Elizabeth Chitty www.elizabeth.chitty.ca | www.ccca.ca

Collections Art Bank National Gallery of Canada Hamilton Art Gallery Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

Artist’s Gardens + Walks 2016 Copper Beech Field Trips, Walking Project, Niagara Falls History Museum The Grass Is Still Green, Artist’s Garden, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON 2015 Confluence Field Trips, Walking Project, Canal Valley (3 sites), St. Catharines 2014 Sound + Imagewalk, The Source: Rethinking Water Through Contemporary Art, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines 2009 The Wheels on the Bus, Artist’s Garden, Carlisle St., St. Catharines 2009 + 2007 soundwalk, Greenscapes, Walker Botanical Garden, Brock University, St. Catharines 1995 Breath of Life, Artists’ Gardens, Harbourfront Centre, (earlier audience walking performances are marked w under Performances)

Solo Exhibitions 2016 The Grass Is Still Green, Digital prints and window text, video, Artist’s Garden, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines 2016 Confluence Field Trips (installation), Art Gallery, Brock University Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, St. Catharines 2009 Guardian of Niagara: The Great Lakes & Guardian of Niagara: The Soft Fruit Industry (constructed photographs), Nature of the Body (installation), Hamilton Artists’ Inc., curator Irene Loughlin 2008 Fall, (video+audio installation), Grimsby Public Art Gallery Fly, (photo+audio installation), Grimsby Public Art Gallery 1998 Bloodbird, (video installation), Niagara Artists’ Company, St. Catharines 1993 Isadora Speaks, (video installation), Moving Pictures Festival, John Spotton Cinema, Toronto 1990 The View of the Landscape From Here, (video installation), Niagara Artists Company

Group Exhibitions (title of work followed by title of exhibition) 2015 Telling Tales (1979), In Perpetual Search for the Self, curator Shauna Jean Doherty, , Toronto 2014 Demo Model (1978), Is Toronto Burning?, Art Gallery of York University, curator Philip Monk, York University, Toronto 2014 Streaming Twelve (video + audio installation), The Source: Rethinking Water Through Contemporary Art, curator Stuart Reid, Rodman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharines 2010 Guardian of Niagara: The Great Lakes, Guardian of Niagara: The Soft Fruit Industry, Artists’ Survey: The Greenbelt, Gallery 1313, Royal Ontario Museum, Cultural Expressions Gallery (Ajax), Gallery OneFortyFive (St. Catharines), curators Phil Anderson + Patrick Macauley 2010 Social Studies (1979), Hold Still Wild Youth: The Gina Show Archive, Or Gallery, , curator Allison Collins 2008 Night Leaves, (photo street installation), James St. Night of Art, St. Catharines 2008 Desire Control (1981), Art Metropole: Top 100 group exhibition, (single-channel video), Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MOCCA), Toronto 2007 Art Metropole: Top 100 group exhibition, (single-channel video), National Gallery of Canada, curators Kitty Scott + Jonathan Shaughnessy 1997 Breath and the Heart, Thinking, (video installation), Sub-Myth, Niagara Artists’ Company, St. Catharines, curators Ivan Jurakic + Tobey Anderson 1996 Nature of the Body, (installation), Terre Commune, Grimsby Public Art Gallery and Sequence, Chicoutimi 1994 Breath and the Heart, Listen; (video installation), Fiesta Cultural, Niagara Artists’ Company

ELIZABETH CHITTY 1988 T.V. Love (a made for T.V. love story); (single channel video), Recent Acquisitions: New Works by Canadian Video Artists, National Gallery of Canada 1985 T.V. Love, The Winnipeg Perspective 1985, Winnipeg Art Gallery, curator Shirley Madill 1984 Telling Tales, Dogmachine, Desire Control, T.V. Love, (single channel videos), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Art Gallery of Hamilton 1984 T.V. Love, British/Canadian Video Exchange ’84, Canada House, AIR Gallery, London UK 1984 Program Four (5 works by Elizabeth Chitty), Evidence of the Avant Garde Since 1957: selected works from the Collection of Art Metropole, Art Metropole, curator Christina Ritchie 1984 T.V. Love, Rencontres Vidéo Internationales de Montréal, Montréal 1982 Desire Control; Canadian Images, Peterborough 1982 T.V. Love , Prime Time Video tour; Language Plus, Alma; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, P.R.I.M., ; The Gallery/Stratford; White Water Gallery, North Bay; Burlington Cultural Centre; Banff Centre; Alberta College of Art, ; Video Inn, Vancouver; Artcite, Windsor; Ed Video, Guelph; Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery; Moving Space, San Francisco; 1983-84; premiere screening Mendel Art Gallery & CBC broadcast 1980 Telling Tales (single channel video); 11e Biennale de Paris, Paris, France P.S. 1, New York, N.Y. , Art Metropole, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Hallwalls, Buffalo N.Y.

Performances 2015 Lucius’ Garden, corner of King and James Streets, In the Soil Arts Festival, St. Catharines sweet+short, light, walking projection performance, Niagara Social Justice Forum, Brock University 2014 Sweet Light, short, walking projection performance, Climate Day of Action, Greening Niagara, Mahtay Café, St. Catharines 2013, 2014 + 2016 collaborating artist, Niagara She-Bang, Centre for the Arts Brock University and Dreamwalker Dance Company 2013 untitled, creative residency, Across Oceans and Dramatic Arts at Brock University 2011 Delight, Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts Urban Art Garden, Toronto. 2011 Distance of Their Mouths, Niagara Artists’ Centre, commissioned by Gallery Players of Niagara, composer Rose Bolton 2008 History, Colour TV & You, (1981), Bureau de Change, Walter Phillips Gallery, curator Sylvie Gilbert 2008 Part 2: Aung San Suu Kyi of Song For A Blue Moon, Sound and Video Art for the Rights, Toronto 2007 Part 2: Aung San Suu Kyi of Song For A Blue Moon, Amnesty International Group 112 Niagara Region’s Human Rights Day Vigil, St. Catharines 2007 Part 3: Esgenoôpetitj of Song For A Blue Moon, Social Justice and the Arts Forum, Brock University, St. Catharines 2004 Song For A Blue Moon, Tangente Danse Actuelle, Montréal 1997 Progress of the Body, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto, 7a*11d Performance Art Festivalw 1996 Nature of the Body, Beamer Conservation Area, Terre Commune group exhibitionw 1994 Découvrant le coeur; Rencontre internationale d’art performance, Québec 1994 Le paysage et nos coeurs; Terre Commune, Métabetchouan, QCw 1992 Hortus Imaginum, Niagara Unpeeled, Walker Botanical Gardens, St. Catharines, Niagara Artists’ Company, curators Reinhardt Reitzenstein + Carolyn Pinderw 1992 Theatrum Silvaticae, Two Row Wampum group show, Native American Center for the Living Arts, Niagara Falls, N.Y. 1990 Lake, Bill Bolton Arena, Toronto; Cultural Desire Projects 1986 Moral/Passion, Winnipeg Art Gallery; co-produced by Cultural Desire Projects and the International Intermedia Performance Festival, curator Gilles Hébert 1985 Moral/Passion, Great Hall, Toronto, Cultural Desire Projects 1980-83 History, Colour T.V. & You; 3e symposium d’art performance, Lyon, France; International Video Festival, La Mamelle, San Francisco; Musée du Quebec, Quebec City; Western Front, Vancouver, The Music Gallery, Toronto; Walter Phillips Gallery, Agit-Prop Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff; , Toronto; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Neutral Ground, Regina; Darcheu, Sherbrooke, QC; Struts, Sackville, N.B.; GAP, Toronto; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Performance, Parachute, Montreal

2/5 ELIZABETH CHITTY 1980 Handicap, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Eye Level Gallery, Halifax; Vancouver Art Gallery; Performance, Montreal 1978 Demo Model; 15 Dance Lab, Toronto; La Mamelle/A Space Literal Exchange, La Mamelle, San Francisco; Dance in Canada Conference, Vancouver; Teleperformance, 5th Network Video Conference, Masonic Temple, Toronto 1977 Lap, Vehicule Art Inc., Montreal; Parachute Centre for Cultural Affairs, Calgary; Western Front, Vancouver 1976 Lap, St. Paul’s Centre, Toronto, Dance Artists Drop, D.A.N.C.E. dance series, outside 410 Queen Street West, Toronto 1975 Mover, Retina, Chant in Sun #1, A Space, Polyfil, A Space, 15 Dance Lab, Festival of Women and the Arts, 15 Dance Lab, Ball Dance, Tomb, Timeline, 15 Dance Lab

