BIOGRAPHY
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• Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada
• Master of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York
• Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
• Workers (leaving the factory), Art Gallery of Windsor with the Media City Film Festival, Windsor, Canada
2008
• Workers (leaving the factory), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2005
• Gardner Art Center, University of Sussex, UK
2004
• Campus, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2002
• Photo & Contemporary, Turin, Italy
2001
• the apartments, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2000
• The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
1999
• Corchoran Gallery, NJCU
1998
• Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
• OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1997
• La Centrale, Montréal, Canada
1996
• Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York (two person show with Ann Daly)
1995
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (two person show with Maria Hahnenkamp }
1994
• Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1992
• YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, Canada (two person show)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
• Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), curated by Salvatore Lacagnina and Adam Szymczyk, Instituto Svizzero, Rome, Italy
2009
• Les Visages de l'industrie, Musée des beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
• FEEDFORWARD—The Angel of History, LABoral, Gijón (Asturias) Spain
• Aggegate: Art and Architecture- A Brutalist Remix, Westport Arts Center, Wesport, CT
• kustom kar kommandos— a videodrome, Art in General, NY, Curated by Sandra Skurvida
• PARADOX NOW!, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Curated by Jeffry Cudlin
2008
• Must See: The 2008 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
• Re-enactments, DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
2007
• The 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey, Curated by Hou Hanru
• Stutter and Twitch, CCS Bard Galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2006
• The Message is the Medium, Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY
2005
• The City: Contemporary Views of the Built Environment, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
• Campus, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, and John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
• Workers, Hydro Centennial, Frognerparken, Oslo, Norway
2004
• Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
• Photography Reborn, Ramapo College of New Jersey, NJ
• The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
• Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2003
• *Strangers :The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
• *Urban Dramas, de Singel International Kunstcentrum, Antwerp
2002
• Alter Ego, Musée d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• *25th Bienal de Sao Paulo: Metropolitan Iconographies, Sao Paulo, Brazil, travels to PROA Fundacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2001
• Lifelike, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois
2000
• It's a Cruel World, White Columns, New York
1998
• Picture/Image/World, Lemmerman Gallery, New Jersey
1997
• Black and White, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York
1996
• Making Pictures—Women and Photography, 1975—Now, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, travels to Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, 1997
1995
• Selections from 1993—1995, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
• Desiring Authors, Enveloping Myths, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
• Art History and Its Discontents, Hobart Smith College Gallery, Geneva, NY
• Revealing Desire, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
1994
• 4 Person Show, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto Canada
• More than Real, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
• Dreaming of You, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Power, Pleasure, Pain: Contemporary Women Artists and the Female Body, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York (3 person show with Melissa Gwyn Miller and Hilla Lulu Lin)
1993
• All the World's a Stage, Marsh Fogel Gallery, East Hampton, NY
• Smash Mega Hits, Garnet Press Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992
• The Auto Erotic Object, Hunter College Gallery, New York
• Between the Sheets, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
• Nature Lover, Windows on White Street, 51 White Street, New York, NY
* Catalogue
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2009-10
• Abigail Cohen Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2007
• DHC/Art Grant, DHC/Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Andy Warhol Foundation Inaugural Visual Arts Writing Grant
2003
• Anonymous was a Woman Foundation Award
1999
• Canada Council Visual Arts Grant
1995
• Canada Council Visual Arts Grant
1994
• Canada Council Short Term Grant
1993
• Canada Council Short Term Grant
1993
• Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
1991
• Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1988
• York University Academic Scholarship, Toronto, Canada
TEACHING AND LECTURES
2002
• 'Initial Public Offerings,' Whitney Museum of American Art.
• Talk between Margaret Sundell (writer/curator) and Nancy Davenport.
2001-2
• Instructor, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
• Instructor, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1998
• Visiting Artist, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1994
• "Gnawing Desire", CAA Annual Conference
Presentation with Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1993
• Visiting Artist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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2010
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