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