Solo/Collaborative Exhibits |
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| 2010 | (in)trepid cultures, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| Spontaneous Generation, Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse | |
| 2009 | Tether, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| UpArt: "Cases", Gladstone Hotel, Toronto collaboration with Red Head artists | |
| 2007 | Spontaneous Generation, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| Miasma & Les Trois Manques, Ont. Public Health Association Conference, Toronto | |
| 2006 | Dreadful Visitations, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| 2005 | After, Gallery 1313, Toronto |
| 2003 | Assay, Shared Habitat 2: Festival of Art & Science, with Claudia Wittmann & Richard Mandin, Dufferin Street Space, Toronto |
| Threshold, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta | |
| Cloneology, Members Wall, Gallery 44, Toronto | |
| Salt Works, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2002 | Microbial Passage, Gallery 1313, Toronto |
| 2001 | No Lifeguard on Duty, Propeller Centre, Toronto |
Selected Juried & Invitational Exhibits |
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| 2010 | Red Dot Show, Curator: Gil McElroy, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| 2009 | Red Dot, Curator: Anastasia Hare, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| Deviant Detours, Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico | |
| Spring Group Exhibit, Curator: Rui Pimento, Median Gallery, Toronto | |
| 2008 | Celebrate 10 Years, Curator: Kathyn Hogg, Gallery 1313, Toronto |
| Forest for the Trees, St. Francis Xavier Univ. Art Gallery, Antigonish, Nova Scotia | |
| 2007 | Allegories of the Genome, Curator: Holly Longstaff, Outworks Gallery, Winnipeg |
| and Vancouver, B.C., online gallery www.genonmic-art.com | |
| All Media, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Michigan | |
| Forest for the Trees, Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy | |
| 2006 | Quadratic, Curator: Don Monet, Cube Gallery, Ottawa |
| Forest for the Trees, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto | |
| The 0.7% Show, Curator: Antonia Lancaster, Propeller Centre, Toronto | |
| Prima Materia, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton | |
| 2005 | Work Space, Curator: Mark Schilling, Red Head Gallery, Toronto |
| Consequences, Contact ‘05, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| 2004 | Ex Pluribus Unum, John B. Aird Gallery, Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto |
| Photopolis, Contact ‘04, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| 2003 | I’m Thirsty, Curator: Nicola Woods, Propeller Centre, Toronto |
| Wet, Curator: Phil Anderson, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| Water, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto | |
| 2002 | Ten More, Gallery 1313, Toronto |
| New X-Change, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto | |
| Specimen, Connective Tissue Artist Collective, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| Boundaries, Contact ‘02, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| 2001 | Everything Must Go, Contact ‘01, Gallery 1313, Toronto |
| Illume, Propeller Centre, Toronto | |
| 2000 | Lamentable Expedients, Curator: Donald Brackett, Propeller Centre, Toronto |
| Persona Propeller, Curator: Napoleon Brousseau, Propeller Centre, Toronto | |
| Collision, Curators: V. MacDonnell, S. Rockwell, & L. Van Pelt, Gallery 1313, Toronto | |
| 1999 | The Art of Darkness, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta |
| Emerging Sculptors, John B. Aird Gallery, Sculptors Society of Canada, Toronto | |
| Mitosis, Connective Tissue Artist Collective, Sub-Zero Gallery, Toronto | |
| Environmental Art Exhibit, Broken Fence Society, Polson Pier, Toronto | |
| Sacred Earth, Ontario Society of Artists, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto | |
| 1998 | Connective Tissue, Connective Tissue Artist Collective, Gallery 401, Toronto |
Curatorial Projects |
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| 2005 | Lakeside: Art Looks at Toronto’s Beaches, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Co-curated with David Liss, Phil Anderson, and Shelley Petrie |
| Pixelware: A Sublime Forgery, Gallery 44, Toronto/Dazibao, Montreal. Co-curated with Sara Angelucci, France Choiniere and Marisa Portolese. | |
Awards/Grants |
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| 2010 | Ontario Arts Council – exhibition assistance grant |
| 2009 | Canada Council for the Arts – research/creation grant |
| 2007 | Ontario Arts Council – creation/production grant |
| 2006 | Ontario Arts Council - exhibition assistance grant |
| 2003 | Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta -residency assistance grant |
| 2001 | Toronto Arts Council - creation/production grant |
| 2000 | Canada Council for the Arts - creation/production grant |
