northern research industry: why northern research should be in northern hands", North, Interrupted - Volume 3 Issue 3, Northern Public Affairs
Speaker, “Relate North 2015: Culture, Community, and Communication”, November 4-7th, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Panelist, “Design Latitudes” (mapping innovations, influences and future directions of design studies in the north), May 21st, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Authored “an/other north: considering the role of tacit knowledge in the North” for “Design Latitudes symposium, The University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Artist talk and workshop, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, England, UK
"Orbits and Occults", exhibition catalogue. Curatorial essay by: Amy Ash, Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK.
“Status Quo Torn”, News North Publications: December 5, 2014, Dana Bowen
“Alumni Art Showcased at new Purdy Crawford Arts Centre”, The Argosy: October 9, 2014, Alison Grogan & Daniel Marcotte
“Northern Stories Connect at Exhibition”, The Yellowknifer : September 26, 2014, Dana Bowen
Artist talk, Aurora Arts Society, Gallery on 47th, Yellowknife, NT
“splitting (the) difference”. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Radio Trailbreaker: November 23, 2013 Interviewer: Marc Winkler
“Of baleen and caribou bones”. News North Publications: November 23, 2013, Danielle Sachs
“Monstrous Baroque”. VUE weekly, Edmonton, AB: November 16, 2012, Agnieszka Matejko
News North Publications: June 15, 2010, Darron Letts
“Installation artist pushes boundaries with interactive art”. NNSL Publications: January 22, 2010, Darron Letts
Artist talk, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
“.presents from the invisible.”. Filling Station Magazine: Issue#40, Jane McQuitty
Nickle Arts Museum Podcast, Travis Murphy
The Gauntlet, Kristine Thoreson
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2017/18
2017/18
2017/18
2016/17
2016/17
2016
2015
2015
2015
2015/16
2015
2013-15
2014/15
2011
2009
2008/09
2007
2007
2007
2006
2006/07
2006
2005-07
2005/06
2005
Yellowknife Community Foundation
Fine and Performing Arts Scholarship
Yellowknife Community Foundation
Wally12Million Fine Arts Fund Scholarship
Northwest Territories Arts Council
Project Grant (Research/Creation)
Canada First World War Internment Recognition Fund
Production Grant
Northwest Territories Arts Council
Publishing Grant (Research/Creation)
Yellowknife Community Foundation
Wally12Million Fine Arts Fund Scholarship
Canada First World War Internment Recognition Fund
Research Grant
Aurora Arts Society
Travel Grant (Anchorage, Alaska)
Yellowknife Community Foundation
Wally12Million Fine Arts Fund Scholarship
Northwest Territories Arts Council
Project Grant (Creation/Production)
The Canada Council for the Arts
Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts (London, UK)
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee
Ph.D. Stipend
Northwest Territories Arts Council
Project Grant (Research/Creation)
The Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff Research in Culture Residency: On the Commons; or, Believing-Feeling-Acting Together with Pedro Reyes, Michael Hardt, and Lauren Berlant
The Banff Centre for the Arts
Self-Directed Visual Arts Residency
Northwest Territories Arts Council
(Creation) Project Grant
Centre for Research in the Fine Arts
Special Projects Grant
Centre for Research in Fine Arts
Research Grant
Centre for Research in Fine Arts
Travel Grant (New York City)
Government of Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories Masters Scholarship
University of Calgary
John D. Petrie, QC Memorial Bursary (tenured)
Alberta Foundation of the Arts – Visual Arts Grant
University of Calgary
Graduate Teaching Fellowship (various)
University of Calgary
Graduate Research Entrance Fellowship
Mount Allison University
Annual Sculpture Award
OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
May 2006-May 2007
Sept 2005- April 2007
Jan 2005- Jan 2007
Visiting Artist and Scholar Coordinator, University of Calgary
Sculpture Technician (woodshop), University of Calgary
Graduate Teaching Assistant – 2nd & 3rd year drawing and sculpture, University of Calgary