Education
2011 MFA in Drawing and Painting, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2007 Apprentice of master ink painter Shen Ling Xiang, Yangshuo, China
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours, University of Victoria, British Columbia
2014 Diploma in Elfs and Hidden People, Icelandic Elfschool, Reykjavík
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Planktos Scrolls, The Kootenay Gallery of Art, History & Science, Castlegar, BC (forthcoming)
2021 Worldlings, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA (forthcoming)
2018 Book of Nineteen Nocturnes, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2017 Book of Nineteen Nocturnes, Optica centre d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
2016 Nowhereworlds, bG Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2016 The Thicket, Centre Clark artist-run-centre, Montréal, QC
2016 Who Held Their Hands Toward the Trees, Galerie Tour Aimia, Montréal, QC
2015 Art Toronto, represented by Galerie Donald Browne, Toronto, ON
2013 Lycanthrope, Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2013 Expo Chicago, represented by Galerie Donald Browne, Chicago, IL
2012 Oblivion Monstrosus, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Toronto International Art Fair, presented by L’Association des galeries d'art
contemporain, Toronto, ON
2011 Holocene, Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Montréal, QC
2010 My Minotaur, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 One Night for Echoes, The Eastern Bloc, Montréal, QC
2007 Nothing is Wasted But the Whale Itself, Truxtop Gallery, Silverlake, CA
2006 Seasons in the Sun (Fall), New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Look Not Long Into the Flames, Gallery X, Montréal, QC2006 Ballad of the Airy Ghost Boat
Chamber, Pterodactyl Studio & Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
2006 Aquarium of Night, Hatch Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004 Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! Legends Comic Shop, Victoria, BC2003 October Blizzard, The
Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2003 Eleven Love Letters Zine Launch, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC2003 Please
Touch, Logan’s Tavern, Victoria, BC
Collaborative Exhibitions
2021 Walloways, Teckningsmuseet (The Museum of Drawings), with Matt Shane, Laholm, Sweden
(forthcoming)
2021 Portals, with Matt Shane, Galerie McBride, Montréal, QC (forthcoming)
2019 The Hills Are Shadows, with Matt Shane, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
2019 Les Bons Enfants, with Matt Shane, permanent installation, Théâtre Gilles-Vigneault,
Saint-Jérôme QC
2019 Overworld, with Matt Shane, Galerie Deux Poissons, Montréal, QC
2019 Manif d’art 9 – La biennale de Québec, with Matt Shane, Musée national des beaux-arts du
Québec, QC
2019 Le Pavillon Mobile, with Matt Shane Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme,
QC
2018 For Real by Accident / Un an plus Tard, le club de dessin, Montreal Drawing Club, Tempsspace,
Mtl, QC
2018 NKD 20th Anniversary Exhibition, with Matt Shane, Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Norway
2017 Forestrial Brain, with Matt Shane, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC
2017 Field Recordings / Captations, with Matt Shane & Nick Kuepfer, Stewart Hall, Ville de Pointe
Claire, QC
2017 Impossible Monsters, Art City, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Wodwo, in situ installation, with Matt Shane, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
2016 Sumarryk (Summer Dust), Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland
2016 Hibernacula, with Matt Shane, Bois de Belle-Rivière, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides,
QC
2014 a hole in the world, with Matt Shane, permanent installation, American Can Co. building,
Montréal, QC
2014 Six Ghosts Spell Unknown Alphabet, Tegnerforbundet (Drawing Association), Oslo, Norway
2014 Six Ghosts Spell Unknown Alphabet, Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2014 Gargoyles and Drifters, Aires Libres festival, with Matt Shane, Métro Beaudry, Montréal, QC
2014 Curtains and Bridges, Frame Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2013 Ja Natuurlijk (Yes, Naturally), with Matt Shane, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
2011 Québec Triennial: The Work Ahead of Us, with Matt Shane, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal,
QC
2011 When the Summer is Winter and the Winter is Winter, with Matt Shane, Walter Phillips Galley,
