Curriculum Vitæ

b. London, England

Lives and works in Vancouver & New York

Education

  1. 2014

    • MFA, Simon Fraser University, Canada

  2. 1987

    • Diploma of Fine Art, Johannesburg Art Foundation, South Africa

Selected Exhibitions, Screenings & Performance Events

  1. 2024

    • Debi’s (Teenage) Theosophical Enlightenment, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, BC

  2. 2022

    • Hasten Slowly, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, BC
    • Absurd + Subversive, XINEMA, VIFF Centre Studio Theatre, Vancouver, BC

  3. 2020

    • Crocodile Tears, Unit 17, Vancouver, BC
    • Leaning out of Windows, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

  4. 2018

    • Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age (2), Western Front, Vancouver, BC

  5. 2017

    • Monologues: patriarchal traditions and the New Age (1), ISCP Salon, New York, NY
    • My curiosities are not your curios, Guelph Art Gallery, ON
    • Transmundane, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK

  6. 2016

    • A Light Response to More than Nothing, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver
    • On The Validity of Illusion (and its attractions) – a guide, SPACE, Mercer Union, Toronto
    • Theatre Theatre, The Art Gallery at Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC
    • Giving Face, Haunt, Vancouver
    • The Accursed Share (curator, Marina Roy), Artspeak, Vancouver
    • Science Fiction Folk (curator, Dolores Zorreguieta) Works/San José, California
    • Spectral Transmissions (curator Kristina Friedrich), Gallery 295, Vancouver
    • A Message Without a Code (Peripheral Review), Dynamo Arts Society, Vancouver

  7. 2015

    • Performing Franklin Furnace, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
    • Performing Franklin Furnace: Performance Series, Participant Inc, New York
    • Therapeutic Drawings, Haunt at Interurban Gallery, Vancouver

  8. 2014

    • Here to There, Access Gallery, Vancouver
    • Lossless (MFA graduating show), Audain Gallery, Vancouver

  9. 2013

    • Martha Wilson “Staging the Self” (curator Peter Dykhuis), University of Utah Fine Arts Museum, Salt Lake City; Nichols Art Gallery, Pitzer College of Art, Los Angeles; Inova (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
    • In This Together, Access Gallery, Vancouver

  10. 2012

    • Martha Wilson “Staging the Self”, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia

  11. 2011

    • DiGIt Festival, Tusten Theater, Narrowsburg, New York
    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, PHOTOIRELAND FESTIVAL, Dublin; Laznia Center, Gdansk, Poland

  12. 2010

    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark

  13. 2009

    • Psychometry: 59th Berlinale International Film Festival, Forum Expanded, Exile, Berlin
    • Martha Wilson “Staging the Self”, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal

  14. 2008

    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia

  15. 2007

    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, MuseumMAN, Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda, Santiago, Chile

  16. 2006

    • Renegades, 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York
    • Small Works for Big Change, Sylvia Riviera Law Project, New York
    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, Galleria Neon>fdv, Milan; MuseumMAN, Liverpool Biennial

  17. 2005

    • Love Romance, Dolores Zorreguieta, (Collaboration with Dolores Zorreguita), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
    • PostFutureRetro: Performance works by Women, San francisco Cinematheque, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
    • History of Disappearance: From the Archives of Franklin Furnace, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

  18. 2004

    • Managing Eden, The University of North Texas Art Gallery, Texas

  19. 2003

    • MIX, The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
    • One on One, Pierogi, Brooklyn
    • Managing Eden, Center for Photography at Woodstock, USA
    • Performative Video II (curated by Camilo Alvarez), Remote Lounge, New York

  20. 2002

    • Mix Brazil, Queer Experimental Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil

  21. 2001

    • Arse About Face, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
    • Masquerade, Video Primer, Musée des Beaux-Arts de l’Ontario
    • The Jeonju International Film Festival (curated by Rajendra Roy), Jeonju, South Korea
    • The New Festival: The New York Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, New York
    • MIX, The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
    • Platinum Oasis (curated by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davies), Outfest 2001, Coral Sands Motel, Los Angeles

  22. 2000

    • Oculation, Rogue Emissions in the Dark, Movieline in der Hopfenlaube, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
    • Benefit 2000, Dixon Place, New York
    • MIX, The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
    • Outfest: Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Los Angeles

