CV
Born: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Canadian citizenship
Education
University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, BA
St Martins School of Art (Central St. Martins), London, England, Post-Grad Diploma
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, MFA
Solo & two person exhibitions
2021 Neither Safe Nor Quiet: Trouble Came, Laneway theatrical performances, Vancouver studio, BC
2017 Grapes and Tortillas, Workers Art & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, ON
2016 Grapes and Tortillas, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC. (catalogue )
2016 Northern Howl, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon (w/ Karen Kazmer:)
2015 Tela de Vidas, Ayuntamiento de Gracia (Gracia City Hall), Barcelona, Spain
2015 Dibujando El Mundo: España (Drawing the World: Spain), Linea de Costa, ECCO, Cádiz, Spain
2008 Missing/Las Desaparecidas, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2007 Ni Una Mas!/Not One More!,Art Gallery, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA, USA
2007 Missing/Las Desaparecidas, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA
2007 Missing/Las Desaparecidas , Kathrin Cawein Gallery, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, USA
2007 Come To Your Senses, UICA (Urban Institute for Contemporary Art), Grand Rapids, MI, USA
2006 Missing/Las Desaparacidas, Templo de San Antonio Centro Cultural, Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico
2006 Missing/Las Desaparacidas, Galeria Manuel Felguerez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City
2004 Punctuation, permanent installation, Ithaca College Library, Ithaca, NY, USA
2002 Oblique Obtuse Acute, Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC (w/ Doug Biden)
2000 Adrift, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
1999 Adrift, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
1999 Path of a Body, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC (w/ Doug Biden)
1992 Bar-Ba-Loot, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1989 Dialogue: Deborah Koenker/Gary Geraths, Wignall Museum/Gallery, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA
1988 Learning From Salmon, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1986 Site-related Sculpture Installation, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, California
1987 The Cherry Tree Project: Site Specific Sculpture Collaboration, (w/ Roberto Pacheco), 3 private gardens, Vancouver, BC
1986 Site-related Sculpture Installation, Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
Selected group exhibitions
2021 A Practice In Gestures, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2019 Woman Artists Changing Collections: Recent Acquisitions, Legacy Art Gallery, University of Victoria, BC
2019 Place, Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, grunt gallery, Vancouver, BC
2018 Intertwined, in conjunction with Textile Society of America Conference, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC
2018 Mischief, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, YK
2017 The Ornament of a House: Fifty Years of Collecting, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC (publication)
2014 Hard Twist: This is Personal, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2011 Sitely Premises, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2010 More Than Flesh: embodiment of abstraction, Delta Gamma Gallery, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON
2009 Recent Acquisitions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2007 Curriculum, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Tracking Absence, A Space Gallery, Toronto, ON
2005 Prints from Deer Lake, Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC
2005 25 Years+25 Artists, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2005 Prior Editions:10 Years of Canadian Printmaking, Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC; Works Festival, Edmonton, AB
2004 The Bookmark Project 2004: Interstate, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 A Graphic Eye, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, ON
2002 The Bookmark Project, FLEX site-works & interventions, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 On Paper, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, ON
2001 kicksART!, The Roundhouse, Vancouver, BC
2001 Prints From Canada's Pacific Province, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2000 Malaspina Printmakers: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Visual Arts Burnaby/Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC.
