Curricula Vitae
Education
2011 MFA in Drawing and Painting, Concordia University, QC
2007 Apprentice of master ink painter Shen Ling Xiang, Yangshuo, China
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, University of Victoria, BC
Teaching & Gallery Experience
2010-11 Teacher, Drawing 200, Concordia University
2011 Instructor, Chinese Ink Painting: Landscape, Au Papier Japonais
Instructor for the Walter Phillips Gallery Public Program, at the Banff Centre, AB.
2010 Teacher, Intro. to Sketch, McGill University
2009-10 Teacher Assistant, Concordia University, (Assistant Prof Patrick McEown)
Drawing 200/3J
2009-10 Facilitator of weekly 3-hour life drawing sessions at Concordia
2008-09 Teacher Assistant, Concordia University, (Professor François Morelli) Painting 499
Between the Wall and the Viewer
2008 Art installer and assistant at the Galerie Donald Browne, in the Belgo Building, Montréal
2007-08 Art installer and assistant at the Galerie Joyce Yahouda, in the Belgo Building, Montréal
2006 Art installer and assistant at the James Gray Gallery, at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2006 Co-founder of Pterodactyl Studio, and member of the Salt Spring Island Studio Tour
2004 Co-founder of The Lift gallery in St. Henri, Montréal
2003-04 Facilitator of weekly 3-hour life drawing sessions at the University of Victoria
2003 Art vendor at the Bastion Square Festival of the Arts, Victoria
Grants / Fellowships / Awards
2011 The Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary, provided by the Canadian Art Foundation
2009-10 British Columbia Arts Council Scholarship
2008-09 Concordia Fine Arts Fellowship
2007 Visual Arts Development Award, administered by the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery
2006 Shortlist for the ‘Best English Book’ category at Montréal Expozine
2004 Emerging Artist Grant, provided by the Imperial Tobacco Artistic Development Board
Solo Exhibitions
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
Look Not Long Into the Flames, Gallery X, Montréal, QC
Ballad of the Airy Ghost Boat Chamber, Pterodactyl Studio & Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
Aquarium of Night, Hatch Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004 Monsters! Monsters! Monsters! Legends Comic Shop, Victoria, BC
2003 October Blizzard, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
Eleven Love Letters Zine Launch, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
Please Touch, Logan’s Tavern, Victoria, BC
Collaborative Exhibitions
2011 Québec Triennial, with Matt Shane, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
When the Summer is Winter and the Winter is Winter, w/ Matt Shane, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
2010 Big Fleas Have Little Fleas, w/ Matt Shane & Airom Bleicher, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Greyscale Rainbow, w/ Matt Shane, Articule artist0run centre, Montréal, QC
2008 When I Get Back Home, with Matt Shane & Scott Lewis, The Emporium Gallery, Montréal, QC
2006 Broken Arm, Long Shadow, w/ Airom Bleicher & Mike Saijo, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 The Utopic Dream of the Sun in a Box, w/ Matt Shane & Mike Anderson, The Lift, Montréal, QC
The Utopic Dream of the Sun in a Box, w/ Matt Shane & Mike Anderson, The Down, Victoria, BC
Group Exhibitions
2012 Le Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul, QC
Sleep of Reason, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK
2011 Works on Paper III, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC
Scapes, Blue 5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Elimination of the Inbetween, Gallery Atsui, Vancouver, BC
The Cheaper Show No.9, Lower East Side Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Horror Vacui, Galerie McClure, Montréal, QC, Curator: Eric Simon
Papier 2010, art fair, Montréal, QC
The Articule Who’s Who, Articule artist run-centre, Montréal, QC
The Hive: Concordia MFA show, St. Henri warehouse, Montréal, QC
2004-09 Annual Expozine Fair, Montréal, QC
2009 Nature and Nurture, Bleicher / Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works On Paper Project, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC
Post-card Correspondence Art, Lever Gallery, Auckland, NZ
Time Off, Art Mur, Montréal, QC
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 Fine Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Think About Life, projectionist, Musée d’art contemporain, Montréal, QC
Money Trees, Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brewery Art Walk, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Lop Art Duo, Divan Orange, Montréal, QC
LB to BC Jamboree, Rap Machines, Montréal, QC
Live!Stock Pin & Poster Show, Olio, Victoria, BC
Bi-Annual Brewery Art Walk, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Animalesque, Art Murmur, Los Angeles, CA
Pop Montréal, projectionist for the band, ‘hi,lonely oak,’ Montréal, QC
Fickle Hearts Grow Greener, Lower East Side Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art Maze, Osheaga Music Festival, Montréal, QC
Postcard Show, Red Bird Studios, Montréal, QC
Avatars of Beauty, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
Ladyhawk, My Hero Gallery, Montréal, QC
Villa Villa Nola Open Studio, Villa Villa Nola, Montréal, QC
Micro Gestalt, 207 Gallery, Manhattan, NY
