Artist Biographies Kim Adams (BFA and MFA, University of Victoria, BC) lives and works in Grand Valley and Toronto, 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 Canada, 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, Quebec. 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 WinniPeg Art Gallery. Amalie Atkins (BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary) lives and works in Saskatoon, 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