  23. 1999

    • Performance Series, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
    • Women 10/99, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
    • MIX, The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
    • Hot ’99, Dixon Place, New York

  24. 1998

    • Asylum2, Creative Time in the Anchorage ’98, Brooklyn
    • Libertine, Velocity Gallery, Brooklyn
    • MIX, The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York
    • Outfest ’98, Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Los Angeles

  25. 1997

    • Terra Bomba 2, Exit Art: The First World, New York
    • Museum of the Muse Acquisitions ’96, WOW Cafe Theater, New York

  26. 1996

    • Sweat, Exit Art: The First World, New York
    • Terra Bomba, Exit Art: The First World, New York
    • Franklin Furnace in Exile, PS122, New York
    • Avant-Garde-Arama, PS122, New York

  27. 1995

    • Lucy at Last, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY

Awards, Grants, Panels & Visiting Artist

  1. 2022

    • Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Canada

  2. 2020

    • BC Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada
    • Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Canada

  3. 2019

    • B R U N A Hermitage Residency, Bellingham, USA
    • Leaning Out of Windows, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
    • Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Canada
    • BC Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada

  4. 2018

    • Western Front, media residency, Vancouver, Canada

  5. 2017

    • BC Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada
    • International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, USA

  6. 2016

    • Canada Council International Residency Grant, Canada
    • BC Council for the Arts, Media Arts Project Grant, Canada

  7. 2015

    • BC Council for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant, Canada

  8. 2013

    • BC Council for the Arts Scholarship Award

  9. 2003

    • Peer Review Panelist, Franklin Furnace New York City, USA

  10. 2001

    • Curator, Arse About Face, Jack Tilton Anna Kustera Gallery, New York

  11. 2000

    • Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer of Performance Art, University of Texas at Austin
    • Franklin Furnace Fund For Performance Art Award, New York
    • Programmer, MIX 14: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York

  12. 1999

    • Peer Review Panelist, Franklin Furnace, New York
    • Programmer, MIX 13: The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York

  13. 1997

    • Peer Review Panelist, Franklin Furnace, New York

  14. 1996

    • Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award, New York
    • Visiting Artist, University of Santa Cruz, California

Review, Interview, Bibliography & Reproduction

  1. Portrait of the Artist as a Spiritual Seeker, Marina Roy, Peripheral Review, 2024
  2. Queuejumping, Marina Roy, (Information Office, Vancouver, 2022)
  3. Crocodile Tears, review by Joni Low, Laboratories, Espace, Fall 2020
  4. Spotlight: 10 artists in relation to ideas of influence, Joni Low, Canadian Art, Spring 2020
  5. The Sumptuous Art of Studio Visits, Antonia Low & Elisabeth Molin, Feast Journal, 2017
  6. The Material Undoings of Kelly Lycan, review by Joni Low, Momus, December 2016
  7. The Accursed Share, review by Sophia Bartholomew, C Magazine, Issue 131, Fall 2016
  8. Post-Studio Visit Podcast, Interview with Jonah Gray, Or Gallery, Vancouver, 2016
  9. “The Accursed Share” at Artspeak, review by Steffanie Ling, Daily Serving, May 2016
  10. Piel, territorios múltiples by Katja Cazar, BG Magazine, Issue 066, Equador, 2012
  11. The History of Disappearance, Sally O’Reilly, The Guardian, June 2005
  12. Photography Quarterly published by the Center for Photography at Woodstock, 2005
  13. Love Romance, catalogue and poster, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, the Netherlands, 2005
  14. The History of the Present, Franklin Furnace Publication, Brooklyn, 2001
  15. The Future of the Present, Franklin Furnace Publication, Brooklyn, 2000
  16. Lesbian Art in America, Harmony Hammond, Rizzoli Books USA, 2000
  17. Columbia Journal of Literature and Art, (Issue 31 winter), New York 1999
  18. Rad Like who? On Edge, by C. Carr, The Village Voice, New York 1998
  19. Acts Short List: Laurie Stone, The Village Voice, New York, 1996
  20. Where’s The Money? (with Susan Didcott), Printed Matter, New York 1996
  21. How Many Bad Feminists Does it Take to Fix a Lightbulb?, Laura Cottingham, Sixty Percent Solution, New York, 1994