ALEXA HATANAKA Collectives: PA System, Embassy of Imagination (EOI) EDUCATION 2012 Printmaking with distinction, OCAD University, Toronto, ON, Canada: BFA 2011 Nanjing Arts Institute, China, OCADU exchange program, traditional Chinese Printmaking SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS 2021 Solo Show (Title TBD), AXENE07, Gatineau, QC, Canada (PA System) 2020 Arctic: Culture and Climate, The British Museum, London, England, UK (PA System + EOI) 2019 Do you want to take the short-cut or the long-cut?, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2019 PA System, General Hardware, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2018 wind wind, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (PA System) 2014 Larding and Barding, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (PA System) 2012 Cultural Persistence, DDR Projects, Long Beach, CA, USA 2012 Evoke’s Pancake House, Montana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (PA System) 2011 Donnacona, La Place Forte, Paris, France (PA System) 2011 Think Tent, Le Labo, Toronto, ON, Canada 2010 Choose Your Own Adventure, Articulate Baboon, Cairo, Egypt (PA System) 2010 It’ll Come Out in the Wash, 52, Toronto, ON, Canada GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Sinaaqpagiaqtuut/The Long-Cut, Toronto Biennial of Art & The Bentway, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System + EOI) 2019 Nature As Communities, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (PA System + EOI) 2018 uvanga and imagine if, Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Gallery, Iqaluit, NU, Canada (EOI) 2017 Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System + EOI) 2017 Lightning Speak: Solo and Collaborative Works of Raven Chacon, University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA (PA System) 2017 Inuuqatigiitsiarniq, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada (EOI) 2017 Darn Windy, Video screenings, Art on Screens, Mississauga, ON, Canada (PA System) 2016 Flow Edge: New Art and Collaborations from the North, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; Canada House, London, England, UK; AXENÉO7, Gatineau, QC, Canada (PA System) 2016 Lost Faces, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2015 Gauge, Video Screening, Nuit Blanche at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2015 The Divadale Project, Toronto, ON, Canada 2014 Hard Twist: This is Personal, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada 2013 Guanlan International Printmaking Biennale Exhibition, Shenzen, China 2013 Mutual Friends, Parenthesis, Halifax, NS, Canada 2012 This We Know, Planet IndigenUS at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Artsu Matsuri, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 20 Under 30, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Under 30 at 30, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 8 Vignettes, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Black Sheep, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada PUBLIC ART & COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITY PROJECTS 2019 Resolution (Mass of Clarity), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto and Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2019 Instant Class Kit (Curated by Vesna Krstich), The Pedagogical Impulse research-creation project 2018 Quviana Parade, Cape Dorset, NU, Canada (EOI & Leah Merskey) 2018 Beginning of/ Nandri, Global Pathways School, Chettipalayam, India (PA System) 2017 Avatittinnik Kamatsiarniq, Relay 150, Toronto, ON, Canada (EOI) 2017 Pijitsirniq, Hamlet of Kinngait, Kinngait, NU, Canada (EOI) 2017 Tunnganarniq, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada (EOI) 2017 Embassy of Imagination Installation, Square One, Mississauga, ON, Canada 2016 Picturing the Ward, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2016 Solidarity Flag, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System & Sean Martindale) 2016 Aqua Lungs, Wall to Wall, Winnipeg, MB, Canada (PA System & Parr Josephee) 2016 Qanuqtuurniq, MU, Montreal, QC, Canada (EOI) 2016 Training, Metrolinx & City of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2016 Colour Sphere, Albuquerque, NM, USA (PA System) 2016 Untitled, Stanley Aviation, Denver, CO, USA (PA System) 2015 Darn Windy, CBC: The Collective (PA System) 2015 Jigging Kamiit, Hamlet of Inukjuak, QC, Canada (PA System) 2015 Felled, Ottawa Public Art, Ottawa, ON, Canada (PA System & Adam Cutts) 2015 Shibori, Wayhome Music and Arts Festival, Burl’s Creek, ON, Canada (PA System) 2015 Piliriqatigiingniq, Mural Routes and Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association, Toronto, ON, Canada (EOI) 2015 Walking into the Unknown Tupiq, Burlington Public Art, Burlington, ON, Canada (PA System) 2014 Resting, Denver, CO, USA (PA System) 2014 Row, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada (PA System) 2014 Curtain, NXNE Festival, Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2014 Mine Your Imagination, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, Cape Dorset, NU, Canada (EOI) 2014 Year of Reconciliation, Vancouver Public Art, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2013 Private, Glenalmond School, Perthshire, Scotland (PA System) 2013 Happy Anniversary, World Pride 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2013 Four Ways, Supercrawl, Hamilton, ON, Canada (PA System) 2012 Water, Amos Waites Park, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto, ON, Canada (PA System) 2012 Tourist, Festival Murales, Escosesa Studios, Barcelona, Spain (PA System) 2012 Traveller, Xing Ping, China (PA System) 2012 Pauloosie Qulitalik,Kingulliit Productions, Igloolik, NU, Canada (PA System) 2012 Canada, National Capital Commission, Ottawa, ON, Canada ARTIST TALKS 2019 Exchange Rate, Keynote for National Mural Symposium, Toronto (PA System) 2019 Educator Workshop, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto (PA System) 2019 Artist Talk, University of Toronto, Printmaking, Toronto 2019 Artist Talk, OCADU Cultural Community Expo, Toronto 2018 Emergence Conference, Key note panelist, Humber College, Toronto 2017 Embassy of Imagination Artist Talk, The Entangled Gaze: Art Gallery of Ontario and OCAD University Conference, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (PA System) 2017 Youth Collaboration and Connectivity: Artist Talk and Activity, Creative Time Summit, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (EOI) 2017 Placemaking Talk, Indigenous Placemaking Council, Ryerson University, Toronto (EOI) 2016 Arts Activism Artist Talk, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga (PA System) 2016 PA System Artist Talk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque RESIDENCIES 2019 Place des Arts Farrellton, Farrellton, QC 2019 Craft as Contemporary Art, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, BC 2019 Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON 2018 Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, ON 2016 St. Michael’s Printshop Residency, St. John’s, NL 2015 Kinngait Studios Residency, Kinngait, NU 2013 Guanlan International Printmaking Base Residency, Shenzen, China 2012 Artists in the Park Residency, Beausoleil Island, ON 2010 Chapter 3: ManifesTO Residency, 52 McCaul, Toronto, ON SELECTED SOLO AND COLLABORATIVE GRANTS, RECOGNITIONS, AND AWARDS 2020 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant 2020 Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program (EOI & collaborators) 2019 Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Fellowship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity 2019 Performa: Embassy of Imagination - Sinaaqpagiaqtuut/The Long-Cut, by Charlene K. Lau 2019 Canada Council for the Arts: Concept to Realization Grant 2019 Ontario Arts Council: Visual Arts Project Grant 2019 Ontario Arts Council: Artists in Communities Grant 2019 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant 2018 CMagazine, “Inventory” by Jaimie Isaac 2017 Canada Council for the Arts: New Chapter Grant (PA System) 2017 Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: Project Funding Support (EOI) 2017 Canadian Heritage: Canada 150, Nunavut 150 (EOI) 2017 Glorious & Free: The Canadians, artist profile, by Rita Field-Marsham and Kim Bozack 2017 Designlines Magazine: “PA System’s Artwork Charts a Course to Canada’s North" 2016 Canadian Art Magazine: A Cross-Canada survey of leading collaborative practices 2016 Canada Council for the Arts: Visual Artist Project Grant 2016 W. Garfield Weston Foundation - Embassy of Imagination project support 2015 Americans for the Arts Public Art Network, Outstanding Works of 2014 2015 Ontario Arts Council: Travel Grant 2015 Canada Council for the Arts: Visual Arts Project Grant 2015 Canadian Heritage: Community Celebrations Pan Am Games Fund (EOI) 2015 Arts Development Grant: Government of Nunavut (EOI) 2014 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant 2014 Ontario Arts Council: Craft Development 2013 Ontario Arts Council: Chalmers Fellowship .