Banff, AB
2010 Big Fleas Have Little Fleas, with Matt Shane & Airom Bleicher, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Greyscale Rainbow, with Matt Shane, Articule artist-run centre, Montréal, QC
2008 When I Get Back Home, with Matt Shane & Scott Lewis, The Emporium Gallery, Montréal, QC
2006 Broken Arm, Long Shadow, with Airom Bleicher & Mike Saijo, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
2004 The Utopic Dream of the Sun in a Box, with Matt Shane & Mike Anderson, The Lift, Montréal,
QC
2004 The Utopic Dream of the Sun in a Box, with Matt Shane & Mike Anderson, The Down, Victoria,
BC
Group Exhibitions
2021 Overburden, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson & Kootenay Gallery, Castlegar, BC (forthcoming)
2021 This Land: Artworks in Monochrome, ArtCraft, Salt Spring Island, BC (forthcoming)
2020 Papier, art fair, represented by McBride Contemporain, Montréal, QC (forthcoming)
2020 Animal Behavior, (online exhibition) bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019 SSNAP (Salt Spring National Art Prize) Parallel Show, ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island, BC
2019 Salt Spring Island National Prize Winners, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC
2019 The Room and TEN, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2019 Aquarelle – Watercolour, Galerie McClure, Montréal, QC
2019 Papier, art fair, represented by Galerie Deux Poissons, Montréal, QC
2016-19 Alptraum (Nightmare), wandering exhibition (17 locations, 21 countries), curated by Marcus
Sendlinger
2018 The Sunshine Eaters, Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2018 Line Attack, The Hive, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Pour l’art, Galerie B-312, Montréal, QC
2018 Tiny Elephant Giant Mouse, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Foule sentimentale, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC
2018 Feal, Main & Station Nonesuch, Parrsboro, NS
2018 Artexte en cas 5: What is an artist's book?, Volume 1 MTL Art Book Fair, Montréal, QC
2018 Red Dot, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
2017 Survival Kit 9: Becoming an Apricot, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Rīga, Latvia
2017 The Wild, Galerie Maurits Van De Laar, The Hague, Netherlands
2017 Nonesuch Art of Paper Award Finalist Exhibition, Main & Station, Parrsboro, NS
2017 Nonesuch Art of Paper Award Finalist Exhibition, 41 rue Ann (Griffintown), Montréal, QC
2017 Des lignes du temps / Time Lines, Guido Molinari Foundation, Montréal, QC
2017 The Domain Beyond the Territory, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal, QC
2017 Western Ghats Eco Walk – Poster Exhibits, SARA Centre, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India
2017 Vente aux enchères et marché de multiples // Art Auction & Multiples Market, Articule, Montréal,
QC
2017 Sans scrupule, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC
2017 Récits de collectionneurs, Maison de la Parc-Extension, Montréal, QC
2017 Marginaux et Francs-tireurs, Maison de la culture Frontenac, Montréal, QC
2017 Vendu 2017, Musée des beaux arts, Montréal, QC
2016 Scope Art Fair, Presented by bG Gallery, Miami, FL
2016 Parle-moi d'amour, Les Impatients auction, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
2016 Conversation Piece, Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2016 Looking Glass, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Telethon Clark, Centre Clark artist-run centre, Montréal, QC
2016 Cédez à la tentation, Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC
2015 Spectrum-Gestalt 2, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Papier 2015, art fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2015 Line Light Sound Movement Time, Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 D’amour pour l’art, Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides, Saint-Jérôme, QC
2015 Grayscale Wonderland, Glass Garage Gallery + Bleicher/Gorman (bG) Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
2014 Secret Emo Diary, SÍM Salurinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
2014 Spectrum-Gestalt 1, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Feature Art Fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Toronto, ON
2014 Fukl, Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland
2014 Paysage Actuel, Local 222 St-Joseph, Québec City, QC
2014 The Art of the Spectacular, Glass Garage Gallery + Bleicher/Gorman (bG) Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA
2014 Energy / Énergie, Foreman Gallery, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, QC
2014 ROADplay, Bleicher/Gorman (bG) Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Papier 2014, art fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2014 International Cinema Turbulent Film Festival 2014, University of Victoria, BC
2013 Toronto International Art Fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2013 Vendu 2013, Musée des beaux arts, Montréal, QC
2013 Denis Gougeon: figures, Centre Pierre-Peladeau (SMCQ), Montréal, QC
2013 Denis Gougeon: figures, Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (SMCQ), Montréal, QC
2013 Gemak, Galerie Maurits Van De Laar, The Hague, Netherlands
2013 Pop-Up! PHI Centre, Montréal, QC
2013 Papier 2013, art fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2013 Drawing Cabinet, Galerie Maurits Van De Laar, The Hague, Netherlands
2013 Circle Logic, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Robert Poulin: collectionneur outsider, galerie d'art d'Outremont, Outremont, QC
2013 International Cinema Turbulent Film Festival 2013, University of Victoria, BC
2012 Murmurer, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany
2012 Sleep of Reason, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK
2012 Kauneus/Beauty, Mustarinda, Finland
2012 The Inventory, Babel Kunst, Trondheim, Norway
2012 Papier 2012, art fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2011 Works On Paper Project III, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC
2011 Scapes, Blue 5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Elimination of the Inbetween, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, BC
2010 The Cheaper Show No.9, Lower East Side Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010 Horror Vacui, Galerie McClure, Montréal, QC
2010 The Hive: Concordia MFA show, St. Henri warehouse, Montréal, QC
2010 The Articule Who’s Who, Articule artist run-centre, Montréal, QC
2010 Works On Paper Project II, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC
2010 Papier 2010 art fair, presented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2009 Works On Paper Project I, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC
2009 Les Choses en soi, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montréal, QC
2009 Nature and Nurture, Bleicher / Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Post-card Correspondence Art, Lever Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2009 Time Off, Art Mur, Montréal, QC
2009 Human Botany, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005-08 contributor to monthly group shows, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 The World Without Us, Glass Garage Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2008 Money Trees, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Live!Stock Pin & Poster Show, Olio, Victoria, BC
2008 Bi-Annual Brewery Art Walk, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Animalesque, Art Murmur, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Fickle Hearts Grow Greener, Lower East Side Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2007 Art Maze, Osheaga Music Festival, Montréal, QC
2007 Postcard Show, Red Bird Studios, Montréal, QC
2007 Avatars of Beauty, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2007 Ladyhawk, My Hero Gallery, Montréal, QC
2007 Villa Villa Nola Open Studio, Villa Villa Nola, Montréal, QC
2007 Get: Art, Bonhams & Butterfields, Hollywood, CA
2007 Micro Gestalt, 207 Gallery, Manhattan, NY
2007 Micro Gestalt, Orphanage Gallery, Silver Lake, CA
2006 The Max: Live Painting Show, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Duotone Arts Festival, Kelowna, BC 2006 Ergot Eryops, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective,
Victoria, BC2006 Post-card Correspondence Art, Pterodactyl Studio & Gallery, Salt Spring Island,
BC2006 Likeness, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
2006 Let’s Travel, Ivar, Hollywood, CA
2006 Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Miniature Show, Jason Downey Gallery, Montréal, QC
2005 Hurricane Katrina Relief Benefit, M.J. Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA2005 Twisted
Christmas, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA2005 1 st Annual L.A. Arts Festival, Los Angeles,
CA
2005 The Max: Live Painting Show, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
2005 All Hallow’s Eve, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA2005 Primordial Stew, The Lift, Montréal,
QC
2004 (self) Publish or Perish, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC
2004 Everybody Get Down, The Down, Victoria, BC2004 This Side of West (exhibition and book
launch), Lucky Bar, Victoria, BC
2004 Digital Video Hit Top 40 Secret Underground Techno Zombie Dance Party 5000, The Down,
Victoria, BC
2004 Drawing and Zine Exhibition, The Second Story Book Shop, Victoria, BC
2004 Banished Forever: UVic Grad Show, U. of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2003 Animalism, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC
2003 The Triad Show, The Down, Victoria, BC
2002 RPM: The Lost Art of Album Covers, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC
2002 The Nocturne Show, The Brown House, Victoria, BC2002 With My First Military Pay Cheque
I’m Gonna Buy an X-box, The Brown House, Victoria, BC
Teaching and Workshops
2019 Instructor, Drawing and Painting with Ink and Brush course, Selkirk College Community Ed,
Nelson, BC
2019 MAC Ecofest Drawing and Wellbeing walk: park edition (with Matt Shane), Birmingham, UK
2019 Instructor, Graphic Novel Workshop, Nelson Youth Action Network, Nelson, BC
2018 Creative Encounter, drawing workshop, Horizon Soleil, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC
2017 Drawing workshop (with Matt Shane), Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC
2018 Artiste à l'école project, Optica centre d’art contemporain and École Buissonnière, Montréal, QC
2017 Instructor, Chinese Ink Painting, Au Papier Japonais, Montréal, QC
2016 Drawing workshop, Galerie Tour Aimia, Montréal, QC
2015 Guest professor for 3 days at Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts, Mumbai, India
2015 Drawing workshop with Corp India Thane Orphanage, Mumbai, India
2014 Visiting Artist workshop at the Salt Spring Island Early Learning Centre, Salt Spring Island, BC
2012-13 Professor, 1 course of Drawing 1 and 3 courses of Drawing 2, Art and Art History
Department, Sheridan College / University of Toronto Mississauga, Oakville, ON
2013 Professor, 3 courses of Introduction to Classical Figure Drawing, Arts Fundamentals, Sheridan
College, Oakville, ON
2013 2 drawing workshops (with Matt Shane) at the Gemeenetmusuem, The Hague, NL
2012 Drawing workshop and artist talk at Mustarinda, Finland
2012 Drawing workshop and artist talk at Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2010-11 Professor, yearlong course of Drawing 200, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2011 Instructor for the Walter Phillips Gallery Public Program, at the Banff Centre, AB
2011 Instructor, Chinese Ink Painting, Au Papier Japonais, Montréal, QC
2010 Instructor, Intro. to Sketch, McGill University, Montréal, QC
2009-10 Teacher Assistant, Concordia University, (Professor Patrick McEown) Drawing 200
2009-10 Facilitator of weekly 3-hour life drawing sessions at Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2009 Zine-making workshop, Aldergrove Neighbourhood Services Youth Program, Aldergove, BC
2008-09 Teacher Assistant, Concordia University, (Professor François Morelli) Painting 499
Between the Wall and the Viewer, Montréal, QC
2003-04 Facilitator of weekly 3-hour life drawing sessions at the University of Victoria, BC
Lectures and Round Tables
2020 Artist talk (online), Hønefoss Videregående Skole, Hønefoss, Norway
2019 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane), Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, UK
2019 Artist talk, Coventry University School of Art, Coventry, UK
2019 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane), Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
2019 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane), ‘Manif d’art 9: Small Between the Stars Large Against the Sky’
Québec City, QC
2018 Artist talk, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
2018 Artist talk, Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC
2018 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane and Nick Kuepfer), Stewart Hall, Ville de Pointe-Claire, QC
2018 Artist talk, Le collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montréal, QC
2017 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane), Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC
2016 Artist talk, Kala Bhavana Institute of Fine Arts, Shantinketan, West Bengal, India
2016 Artist talk, Verksmiðjan, Hjalteyri, Iceland
2015 Guest speaker for a round table discussion, Perception and (sur)Reality, Art Toronto, ON
2014 Guest speaker for a round table discussion, Drawing Is Thinking, Papier Art Fair, Montréal, QC
2014 Artist talk, Tegnerforbundet (Drawing Association), Oslo, Norway