| 1999 | Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta - residency assistance grant |
| 1998 | Toronto Arts Council - project grant (with Connective Tissue Artist Collective) |
Education/Workshops/Residencies |
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| 2007 | Tissue Engineering Workshop, SymbioticA/Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto |
| 2001 | Toronto School of Art: Diploma, Sculpture, drawing, painting, photography |
| 2003 | Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta – New Works thematic residency |
| 1999 | Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta – Surface thematic residency |
| 1998 | York University, Toronto: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sculpture & Installation |
| 1982 | Carleton University, Ottawa: Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology |
Presentations |
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| 2007 | President’s Reception, Ont. Public Health Association Conference |
| 2003 | Salt Works, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 2002 | Symposium, Shared Habitat 2, Festival of Art & Science |
| Material Arts class, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto | |
| New X-Change, Canadian Sculpture Centre, Toronto | |
Reviews/Interviews |
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| 2010 | Talia Dudin, (in)trepid cultures, TV interview on Art Sync www.art-sync.ca/opening-elaine-whittaker |
| Patrick Connors, (in)trepid cultures: Exceptional Art http://newz4u.net/?p=3491 | Matthew Purvis, (in)trepid cultures, blogTO.com |
| 2009 | Gary Michael Dault, Tether, Globe & Mail, June |
| 2007 | Ruth Roach Pierson, Dreadful Visitations, MIX, 32.2 |
| 2006 | Ministry of Health & Long Term Care, Awareness-Beyond the Traditional, The Pandemic Planner, October |
| Peter Goddard, Dreadful Visitations: Art Meets Mad Cow, Toronto Star, July | |
| N. Cormier & S. Frater, Everyday Alchemy, Prima Materia brochure essay | |
| 2009 | Gary Michael Dault, Tether, Review Globe & Mail, June 2009 |
| Ruth Roach Pierson, Tether, brochure essay | |
| 2007 | Ruth Roach Pierson, Dreadful Visitations, MIX, 32.2 |
| Ruth Roach Pierson, Spontaneous Generation, brochure essay | |
| 2006 | Ministry of Health & Long Term Care, Awareness-Beyond the Traditional, The Pandemic Planner, October |
| Suzanne Robinson, Dreadful Visitations, brochure essay | |
| Peter Goddard, Dreadful Visitations: Art Meets Mad Cow, Toronto Star, July | |
| N. Cormier & S. Frater, Everyday Alchemy, Prima Materia brochure essay | |
| 2005 | Jen Gerson, Life’s a Beach-full of Flotsam, Globe & Mail, July, 2005 |
| Gary Michael Dault, Life’s a Beach and then you Exhibit, Globe & Mail, July | |
| 2003 | Susan Walker, Toeing the Biology Line, Toronto Star, June 19 |
| Kathleen M. Smith, Dance and Biology, The Dance Current, June | |
| 2002 | Jennifer March, The Art of Science? Green Banana, Summer |
| Charles Hackbarth, A Fine Specimen Indeed, Artery, Spring | |
| 2000 | Charles Hackbarth, Collision: A Show with Impact, Artery, Spring |
| 1999 | Hana Haska, 125 salon otwarty OSA Sacred Earth, Glos Polski, Nr.18 |
Publications |
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| 2009 | Regreen, Ruth Roach Pierson, Your Scrivener Press, poem, A Scree of Crystalline Blisters, inspired by Ablation (artwork in Spontaneous Generation) |
| 2007 | "Aide-Mémoire", Ruth Roach Pierson, BuschekBooks, poem, A Thin Blue Line, inspired by Miasma |
| 2005 | Relay, Lakeside: Art Looks at Toronto’s Beaches, no.7, Sept./Oct. |
| Surface & Symbol, Lakeside: Art Looks at Toronto’s Beaches, Summer | |
| 2004 | Relay, Art and the Sleeping Giant, no. 2 |
| 2003 | Tessera, Blood, Volume 33-34, Women’s Press, Toronto: artwork images/text. |
| 2002 | Fireweed, Biotechnology and Cloning, no. 78, Fireweed Collective, Toronto: artwork images/text. |
| This Magazine, March/April, Vol.35, No.5: artwork images accompany article by Lisa Murphy, It’s the Carcinogens, Stupid. | |
| Where No Window Was, Ruth Roach Pierson, BuschekBooks, cover photograph. | |
| 2000 | Lamentable Expedients, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto: brochure. |
Professional Activities & Memberships |
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| The Red Head Gallery, Toronto | |
| Toronto Art Science Salon | |
| Art & Science Collaborations Inc., New York | |
| BioArt Toronto | |
| Biosis Collective, Toronto | |
| The Hot Flash Collective, Toronto | |
| A Space Gallery, Toronto | |
| Visual Arts Ontario | |
| Canadian Artists Representation Ontario, Toronto | |
| Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto | |
| Toronto Environmental Alliance | |
Representation |
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| The Red Head Gallery | |
| 401 Richmond Street W., Suite. 115 | |
| Toronto, ON | |
| M5V 3A8 | |
| 416-504-5654 | |
| art@redheadgallery.org | |
| www.redheadgallery.org | |