AMY FRIEND [email protected] www.amyfriend.ca
FORMAL EDUCATION
University of Windsor, Master of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude York University, Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours, Magna Cum Laude York University, Bachelor of Education Degree, Magna Cum Laude OCAD, Interdisciplinary Studies
EXHIBITIONS *(denotes solo show)
Upcoming Guatephoto Festival, Seeing Connection, curated by Rebecca Senf, Antigua, Guatemala, 2015 Pictura Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015* Rodman Hall, St Catharines, ON, 2016* Onassis Cultural Center, Strange Cities, New York, USA, 2016
2015 Low Gallery, Medium Festival of Photography, Size Matters, San Diego, 2015 The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO, 2015 Black & White & Read, Cannon Gallery of Art, Western Oregon University, Fall 2015, OR, (travelling exhibition) Michael Foley Gallery, The Curator, New York, NY, 2015 Metamatic:taf, Athens Photography Festival, ReFrame Memory: Frames and Framing, Athens, Greece, 2015 Galerie Rivière Faiveley, IDENTITÉ(S), Paris, France 555 Gallery, Under Astral Skies, Boston, MA, USA Onassis Cultural Center, Strange Cities, Athens, Greece, 2015 University of Tennessee, Concourse Gallery, Knoxville, TN*
2014 Stephen Romano Gallery, Cornu Copiae, Brooklyn, New York Andrews Gallery, Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia Stephen Romano Gallery, In Missa Interfectionis. Brooklyn, New York Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Image Constructed :: Constructed Image, East Carolina University Greenville, NC Photoville, Reframe: An Exploration of Memory and Nostalgia, Curated by Alison Zavos, Jenna Garrett & Amanda Gorence. Brooklyn, N.Y. David Weinberg Photography, This May have Happened, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago, IL Castell Photography Gallery, Merge, Asheville, NC Griffith Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA Candela Gallery, Unbound, Richmond, VA Santandar Photography Festival, Spain, (Projections) How One Thing Leads to Another, Critical Mass, curated by Jessica Johnston of the George Eastman House, Corden Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA & Houston Center for Photography, TX
2013 Galerie Rivière Faiveley, Paris, France Photo-OP, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON Traces, Lake Country Art Gallery, BC Into the Void, Toronto Image Works, Toronto, ON
2012 (Dés)Assemblages, Chip Chop Galerie, Mois De La Photo Paris (OFF), Paris, France Exposed, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Juried Exhibition, Oshawa, ON Biannual Juried Exhibition, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON Change of Pace, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Juried by David Bram, MI, U.S.A Dare alla Luce, Sean O’Sullivan Gallery, St. Catharines, ON * Photo-OP 2012, CONTACT Photography Festival, John B. Aird Gallery, 1st place, Toronto, ON
2011 Conjure the Ghost, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB Here Nor There, SB Contemporary, Windsor, ON Still Time, ACWR Gallery, Windsor, ON *
2010 Firmament, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Ross Creek, NS * Biannual Juried Exhibition, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON Psychic Space, two-person exhibition, Loose Cannon Gallery, Hamilton, ON Certainty, IX Gallery, two-person exhibition, Toronto, ON Transpierce, Sean O’Sullivan Gallery, St. Catharines, ON *
2008/09 Agua de Noche, Galerie Joel Jover, Camaguey, Cuba * Soon This Space Will Be Too Small, Riley Hall of Art, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A. Walls, Peak Gallery, Toronto, ON Flash Forward, Magenta Foundation, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, ON FiveFold, MFA Exhibition Art Gallery of Windsor, group show, Windsor ON Eyelevel Re-shelving Exhibition, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 Windsor Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artist Grant, Visual Arts, 2012 Banff Artist in Residence - Banff, Alberta, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Grant, 2009, 2011, 2012 Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant, 2008 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Windsor, 2006, 2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Masters Recipient, 2007 Dean’s Award for Excellence, York University, 2005 Nalini and Tim Stewart Photography Award, York University, 2005 Michael Plexman Award for creative innovation, York University, 2004 Millennium Excellence Award, Awards Secretariat Canada for community involvement, creative pursuits and academic achievement, 2003
ARTIST TALKS AND JURIES 2015 GuatePhoto Panel Discussion, Guatemela City, Guatemela 2015 ROOM: Canada’s Oldest Literary Journal by and about Women. Invited Cover Art Juror 2014 Society for Photographic Education, Featured Speaker, NC, USA 2014 Integrating the Arts Conference, Workshop Presenter, Brock University, ON 2014 University of South Carolina, Department of Fine Arts, SC, USA 2013 Rodman Hall, On Joy Walker’s Exhibition, Fade to Black, ON 2013 East Carolina University, NC, USA 2013 Juror, RENEW, NAC, St. Catharines, ON 2013 In the Works, Public Lecture, NAC, St. Catharines, ON 2012 Art Gallery of Windsor, Made in America Talk and Tour, ON 2010 York University, Artist Talk, Toronto, ON 2009 Burlington Arts Center, Artist Talk, Burlington, ON
PUBLICATIONS
Dare Alla Luce, Monograph, Photolucida, 2015 (forthcoming).