2014 Artist talk, SÍM (Association of Icelandic Visual Artists), Reykjavík, Iceland
2013 Artist talk, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Artist talk, Le 30e Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul, QC
2012 Artist talk, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale), Norway
2012 Artist talk, Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
2010 Artist talk, (with Pat McEown and Eric Simon), Galerie McClure, Montréal, QC
2009 Artist talk, (with Matt Shane), Articule artist-run centre, Montréal, QC
Juries and Other Professional Experience
2019 Juror for the BC Arts Council Project Assistance Grants for Visual Artists, Victoria, BC
2017 Juror for the William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Fellowship, Gotland, Sweden
2016 Juror for the William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Fellowship, Gotland, Sweden
2004-09 Annual Expozine Fair, Montréal, QC
2008 Art installer and assistant at the Galerie Donald Browne, in the Belgo Building, Montréal, QC
2007-08 Art installer and assistant at the Galerie Joyce Yahouda, in the Belgo Building, Montréal, QC
2006 Art installer and assistant at the James Gray Gallery, at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Pterodactyl Studio, Salt Spring Island Studio Tour, BC
2004 Co-founder of The Lift gallery in St. Henri, Montréal, QC
2003 Art vendor at the Bastion Square Festival of the Arts, Victoria, BC
Grants / Fellowships / Awards
2019 SSNAP (Salt Spring National Art Prize) Parallel Art Show, First Prize Viewers Choice
2019 Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance Major Project Grant
2019 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad: Residencies Grant
2017 Nonesuch Best Work Award, Nonesuch Art Of Paper Awards, Parrsboro, NS & Montréal, QC
2017 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Residency Grant, for the Québec – New York State
artist-in-residence program
2017 Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant
2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant
2014 Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Research and Creation Grant
2014 The William Blair Bruce European Fine Art Travel Fellowship, Gotland, Sweden
2014 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award (declined)
2014 Kulturrådet Arts Council of Norway, Project Grant
2013 Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Travel Grant
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2012 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant
2011 The Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary, provided by the Canadian Art Foundation
2011 Shortlisted for the Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art
2008-10 British Columbia Arts Council Scholarships
2008-10 Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowships
2007 Visual Arts Development Award, administered by the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery
2006 Shortlisted for the ‘Best English Book’ category at Montréal Expozine
2004 Emerging Artist Grant, provided by the Imperial Tobacco Artistic Development Board
2004 Zine of the Month, from Broken Pencil Magazine, for self-published ‘monsters for real: eleven
love letters’
Publications
2019 Album art for Druun: Veļu laiks, Rīga, Latvia
2019 Forestrial Brain, forestrialbrain.ca, Online Publication, Open Space Arts Society, Victoria, BC
2019 Oracle Bones, cover for a book of poetry by Keith Holyoak, Goldfish Press, Seattle, WA
2019 The Quebec City Biennial: Small Between the Stars, Large Against the Sky, exhibition catalogue,
QC
2018 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale Histoire 20 år, NKD 20 th Anniversary, Dale i Sunnfjord, Norway
2018 L’art dans la durée: Sentier Art3, artist's book, by Suzanne Ferland, Marquis Imprimeur, QC
2018 The Sunshine Eaters, exhibition catalogue, by Lisa Deanne Smith, Toronto, ON
2018 Foule sentimentale, exhibition catalogue, Saint-Jérôme, QC
2017 Des lignes du temps / Time Lines, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2017 Survival Kit 9: Becoming an Apricot, exhibition catalogue, Rīga, Latvia
2017 Passage de la Mer noire, cover for a book of poetry by Olyvier Leroux-Picard, Poètes de brousse,
QC
2016 Studio Research, journal issue #4, Griffith University, Australia
2016 Nowhereworlds, exhibition catalogue, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Album art for Tashi Dorji & Tyler Damon: Both Will Escape, Family Vineyard, Indianapolis, IN
2015 empreintes écologiques, Circuit journal, Faculté de musique, Université de Montréal, QC