1998 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design Invitational Print Exhibition, in association with St. Petersburg State Academy of Art & Design, St. Petersburg, Russia
1998 Recent Acquisitions of the Permanent Collection Part II, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
1997 Heartfelt, Prior Editions Ltd. Invitational Print Folio, Vancouver Art Gallery (sales and rental), Vancouver
1993 Mary's Violet Eyes..., Artropolis, Stanley Park Site Work, Vancouver, BC. (invitational)
1990-01 Within Range, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (traveling)
1989 Works on Paper, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
1989 Cactus--Mixed Emotions, The Art Works, Riverside, CA
1987 Riverside Collects: 5 Centuries of Graphic Art, The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1987 The Cherry Tree Project:Documentation, The Western Front, Vancouver, BC (w/ Gary Geraths & Roberto Pacheco)
Teaching
2018 Professor Emerita, Faculty of Visual Art + Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
1992-13 Associate Professor, Visual Art + Material Practice Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
1981-04, 1986-92 Sessional Appointment, Studio Instructor, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC
1983 University of British Columbia, Fine Arts Department, Vancouver, BC, Sessional Appointment, Studio
Professional Experience
2019 Artist in Residence, Centre Art I Natura, Farrera, Catalunya, Spain
2019 Artist in Residence, Obracadobra, Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, México
2018 Santa Fe Art Institute International Sponsored Thematic Residency: Equal Justice. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2017 Invitational Research + Production Residency, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, BC
2016 Artist in Residence, Xochi Quetzal, Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico
2016 Artist in Residence (w/ Karen Kazmer), “The Natural and the Manufactured”, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (KIAC), Dawson City, YK
2015 Artist in Residence, Linea de la Costa, Cádiz, Spain
2015 Artist in Residence, Jiwar, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Canada Council International Residencies Program, Cité Interntionale des Artes, Paris, France
2010 Public Art Selection Panel, Richmond, BC.
2009-10 Curator, Wanda Koop: Face to Face; Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2009 Curator, Ingrid Koenig: Navigating the Uncertainty Principle; Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2009 Curator, Brenna Maag: Observation of Wonder; Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2005 Co-Curator, Here and Away, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Juror, Malaspina Printmakers Trilateral Exchange Exhibitions
2002-04 Curator, Thinking Textile, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2003 Artist Residency, Atlin Art Centre, Atlin, BC
1999 Artist Residency, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, St. Peter’s Abbey, Muenster, SK
1998 Artist Residency, Dorland Mountain Artist Colony, Temecula, CA
1995 Artist Residency, Leighton Colony, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB
1993 Jury member, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
1976-81 Inaugural Director, Malaspina Printmakers Workshop, Vancouver, BC
1975 Founding member, Malaspina Printmakers Society
Panels & Lectures
2016 Panelist: Grapes and Tortillas/Mexican Seasonal Agricultural Workers, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
2016 Artist Talk, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
2009 Moderator: Koop-Gu Xiong dialogue, Emily Carr University + Richmond Art Gallery.
2009 Panelist: The Compulsion of Collecting, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC (in conjunction with Recent Acquisitions exhibition)
2007 Panelist: Maquilapolis: Humans, Sweatshops and the Global Economy, Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR
2007 Panelist: Missing/LasDesaparecidas, Centro Cultural, Cornelius, OR
2007 Panelist: Women of Juarez, Waltmar Theatre, Wilkinson College, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
2007 Artist Talk, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2006 Panelist: Missing and Taken: Symposium, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library & Women’s Studies, U of SK
2000 Presenter, Peter Wall Institute Symposium: Exploring Narratives of Disease, Disability, & Trauma, U of BC
2000 Guest Lecturer, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
2000 Panelist: Invisible Disability: Personal, Political, Philosophical, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
2000 Artist Talk, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
1999 Guest Lecturer, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC
1999 Artist Talk, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
1997 Guest Lecturer, Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, BC
Collections
Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, ON
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON
Banff Centre Fine Arts Library
British Columbia Liquor Board
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
City of Vancouver, BC
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, ON
George Brown College, Toronto, ON.
Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, USA
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of BC
NaturoMed Health Clinic, Vancouver, BC
Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, USA
Portland Hotel, Vancouver, BC
Provincial Collection of British Columbia
Random House of Canada Limited
Seattle Public Works Collection
Security Pacific National Bank, NY, NY, USA
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
Toronto Dominion Bank
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, Maine, USA
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
University of Victoria, BC, Legacy Collection
Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC
Full CV available upon request