EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts (Studio Arts), Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC 2024
Diploma in Applied Arts (Interior Design), Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC 1996
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts), University of Victoria, Victoria, BC 1992
SOLO EXHIBITIONS, SELECTED
2012 CLOUD NINES: Narrative Fragments, The ARC: Hornby Island Arts Council, Hornby Island, BC
1999 Dual Narrative CVAG: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC (CARFAC fees)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SELECTED
2025 XI International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art, March 6-26, MIFA Miami International Fine Arts, Miami, USA. Honourable Mention received. 2024 A Piece of the Sky Thesis exhibition, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2023 Converging Realities: State of Practice Master’s exhibition, Zone 4 Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, BC
2020 Weather Bells: Grow-OP 2020 The Gladstone Hotel’s Annual Exhibition on the Environment, Urbanism, and Ecology, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON Group audio installation with collective 'The Bellwethers': Linda Duvall, Terry Billings, Luba Diduch, Colleen Collins, Scottie Irving, and Cimarron Knight
2018 Intertwined, Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons, Emily Carr University of Art + Design in conjunction with Symposium 2018: ‘The Social Fabric: Deep Local to Pan Global’ Textile Society of America
2017 AND…: curator Meghan Hunter-Gauthier, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC (CARFAC fees)
2016 Sooner or Later, CVAG: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC 2015 Articulate Ground: a multimedia ode to home, Invitational group exhibition with Ann Newdigate, