JOHN WILLIAM
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Curriculum Vitae

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All images: Money Doesn't Grow On Trees Does It? ​ No.85, No.91, No.96, No.95, No.86, No.83  -  2015
Ongoing Project: Berlin 2016
EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

Opasatika
Galerie 815, Hearst, Ontario, Canada, September 2016 (upcoming)

-Solo exhibition of photographs and text

A Ubiquity of Sparrows
36th Street Project Space, New York, New York, US, 2016

- Solo exhibition of photographs and text

Loose Affairs
Somos Project Space, Berlin , Germany, 2015


- Group exhibition

L’Héritage de Borduas: huit artistes autour de Françoise Sullivan

Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Québec, Canada: 2013

 - Group painting exhibition concurrent with Paul-Émile Borduas –les années new yorkaises (1953-1955)

Genetics for Cowboys
WARC Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 2012

− Multimedia installation including paintings, photography, and sound

Beautiful Ghosts 
CRAM International Gallery, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada: 
2011
  
− Beautiful Ghosts - Multimedia installation
− Persistent Desire - Sound installation

Seeds in Disguise
Balls Falls Conservation Center, Jordan, Ontario, Canada: 
2011

− Solo exhibition in conjunction with the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) traveling exhibition

Nuit Blanche Toronto - Fly By Night
Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 
2011

− Beautiful Ghosts - Multimedia installation
− Persistent Desire - Sound installation

Nuit Blanche Montréal – Poetics of Space
New City Gas, Montréal, 
Québec, Canada: 2010

− Screening of video documentation of performance piece

Second International Festival of Performance Art
Athens, Greece: 
2009

− Screening of video documentation of performance piece Poetics of Space

Poetics of Space
New City Gas, Montréal, 
Québec, Canada: 2009

− Multi-media performance piece co-authored with musician Jen Reimer

Fragments
Galerie Crescent Contemporain, Montréal, 
Québec, Canada: 2008

– Painting exhibition

RESIDENCIES AND CONFERENCES (SELECTED)

Atelier Topaz ( Residency)
Opasatika, Ontario, Canada: September 2016 (upcoming)
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Parker Cove (Residency)              
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada: 2016 (upcoming)          

– Development of site specific pieces related to the Bay of Fundy ecology; opportunity to work with artist Wayne Boucher


Churchill Northern Studies Center – CNSC (Residency)
Thompson, Manitoba, Canada: 2016 (upcoming)

 -Preliminary research for Artic ice study as a basis for an extended northern residency in 2017

If You Build It, Will They Come?
Transart Institute, New York, New York, January 2016

-Created and led professional development workshops regarding residency creation and practice development


Artists for Artists: Art, Activism, and Adaptation (Symposium)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 
2014

Artists for Artists: Mentorship, teaching strategies and other tools for visual artists.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: 
2013

− Led workshops  on mentoring strategies

Asa Wright Nature Centre (Residency)
Trinidad, West Indies: 2012

Sculptural Vocabularies: A symposium exploring the sculptural practices of contemporary Canadian women artists
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: 
2011

Are Curators Unprofessional?  (Symposium)
Banff International Curatorial Institute, Banff, Alberta, Canada: 
2011

The Automatiste Revolution: Its International Resonances (Symposium)
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, USA: 
2010

− Developed and presented symposium in conjunction with the Albright-Knox Museum exhibition The Automatiste Revolution.  

University of Calgary  (Residency)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada: 
2009

− Residency looking at the intersects between art and science in which I was invited to work with scientists Dr. Morley Hollenberg and Dr. Christian Sensen; my research there culminated in the installation Genetics for Cowboys.

ART FAIRS


Toronto International Art Fair
Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 2014

Toronto International Art Fair 
Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 2013

The Armory Show

 New York, NY,  with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 2013

Toronto International Art Fair
Toronto, Ontario, Canada with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 2012

The Armory Show

New York, NY with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 2012

VIP Art Fair 2.0

with Corkin Gallery (Toronto, Ontario, Canada): 02/03/2012 – 2012

 
CURATORIAL WORK (SELECTED)

Souvenirs / Remembrances: Carolyn Wren and Tobey C. Anderson 
Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, 
Québec, Canada: 01/12/2011 – 02/14/2011

Echoes : Works Inspired By Françoise Sullivan’s Danse dans la neiges, 1948
Niagara Artists Centre, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada: 
2010

−  Sullivan’s work is manifest by the other artists through video, print, and textile arts—a diversity of media that it itself pays homage to the breadth and range of Sullivan’s artistic output. In addition to the work of Jean-Paul Riopelle, Luis Jacob, Tom Scott, and Carolyn Wren, Echoes is comprised of poetry readings and forums alongside an exhibition of ephemera including a signed copy of the Refus Global manifesto from 1948.

Françoise Sullivan: Making Her Mark                  
CRAM International Gallery, St-Catharines, Ontario, Canada: 
2010

​EDUCATION

08/2015 - Ongoing - MFA with the Transart Institute in New York and Berlin
              - Recipient of Transart Earth Awareness Prize

09/1980 - 05/1986 - Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada - BA -Specialization: Psychology and Major: Applied Social Science 1986

09/1977 - 08/1980 - Vanier College, Montreal, 
Québec, Canada - Diploma of College Studies - Social Science 1980

09/1987 -08/1990 - Concordia University, Montreal, 
Québec, Canada - BSc Biology -Incomplete

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of CARFAC (Canadian Artists Representation – Le front des artistes Canadiens)  Executive - Board of Directors 2010 – Present

Member of RAAV (Regroupment des artistes en arts visuels du Québec) Vice President Executive - Board of Directors 2010 – Present

Member of CARCC (Canadian artists Copyright Collective) - Board of Directors - 2013 - Present; Co-Chair Board of Directors 2015 - Present


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