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Born in Rudgwick, England. Lives and works in Montréal, Canada.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Sýn á Akureyri – Views of Akureyri, GILFÉLAGIÐ / DEIGLAN, Akureyri, (Iceland).
2024 How to Invent Utopia, Escuela Adolfo Prieto, Monterrey, (Mexico).
2020 Gaps, grids and ghosts, Centre d'exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, (Québec).
2014 Transcanadienne, Galleria Huuto Jätkäsaari, Helsinki, (Finland).
2011 Paul Landon, Galleria Huuto, Helsinki, (Finland).
2011 Future in the Past, Galleria Jangva, Helsinki, (Finland).
2010 Recent Images, Galleria FAFA, Helsinki, (Finland).
2007 Cityscape, Ateliehaus Arlesheim, Basle, (Switzerland).
2004 The Man of the Crowd, Espace vidéographe, Montréal.
2002 Inside, Dare-dare, Montréal.
1999 Le départ de la fiction, Oboro, Montréal.
1996 Installations, Centre d'exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, (Québec).
1996 Souvenirs d'un paysage, Galerie B-312, Montréal.
1992 Heavy Weather, Or Gallery, Vancouver.
1992 Heavy Weather Galerie Clark, Montréal.
1991 The Understudy, De Salon, Groningen, (The Netherlands).
1991 S'étourdir de paroles, Axe NÉO-7, Hull, (Québec)
1990 S'étourdir de paroles, Galerie Optica, Montréal.
1987 The Bounty of the Earth, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
COLLECTIONS
Galerié de l'UQAM, Montréal, Québec
Musée du Québec, Quebec City, Québec
Migros Genossenschaft, Basle, Switzerland
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
Centrale Bibliotheek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Artotheek Dordrecht, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
ARTIST'S RESIDENCIES
Gil Artists Residency, Akureyri, Iceland, Artist in residence, April 2024
Escuela Adolfo Prieto, Monterrey, Mexico, Artist in residence, December 2023-March 2024.
Saari Residency, Mynämäki, Finland, Researcher in residence, November-December 2013.
Artist in residence, Bueno Aires, Argentina, May-July 2009.
Atelier Graff, Montréal, Québec, Artiste en production, June-September 2008.
Sagamie : Le Centre national de recherche et diffusion arts contemporains numériques, Alma, Québec, July 2004.
Cité Internationale des arts, Paris, France, June-August 2001.
Centre de sculpture Est-Nord-Est, Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec, Artist in residence, July-August 1999.
Internationale Austausch Ateliers Basel, Basle, Switzerland, Artist in residence, January - July 1994.
The Banff Centre, School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Winter programme in Studio Art, 1985-1986.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Zwischen Modell und Museum, Kunstverein im Kloster Neuzelle, Eisenhüttenstadt, (Germany).
2020 3 fois 3, Centre d’exposition de l’Université de Montréal (online exhibition), Montréal.
2019 I Experience as I Experiment – I Experiment as I Experience, Exhibition Laboratory, Helsinki.
2018 Colloque Cybercorporéités, Hexagram-UQÀM, Montréal.
2017 Architecture after the Future, Haus der Architektur, Graz (Austria).
2017 Excavations, Saariaho Järvenpää, Helsinki.
2015 The Dynamics of Darkness in the North, The Nordic House, Reykjavík.
2014 Loitering with Intent: A Feast of Research, Stockholm University of the Arts, Stockholm.
2011 An Exchange with Sol Lewitt, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts.
2010 Ces artistes qui impriment, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec, Montréal.
2009 Crudo y exquisito, Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.
2009 La Minute vidéo, Folie/Culture, Quebec City.
2008 Cold Fusion, FusionArts Museum, New York.
2007 libre < échange: extraits de la collection, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal.
2007 Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin.
2006 Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris.
2006 Cité invisible, Champ libre, Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montréal.
2006 Videolab, Coimbra, Portugal 2006.
2005 Espaces vitaux/Extravagances, Pierre-Elliot-Trudeau Airport, Montréal.
2004 Overgaden Sound Art Festival, Copenhagen.
2004 Arpenter l'île, Vues singulières, Galerie B-312, Montréal.
2003 Art Star biennale d'art vidéo, Galerie SAW, Ottawa.
2003 Si, alors, sinon, Daimon, Gatineau, (Québec).
2003 Placing Spaces, Spacing Places, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, (Nova Scotia).
2001 Les pratiques, Galerie de l'UQÀM, Montréal.
2001 Vernissages et Nocturnes, Paris.
2001 Une liaison transatlantique, Occurrence, Montréal.
2001 Le petit guide de la vidéo, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
2000 Passart, Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda, Rouyn-Noranda, (Québec).
2000 13es INSTANTS VIDEO de Manosque, Manosque, (France).
2000 Transatlantik, Kunstraum Riehen, Basle, (Switzerland).
1997 Des promenades, Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo, Mexico City.
1994 Paysage(s) de la vidéo, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal.
1994 Künstlers des IAAB, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basle, (Switzerland).
1992 La collection: tableau inaugural, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal.
1992 Images 92 Festival, Toronto.
1992 Art and New Technologies, McIntosh Gallery, London, (Ontario).
1992 World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, (The Netherlands).
1992 Australian International Video Festival, Sydney.
1991 Empty Pedestals, Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York.
1991 Northern Lights: Canadian Video Art, Tokyo.
1991 II Festival Internacional de Vídeo, Vigo, (Spain).
1988 Nieuwe Nederlandse Video, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam.
1988 Het Magnetische Beeld, Stadsgalerij Heerlen, (The Netherlands).
1984 Under 5 Video Competition, Vancouver.
EDUCATION
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 2008-16: Doctor of Fine Arts, 2016
Concordia University, Montréal, 1990-95: Master of Arts - Communication Studies, 1996.
Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1987-89: Master of Fine Arts, 1989.
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, 1983-84: Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1984.
Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 1981-1983.
CONFERENCES
Dwelling as landscape: a virtual project. Panel: Materiality, Meaning, and the Senses: Art and Placemaking, UAAC Conference, Banff, 2023
The Guided Walk as an Opportunity for an Unfulfilled Reconciliation of Perception and Knowledge (guided walk). Walking is still honest*, Sodas 2123, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2023
The urgency of emptiness in representations of the north. Too Early / Too Late: Conference on Artistic Research. NTNU, Trondheim, 2023.
Listening stations: mapping silence in the North. Notes for an artwork.Silence and Violence in the North, Fróðskaparsetur Føroya, Tórshavn (Faroe Islands), 2022.
A Tour of the Model City of Eisenhüttenstadt (guided walk). Zwischen Modell und Museum, Kunstverein im Kloster Neuzelle, Eisenhüttenstadt, 2021.
The Wrong Place. I Experience as I Experiment – I Experiment as I Experience, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2019.
Lost in the Barrens: The Northern Landscape as a Cinema of Nowhere. Arctic Arts Summit, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, 2019.
Elastic spaces: archaeologies and practices of image, space and body (with Leila Sujir). Cybercorporéités: subjectivités nomades en contexte numérique, UQAM, Montréal, 2018.
Forgetting cinema: Erasing modern architecture through animated drawing and 3d models. Elastic Spaces Third International Symposium, Bath Spa University, Bath, 2017.
Dissolving Futures. Future Architecture, MAO National Museum of Art and Design, Ljubljana, 2017.
Autour de la spatialisation de l'image (with Marjatta Oja).Prolifération des images; Une (ré) articulation par la pratique vidéo? LLA-CREATIS, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 2016.
Forgotten Cinemas (guided walk). Elastic 3D Space | 2nd International Research Colloquium on Stereoscopic, Virtual & Embodied Practices, Concordia University, Montréal, 2016.
The vidéothéâtre of Montréal’s Vidéographe: The forgotten screening room. RENEW : International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Riga 2013.
Robert Altman's Quintet. Mapping Dystopia in the Ruins of a Northern Utopia. Vers une cartographie des lieux du Nord: mémoire, abandon, oubli, UQÀM, Montréal, 2012.
The vidéothéâtre, a utopian architecture of moving image presentation. Colloque international Pionniers-innovation création-média, Hexagram, Montréal, 2012.
(Im)possible wanderings: Getting lost in the geo-tagged city. The Academy Strikes Back, Sint-Lukas University, Brussels, 2010.
Writing around a practice: Walking around the City. The Art Text: Writing In and Through the Arts, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 2009.
PUBLICATIONS
“How to Invent Utopia” Espaces spéculatifs Vol. 0, Éditions de l’École des arts visuels et médiatiques de l’UQAM, 2024.
“Pedagogy and practice: a challenging interdependency” Visual Artist’s Workbook: Essays and Exercises on Teaching Arts, Ed: Denise Ziegler and Pilvi Porkola, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2022.
“Hof” Darkness, Ed: Daniel Chartier, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson and Katrín Anna Lund, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Iceland, Montréal and Reykjavík, 2021.
“In the wrong place” I Experience as I Experiment – I Experiment as I Experience, Ed: Denise Ziegler, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2019.
Intersecting travelogues: Wandering through practices and archaeologies of space, place and image Doctoral dissertation, The Academy of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki, 2016.
“The Vidéothéatre of Vidéographe: The Lost Screening Room” DATA DRIFT. Archiving Media and Data Art in the 21st Century, Acoustic Space Journal, Ed: Rasa Smite, Lev Manovich, Raitis Smits, Riga, 2015.
“Notes for an Artwork: Robert Altman's Quintet and Future Past”Le lieu du Nord: Vers une cartographie des lieux du Nord. : pp 127-140, Presses de l'Université du Québec, Montreal, 2015.
“Mapping a Modern Diegesis: Terre des Hommes and Robert Altman's Quintet,” JAR (4) 2013.
“Writing around a practice: Walking around the city” Artmonitor/A Journal of Artistic Research. 8 (Art Text) 2010: pp 46-54. University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
"Valérie Kolakis: Collapsing modernity" Unheimlich: Valérie Kolakis, Plein sud, Longueuil, 2011.
“Between (T)here” Valérie Kolakis: Between (T)here, Optica, Montréal, 2003.
“Le mois de la Photo à Montréal” Para-para 005, January, February, March, 2002.
“Lace and Satin” ETC Montréal 53, March, April, May, 2001.
“The Opposite Forces” ETC Montréal 49, March, April, May, 2000.
“Irit Batsry - To Leave and to Take” Parachute 90, April, May, June, 1998.
“Manifesta” Parachute 85, January, February, March, 1997.
“The Observer in the Flux” Galerie Katrin Rabus, Bremen (Germany), 1996.
Art and Technological Sound: The Revival of Experience Master's Thesis, Concordia University, Montréal, 1995.
ARTIST GRANTS
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Originals, 2020
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Studio residence au Mexique: 2020
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bourse B: 1996, 2012
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Studio residence à Buenos Aires: 2009
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bourse A: 2001, 2007
Canada Council for the Arts, Paris studio: 2001
Canada Council for the Arts, Video production grant: 1986, 1993, 2001
Canada Council for the Arts, B grant: 1986, 1997, 1999
Le Centre d'exposition de Longueuil, Bourse Duchamp-Villon: 1995
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Studio residence à Bâle: 1994
Ministère de la Culture du Québec, Bourse B: 1993
Ministère des affaires culturelles du Québec, Bourse B: 1989
Canada Council for the Arts, Project grant: 1985
TEACHING POSITIONS
Professor in visual and media arts, École des arts visuels et médiatiques, UQAM. Since 2000.
Chargé de cours, Départment d’arts plastiques, UQAM. 1991 - 2000.
CURRENT POSITIONS
Member of editorial board, Journal for Artistic Research (JAR). Since 2020.