2021 at Women’s Art Association of Canada Small Gems Nov 17 - Jan 11 21/22 CROSSWORDS October 28-Nov 16 2021 HER CENTURY AT LAST: 21st Century Artists Celebrate Mary Heister Reid October Summertime June -September
2016 IRIS at 20 Gallery A, RMG Oshawa March 2 - 27
2015 What is Slow? Wasted Space, Oshawa September - December CLOSEUPS at the Lake Oshawa Community Museum July - August FILMIC Station Gallery Whitby May 23 - July 5 CloseupsThe Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa January 23 - May 7
2014 WhiteOut TAC Art/Work Gallery Toronto October 4 - 30 Oshawa Space InvadersSeptember 19-27 No Man's Land Erring on the Mount festival, Peterborough, May 30 - June 1 Rediscovering Identity: The power of photographyClarington Museums Bowmanville ON February - September 2013 "The Tree Museum: Easy Come Easy Go" Art Gallery of Peterborough, Sept 7 - Oct 27 oshawaspaceinvaders,with IRIS September 13- 28 Summer Rerun, THE VAULT, Oshawa, July In Tune, BluSeed Studios, Saranac Lake NY, March 8 - 31 2012 Out of Time, Oshawa City Hall, February 1 – July 31
2011 IRIS at BOLA, Oshawa Ontario, August 5-31 Money etc, The Vault, BOLA, Oshawa Ontario May 1 – 31 RED, Clarington Gallery, Bowmanville Ontario March 2 – 30 New York Story, Clarington Public Library, May - June IWD Celebration with Iris Group Whitby Public Library, March liminal spaces: new century of the cityHamilton Artists Inc., February 11 - March 12
2010 Iris in the Adirondacks Bluseed Studios, Saranac Lake NY, June/July
2009 Fluid Agnes Jamieson Gallery, Minden Ontario, September/October Goddess Book Image and text series, Clarington Public Library, April Deviant Detours Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, February/March EDGE Red Head Gallery, Toronto, March
2007 Fluid The Latcham Gallery, Stouffville the forest for the trees THE LONSDALE GALLERY FOREST HILL VILLAGE, Galleria di Arte Contemporanea Il Gabbiano La Spezia Italy Gallerie di Arte Contemporanea Il Gabbiano La Spezia
2006 RENEWAL at Red Head Gallery Toronto (site/cite/cité/city) SPECIFIC: “The Shwa” a downtown Oshawa project
2004, 2005Baghdad Museum Clarington, Stouffville, and Toronto
2002 FREE ART: the Grocery Tape Project (A&P store and Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa)
COLLECTIONS: Kunsthaus Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Beijing World Art Museum Oshawa YWCA Lakeridge Health Alzheimer Society of Durham Region Private collections
FOUNDER the IRIS Group, a collective of women artists
EDUCATOR Visual Art, Durham College ARTS ADMINISTRATOR Director/Curator at VAC Clarington 1989-2004
AUTHOR Locating Alexandra (Toronto: ECW, 1995) about Painters Eleven artist Alexandra Luke Numerous articles and reviews about art for publications including Canadian Art, ESPACE, Sculpture, Urban Glass and the Journal of Canadian Studies, OshaWhat
Editor, Women in . . . (Oshawa: The IRIS Group, 2008) CLICK FOR DETAIL
AWARDED
2022 Oshawa Culture Counts Professional Artist Award recipient Access Copyright Foundation grant for mentorship 2012 Naming prize for "The Core" a creativity site in downtown Oshawa Executive Director’s Award for a professional artist, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington 2013, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2002 OAC Exhibition Assistance Program 1994 Subvention for publication by ECW Press of manuscript Locating Alexandra from Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, Social Science Federation of Canada/Canadian Federation for the Humanities 1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship1988 1987 OAC Artist in the Schools (CAIS) grant OAC Material Assistance Grant
BOOKS· Locating Alexandra, Toronto: ECW, 1995 on Alexandra Luke · Women in . . . Editor, The IRIS Group Volumes 13: ISBN 9780980979602, 9780980979619 200510· Mapping the (UN)Familiar, Coauthored with Pam Patterson, VAC ISBN 0969877102 1994 PROSE/POETRY
“Leaving Maple Park” Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, Corner Brook, NL. February 202
"Wonder" The Sunshine Review September 2021
"Elective Surgery and the Woman Artist" Contemporary Verse 15.3 (Winnipeg) 1992