California and the Imagination, Vol. 91 No. 3, Virginia Quarterly, 2015.
PDN, The Curator, July 2015.
PDN, The Best Images of the Year. June, 2015.
Jamie, Allen. Our faith in horses. Oxford American. Issue 88, Spring 2015.
Mooallem, Jon. Death, redesigned. California Sunday Magazine, April, 2015.
Taubes Isabelle. Ils Explorant Leurs Vies Antérieures. Psychologies Magazine, December, 2014.
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William and Mary. 2014.
Diffusion: The Matter of Light. One Twelve Publishing. Vol 6. 2014. Yutibun, Naomi. Dichan Magazine. Issue 902. September, 2014.
Contemporary Portraits, Index Book. Barcelona, 2014.
&Magazine, Supernatural, (Israel) 2014.
Krysa, Danielle. Creative Block, Chronicle Books, 2014.
Carolina Quarterly. Vol. 63.2 Fall 2013. Editor, Hotham, Matthew.
Brown, Kimberley. Grand Gestures. Canadian House and Home, December, 2013.
Leroux, Catherine. Le Mur Mitoyen. Cover Art. Quebec: Editions Alto, 2013.
ROOM: Canada’s Oldest Literary Journal by and about Women. Mythologies of Loss. Vol 36.1. 2013.
N2 Veintitres – Cruces. (Spain). March 2013.
Virginie, Martocq. Room to Grow, Chatelaine, March 2013.
Cameron, Dave. Fade to Light, Walrus Magazine, November, 2012.
Existere, Journal of Arts and Literature. Vol. 31 (2) 2012. Editor, Palwasha Kakar.
Lens Magazine (China), April 2012. enRoute, Air Canada Magazine. September 2009.
Show your Ontario: Seasons of Discovery. Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation, 2009.
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, on Art, Literature and Place: An Ecopoetics Reader. Vol. 13 (2) 2008. Editor, Dunlop, Rishma. Flash Forward: Emerging Photographers 2008, Magenta Publishing. 2008.