Micro Gestalt, Orphanage Gallery, Silver Lake, CA
Get: Art, Bonhams & Butterfields, Hollywood, CA
2006 Duotone Arts Festival, Kelowna, BC
Ergot Eryops, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC
Stop Biting On My Chill, Barb’s Buns, Salt Spring Island, BC
Post-card Correspondence Art, Pterodactyl Studio & Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC
Likeness, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, BC
Let’s Travel, fashion show, Ivar, Hollywood, CA
Group Show, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Miniature Show, Jason Downey Gallery, Montréal, QC
The Max: Live Painting Show, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Twisted Christmas, James Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Bi-Annual Brewery Art Walk, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
All Hallow’s Eve, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
Hurricane Katrina Relief Benefit, M.J. Higgins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Max, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
1st Annual L.A. Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Primordial Stew, The Lift, Montréal, QC
2004 Banished Forever: UVic Grad Show, U. of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Everybody Get Down, The Down, Victoria, BC
This Side of West (book launch), Lucky Bar, Victoria, BC
(self) Publish or Perish, Open Space, Victoria, BC
The Fourth & Final Digital Video Hit Top 40 Secret Underground Techno Zombie Dance Party 5000, The Down, Victoria, BC
Drawing and Zine Exhibition, The Second Story Book Shop, Victoria, BC
2003 Animalism, The Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC
The Triad Show, The Down, Victoria, BC
2002 RPM: The Lost Art of Album Covers, Rogue Art, Victoria, BC
The Nocturne Show, The Brown House, Victoria, BC
With My First Military Pay Cheque I’m Gonna Buy an X-box, The Brown House, Victoria, BC
Bibliography
2011 Dodson, Ed, “To a glass box, with love,” The McGill Daily, Newspaper
McHugh, Nicholas, “Holyoak’s Holocene,” The Link, Newspaper
Lapointe, Tristan, “Visualizing mass extinction,” Montréal Mirror, Newspaper
Douce, Craig, “Collaborative Art,” Rocky Mountain Outlook, Newspaper
2010 “McClure Gallery Goes Into Visual Overload,” Westmount Examiner, Newspaper
2009 Kurd, Nadia, “Rooms Are Never Finished,” articule.org
Young, Natasha, “Inside the Rainbow,” The Link, Newspaper
Schonbek, Amelia, “Culture Brief: Art Alive,” The McGill Daily, Newspaper
Dewolfe, Stacey, “Combining Forces,” Montréal Mirror, Newspaper
2006 Thuy-Anh Vu, Christine, “Aquarium of Night,” AArt, Magazine
2004 Gagnon, Audrey, “monsters for real: eleven love letters,” zine of the month, Broken Pencil, Magazine
2003 Bake-Paterson, Zoe, “Dreams, Dinosaurs and Veganism,” The Martlet, Newspaper
Publications
2012 Foreginer, illustrations for a book of poetry by Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press, OH
2011 The Québec Triennial 2011: The Work Ahead of Us, exhibtition catalogue
2011 Holy Oak: Better Lions, album art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 My Minotaur, book of 51 drawings to accompany 51 poems by my dad, Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press, OH
Lettres / Letters, book of 13 artists, including my fairytale, All Because He Followed the Black Butterfly, MAAM Press, Montréal, QC
Horror Vacui, exhibition catalogue, Montréal, QC
2009 Look-Look Magazine Issue 6, collage pieces from teenage treasure boxes, Los Angeles, CA
When We Grow Up, zine, Montréal, QC
2008 Om Navon Artists Catalog, Santa Monica, CA
2006-10 annual contributor to the 2$ Mix Tape zine, Montréal, QC
2007 Stone Three: Songs for the Seven Eyed Goat, album art, Nottingham, UK
Story Board Label, poster art, Montréal, QC
2006 hi, lonely oak: All These Mountains Look the Same, album art, Montréal, QC
Keith Holyoak: Decent, album art, Los Angeles, CA
No Good Day to Die: Long War, album art, Aldergrove, BC
2004 Mammal: Live in the Dungeon / Live in Tokyo, guitar player & album art, Victoria BC
The Essence magazine, April cover art, Victoria, BC
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
Human Milk for Human Babies, edited by Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane, Victoria, BC
This Side of West Journal of Art and Literature, Victoria, BC
Mind Add U. of Victoria Visual Arts zine, Victoria, BC
2002 The Guy, 58 page self-published zine, Victoria, BC
Mind Add, published by U. of Victoria Visual Arts, Victoria, BC
2001 monsters for real zine, issues 1 and 2, self-published zine, BC
Mind Add, published by U. of Victoria Visual Arts, Victoria, BC
Sound Stories, spoken word recording, Victoria, BC
1999 September, album art, Vancouver, BC
1998 Manner Farm, album art, Vancouver, BC
1998 Antithesis Magazine, SFPIRG, Vancouver, BC
Gallery Representation
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galerie Donald Browne, 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
2012 Mustarinda, Finland
Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway
Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway
Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsåsen, Norway
2010 Figure in a Mountain Landscape (reprise), The Banff Centre, AB
2006 Seasons in the Sun (Fall), New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY
