EXHIBITIONS (* solo or two-person)
Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012
Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Canada, 2011
On Printed Matter, [w/Josh Thorpe], Printed Matter, New York, 2011*
Around YYZ [w/Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Space, Toronto, ON, 2010-11*
House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010
Reading the Garden [w/ Josh Thorpe], Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto ON 2010*
Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON 2009
On Convenience [w/ Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto ON 2009*
MVS Graduate Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, ON 2009
Vehicle, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON [collaborative project organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective] 2008
The Other Gallery [w/ Leigh-Ann Pahapill], Other Gallery, Banff AB 2008*
MVS First Year Exhibition, University of Toronto, ON 2008
ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS 2008
AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto ON 2007
Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS 2007
Tales from the Cyclop’s Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, NB 2007
Unsurprising Geographies [w/Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS 2006
Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006
a/s/l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS 2006*
Any World (That I’m Welcome To) [w/ Taryn Sheppard], Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS 2005*
COMMISSIONS
About Art Met [w/Josh Thorpe], Art Metropole, gift for annual fundraiser, 2010
EDUCATION
Masters of Visual Studies, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts, NSCAD University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2006
AWARDS
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant 2011
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant 2009
Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto 2007-09
Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council 2007-08
Participating Artist, Thematic Residency: Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, Banff Centre, 2008
David Buller Memorial Scholarship, University of Toronto 2007
Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, NSCAD University 2006
Arts Scholarship, New Brunswick Arts Board 2005
Endowment Fund Scholarship, NSCAD University 2004
Centennial Fund Scholarship, NSCAD University 2004
Arts Scholarship, New Brunswick Arts Board 2004
Mackenzie Fund Scholarship, NSCAD University 2003
WRITING
"Anxious Objects: There is no theatre, there are no artworks," Likewise, as technical experts, but not (at all) by way of culture: Leigh-Ann Pahapill, (Cornell Museum of Fine Arts: Orlando), 2012
"On Determination: Josh Thorpe's Ambivalent Flag," Espace 98, Winter 2011/2012
"Yam Lau: A Life of Re-creation," Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Vol. 10, No. 5, September/October 2011
"Prologue" (co-writer: Josh Thorpe), Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975-2008, (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: Toronto/Plug In Editions: Winnipeg), 2011
“And Other Essays,” C Magazine C105, Spring 2010
“Tris Vonna-Michell,” Art Papers 34:01, January/February 2010
“Yam Lau’s Hutong House As I Imagine It,” (Yuanfen Media Art Space: Beijing), 2009
“The Reproduction of Space,” Space, WIDEN (Workshop for Inter-Discipline Novelty and Exchange), University of Toronto, April 2009
“Towards Infinity But Not Infinite,” Dynamic Encounters Panel, Universities of Art Association of Canada Conference, 2008
“Living the Image: Looking at Yam Lau’s ScapeLand II,” The Fillip Review 8, 2008
“The Possibility of Art: Adorno and the Politics of Aesthetics,” Re-Thinking the Frankfurt School Graduate Conference, York University, 2007
“Permanent Collection Series #2: Arthur Handy,” Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, 2006
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dault, Gary Michael. “Words In A Window, Mystery In A Bottle.” The Globe and Mail, Aug. 29, 2009
Carr-Harris, Ian. Catalogue text for Master’s of Visual Studies Graduating Exhibition, 2009
Lau, Yam. 'When the White Night Spans: Nuit Blanche 2008'2008 (unpublished)
Carter-Flinn, Sue. Akimblog, June 8th, 2006
Dobbin, Lindsay. Sure Thing - Unsurprising Geographies, The Coast, 2006