Commissioned Dance + Video Works 2012 Dissolve, Merge, Niagara Dance Company, St. Catharines 2012 Gravity doesn’t explain desire, Pearl, Niagara Dance Company, St. Catharines 2007 April 23 & here, 12 Solos, Toronto Dance Theatre, Winchester St. Theatre, Toronto 2003 Earth’s Flesh, Shared Habitat 2, Toronto

Community-Based Artist’s Projects 2013 Home Video, (single channel video), YWCA Niagara Region, Pen Centre 2010 Projecting Want, (video projection), James St. Night of Art, St. Catharines 2009 Want, (performative installation, audio installation, postering project), St. Catharines 2009 Niagara participation in Tank Man Tango, global viral dance 2005 Chillin’ At the RAFT, (community art project at homeless youth shelter), St. Catharines

Bibliography Is Toronto Burning? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene, Philip Monk, agYU and Black Dog Publishing, London UK, 2016 A Confluence of Geographies. Bart Gazzola. Hamilton Arts & Letters. Issue 8.2. In Perpetual Search for the Self. Shauna Jean Doherty. The Curatorial Incubator: v.12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Brat. Vtape. Toronto. 2015. Elizabeth Chitty. Irene Loughlin. Hamilton Artists Inc. 2009 Feminist Performance, Community and Violence : Conversations between Elizabeth Chitty, Margaret Dragu and Julie Lassonde. D. Cecchetto, N. Cuthbert, J. Lassonde and D. Robinson, Collision: Interarts Practice and Research, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 261-276. Art Metropole: The Top 100. Kitty Scott and Jonathan Shaughnessy with Peggy Gale and AA Bronson. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. 2006. 60. Elizabeth Chitty: Getting Close to ‘You’. Paul Couillard. Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, ed. Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder, YYZ Editions, 2004. p. 150-159. FFWD,RWD, and PLAY: Performance Art, Video, and Reflections on Second-Wave Feminism in Vancouver 1973-1983. Tagny Duff. Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, ed. Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder, YYZ Editions, 2004. p. 47-48. Getting It Done. Christopher Waters. The St. Catharines Standard. March 3, 2000. B1. De Cuesta à la Terre Commune Common Ground. Guy Sioui Durand. Inter art actuel. numéro 67. Québec 1997. 12. Artists Gardens at Harbourfront Centre 1990-1995. Dianne Bos. Harbourfront Centre. Toronto. 1996. Rencontre internationale d’art performance de Québec. Les Editions Intervention. Québec 1995. Performance au Canada, 1970-1990 = Performance in Canada, 1970-1990. Alain-Martin Richard & Clive Robertson. Les Editions Intervention & Coach House Press. 1991. Elizabeth Chitty. Bill Bolton Arena. Toronto. Paulette Phillips. C Magazine. September 1990, #27. 61. Creative environment: performance artist Elizabeth Chitty sets up house in Niagara. Sean Condon. The St. Catharines Standard. July 27, 1990. 13-14. Talk diminishes work of art. John Bentley Mays. Globe and Mail. June 15, 1990. Chitty returns to dance past with multi-media spectacle. Daryl Jung. NOW Magazine. June 14-20, 1990. 47. A legend in dance returns. Deirdre Kelly. Globe and Mail. June 13, 1990. Chitty took five years to jump into Lake. Paula Citron. Toronto Star. June 9, 1990. Dance show stunning, powerful. Reg Skene. Winnipeg Free Press. September 22, 1986. 25.

