MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
BFA, University of Western Ontario (Gold Medal)

Research

My creative work is drawing-based, extending from work on paper into sculpture, print, moving image and occasionally, sound. At the heart of the work is an exploration of embodied and performative aspects of language.  A present drawing based project involves  a linguistic mapping of popular songs. Compiled from a range of music industry databases, the song titles incorporated in these works typically cross genres and periods to trace the collective migrations of thought across common or recurrent themes. In running conversation with this work is a sculptural project involving the unraveling of common sisal rope. The loosened rope fibre is lightly reworked, often to enfold the meandering line of cursive texts.

Exhibitions

One-Person:
Shim/Sham/Shimmy, One person survey exhibitions at Museum London (July – Nov.
2009), the Art Gallery of Hamiliton (2010), and the Art Gallery of Windsor (2010).

New Drawings and Sculpture, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Ontario. 2007.

twix, TENT, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands. March-April 2002.

passim, Galerie Articule, Montréal, Québec. 1999.

mater, University Art Gallery, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, U.S.A., 1997.

littera, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.  1998. (catalogue) London Regional Art and Historical Museums.  London, Ontario, 1997.

Present Tense: David Merritt', Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto, 1996.

Unswept Room, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario. 1992.

Common Knowledge, Permanent Installation, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON.                                    

The Magic Voice and Geometric Solids, London Regional Art Gallery, London, 1988.

Permanent Installation and Exhibition, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario, 1987.

One Blind Eye, Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario.  1986.

Phantasiebildung, Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario. 1985.

Tides of History, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.  1983.

Imagining Life Below and Beyond the Horizon, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS.  1983.

Compensation, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. 1980.

Two Person and Group:

Fray, Textile Museum of Canada, and Koffler Gallery, Toronto. Curated by Sarah Quinton and Carolyn Bell Farrell, 2006.

Côté de Art + Projects, Galerie René Blouin, Montréal, Québec, February 2006.

In Line, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, Ontario. December 2005.

Beyond Bounds, Art in London 1970 – 1987, Museum London, Curated by Robert McKaskell, 2005.

Loose Ends/De Toutes Piéces, (Kai Chan, David Merritt and Martha Townsend), Galerie Laine et Danny Taran at the Centre des Arts, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Quebec, curated by Renée Baert, January 2005.

Outline in Black, Theilsen Gallery, London, Ontario. Curated by Jameilie Hassan.

Petal Pushers, Oakville Art Galleries, August, 1999. Curated by Marnie Fleming.

llipsis, Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester,  NewYork, November
 1999. Koffler Gallery, Toronto.  Curated by Carolyn Bell Farrell, January, 1999.

International Artists Writing Reading Room, Sidestreet Projects, Santa Monica, California. 1996.

Significant Details, Glendon Gallery, York University, Curated by Carol Laing, Toronto,
 1992.

Under a Canopy of Blue?, McMaster Museum of Art. Curated by Kim Ness,  May 1991.

International Exhibition of Artists' Bookworks, Biblioteca  Sormani, Milan, Italy.  1987.

Encounters and Inquiries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, curated by
Marnie Fleming, December 1986.

Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Curated by Andy Patton, 1986. (Catalogue)

People, Places, Things, YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.  Curated by Elizabeth MacKenzie, 1986.

Research and Discovery, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario. Matthew Teitelbaum, 1986.

Teaching

Recent Undergraduate Courses
VAS 2210              Introdductory Drawing
VAS 4430              Practicum
VAS 300                Advanced Drawing
VAS 382b              BFA Seminar
VAS 228b              Intro Photography
VAS 340                Advanced Photography
VAS 394a/494a     Special Topics (Contemporary Drawing Practices)
 VAS 491a/b          Independent Problems in Studio (Lee-Ann Todd and Perouz Sefarian )

Recent  Graduate Courses
VAS 9521b  Extemporal (Special Topics Studio)
VAS 540a    Graduate Studio Seminar
VAS 540a    Graduate Studio Seminar
VAS 526b    Reading Course on Temporality
VAS 545b    Dust Tracks (Special Topics Studio)

Masters Thesis Supervision
2008           
Andrew MACDONALD. Fragments. The Fragment in Recent Sculpture and Installation Practices. (Supervisor). MFA.

Liv BONLI,Down the Dark Hall, Up the Stairs.. Critical Nostaligia in Contemporary Art, (Supervisor) MFA.

2007           
Blair FORNWALD, Between Nothing and Something.. Performative Practices and the Infra-Thin (Supervisor). MFA.

2005           
Steven LAURIE, Celebratory Angst: Performing Masculinity. (Co-Supervisor). MFA.

2004           
Amy HARRISON, Childlikeness. Visual Constructions of Childhood in Western Culture. (Supervisor). MFA.

Alex HOMANCHUK, The City Will Recall,. Photographic Production, Surveillance and Tactics of Resistance. (Supervisor). MFA.

Pamela WILSON, Appropriation and Irony: Postmodern Elements in the Work of Three Contemporary Canadian Artists, (Co-Supervisor). MFA.
 
2003           
Pedro CORREIA, By Design: Ornament and Fascism, (Co-Supervisor). MFA.

Larry GLAWSON.  Photography, Sex and Dancing. Sexuality, Ideology and Photographic Representation. (Supervisor). MFA.

2002           
Paul DREOSSI, Blood, Sweat, and Gears: An Examination of Performed Representations of Masculine Subjectivity. (Co-Supervisor).

Mark SCHILLING, The Spectres of Brecht and Benjamin: “New” Media, Access, Resistance. Contemporary Media Production in context Walter Benjamin’s and Bertold Brecht’s Media Theories. (Supervisor). MFA.

2000           
Maymee Ying LUM, Filum. Photography and Memory. (Supervisor). MFA.

1999           
Christine SHAW, Locomotion. Interactive Strategies in Sculptural Practices (Co-Supervisor). MFA.

Christy L. THOMPSON, Carrying Wet Laundry & Starting Fires. Meaning Production in Contemporary Installation Practices. (Supervisor). MFA.

Kim D. GRAHAM, (in) between the space(s) of terror I find fragments of my memory. Trama and Representaion. (Co-Supervisor). MFA.