2015 The Gospel According to Judas, cover for a book of poetry by Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press,
OH
2015 Aimia: Installation d’art Canadien 2015, exhibition catalogue, QC
2015 Art Toronto 2015, exhibition catalogue, ON
2014 Album art for Valdresspel I Amerika by Laura Ellestad, ta:lik records, Oslo, Norway
2014 Energy/Énergie, exhibition catalogue, Sherbrooke, QC
2013 HB, drawing magazine, Issue #2, Montréal, QC
2013 Vendu, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2013 Denis Gougeon: figures, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2013 Ja Natuurlijk (Yes Naturally), exhibition catalogue, The Hague, Netherlands
2013 Papier 2013: Contemporary Art Fair of Works on Paper, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2013 Kauneus/Beauty, exhibition catalogue, Mustarinda, Finland
2013 The School of Lubividska, artists catalogue, Montréal, QC
2006-16 Artwork for the musician Neil Holyoak, 3 albums & 14 show posters, Los Angeles / Montréal
2012 Foreigner, 12 illustrations for a book of poetry by Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press, OH
2012 Sleep of Reason, exhibition catalogue by Jennifer Cane, Whitehorse, YK
2012 Babel 2011-2012, exhibition catalogue, Trondheim, Norway
2012 Je fixais des vertiges, symposium catalogue, Baie Saint-Paul, QC
2011 The Québec Triennial 2011: The Work Ahead of Us, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2006-10 annual contributor to the 2$ Mix Tape zine, Montréal, QC
2010 My Minotaur, book of 51 drawings to accompany 51 poems by Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press,
OH
2010 Lettres / Letters, book of 13 book-artists, MAAM Press, Montréal, QC
2010 Horror Vacui, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2009 Look-Look Magazine Issue 6, collage pieces from teenage treasure boxes, Los Angeles, CA2009
When We Grow Up, zine, Montréal, QC
2008 Om Navon, artists catalog, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Stone Three: Songs for the Seven Eyed Goat, album art, Nottingham, UK
2007 Story Board Label, poster art, Montréal, QC
2006 Keith Holyoak: Decent, album art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 No Good Day to Die: Long War, album art, Aldergrove, BC
2004 This Side of West Journal of Art and Literature, Victoria, BC
2004 Mammal: Live in the Dungeon / Live in Tokyo, guitar player & album art, Victoria BC
2004 The Essence magazine, April cover art, Victoria, BC
2003 This Side of West Journal of Art and Literature, Victoria, BC
2003 monsters for real: eleven love letters, 260 page self-published series of eleven zines
2003 Human Milk for Human Babies, edited by Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane, Victoria, BC
2001-03 Mind Add, published by U. of Victoria Visual Arts, Victoria, BC
2002 The Guy, 58 page self-published zine, Victoria, BC
2001 monsters for real zine, issues 1 and 2, self-published zine, BC
2001 Sound Stories, spoken word recording, Victoria, BC
1999 September, album art, Vancouver, BC
1998 Manner Farm, album art, Vancouver, BC
1998 Antithesis Magazine, Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group (SFPIRG), Vancouver, BC
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Newspaper, Finland
2012 “Med kunstnar som lærar,” Hordaland Folkeblad, Newspaper, Norway
2012 Skovholt, Hans Christian, “The Inventory,” Natt&Dag, Magazine, Norway
2011 Baird, Daniel, “The Quebec Triennial: Eyes Font,” Canadian Art, magazine, QC
2011 Desjardins, Eloi, “Triennale québécoise 2011,” 89,3FM CISM radio, Un Show de Mot'Arts, QC
2011 Hébert, Bernar, “La Triennale québécoise 2011,” documentary film broadcast on ARTV, QC
2011 Dodson, Ed, “To a glass box, with love,” The McGill Daily, Newspaper, QC
2011 McHugh, Nicholas, “Holyoak’s Holocene,” The Link, Newspaper, QC
2011 Lapointe, Tristan, “Visualizing mass extinction,” Montréal Mirror, Newspaper, QC
2011 Douce, Craig, “Collaborative Art,” Rocky Mountain Outlook, Newspaper, AB
2010 “McClure Gallery Goes Into Visual Overload,” Westmount Examiner, Newspaper, QC
2009 Kurd, Nadia, “Rooms Are Never Finished,” articule.org, QC
2009 Kotsonis, Helen, “Greyscale Rainbow Showcased at Pop Montréal,” DOCspace.ca, QC
2009 Young, Natasha, “Inside the Rainbow,” The Link, Newspaper, QC
2009 Schonbek, Amelia, “Culture Brief: Art Alive,” The McGill Daily, Newspaper, QC
2009 Dewolfe, Stacey, “Combining Forces,” Montréal Mirror, Newspaper, QC
2007 Becker, Noah, Avatars of Beauty: Make Love with Sight, Whitehot, Magazine, NY
2006 Thuy-Anh Vu, Christine, “Aquarium of Night,” AArt, Magazine, CA