3/5 ELIZABETH CHITTY Healing vision is artist’s goal. Adrian Chamberlain. Winnipeg Free Press. August 23, 1986. 21. Concern for human condition reflected in work. William Littler. Toronto Star. September 20, 1985. D23. Performance art with a twist. John Bentley Mays. Globe & Mail. September 19, 1985. The Winnipeg Perspective 1985 Video. Shirley Madill. Winnipeg Art Gallery. 1985. Western Front Video. Renée Blouin & Peggy Gale. Muse d’art contemporain de Montréal and Art Gallery of Hamilton. 1984. Prime Time Moves On. Karen Henry. Video Guide. Vol. 6, No. 1. Issue 26. New Year 1984. Vancouver. 10. 10-5155-20 art contemporain. no. 6/7. hiver 1983-1984. Sherbrooke. 18-21. 1979/1983 Cinq ans d’art-performance a Lyon/Five Years Performance Art in Lyon. Comportement environnement performance, Lyon, France. 1984. 46. Three in Performance. Chantal Pontbriand. Mendel Art Gallery. 1983. Danceworks Research Project #1. Projection & Performance. Margaret Dragu. June 1983. 13-14. Artists With Their Work. Art Gallery of Ontario. Toronto. 1983. Elizabeth Chitty – ‘Social Studies: A Work in Progress’, March 15 & 16, 1979. interview by Marcella Bienvenue. VideoNet. Syntax. Calgary. 15-24. year of publication unknown. Notes on Agit Prop/Performance in Banff. artscanada. 248-249. November 1982. 26-32. Agit-Prop. Philip Monk. Parachute. 28. September, October, November. 1982. Montréal. 42-44. Agit.Prop. Lorne Falk. Walter Phillips Gallery. Banff. 1982. Common Carrier. Philip Monk. Modern Drama. Vol XXV, No. 1. ed. Jill Levenson. University of Toronto. 1982. Comment. Elizabeth Chitty. Canadian Dance News. April 1982. Vol. 2, No. 6. Performance: Text(e) & Documents. ed. Chantal Pontbriand. Editions Parachute. Montréal. 1981. 186-189. A Question of Place 2. Jennifer Oille. Vanguard. Vol. 10, No. 9. November 1981. Elizabeth Chitty speaks with Susan Britton speaks with Elizabeth Chitty. Fireweed. Issue 8: Fall 1980. 11e Biennale de Paris – Les Canadiens. various artists. Parachute. 20. Automne 1980. Montréal. 6-7. Video & Performance Art. Martha Fleming & Doug Durand. Body Politic. No. 64. June/July 1980. Interview: Elizabeth Chitty. Svitlana Muchin & Colin Lochhead. Slate. Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1980. Automotons/Automorons. AA Bronson. Performance by Artists. ed. AA Bronson & Peggy Gale. Art Metropole. Toronto. 1979. Recent Pasts: an interview with Elizabeth Chitty. René Blouin. Parachute. No. 16. Automne 1979. Out of Order. Hank Bull. Centerfold. Vol. 3, No. 5. July 1979. Elizabeth Chitty – “Telling Tales”. Jane Ellison. Video Guide. June 1979. Extreme Skin & True Bond Stories: Elizabeth Chitty at A Space. Paul Wong. Spill. No. 9. Canadian Choreography Now: a sampling of attitudes, midsummer 1978. Elizabeth Zimmer. Vandance. July 1978. Elizabeth Chitty: Demo Model. interview by Peggy Gale. Centerfold. December 1978. 8-12. Question Danswer. Clive Robertson. Centerfold. ed. Clive Robertson. Arton’s. Calgary. Vol. One. No. 9-10. 1977. EC at A Space. Graham Jackson. Spill. No. 8. 1977. Entertainments at the Café Soho. Toronto Theatre Review. Vol. 2, No. 1. 1977.

Publications Distilled, Berenicci Hershorn HERE, Hamilton Artists’ Inc., 2014 Asserting Our Bodies, Sylvie Tourangeau: personal plurality, marshalore: performing sound and image, Caught in the Act: an anthology of performance art by Canadian women, ed. Tanya Mars & Johanna Householder, YYZ Editions, 2004 Song For A Blue Moon. Elizabeth Chitty. Niagara Artists’ Company Arts and Literary. Number One. February 2003. Niagara Artists’ Company. St. Catharines. 32-33. Debbie Slade: in this together, The Dancecurrent, Vol. 5, Issue 9, March 2003 Teaching Creativity, Not just any body: advancing health, well-being and excellence in dance and dancers, The Ginger Press, Owen Sound, 2001 The 70’s Dance Artists. Elizabeth Chitty. Dance Collection Danse. No. 50, Fall 2000. No. 51. 2001. 7-9. Art at Glendale brochure, Niagara College, 2000 Waterfalls, owls and aerial shots, A cultural campus stroll, St. Catharines Standard, 2000 The Tweenies Launch Plan B, Margaret Dragu: a little night radio, a little guitar and dance, Pulse Niagara, 1999 Imagining Place, So to Speak, Artexte Editions, 1999 Heart, Soul and Thighs, This Passion: for the love of dance, Dance Collection Danse Press/es, 1998 David Buchan: man-about-town, exhibition catalogue essay, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 1996

