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 Honours, University of Victoria, BC

Teaching and Professional Experience

2012

Drawing workshops at Kunstnarhuset Messen, Norway, and Mustarinda, Finland

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

2012

Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant

2011

The Canadian Art Youth Arts Bursary, provided by the Canadian Art Foundation

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

Shortlist for the ‘Best English Book’ category at Montréal Expozine

2004

Emerging Artist Grant, provided by the Imperial Tobacco Artistic Development Board

Solo Exhibitions

2012

Oblivion Monstrosus, Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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, with Matt Shane, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB

2010

Big Fleas Have Little Fleas, with Matt Shane & Airom Bleicher, Bleicher/Golightly 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

The Utopic Dream of the Sun in a Box, with Matt Shane & Mike Anderson, The Down, Victoria, BC

Group Exhibitions

2012

Papier 2012, art fair, represented by Galerie Donald Browne, Montréal, QC

The Inventory, Babel Kunst, Trondheim, Norway

Sleep of Reason, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, YK

Murmurer, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, DE

2011

Scapes, Blue 5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009-11

Works On Paper Project I, II, & III, Red Bird Gallery, Montréal, QC

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, represented by Robert Poulin, 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

Les Choses en soi, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montréal, QC

Nature and Nurture, Bleicher / Golightly Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

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

Friday Nocturnes: 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

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

Post-card Correspondence Art, Pterodactyl Studio & Gallery, Salt Spring Island, BC

Likeness, The Fifty-Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, 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

2012

Skovholt, Hans Christian, “The Inventory,” Natt&Dag, Magazine, Norway

2011

Desjardins, Eloi, “Triennale québécoise 2011,” 89,3FM CISM radio, Un Show de Mot’Arts

Hébert, Bernar, “La Triennale québécoise 2011,” documentary film broadcast on ARTV

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

Kotsonis, Helen, “Greyscale Rainbow Showcased at Pop Montréal,” DOCspace.ca

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, Magazine2004

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

2006-12

art for the band Holy Oak, (3 albums and 12 show posters,) Los Angeles / Montréal

2012

Foreigner, illustrations for a book of poetry by Keith Holyoak, Dos Madres Press, OH

Sleep of Reason, exhibition catalogue by Jennifer Cane, Whitehorse, YK

Babel Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Trondheim, Norway

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

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

2007

Stone Three: Songs for the Seven Eyed Goat, album art, Nottingham, UK

Story Board Label, poster art, Montréal, QC

2006

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

Residencies

2012

Le Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie Saint-Paul, QC

Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsåsen, Norway

Mustarinda, Finland

Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder, Trondheim, Norway

Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway

Oxygen Art Space, Nelson, BC

2010

Figure in a Mountain Landscape (reprise), The Banff Centre, AB

2006

Seasons in the Sun (Fall), New General Catalog, Brooklyn, NY

Exhibitions Curated

2010

The Monster Show, Gallery X, Montréal, QC

2007

Don’t Worry It’s Just the Lord, Friendship Cove, Montréal, QC