CV for Luke Ramsey Bio: Luke Ramsey ( born 1979 ) is one of the founding members of Islands Fold, an artist residency that was on Pender Island, B.C, Canada from 2005-2010. Luke has collaborated with over 100 different artists to date, exhibits internationally and works as a freelance illustrator, painter, animator, and muralist. His client list includes The Cartoon Network, Patagonia, The New York Times, WIRED, The BC Children's Hospital and more. Luke has taught youth drawing workshops in Haida Gwaii, Powell River and Victoria, BC, Canada. He was invited as a guest speaker at The Pictoplasma conference in Berlin, Germany, 2010. Luke completed a giant collaborative outdoor mural with Josh Holinaty on the John Howard Society building in Edmonton, Canada in 2010. The mural won an award of excellence from The City of Edmonton in 2011, and a 2012 National Urban Design Medal from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. His illustrated book Intelligent Sentient? is published by Drawn & Quarterly, and was nominated for a Doug Wright Award in 2015. Luke is currently The City of Victoria's Artist in Residence for 2017-2018. Luke's work is about a continuous line in time that draws from the inside and paints over the edge. A reverence and inspection of nature, duality between simplicity and abstraction, a tidy mess. Exhibition History: 2017: -"Deck The Walls" group exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, December -"Live Stock" group exhibit, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Facade Fest" group exhibit, projections with Burrard Arts Foundation on Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, CANADA September -"No Bad Daze" group exhibit, El Kartel, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August -"Twenty One"group exhibit, Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June -"Out In It" solo exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, June -"Intercontinental" group exhibit, AktivitAt bcn Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, May -"Fool's Day" group exhibit, Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria, BC, Canada, March -"City of Victoria Culture Cafe" exhibit with Lindsay Delaronde, Cinder Block Studio, Victoria, BC, Canada, March -"Pulp and Process 2" group exhibit, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, February 2016: -"First Night" art projections on The Empress Hotel and Parliament Building, December -"Live Stock" group exhibit, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Dream" group exhibit, MAKE gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September -"The Seoul Illustration Fair," group exhibit, COEX Exhibition Hall, Seoul, South Korea, August -"Comic and Cartoon Annual, Long Form" group exhibit, The Society Of Illustrators Museum, New York, NY, USA, July -"Once Our Land" group exhibit, Studio Bliss, Montreal, QC, Canada, July -"Wolf Parade Projection" Steven Colbert Tonight Show on NBC, New York, NY, USA, June -"In, On and Around Music" group exhibit, The Glass Museum, Peterborough, NH, USA, May -"Empathy and Fuel" Create Community Colour Mural Program, Cormorant Street, Victoria, BC, Canada, April -"Powell River Minicomic Camp" kids workshop teacher, Powell River Library, Powell River, BC, Canada, March -"Pulp and Process" group exhibit, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, February -"Chimerical Creatures" group exhibit, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, January 2015: -"Intelligent Sentient" book launch and talk, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada, December -"Post-It Note 11" group exhibition, GR2, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December -"En Masee collaborative mural" Fido stores, Vancouver, BC, Canada, October -"Joysozoloveyanum" mural, Savoury Chef, Strathcona, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September -"Live Stock" group exhibit, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Water Works" solo exhibition, Kit and Ace, c, August -"Black Berries" with Caitlin McDonagh and Meghan Hildebrand, Outerspace Gallery, Powell River, BC, Canada, August -"Under the Thinking Cap" mural, MetaLAB, Victoria, BC, Canada, July -"5h Anniversary" group exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, June -"Intellligent Sentient" book launch and talk, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR, USA, April -"Linework" guest speaker, Portland, OR, USA, April -"Intelligent Sentient" book launch and talk, Base Camp, Powell River, BC, Canada March -"Intelligent Sentient" book launch and talk, Luckys Comics, Vancouver, BC, Canada February 2014: -"Carte Blanche" group collaborative exhibition, DNA Artspace London,ON, Canada, December -"Pictoplasma Character Portraits" group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey Mexico, October -"Aurora Festival" live projections, Powell River, BC, Canada, September -"Live Stock" group exhibit, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Still Moving" solo exhibition, Outerspace Mobile Gallery, Victoria BC, September -"Livers" solo exhibition, El Kartel, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, July -"Still Moving" solo exhibition, Outerspace Mobile Gallery, Powell River, BC, June -"Prints and Inks" group show, Spins & Needles, Ottawa, June -"Sky Yard Mural" Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON, Canada, May -"Pictoplasma Portrait Gallery" Kaufhaus Jandorf, Berlin, Germany, June -"R Rated Memories" group exhibition, Roest, Amsterdam, Netherlands, January -"Lap Pool Mural" Elevation Design Studio, Pender Island, BC, Canada, January 2013 -"The Wreath-Cycled Collection", group exhibition, The Robert Bateman Centre, November -"Off Lines" solo exhibition at Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Live Stock" group exhibit, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Intergrate Arts Festival" Victoria, B.C, Canada, August -"Everybody is a Somebody" group exhibition at iam8bit, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August -"Drawing Expo 13" group exhibition at Dynamo, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, July -"The Green Man" group exhibition at Nook, Toronto, ON, Canada, July -"Beyond the Photograph", group exhibition, Tallisman Gallery, Pender Island, B.C, Canada, July -"Tokyo x Vancouver" group exhibitions at El Kartel, Vancouver B.C, Canada and AMP in Tokyo, Japan, June -"On Paper" group exhibition, Walls Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June -"In The Process" group exhibition, Hellion Gallery, Portland, OR, USA, May -"Dance Recital" live projections, Community Hall, Pender Island, B.C, Canada, April -"Astral Blackout" group exhibition, KV Glalery, Riiga, Latvia, March -"Artist Poster Show" group exhibit at The Burnaby Art Gallery, BC, Canada, February -"Curioser" group exhibition, The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, B.C, Canada, February -"Qavavau Manumie and Luke Ramsey Collaborative Works" Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, February - Projectile Vomit" collaborative group animation projection, FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C, Canada, February -"Interior Design Show" ONE X ONE group exhibition, Toronto, ON, Canada, January 2012 -"Deck The Walls" group exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, December -"Post-It Note 8" group exhibition, GR2, Los Angeles, CA, USA, December -"Get In Where You Fit In" group exhibition, Canzine West, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, November -"Horror Hangover" group exhibition, Hot Art Wet City, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November -"Diamond Leaves" group exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China, September -"Rifflandia Festival" sculpture, and group exhibition, Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, B.C, Canada -"D.I.Y Magic" group exhibition, Luckys Comics, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, August -"Verse and Vision" group exhibition, Community Hall, Pender Island, B.C, Canada, August -"Souvenir" group exhibition at Souvenir Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada -"Agenda NYC" solo and collaborative murals, New York City, NY, USA, July -"In The Pines Festival" sculture installation, Pender Island, B.C, Canada, July -"The Thing In The Spring" installation and mural, Peterborough, NH, USA, June -"UKRUTT" mural and public art project, Drangedal, Norway, May -"Media Merchants / AKA " mural, Gastown, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, April -"Hairy Shapes" group show at Luckys Comics, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, April -"Design 24" group exhibition at Fukai Gallery, Vancouver, B.C, Canada, April -"Brink Enigma Event" live projections, Victoria, B.C, Canada, March -"Compatibles" solo exhibition, Madrona Gallery, Victoria, B.C, Canada, March -"PLAY!" group exhibition, The Believe Inn Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA, February -"Live Projections" OLIO CO-OP, Victoria, B.C, Canada, January 2011 -"Beard Show" group exhibition, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA, December -"Art at Evergreen Brickworks" -video collaboration with Zeesy Powers, Toronto ,Ontario, Canada, October -"Planet In Focus Film Festival"-video collaboration with Zeesy Powers, Toronto ,Ontario, Canada, October -"Headspace" group exhibition, Rifflandia Festival, Victoria, B.C, Canada, September -"Super Tight" group exhibition, Together Gallery, Portland, OR, USA, August -"Typecast" group exhibition, Also Known As Gallery, Vancouver,B.C, Canada, August -"Drawing Together" collaboration exhibition, Queen B's, Charlotte City, Haida Gwaii, B.C, Canada, June -"Pechakucha Night" guest speaker, Victoria, B.C, Canada, June -"Dear Japan" group exhibition benefit, Art Connect Gallery, New York, NY, USA, June -"LOOP" Arts Festival, group exhibition, Marshalls Mill, Leeds, UK, June -"First Edition" group exhibition at Olio, Victoria, B.C, Canada, April -"Power Punch" group exhibition at Giant Robot, San Francisco, CA, USA, April -"Black Wave Red Sun" groups show benefit for Japan at Grass Hut, Portland, OR, USA, March 2010 -"Krampus" group exhibition at Resistor Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December