4/5 ELIZABETH CHITTY Lately, I’ve Been Thinking Again About 15, Dance Collection Danse, The News, No. 31, 1993 Performing Image: Volume One - Randy & Berenicci/Tanya Mars, Cultural Desire Projects, 1987 ed., Artists Talk About Technology, ANNPAC, 1987 Video Guide, Vol. 3, #4; Vol. 4, #2, #3; Fuse, Jan. 1980, Vol. 4, #2; Parachute, automne 1980; Parallelogramme, Parallelogramme Retrospective 3, 1978-79; Performing Arts in Canada, Winter 1978 York Dance Review, Spring 1975 Demo Model. Elizabeth Chitty. Spill. #12. Cuts/Lean Cuts, Elizabeth Chitty. Spill. No. 5. 1977. Parallel Position. Elizabeth Chitty. Dance in Canada. ed. Susan Cohen. Spring 1977. No. 12. 4-6. Lap Documents. Elizabeth Chitty. Dance in Canada. ed. Susan Cohen. Winter 1977. No. 11.18-20. radio reviewer, CBC Stereo Morning, 1976 editor & writer, Spill, 15 Dance Lab, 1976-78

Selected Residencies, Conferences and Artist’s Talks 2016 Keynote Speaker, Street Meet, Saskatoon’s 4th Annual Street, Public and Grafitti Art Festival 2016 Hot Talk! Elizabeth Chitty in Conversation with Keesic Douglas, Rodman Hall Art Centre 2016 Artist Talk, Brock University Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts 2013+2015 Artists’ Gardens, Interstices of Art & Nature, Brock University 2013 Gardens With Meaning: Animating the Public Realm, City of Markham 2012 Regroupement des arts interdisciplinaires du Québec (RAIQ) on-line correspondence project 2006 Collision 2006 Interarts Research and Practices, University of Victoria 1991 Vancouver Art Gallery 1981 Simon Fraser University, Ontario College of Art 1980 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Concordia University 1979 Alberta College of Art

Selected Professional Activities + Service 2011-12 Consultant, Microfinance for Artists Research Project 2011 panelist, Labour Workshop: Negotiating as an Artists’ Union, CARFAC National 2012 Guest speaker in labour relations and the arts, Schulich School of Business, York University 2008-11 Executive Director, Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists, Ontario Chapter 2004-08 Executive Director, St. Catharines and Area Arts Council 1991-2007 Instructor, Creative Process, School of the Toronto Dance Theatre 2001 Consultant, Identifying Cultural and Artistic Opportunities for Aboriginal Peoples, Niagara Regional Native 1999-2000 Co-ordinator, Art at Glendale Public Art Commission, Niagara College 1999 Cultural Policy Coordinator, City of St. Catharines 1996 Curator, David Buchan: man-about-town, Grimsby Public Art Gallery 1992-94 Board Member, Treasurer, Niagara Artists Centre 1991 Policy Analyst, Ontario Ministry of Culture & Communications 1989-90 Consultant, Visual Arts Office, Ontario Arts Council 1987-90 Founder & Artistic Director, Cultural Desire Projects, producer Mad For Bliss (Vera Frenkel), Pure Nonsense (Tanya Mars), Dance of Delirium (Randy & Berenicci) 1982-84 Managing Director, Association of National Non-profit Artists’ Centres (ANNPAC) 1981-84 Member, Acting Chair, Canada Council Arts Advisory Panel 1982-83 Chair, Trinity Square Video 1980-81 Video Coordinator, Western Front 1979-80 Board Member, Vice-President, A Space

Education Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo, 1996-98, uncompleted B.A. studies Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Canadian International Institute of Applied Negotiation, 1997 B.A in Fine Arts, Modern Dance major, York University, Toronto, 1975

Honours and Awards 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Integrated Arts Award 2006 YWCA Niagara Region Woman of Distinction, Arts & Culture

5/5 ELIZABETH CHITTY 2002 Chalmers Arts Fellowship 2002 Canada Council Inter Arts Creation Grant 2000 Laura Sabia Award for Women in the Arts 1999 Laidlaw Foundation Performing Arts Grant 1992 Laidlaw Foundation Performing Arts Grant 1992 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts 1991 Canada Council Multidisciplinary & Performance Art A Grant 1990 Laidlaw Foundation Performing Arts Grant 1998 Chalmers Performing Arts Creation Grant 1994 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Project Grant 1985 Canada Council Multidisciplinary & Performance Art B Grant 1984 Canada Council Multidisciplinary & Performance Art B Grant 1981 Canada Council Multidisciplinary & Performance Art Travel Grant 1979 Canada Council Multidisciplinary & Performance Art B Grant’ 1975-78 Choreographic Awards, Ontario Arts Council

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