"Hard Currency" Canadian Woman Studies (York University) 1990
"O Canada Poems" Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal Spring 1990 15.2 (Halifax)
Pending “The Women” Quagmire Magazine. Selected ESSAYS
OSA and the Avant-garde,Breath, Heart, Spirit: The OSA 150 Years 2022
Transplants: MICHAEL BELMORE (Canada) JAFFA LAAM LAM (Hong Kong) WEN CHIH WANG (Taiwan) The TreeMuseum200710th Anniversary Exhibition, Toronto (6, 16)
Art at the Front, Proceedings from State Park Pennsylvania: Third Penn State International Symposium on the History of Art Education State Park, Pennsylvania
Tim Whiten at Olga Korper, Urban Glass Quarterly Fall 2008 Issue 112 (86)
Is this Not a Renaissance Garden? ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2008 (412)
The Private World of Viktor Tinkl, ESPACE Sculpture 82 HIVER/WINTER 2007 2008 Vol. 82 (345)
Judy Chicago: Chicago in Glass, The Urban Glass Art Quarterly Winter 2007 08 Issue 109 (59)
Beside / Under / Within: Penelope STEWART's Canopy Series, ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2007 Vol. 79 (39-40)
Brian JUNGEN : Contemporary Mythologies, ESPACE Fall 2006 Vol. 77(36-7)
Jane Buyers: Inscriptions, ESPACE Sculpture Spring 2006 Vol. 75 (41)
Ed Pien: In A Realm of Others, ESPACE Winter 2005 2006 Vol.74 (412)
CURATOR/ORGANIZER 2017-18LEGACIES: Alexandra Luke, Isabel McLaughlin, Teri Donovan and Gwen MacGregor The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (RMG) OshawaGuest Curator And Writer
2015 2016 Crossing Borders i and ii, an exchange project with the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (VAC) Bowmanville and BluSeed Studios in Saranac Lake NY. Canadian artists Chai Duncan, Liz Parkinson, Janice TaylorPrebble, Sally Thurlow, Todd Tremeer, The youmeusproject and six NY artists. Guest curator and writer
2014 Created and developed exhibition and catalogue for WhiteOuta Scotiabank Nuit Blanche participant.
1996- 8 creation and implementation of Curatorial Mentoring program at VAC with Carolyn Bell Farrell. Participant learners included among others, Linda Jansma, Rhona Wenger, Maralynn Cherry.
with Professor Michèle Lacombe, INTER/SECTIONS: Parameters of Avantgarde Collaborative Projects, three day symposium
2004 2005 Speakers Series a Durham College Innovation Fund project in cooperation with Trent U included writers and artists including D'bi Young, Edward Burtynsky, Joanne Findon.
CURATED VAC CLARINGTON EXHIBITIONS and CATALOGUES 1989 – 2004 FOUNDER of IRIS, a collective of women artists GRANTS 2022 Access Copyright 2021-23 Writers’ Union of Canada Writers in the Schools Virtual Presentations (2) National Public Readings Program (3) Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grants and Artist in the Schools Grant 2017, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2009, 2007, 2005, 2002, 1988, 1987 Oshawa Partnership Grants for IRIS projects (Bola residency and YWCA SecretGarden) 1994 Social Science Federation of Canada/Canadian Federation for the Humanities 1991 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
EDUCATION 1992 - M.A. Canadian Studies, Frost Centre, Canadian Heritage and Development Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. 1993 - Introduction to Museum Studies, Canadian Museum Association, Ottawa. B.A. (Honours) English/Cultural Studies, Trent 1985 - University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, Fine Art Studio (drawing)
AWARDS 2022 Oshawa Culture Counts Professional Artist Award recipient 2012 Executive Director’s Award for a professional artist, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
Rita Nave, Finding artistic inspiration in the financial meltdown Studio 12 News 5/4/11
CBC TV and radio for Baghdad Museum 2005
"Mapping the (UN)Familiar" reviewed by Virginia MacDonnell Eichhorn in Resources for Feminist Research/Documentations sur la recherché feministe. Volume 28, Nos. 1-2 (OISE/UT) Spring/Summer 2000 pp264-66.
1998–99 – Locating Alexandra reviewed by Pam Patterson in RFR/DRF Volume 26, Nos. ¾ (OISE/UT) Fall/Winter 1998–99 pp266–69.
1997 Anderson, Janice. Review of Locating Alexandra by Margaret Rodgers. Journal of Canadian Art History 18, no.1 (1997): 112-119.