Artist Biographies

Kim Adams (BFA and MFA, University of Victoria, BC) lives and works in Grand Valley and , Ontario. Recent solo exhibitions include the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Banff Centre; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands. Group exhibitions include Wandering Positions/Here We Go Again, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City; Adaptations, Apexart, New York, and Kunsthalle Friedericanum, Kassel, Germany; Insiders, Centre d’architecture and CAPC Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux; The Big Gift, Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Cabin, National Gallery of , Ottawa; El Geni de Les Coses, Office for Artistic Diffusion (ODA), Barcelona; the 2002 Sydney Biennale; and Model World, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Adams’s work is included in numerous private collections and public collections, such as the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Collection publique d’art contemporain du Conseil général de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Gisele Amantea (BFA, University of Calgary; MFA, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA) lives and works in Montreal, . Amantea has had solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art de Joliette, QC; Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, Kolkata, India; the Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; the Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville St. Clair, France; Oboro Artists’ Centre, Montreal; and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto. In April 2007, The King v. Picariello and Lassandro, her book in graphic narrative form, was published by the Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies at the University of Toronto, and a video based on the same material was released by GIV (Groupe Intervention Vidéo) in Montreal. In 2005, she completed a major public artwork, Red Horizontal, at David Lam Park in Vancouver as a part of the City of Vancouver Public Art Program. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Art Gallery of Windsor, ON; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; and numerous private collections. She currently teaches in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University, Montreal.

Shuvinai Ashoona is an Inuit artist from Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Blending contemporary style with objects and elements from her traditional Inuit heritage, Ashoona's drawings depict life in Cape Dorset with meticulous detail and precision. Cape Dorset, known as the center of Inuit drawing, printmaking, and carving, publishes an annual print collection, in which her work is regularly included. Recently, her work was prominently featured in It Is What It Is at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and Inuit Modern: The Samuel and Esther Sarick Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. She has also been included in exhibitions at Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto; the Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver; West Vancouver Museum; Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto; Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver; and Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa. In 2009, Ashoona was selected to participate in the Solo Spaces project with Feheley Fine Arts at Art Toronto. In 2008, she produced a collaborative banner for CitySky in Basel, Switzerland, which was then reproduced for Toronto's 2008 Nuit Blanche. Her work is included in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario; National Gallery of Canada; and the Art Gallery.

Amalie Atkins (BFA, College of Art and Design, Calgary) lives and works in , Saskatchewan. She is a multidisciplinary artist whose work hop-scotches from filmmaking to fabric-based sculpture to performance. Her work has been included in exhibitions such as World Routes: Love, Saskatchewan, York Quay Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Personally Political: Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin; Boxing Gloves and Bustiers, SOHO20 Gallery, New York; Mind the Gap!, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Crossing the Pond: Artists Emerging Here and There, Paved art + new Media, Saskatoon; Welcome to My Party, Stride Gallery, Calgary; and Wind Chill Masks: The Future of Winter, The Royal Red Gallery, Saskatoon. In 2011, her cinematic performance was shown through FADO Performance Art Centre in Toronto; Edgy Women Festival in Montreal; Prairie Scene at The Ottawa Art Gallery; and the 16th Annual Symposium of Art in Sackville, NB. Atkins occasionally does contract work as a stop-motion animation costume designer. http://amalieatkins.ca

Nicolas Baier (BFA, Concordia University, Montreal) lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. Recent solo exhibitions include National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée régional de Rimouski, QC; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. He has been included in group exhibitions such as the 2008 Québec Triennial; Stardust, Musée d’art contemporain du val-de-Marne, Paris; The Space of Making, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Bringing to Order: Form and Expression in Canadian Photographic Practice, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Photography, Ottawa; and the 2000 Biennale de Montréal. His work is found in various collections, including the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. http://nicolasbaier.com

Dean Baldwin (BFA, York University, Toronto; MFA, Concordia University, Montreal) lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. Recent solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Contemporary Number 9, RBC Plaza, Toronto; 53rd Venice Biennale, Canada Pavilion Opening Celebrations, Venice; Centre Clark, Montreal; Vu, Quebec City; and White Box, New York. Recent group exhibitions include the 2011 Québec Triennial; One at a Time, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto; An Uncollaboration, with Erin MacMillian, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre; The Itinerant Museum—Reshuffle, Art in General, New York; Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Foto, Lianzhou, China; Reverse Pedagogy 3, The Model, Sligo, Ireland; and Sweet Dreams, 2008 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto. In 2011, he was awarded a residency with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, and in 2009 he was awarded the Canada Council Residency at SPACE, London, England. http://www.deanbaldwin.ca

Daniel Barrow (BFA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg) was born in Selkirk, Manitoba, and currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. Since 1993, he has created and adapted comic book narratives to “manual” forms of animation by projecting, layering and manipulating drawings on overhead projectors. Recent exhibitions include Good Gets Better, SBC Gallery, Montreal; My Winnipeg, la maison rouge, Paris, traveling to Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; and Daniel Barrow: Emotional Feelings, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. Barrow has performed at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; International Film Festival Rotterdam; The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA festival; and the British Film Institute's London Film Festival. He is the winner of the 2010 Sobey Art Award. http://danielbarrow.com/index.swf.htm

Rebecca Belmore (Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto) lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Notable solo exhibitions include Rebecca Belmore: Rising to the Occasion, Vancouver Art Gallery; The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON. Group exhibitions include Global Feminisms, Brooklyn Museum; the 2006 Sydney Biennale; Intertidal: Vancouver Art and Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium; Houseguests, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, NM; Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Creation or Death: We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. http://www.rebeccabelmore.com/home.html

Patrick Bernatchez lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, Stedelijk, Netherlands; L’Oeil de Poisson, Quebec; Galerie Donald Browne, Montreal; and Galerie de l’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal. Group exhibitions include the 2008 Québec Triennial; Intrus, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Baie-Saint-Paul, QC; 11th Biennial of Visual Arts: Values, Pancevo, Serbia; and The Boundary Layer, Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, AB. Most recently, his films have been presented at events such as the 2009 Nuit Blanche in Paris, the 2010–11 International Biennial of Media Art of Melbourne, and the 2010 International Film Festival of Rotterdam. In 2010, he was nominated for the Sobey Art Awards. http://www.patrickbernatchez.com/

BGL consists of Jasmin Bilodeau, Sébastien Giguère, and Nicolas Laverdière, who founded the artist collective while studying at Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Québec. BGL has had solo exhibitions at Mercer Union, Toronto; Centre culturel canadien à Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal,; and La Chambre Blanche, QC. Group exhibitions include KAFKA, Biennale de Kitchener, ON; Villes anciennes/art nouveau, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland; Los latinos del norte, Museo del Chopo, Mexico; Art Pop/Pop Art, Musée québecois de la culture populaire, Trois-Rivières, QC; Le Ludique, Musée d’art moderne Lille Métropole, France; the 2006 Havana Biennial; the 2007 Bienal del Fin del mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina; and the 2007 Biennale de Montréal. Recently, BGL has had exhibitions in conjunction with Nuit Blanche Paris and Volta NY, both 2011. Their work is found in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, and the National Gallery of Canada. BGL currently live and work in Quebec City.

Valérie Blass (BFA and MFA, Université du Québec à Montréal) is a sculptor living and working in Montreal, Quebec. In 2008, she was invited to participate in the inaugural Québec Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, where she had a solo exhibition in 2012. Past solo exhibitions include Galerie Circa, Montreal; Galerie B312, Montreal; DareDare, Montreal; L’oeil de poisson, Quebec; and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. Recent group exhibitions include Chimère / Shimmer, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; It Is What It Is, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Nothing to Declare, The Power Plant, Toronto. Her work is also found in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada; Musée national des beaux-arts de Montréal; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; The Royal Bank of Canada; and private collections.

Shary Boyle (Diploma of Fine Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Boyle’s recent traveling exhibition Shary Boyle: Flesh and Blood was organized by Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, and traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. She has had additional solo exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; International Comics Festival, Lucerne, Switzerland; The Power Plant, Toronto; SPACE, London, England; and the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB. Group exhibitions include Breaking Boundaries, Gardiner Museum, Toronto; An Enchanted Domain, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and The Likely Fate of the Man Who Swallowed a Ghost, organized by the Centre Pompidou at La Conciergerie, Paris. She is the winner of the 2009 Iskowitz Award and the 2010 Hynatyshyn Award. She has performed at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Academy of Music; South by Southwest Festival, Austin; and the Olympia Theatre, Paris. Boyle has been commissioned to present two new major works in 2012: Canadian Artist at the BMO Project Space in Toronto, and Everything Under the Moon at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Her work can be found in the collection of the Paisley Museum of Art, Scotland; la maison rouge in Paris; the National Gallery of Canada; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; and the Art Gallery of Ontario. http://www.sharyboyle.com/

Bill Burns (BFA, University of Victoria; MA, Goldsmiths College at the University of London) is a multidisciplinary artist, living and working in Toronto, Ontario, whose artistic practice spans art, design, and critical writing. Recent solo exhibitions include The Flora and Fauna Information Service, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; 2011 Nuit Blanche, Toronto; The Bill Burns Show, MKG127, Toronto; and Safety and Affection, Mendes Wood Gallery, São Paulo. He has also exhibited at the Klondike Institute for the Arts, Dawson City, YT; Fundacion Cristina Enea, San Sebastian, Spain; Manif d’art 5, Québec Biennale; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Zentral Bibliothek, Zurich; Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen; and Seoul Art Museum. Burns is known for his Safety Gear for Small Animals series and the accompanying itinerant museum, which promotes security and safety for animals. The Safety Gear for Small Animals series was shown at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005/2006 as a part of the group exhibition Safe: Design Takes on Risk. Burns has published a number of artist’s books, including Dogs and Boats and Airplanes told in the form of Ivan the Terrible (Copenhagen, Denmark: Space Poetry 2011), and Two Boiler Suits and a Play List: A Guide for Primates (Toronto: YYZ, 2010). His artist editions are included in the collection of the Tate Britain and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. http://billburnsprojects.com/

Eric Cameron (BA, King’s College, Durham University, Newcastle, England; Academic Diploma in History of Art, Courtauld Institute, University of London) lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. He has had solo exhibitions at the Musée national Marc Chagall, Nice, France; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Group exhibitions include Cabinet (NGC Toronto), Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Seven Canadian Sculptors from Calgary, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai; Analogue 1968-1988, Tate Britain, London; and Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, University of Toronto Galleries, traveling to Halifax INK (University and Public Galleries); Art Gallery of Alberta, ; Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. Cameron is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2004 Governor General’s Award and the 1994 Gershon Iskowitz Prize. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.

The Cedar Tavern Singers, AKA Les Phonoréalistes, are an art-ernative folk rock band comprised of Mary-Anne McTrowe and Daniel Wong. They explain, “Long, long ago, back when the world was young—that is, sometime around the year 2006, two individuals of musi-artistic temperament were summoned to the mountainous regions of the north. It was here, while enduring not only the harsh climes, but also bear, elk, and T. rex attacks on a regular basis, that a voice of a sub-sub-genre of musical art was forged. This was not, however, without precedent. A seed had been planted and events had been set in motion not but one year earlier, when Mary-Anne and Daniel joined forces to unleash upon the world the destructive energies of their combined powers in the form of a rock-opera (yet to be completed.) So, in the majestic Southern Continental Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, it was only a matter of time before these two intrepid heroes united once again—this time as the Cedar Tavern Singers, AKA Les Phonoréalistes, to fight the good fight and to sing the good song (and occasionally the bad song).” http://thephonorealistes.com/

Janice Wright Cheney (BFA, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB; MEd, in Critical Studies, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton) lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she teaches at the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design. Solo exhibitions include Trespass, New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, and Tides Institute and Museum of Art, Eastport, ME; and Disorderly Creatures, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, and Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, ON. Recent group exhibitions include Dirt, Detritus and Vermin, Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery; Rural Readymade, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, , PEI; Exquisite Entomology, North Carolina State University Gallery of Art & Design, Raleigh; Finding the Invisible, Stride Gallery, Calgary; and Corporelle, Diagonale: Centre des arts et des fibres du Québec, Montreal. Her work can be found in the collections of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton; New Brunswick Museum; Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa; and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. She was the 2004 recipient of the Strathbutler Award for Excellence in the Arts and was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2010. http://www.janicewrightcheney.com/index.php

Douglas Coupland (Diploma, Emily Carr College of Art + Design, Vancouver) lives and works in West Vancouver, British Columbia. After establishing a career as a writer, Coupland began a visual practice in 2000 that fuses art with design, industrial design, and text. Selected projects include In Dialogue with Carr, the Vancouver Art Gallery; Dream House, Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Super City, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Canada House, the Design Exchange, Toronto, and Canada House, London, England. Coupland has completed numerous public art commissions including Terry Fox Memorial, BC Place Stadium, Vancouver; Canadian Fallen Firefighters Memorial, completion date: September 2012, Ottawa; Digital Orca, Convention Centre, Vancouver; and A Monument to the War of 1812, Toronto. (For accomplishments in writing, see writer’s bio.) Douglas Coupland- http://coupland.com/

Ruth Cuthand (BFA and MFA, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) is of Cree and Scottish descent and currently resides in Saskatoon. Her work has been included in such exhibitions as Ruth Cuthand: BACK TALK (works 1983–2009), , Saskatoon; Indian Portraits: Late 20th Century, Wanuskewin Museum, Saskatoon; Demanding a Response: Contemporary Aboriginal Art History in Saskatchewan, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; The Moving Hand: Drawings from the permanent collection of the Mendel Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Regina; A History Lesson: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from the Collection of the MacKenzie Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; and No X Plain Nation, Winnipeg Art Gallery. She has curated a number of exhibitions of First Nations art, such as Watch this: New video from Indian Country, PAVED Art and New Media Screening, Saskatoon, and Regina. For 25 years, she taught fine art at the First Nations University of Canada until the University’s Saskatoon campus was closed.

DaveandJenn (BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; Diploma of Fine Art, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton) are a collaborative artist duo comprised of David John Foy and Jennifer Saleik. Select exhibitions include The Magic Circle, Skew Gallery, Calgary; In Which The Honourable Explores Its Territories, TRUCK Gallery +15 Project Space, Calgary; NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art, Special Projects Space at Art Chicago; softcore, HARDEDGE, East and Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA; On Your Marks, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; Snap, Crackle, Pop, The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery; Painting: Thick and Thin, Glenbow Museum, Calgary; and Miniatures, Banff Centre for the Arts. In 2010, DaveandJenn were recipients of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Emerging Artist Award. http://theworldofdaveandjenn.com/wp/

Michel de Broin (BFA, Concordia University, Montreal; MFA, Université du Québec à Montréal) lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. He has garnered an international reputation for large- scale, space-investing projects such as Majestic at The Third of May Arts Inc., New Orleans, 2011; La maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel at Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2009; Overflow at Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008; Encircling at Scape Biennale, Christ Church, New Zealand, 2006; Shared Propulsion Car at Exit Art, New York, 2005; and Révolutions at Collection de la Ville de Montréal, Parc Maisonneuve-Cartier, Montreal, 2003. De Broin has held solo exhibitions at Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Musée d’art contemporain Val-de-Marne, France; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; and Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany. Group exhibitions include Beyond the Crisis, the 6th Curitiba Biennial, Brazil; Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland; Acclimatation, Centre d'art Villa Arson, Nice, France; Untethered, Eyebeam, New York; De-con-struction, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Canada Dreaming, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany; and Damage Control, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto. He was the 2007 recipient of the Sobey Art Award. Michel de Broin- http://micheldebroin.org/

Wally Dion (BFA, University of Saskatchewan) is a member of Yellow Quill First Nation, Salteaux. Dion lives and works as an artist in Providence, RI, where he is currently pursuing an MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. Selected exhibitions include Wally Dion: Star Blankets, Ottawa Art Gallery; Mind the Gap!, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; Close Encounters: The Next 500 Years, Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Thunderbird Series, Art Gallery Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, MB; Restoration, Art Gallery of Prince Albert, SK; Cherished Things, Love, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Honouring Tradition, Glenbow Museum, Calgary. He is the recipient of grants and awards from agencies including the Canada Council for the Arts, Saskatchewan Arts Board, and CARFAC. His work is included in the collections of the Saskatchewan Arts Board; Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, QC; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. http://www.wallydion.com/

Mario Doucette (BAA, Université de Moncton) lives and works in Moncton, New Brunswick. He has had solo exhibitions at Maison des artistes, Winnipeg; Galerie d’art Louise-et-Reuben- Cohen, Moncton; Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC; and the Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, AB. Selected group exhibitions include Un Regard sur la Jeune Peinture Acadienne, Musée d’Art Haïtien du Collège St-Pierre, Port-au-Prince, Haïti; Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina; and Moncton Rocks, SAW Gallery, Ottawa. In 2008, he was nominated for the Sobey Art Award. His work can be found in the collections of the Université de Moncton; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; and Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal. In addition to his own artistic practice, Doucette is a member of Moncton art collective Collectif Taupe, along with Jennifer Bélanger, Jean-Denis Boudreau, Mathieu Léger, and Angèle Cormier. Collectif Taupe presents “fibs, pranks, and unsuspected performances” to generate public dialogue through an “interventionist” approach. http://www.mariodoucette.com/

Marcel Dzama (BFA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Selected solo exhibitions include David Zwirner, New York; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; and the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona. Group exhibitions include My Winnipeg, la maison rouge, Paris, traveling to the Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France, and Plug In, Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; All Cannibals!, la maison rouge, traveling to Me Collectors Room, Berlin; Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Private Universes, Dallas Museum of Art; Order, Desire, Light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Dream and Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Kunsthalle Wien and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Down By Law: Day for Night, 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Full House—Faces of a Collection, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany; and MosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art. Dzama was a member of The Royal Art Lodge, a collaborative artist group based out of Winnipeg from 1996 to 2008 that was founded in 1996 by Dzama, Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams. Select public collections include the Bass Museum of Art, Miami; Dallas Museum of Art; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; and the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Brendan Fernandes (BFA, York University, Toronto; MFA, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON; Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York) was born in Kenya of Indian heritage and currently lives and works in Toronto, Ontario, and New York City. Solo exhibitions include Diaz Contemporary, Toronto; Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Art in General, New York; Montréal Arts Interculturels; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; and Eldon House, Museum London, London, ON. Group exhibitions include Never Odd or Even, Grimmuseum, Berlin; The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany; Sense and Sensibility, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; No Sense of Place, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Found in Translation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Barroco Nova, McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON; In Your Words, with Nanna Debois Buhl, Karen Blixen Museum, Copenhagen; The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou, China; Beyond/In Western New York Biennial, Albright Knox and the University of Buffalo Anderson Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY; and Living and Dreaming, AIM Program, Bronx Museum, NY. Fernandes is the current recipient of a New Commissions Project through Art in General, New York, and was a finalist for the 2010 Sobey Art Award. http://www.brendanfernandes.ca/

Michael Fernandes was born in Trinidad and currently lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His art practice includes mixed media, installation, and performance, as well as audio and book works. He has had solo exhibitions at Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Blackwood Gallery, Toronto; The Power Plant, Toronto; P.S.1, New York; Mercer Union, Toronto; Saw Gallery, Ottawa; and Montréal Arts Interculturels. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; Art Public Calaf, Barcelona; and The Context of Art Biennale, Warsaw. Fernandes was also included in the 1989 Canadian Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Canada. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the library of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Vancouver Art Gallery; and numerous private collections throughout Canada, the United States, Italy, Australia, and the West Indies.

Eryn Foster (BFA, Concordia University, Montreal; MFA, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON) lives and works in Dawson City, Yukon. Previous to her life in the Yukon, Foster lived for many years in Halifax, NS, where she worked as an artist while also teaching at NSCAD University and working as the director of the artist-run center, Eyelevel Gallery. Recent art exhibitions include Rural Readymade, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; Kardio Karaoke, Nocturne, Art at Night, Halifax; Mobile Mixed Tape: Sound-track Map for the City of Calgary, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival, Calgary; and Audio Walk: Town of Banff- Utilities and Infrastructure, Banff New Media Institute Open House. Foster has received a number of awards for her work, including research, production and travel grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Nova Scotia's Tourism, Culture and Heritage Awards program, and the Ontario Arts Council. For the past several years, she has been working on a series of walking-based art works, including the ongoing projects New Canadian Pilgrimages and Wanders in the Yonder. She is currently the administrator for the Yukon School of Visual Arts, Dawson City, and is collaborating on a feature film/art production with her long-time Argentinean friend Santiago Giralt.

Noam Gonick studied at Ryerson University, Toronto, and is a filmmaker, artist, and curator, living and working in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His feature films, Hey Happy (2001) and Stryker (2004), have been released and distributed internationally. His work has been exhibited at such festivals as the Venice Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, and Sundance. Additional venues include the Serpentine Gallery, London, England; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Anthology Film Archives; and the Biennale de Montréal. He collaborated with Luis Jacob on Wildflowers of Manitoba, a performative installation consisting of four short films and music presented in a furnished geodesic dome. Wildflowers of Manitoba has been shown at the Berlinale International Film Festival; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, in conjunction with the Toronto International Film Festival; and the 5th Contour Biennale in Mechelen, Belgium. Gonick co-curated the exhibit My Winnipeg at la maison rouge, Paris, traveling to the Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France, and Plug In Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. His films and installation can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; National Library, Ottawa; the Australian Cinematheque; and UBC Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery collection, Vancouver. He is president of Plug In, Institute for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, and a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Hadley+Maxwell (BFA, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver; MA, European Graduate School, Switzerland) live and work in Berlin. Hadley+Maxwell is comprised of Hadley Howes and Maxwell Stephens, who have been collaborating since they met in Vancouver in 1997. They work in a variety of media, including video, installation, and sound. Solo exhibitions include SMART Projects Space, Amsterdam; Kunstverein Göttingen, Germany; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver. Selected group exhibitions include Manifestation Internationale d’art Québec: Catastrophe!, Quebec City; How Soon is Now?, Vancouver Art Gallery; The Malady of Writing, MACBA, Barcelona; Nomads, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Into the Music, Kunstraum München, Munich; If We Can’t Get It Together, The Power Plant, Toronto; Good Gangsters in Town, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; Kurt, Seattle Art Museum; The End of Money, Witte de With, Rotterdam; and It’s the End of the World (as We Know It), La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France. Hadley+Maxwell’s writing and image-based projects have appeared in publications including the Fillip Review, Art Lies!, Public, C Magazine, Prefix Photo, West Coast Line and F.R. David. http://www.hadleyandmaxwell.net/

David R. Harper (BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago) lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Selected exhibitions include Skin and Bone, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; Noblesse Oblige, MKG127, Toronto; Atlas, Art Gallery of , Wolfville, NS; Man’s Ruin, Art Gallery of Mississauga, ON; Exalted Beings: Animal Relationships, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; and Pictured: Image and Object in Contemporary Canadian Sculpture, Art Gallery of Yarmouth, NS, and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. In the fall of 2008, Harper was the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia Artist in Residence. http://www.davidrharper.com/

David Hoffos (BFA, University of Lethbridge, AB) was born in Montreal, Quebec, and grew up in a string of cities in Ontario, Alberta, and Australia. He began making experimental films at the age of ten. Since 1992, Hoffos has maintained an active practice—with over fifty group shows, hundreds of screenings, dozens of school and community collaborations, a few works for the stage, and over forty solo exhibitions, including a recent survey at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. In 2010, his touring five-year installation series, Scenes from the House Dream, was showcased at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto. His work was also included in the 2007 Biennale de Montréal and the 2005 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Walter Phillips Gallery and Edmonton Art Gallery. He has received awards including the Images Grand Prize in 2007 and a Sobey Art Award (second prize) in 2002. He has been invited to many international residencies, including three at the Banff Centre. Hoffos lives in Lethbridge, Alberta, with his son Mason and his wife, the artist Mary-Anne McTrowe of the Cedar Tavern Singers. http://davidhoffos.com

Kristan Horton (BFA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto; MFA, Guelph University, Guelph, ON) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He has had solo exhibitions at White Columns, New York; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; VOX Contemporary Image, Montreal; York University Art Gallery, Toronto; and Art Metropole, Toronto. He has been included in such group exhibitions as Beautiful Fictions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Beyond/In Western New York, Albright Knox, Buffalo, NY; We can Do This Now, The Power Plant, Toronto; Crowds / Conversations / Confessions, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Future Cinema, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, and the Inter Communications Center, Tokyo; It Is What It Is, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Toy Void, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich; and Stutter and Twitch, Bard College Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Horton is the winner of the 2010 Grange Prize. His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Banque Nationale du Canada, Montreal, and numerous private collections. http://www.kristanhorton.com

Terrance Houle (BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary) lives and works in Calgary, Alberta. Solo exhibitions include the First Nations University Art Gallery, Regina; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto; Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective, Ottawa; and the Glenbow Museum, Calgary. Group exhibitions include Don’t Stop Me Now, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Hide, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM, and the National Museum of the American Indian, New York; the 2007 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Living Utopia and Disaster, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Through the Looking Glass, Glenbow Museum; The World Upside Down, Art Gallery of Victoria, BC; Face The Nation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; and the 2005 Electrofringe Festival, This is Not Art Festival, Field Contemporary Art Space Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. http://terrancehouleart.com

Allison Hrabluik (BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; graduate of Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Antwerp/Gent, Belgium) lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her animated videos, drawings and sculptures have been shown in exhibitions and film festivals internationally. Solo exhibitions include G Gallery, Toronto; Long Line Light with Blemish, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Gent, Belgium; Corundum, Western Bridge, Seattle; Rossendale, The Western Front, Vancouver; The Prime Rib, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; Island, Bar, and Abattoir, Mercer Union, Toronto; and The Pit Bar, Video Pool, Winnipeg. Group exhibitions include Museion the Cooley Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR; How Soon is Now?, Vancouver Art Gallery; The Idea of North, Galerie Isabella Bortolozi, Berlin; and Heavy Pets, Market Gallery, Glasgow. In 2011, she was short listed for the Brink Award, a biennial award granted to an early-career artist working in Washington, Oregon, or British Columbia, administered by the Henry Art Gallery. http://www.allisonhrabluik.com

Luis Jacob (BA, University of Toronto) was born in Lima, Peru, and now lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Jacob has presented solo exhibitions at the McCord Museum, Montreal; the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Art in General, New York; Fonderie Darling Foundry, Montreal; the Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany; Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg; PKM Gallery, Seoul; Musée d’art de Joliette, QC; the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. His work has been shown in numerous international group exhibitions, including Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Animism, which travelled to the Generali Foundation, Vienna, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, and Extra City Kunsthal Antwerp, Belgium; Dance with Camera, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; If We Can’t Get It Together, The Power Plant, Toronto; The Order of Things, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; and Documenta 12, Kassel. In 2012, Jacob presented a solo exhibition titled A finger in the pie, A foot in the door, A leg in quicksand, at the Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany.

Sarah Anne Johnson (BFA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT) lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Johnson was trained as a photographer, but uses a variety of media to realize her vision, including painting, sculpture and performance, to make up for the limitations of representation within the photographic medium. Her subject matter varies from environmental to personal concerns. She has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; and Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. Group exhibitions include My Winnipeg, la maison rouge, Paris, traveling to the Musée International des Arts Modestes, Sète, France, and Plug In, Institute for Contemporary Art; and the fifth Biennale de Montréal. Her work is included in several prestigious collections, including the Art Gallery of Ontario; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. She is the recipient of several grants and awards, including the inaugural Grange Prize. Her work has been published in many newspapers and magazines including, The New York Times, Art Forum, Modern Painters, Frieze, Border Crossings and Canadian Art magazines.

Garry Neill Kennedy (AOCA, Ontario College of Art, Toronto; BFA, University of Buffalo, NY; MFA, Ohio University, Athens, OH) lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is an artist and educator who taught studio art at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) for more than forty years. From 1967 to 1990, he notably served as president of NSCAD, where he played an important role in transforming it into an internationally recognized center for conceptual art. Kennedy is currently editing a book for MIT Press: The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968 to 1978, which covers his first ten years as president of the institution. He is also completing a catalogue raisonné of his printed matter with the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Kennedy’s most recent major solo exhibitions were held at the National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Portikus (#86), Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB. He was awarded the Portia White Prize by the Arts Council of Nova Scotia in 2000; the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts in 2003; and was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2004.

Wanda Koop (BFA, School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg) lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Koop's painting career has spanned three decades and includes over fifty solo exhibitions, most notably a major survey of her work at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, in 2011. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Shanghai Museum of Modern Art; and Reykjavik Museum. Over the course of her career, she has been the recipient of numerous national and international honors, including the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal, the Japan Fund Award, and the Order of Canada. She has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Winnipeg; Emily Carr Institute (now University) of Art + Design, Vancouver; and the University of Manitoba. In 2011, she was the subject of an acclaimed film from Site Media Inc., directed by Katherine Knight. Koop is also well known for her community work and social activism. In 1998, she founded Art City as a storefront art centre, bringing contemporary visual artists and inner-city youth together to explore the creative process. http://www.wandakoop.com

Diane Landry (BA, Université Laval, Quebec City; MFA, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA) lives and works in Quebec City, Quebec. As a multidisciplinary artist, she designs original performances, installations with automation, audio sculptures, and works she qualifies as “mouvelles.” In 2009, the Musée d’art de Joliette, QC, published a monograph marking the first touring retrospective exhibition of her work The Defibrillators. Additional solo exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC; Rice Gallery, Houston; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto; and Centre d'Art Contemporain Passages, Troyes, France. Recent group exhibitions include International Triennial of New Media Art: Translife, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Femmes artistes. L’éclatement des frontières, 1965-2000, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Light In Motion, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York; eArts Festival 2008, eLandscapes, Shanghai Science & Technology Museum; Manif d'Art, the Québec City Biennial; the Liverpool Biennial, Novas Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool; ‘Pitch’—Mutating Turntables, Argos, Brussels; and Tout le temps / Every Time, Biennale de Montréal. In 2007, she was the first recipient of the prestigious Giverny Capital Prize, a distinction awarded to a visual artist from Quebec. http://www.dianelandry.com

Craig Leonard (BA, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON; BEd, Dalhousie University, Halifax; MVS, University of Toronto) lives and works in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His most recent projects have relied on research and community partnerships. Leonard has had solo exhibitions at Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto; Third Space, Saint John, NB; Raid Projects, Los Angeles; Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax; Artcite, Windsor, ON; and A Space, Toronto. His work has been included in group exhibitions such as The Workers Install a Work, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax; WHARF, Centre d'art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville Saint-Clair, France; An Exchange With Sol LeWitt, Cabinet, Brooklyn; and Sometimes Always, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. Leonard unknowingly (and unfortunately) built aluminum boats for the US Navy while working as a metal fitter in 2002. He has taught at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design since 2006 and was Visiting Artist at CalArts in fall 2012. He is the publisher of Hectograph and plays in the bands Catbag and Guilt. http://craigleonard.tumblr.com

Micah Lexier (BFA, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. He has had over one hundred solo exhibitions, including Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Art Metropole, Toronto; Toronto Sculpture Garden; Canada House, London, England; Oakville Galleries, ON; Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; and Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Beyond/In, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Sculpture as Time, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The Time of Our Lives, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and Best of the Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. His work is included in the collections of the British Museum, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Jewish Museum, New York; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. http://www.micahlexier.com

Kelly Mark (BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Her recent solo exhibitions include Art Gallery of Windsor, ON; DHC, Montreal; VOX Contemporary Image, Montreal; Henry Art Museum, Seattle; The Power Plant, Toronto; Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; and the Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto. Group exhibitions include Human Rites, Bass Museum, Miami; Power Ball Performance: Domestic Disturbance, The Power Plant, Toronto; Time as Activity, Netwerk Centre for Contemporary Art, Aalst, Belgium; Mediated, California Museum of Photography, Riverside; Living Room, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Video Heroes, Saidye Bronfman Center for the Arts, Montreal; The Hidden Side of Appearances, Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal; and New Season, Museum of New Art, Detroit. Mark represented Canada at the 1998 Sydney Biennale and the 2006 Liverpool Biennial. She has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, and Toronto Arts Council, and in 2002 received both the KM Hunter Artist Award and Chalmers Art Fellowship. Her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; and Museum London, London, ON. http://kellymark.com

Luanne Martineau (Fine Art Diploma, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; MFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver) lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. In 2010, Martineau had a solo exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Her work has been included in the 2010 Canadian Biennial It Is What It Is (It Was What It Was), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the 2007 Biennale de Montréal; Visceral Bodies and How Soon Is Now, Vancouver Art Gallery; Nothing to Declare: Current Sculpture from Canada, The Power Plant, Toronto; Informal Architecture, The Banff Centre for the Arts, traveling to Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; and Just My Imagination, University of Western Ontario, traveling to Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, and Art Gallery of Windsor, ON, among others. In addition to her sculptural work, which uses labor-intensive traditional female hand-work to raise issues of art and craft, she also has produced artist books, such as the limited edition FREAKOUT (Temporal Bodies) from 2007, which brings together images of her work with eight texts by authors such as Hannah Höch and Woody Allen. In 2009, Martineau was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award, and in 2007 she received the VIVA art award.

Rita McKeough (BFA, University of Calgary; MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) lives and works in Calgary, Alberta, where she has been an instructor at the Alberta College of Art and Design since 2007. An audio, media installation and performance artist, McKeough has exhibited extensively in Canada since 1977 and has presented her work internationally. She has taught at various art institutions throughout Canada and has been a drummer in various bands, including Demi Monde in Toronto, Confidence Band in Halifax, and most recently Sleepy Panther in Calgary. She has participated in solo exhibitions and performances at 7a 11d Performance Festival, Toronto; Stride Gallery, Calgary; Sound Symposium 11, St. John’s, NL; AKA Gallery, Saskatoon; and Glenbow Museum, Calgary. In 2010, her work was included in Timeland, the Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton. Other group exhibitions include Art in the Streets, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB; GGAVMA, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Informal Architecture, Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, and Walter Philips Gallery, Banff; and Earful: An Audio Arts Festival, Halifax. Her prints and drawings are in the collections of the Canada Council Art Bank; University of Lethbridge Art Gallery; the Glenbow Museum; and the Nickle Art Gallery at the University of Calgary. McKeough insists that she has been fortunate to have the support and assistance of her friends and community to produce her work. http://www.ritamckeough.com

Divya Mehra (BFA, University of Manitoba, School of Art, Winnipeg; MFA, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York) draws from experiences of displacement, cultural conventions, and hybridization, and infuses a biting wit in the execution of her projects. Her work investigates the construction and misrepresentation of cultural identity while making reference to layered divisions and the disparity and exploitation of power. Mehra’s work was on view in a solo exhibition at La Maison des artistes visuels in Winnipeg in 2012. She has had additional solo exhibitions and screenings at ArtSpeak, Vancouver; Platform: center for photographic + digital arts, and Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. Her work has been included in group exhibitions and screenings such as And the Falchion Passed through his Neck, Latitude 28, New Delhi; Digression, Hendershot Gallery, New York; The Beijing 798 Biennale; Contemporary Indian Art of The Diaspora, The Queens Museum of Art, NY; and The Images Festival, Joseph Workman Theatre, Toronto. She currently divides her time between Winnipeg, Delhi, and New York. http://www.divyamehra.com

Chris Millar (BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary) lives and works in Calgary, Alberta; his work is influenced by comic book imagery and popular culture. Recent solo exhibitions include The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem, AGA, Edmonton, and Looking Up At Icicles, Trépanier Baer Gallery, Calgary. His paintings have been included in group exhibitions such as the 2005 and 2010 Alberta Biennials of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; It Is What It Is: Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Graphic Visions, Art Gallery of Regina; Painting: Thick & Thin, Illingworth Kerr Gallery and Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Boiyd Howses and Other Hatstands, Three Walls art organization, Chicago; and Crazy Eights—emerging artists predict the future, part of 20 Years of Contemporary Art, Gossip and Lies: 1985–2005 at Stride, Stride Gallery, Calgary. In 2008, he participated in Materials, Process and Practice, a residency at the Banff Centre. Millar was short-listed for both the 2005 and 2007 RBC Painting Competitions. His work is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton.

Kent Monkman (Illustration Diploma, Sheridan College of Applied Arts, Brampton, ON) is an artist of Cree ancestry currently living in Toronto, Ontario. Monkman works in a variety of media, including painting, film/video, performance and installation, frequently appearing as his outrageous alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, a wandering artist from the Great Plains of North America. He has had solo exhibitions at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Winnipeg Art Gallery; and the Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON. His award-winning short film and video works have been screened at the 2009 Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco; Seattle Art Museum; the 2007 and 2008 Berlinale, Berlin; and the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. Group exhibitions include Steeling the Gaze: Portraits by Aboriginal Artists, National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa; Remix: New Modernities in a Post Indian World, National Museum of the American Indian, New York; and the 2007 Biennale de Montréal. His work is included in public and private collections such as the National Gallery of Canada; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Museum London, London, ON; Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art; The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. http://kentmonkman.com/main.php

Kim Morgan (BA, McGill University, Montreal; BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York; MFA, , SK) is a multi-media sculptor and installation artist who explores the impact of technology on people’s perceptions of time, space, and the body, and the shifting boundaries between the private and the public. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions such as Range Light Borden-Carleton, PEI, 2010, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, PEI, and Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax; Unified Field Theory, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax; Armed, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York; and the group exhibition Rural Readymade, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, PEI. She is the recent co-recipient of a SSHRC (Social Sciences Humanities and Research Council) Research and Creation Grant, for the project Tracing the City, Exploring the Private Experience of Public Art through Art and Anthropology. In 2010, Morgan was commissioned by the Commission for the Canadian Wildlife Federation to create Waterfall in collaboration with David Clark for the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2008, she was commissioned by IEEE Organization to create a permanent installation at the University of Regina, Engineering/Education Building. From 2005 to 2008, Morgan was the artist-in-residence for TRLabs Regina, where she collaborated with scientists and engineers to create interactive public art, including her projects Data S p a c e d and Time Transit. She currently lives and works in Halifax, where she teaches sculpture and installation at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. http://kimmorgan.ca

Andrea Mortson lives and works in Sackville, New Brunswick. Her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions such as Signs & Symbols, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, and This Burning World, Struts Gallery, Sackville. Group exhibitions include Kosmos, The Ottawa Art Gallery; RBC Canadian Painting Competition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; Free Parking, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; untitled, Artcite Inc., Windsor, ON; Blush to Oblivion, Khyber Centre for the Arts Halifax; Outcast Dreamers, Struts Gallery, Sackville. Her work is also included in the group exhibition Le goût de la peinture au Canada at Arsenal art contemporain, Montreal which traveled to Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, in fall 2012. Mortson was included in the emerging artist category of Magenta Foundation’s publication, Carte Blanche, Vol. 2: Painting. In 2008, she was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award. Her work is included in private collections and the collections of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts; and Owens Art Gallery, Sackville. http://andreamortson.com

Clint Neufeld (BFA, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; MFA, Concordia University, Montreal) creates sculptures that deal with concepts of masculine identity. Prior to pursuing a career in art, he spent three years with the Canadian military, and was deployed to the former Yugoslavia in 1994 as part of a United Nations Peace Keeping Force. His solo exhibitions include Grandpa Used to Wash My Hands with Gasoline, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC, and Parisian Laundry Gallery, Montreal; and a 2012 solo exhibition with Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Group exhibitions include Rural Readymade, Confederation Center Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI, and Combine, York Quay Centre, Toronto. He currently lives and works on acreage near the town of Osler, Saskatchewan. http://www.clintneufeld.com

Graeme Patterson (BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) lives and works in Sackville, New Brunswick. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary; Rodman Hall Gallery, St. Catharines, ON; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; and Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, BC. His group exhibitions include Canadian Artists at Work 9 to 5, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; 44 ½ and Creative Time screening of Grudge Match, Times Square, New York; Arena, The Road Game, Just for Laughs Museum, Montreal, traveling to Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; and the 2007 Biennale de Montréal. His video works have been screened at the 2011 Reykjavik International Film Festival; the 2006 Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax; and the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. He received a 2011 Juno nomination for album package of the year, and in 2009 was a finalist for the Sobey Art Award. Currently he is working on a new body of work entitled Secret Citadel, which is scheduled for a national tour starting in 2013, organized by the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Art Gallery of Hamilton. http://www.graemepatterson.com

Ed Pien (BFA, University of Western Ontario, London, ON; MFA, York University, Toronto) lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, he immigrated to Canada with his family at the age of eleven. He has had solo exhibitions at Le Musée d’art contemporain des Laurentides, Montreal; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; The Rooms, St. Johns, NL; Centre A – Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art; Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England; and Centro Nacional e las Artes, Mexico City. His group exhibitions include Shadow Play, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; It Is What It Is, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Slash, Museum of Arts and Design, New York; The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, Vancouver Art Gallery; The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Gathering Shades, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto; and Selections Summer 2000, The Drawing Center, New York. His work was included in the 2000 and 2002 Biennales de Montréal and the 2012 Sydney Biennale. Pien has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and the Ontario College of Art and Design. He is currently an instructor of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto. http://www.edpien.com

Annie Pootoogook comes from a long line of Inuit artists in Cape Dorset, Nunavut. Both her grandmother, Pitseolak Ashoona, and her mother, Napachie Pootoogook, are among the most prolific and highly respected Inuit graphic artists of their generations. Pootoogook’s work participates in this legacy of Inuit graphic arts, addressing both traditional and contemporary concerns to portray a community in transition. Her drawings have been exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, ON; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary; The Power Plant, Toronto; Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto; and the George Gustav Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, New York. Group exhibitions include Uuturautiit: Cape Dorset Celebrates 50 Years of Printmaking, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Nunnanguaq: In the Likeness of the Earth, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, ON; Shuvinai Ashoona & Annie Pootoogook, Pierre-Francois Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal; the 2007 Biennale de Montréal; and Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany. Pootoogook was the winner of the 2006 Sobey Art Award. Her work is included in collections such as Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; National Gallery of Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; and the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, QC.

Ned Pratt (BA, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS; BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) lives and works in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. His work has been included in such exhibitions as The Garbage Project, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s; and Faces of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa. In addition to his work in photojournalism and fine art photography, he has photographed food, fashion, and architecture for numerous national and international magazines and corporations. His work is used in commercial publications, advertising, corporate promotion, and for trade show exhibits. His photography has also appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic, and the Financial Post. Pratt's photographs can be found in various private, public and corporate collections, including the Ford Motor Company of Canada's Photographic Collection; the Department of External Affairs, Ottawa; and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. http://www.nedpratt.com

Michael Snow lives and works in Toronto, Ontario. A renowned name in the world of experimental cinema, his body of work also includes video and sound installation, photography, painting, and sculpture. Retrospectives and solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hara Museum, Tokyo; Cinématèque Française, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; L’Institut Lumière, Lyons, France; The Power Plant, Toronto; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels; Centre national de la photographie, Paris; Saint-Gervais, Geneva; Vancouver Art Gallery; and the Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal. In 1967, his film Wavelength won the Grand Prize at the International Experimental Film Festival in Belgium. Another film, So Is This, won the Los Angeles Film Critics award in 1982. His work has been included in numerous biennials and international exhibitions, such as the 1970 Venice Biennale; the 2000 Biennale de Montréal; the 2006 Whitney Biennial; Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany; and the 2008 Biennale of Sydney. He has produced several public sculpture commissions, including Flight Stop at Eaton Center and The Audience at Skydome in Toronto. He has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and the Order of Canada in 1982.

Charles Stankievech (BA, Trinity Western University, Vancouver; MFA, Concordia University, Montreal) creates “fieldworks” that employ the materiality of the electromagnetic, the strategy of architecture, and the vehicle of institutions. His work has been shown at the Palais de Toyko, Paris; Xth Biennale of Architecture, Venice; the 2011 Québec Triennial; International Symposium on Electronic Arts, ISEA2010, Germany; the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC. He has curated/produced such unorthodox exhibitions as Magnetic Norths, A Wake For St. Kippenberger’s MetroNet, and the series OVER THE WIRE with Lawrence Weiner, Gary Hill, Center for Land Use Interpretation, and others. His writings have been included in academic journals such as Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and 306090 (Princeton Architectural Press). A founding faculty member of the Yukon School of Visual Arts in Dawson City, Stankievech splits his time between Northern Canada and Berlin. http://www.stankievech.net

Joseph Tisiga was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and grew up throughout mid and Western Canada. Currently, he lives and works between Whitehorse, Yukon, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Tisiga’s work addresses notions of myth and identity through a structured internal narrative informed by his Kaska Dene and mixed European heritage. It is through this lens that he examines the clash or hybridity that occurs between indigenous and North American/European modalities. The sum of these influences forms an evolving personal mythology the artist refers to as “Indian Brand Corporation,” a symbolic landscape where thoughts find bodies. Recent exhibitions include IBC Summoning the White Shaman, Conjuring the Red Chief, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, YT; IBC Perge, Arts Underground, Whitehorse, YT; Monster, West Vancouver Museum, BC; Indian Brand Corporation, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse; and Arctic Pavilion, Arctic Winter Games, Yellowknife, NWT. In 2009, Tisiga was a finalist in the RBC painting competition, as well the recipient of the Joseph S. Stauffer award. In 2011, he was long-listed for the Sobey Art Award and won the Historica-Dominion Aboriginal arts competition.

Hans Wendt was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and raised in Prince Edward Island. He currently lives and works in Millvale, PEI. He has been active as an artist in various mediums for most of his adult life, but began painting seriously following studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design in the 1990s. During the last decade, he has turned his focus to the creation of conceptually driven watercolor paintings. Recent exhibitions include Hans Wendt: Studio Paintings, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI; In/Flux: Migrating Culture and Cultural Modernism in PEI, Confederation Centre Art Gallery; No Anne is an Island, Gallery in the Guild, Charlottetown; and Hans Wendt: Recent Paintings, The Boiler Room, Port Townsend, WA. In 1995, his animated film Spacebaby in Droid Trouble, made with Hans Samuelson, was presented at the Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax. He has received numerous grants from the Prince Edward Island Council of the Arts. http://www.hanswendt.ca

Janet Werner (BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT) is a painter living and working in Montreal, Quebec. She has had solo exhibitions at Parisian Laundry, Montreal; Birch Libralato, Toronto; Julia Garnatz, Cologne, Germany; Art Gallery of Windsor, ON; Ottawa Art Gallery; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and Plug In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg. Her group exhibitions include Intrus/Intruders, Musée du Québec; Generation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton; Framed: The art of the portrait, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON; Ten Years Later, Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Mendel Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Beautiful Losers, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK; and the 2003 Prague Biennial. Her work can be found in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Dunlop Art Gallery; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal; and University of Lethbridge, AB.

Mitchell Wiebe (BFA, Emily Carr College of Art + Design, Vancouver; MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax) currently lives and works in a bunker known as Dataville in Debert, Nova Scotia, on the eastern shore. Acting as a computer farm, it is known as the “underground cloud,” and allows Wiebe the capacity for a self-directed artist residency. His practice involves painting, music, performance and installation, and sometimes there is a convergence where all mediums co-exist. Wiebe’s work has been included in solo exhibitions at Gallery 2053, Halifax; Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax; and Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC. His work has been included in group exhibitions such as Synaptic Connections: Art and the Brain, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax; Art at the Diefenbunker, Debert Bunker, Debert, NS; Exalted Beings, Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax; and Phaintos (collaboration with photographer Ingram Barss), Khyber Center for the Arts, Halifax. In 2009, Wiebe created an off-site installation as a part of Artrising, a Sobey Art Award event at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax. http://mitchellwiebe.com

John Will (BA, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls; MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City) was born in Waterloo, Iowa, in 1939 and moved to Canada in 1971. He has been a visiting artist at various institutions. In 1965, he was a visiting artist at Yale University where he thought he knew everything. In 1997, he was a visiting artist at Keyano College in Fort McMurray, Alberta, the site of the Canadian tar sands, and he began to realize he knows nothing. (It only took him 32 years.)

Etienne Zack (Diploma, Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His work has been included in solo exhibitions at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Bergen Kunsthall, Norway; Equinox Gallery, Vancouver; Galeria Marina Miranda, Madrid; and a two-person show at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England. His work has been included in group exhibitions at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax; AP4-Art, Geneva; Projektrraum Victor Bucher, Vienna; and Vancouver Art Gallery. Zack was also included in the 2008 Québec Triennial and the East International 2004, Norwich, England. His work can be found in the collections of The Model, Sligo, Ireland; Vancouver Art Gallery; Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. http://etiennezack.com/