Water, The Windsor Review, International Journal of Life, Literature and the Arts, Vol. 39.2. 2007. Published by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of the University of Windsor, Windsor, On. Pg. 45, 62-66, 118. ISSN 25274-86051
Timeraiser Artist's Portfolio 2007, Framework Foundation, Toronto, ON ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
Reznik, Eugene. How Amy Friend shot her California Magazine Cover on Death, Redesigned. April 17, 2015. http://www.americanphotomag.com/how-amy-friend-shot-her-california- sunday-magazine-cover-death-redesigned?z3LxqLHljJ7dvXch.01
Ruddick-Sunstein. Feature shoot. Vintage photographs with small dots of light give off an enchanting ghostly glow. July 16, 2014. http://www.featureshoot.com/2014/07/vintage- photographs-with-small-dots-of-light-give-off-an-enchanting-ghostly-glow/
Azouz, Erin. Photographer’s Showcase, Amy Friend’s Dare alla Luce. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. http://blog.photoeye.com/2014/07/photographers-showcase-amy-friends-dare.html
Frresh Visual Arts Magazine, Issue 13, 2014. http://www.frrresh.org/13/
Aparté. numéro 1. Editor, Tanguay, Antoine. 2014. http://www.aparte.info/numero1/
Saonari, Marika. ArtNoise. Dare alla Luce. Le rivisitazioni luminose di Amy Friend. January 20, 2014. http://www.artnoise.it/dare-alla-luce-le-rivisitazioni-luminose-di-amy-friend/ Phases Mag. Dare alla Luce. http://www.phasesmag.com/dare-alla-luce/
My Modern Met. 12 Most Fascinating Visual Stories in 2013. November 12, 2013. http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/critical-mass-top-50
Smithson, Aline. Lenscratch. Amy Friend: Dare alla Luce. April 30, 2013. http://www.lenscratch.com/2013/04/amy-friend-dare-alla-luca.html
Lancia. Dare alla Luce: Amy Friend’s Object Photographs. April 11, 2013. http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/en/article/dare-alla-luce-amy-friend-s-object-photographs
Phaidon, Amy Friend’s Celestial Interventions. February 13, 2013. http://ca.phaidon.com/agenda/photography/articles/2013/february/13/amy-friends-celestial- interventions/
Colberg,Joerg. Conscientious. Contemporary Photographers. February 12, 2013. http://jmcolberg.com/weblog/2013/02/amy_friend/
Benn, Molly. Mois Off 2012 Galerie Chip Chop. Le Journal De La Photographie. http://lejournaldelaphotographie.com/archives/by_date/2012-11-13/9272/mois-off-2012- galerie-chip-chop-by-molly-benn 2012.
Kauschinger, Ashley. Light Leaked. Amy Friend. December 3, 2012. http://www.lightleaked.com/2012/12/amy-friend.html Lomography. Magical Hole-y Photos by Amy Friend. September 17, 2012. http://www.lomography.com/magazine/lifestyle/2012/09/17/magical-hole-y-photos-by-amy- friend
Laine Farley. On Marking Books: Making a Mark with Art. Bibliobuffet. http://www.bibliobuffet.com/bb/content/view/251/195/
PRESS AND REVIEWS
Carr, Celia. “Brock Instructor sheds light on old photographs in New York Photography Exhibition”, The Brock Press, St Catharines, Ontario, September 10, 2014.
Zandbergen, Rebecca. Interview. “In Memory”, CBC Radio West. July 15, 2013.
“Artists trace path to Lake Country”, Vernon Morning Star, Vernon, British Columbia, May 31, 2013.
Dirisio, Micheal. “Remember Me Always: The Photographic Works of Amy Friend”, The Brock Press, St Catharines, Ontario, March 9, 2010.
Bennett, Mark. “Picture This”, TVCogecoOntario, January 25, 2011http://www.tvcogeco.com/niagara/gallery/the-source/3560-january-source-stories/33148- picture-this
Parr, Stephen. Juried Exhibition, TVCogecoOntario, July 28, 2010 < http://www.tvcogeco.com/niagara/gallery/the-source/2733-july-source-stories/22988-juried- exhibition> Hargreaves, Stephen. “Open Your Eyes: Four Opening receptions in One Evening”, WAMM, Windsor, Ontario, April 2008.
Hale-Hodgson Colleen. “Curating art on campus is a labour of love for York professor”, Excalibur, Toronto, Ontario, November 14, 2007.
Pennington, Roberta. “For the Muse a Marathon”, Windsor Star. Windsor, Ontario, October 22, 2007.
Rivait, Lindsay. “Student Aims to Make Connections”, The Lance Newspaper”. University of Windsor. October 17, 2007. http://www.pastthepages.ca/071017/arts2.html
COLLECTIONS Onassis Cultural Center, Greece Candela Gallery Collection, USA York University, Toronto, ON McLaughlin College, York University, ON W Hotel, USA Edgewater Hotel, WI, USA Private Collections
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Canadian Artists Representation Collective Canadian Artists Representation Copyright Collective Society for Photographic Education Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada Niagara Artist Centre (NAC) Rodman Hall Member Gallery 44 Member