2004 Gagnon, Audrey, “monsters for real: eleven love letters,” zine of the month, Broken Pencil,
Magazine, ON2003 Bake-Paterson, Zoe, “Dreams, Dinosaurs and Veganism,” The Martlet,
Newspaper, BC
Performances
2019 The Big Draw Festival, public drawing festival, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
2017 Reading from Book of Nineteen Nocturnes, at the Survival Kit 9 Contemporary Art Festival,
Rīga, Latvia
2016 Varulven, Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, with Nick Kuepfer, Sala Rosa, Montréal, QC
2016 Varulven, with Nick Kuepfer, Neil Holyoak, Christeen Francis and Matt Shane, Mengi,
Reykjavík, Iceland
2016 Varulven, Art POP festival, with Nick Kuepfer and Christeen Francis, L'École des beaux-arts de
Montréal
2016 MU- Soirée-Bénéfice, Usine C, Montréal, QC
2015 ex-Lycanthrope, Nuit Blanche, with Nick Kuepfer & Neil Holyoak, Galerie Donald Browne,
Montréal, QC
2013 Lycanthrope, Nuit Blanche, with Nick Kuepfer & Neil Holyoak, Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC
2011 Guest artist drawing for the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Casa del Popolo & Sala Rosa, Montréal, QC
2008 Friday Nocturnes: Think About Life, projectionist, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
2008 Lop Art Duo (Pop Montréal), Divan Orange, Montréal, QC
2007 Pop Montréal, projectionist for the band, ‘hi, lonely oak,’ Montréal, QC
Exhibitions Curated
2010 The Monster Show, Gallery X, Montréal, QC
2007 Don’t Worry It’s Just the Lord, Friendship Cove, Montréal, QC
Residencies and Symposia
2020 Marpha Foundation, Mustang District, Nepal (forthcoming)
2019 Midlands Arts Centre, UK
2019 Nonesuch Residency, Parrsboro, NS
2018 Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, QC
2018 Nordic Artists' Centre Dale’s 20 th Anniversary Residency, Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale, Norway
2017 Booklyn Artist Alliance, Brooklyn, USA
2015-16 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec Residency, Mumbai, India
2014 SÍM (Association of Icelandic Visual Artists), Reykjavík, Iceland
2014 Fallsbjörken, Dalarna, Sweden
2014 Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Oslo, Norway
2014 DRAW2014: Why Draw Now? International Drawing Symposium, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh
2013 Wander, The Hague, Netherlands
2012 Je fixais des vertiges, Le 30e Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul, QC
2012 Nordisk Kunstnarsenter Dale (Nordic Artists' Centre Dale), Norway
2012 Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, Finland
2012 Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
2012 Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
2010 Figure in a Mountain Landscape (reprise), The Banff Centre, AB
2006 New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
Collections
Artexte (Montréal)
Bank of Montreal
Bamfield Marine Science Center
Brooklyn Art Library (forthcoming)
Carleton University Art Gallery / A. T. Tolley and Patrick Collection
Eldfjallasafn Volcano Museum, Stykkishólmur, Iceland
La Collection Loto-Québec
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Musée d'art contemporain des Laurentides
Musée d’art contemporain de baie-saint-paul Québec
Royal Ontario Museum (Department of Fossils and Evolution)
Royal Bank of Canada
Senvest Collection of New Canadian Art
Selected Links
2020 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jimholyoak/
2019 CBC interview with Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane about their collaborative work (film by Jorge
Camarotti): https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1425480259872
2019 Forestrial Brain, online catalog published by Open Space Arts Society: https://forestrialbrain.ca
2016 Travelogue of the artist’s drawing and trekking mission to Sikkim (Northeast India) with his little
brother Ben: http://www.tripp.in/?p=611
2015 Nowhereworlds: The Othered Ecologies of Jim Holyoak, by Tracy Valcourt for Border
Crossings magazine, issue 113: We Are Monsters:
BorderCrossings_TracyValcourt_Nowhereworlds2015p.88-95
2018 Video interview for exhibition of ‘Book of Nineteen Nocturnes’ at Alternator Centre for
Contemporary Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLAdK-5Tobs&feature=emb_title
2015 Video documentation (1:34 min) of ex-Lycanthrope, a night-long, live-drawing and music
performance, for the 12e édition de la Nuit Blanche à Montréal, at Galerie Donald Browne:
Gallery Representation
McBride contemporain, Montréal, QC
bG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA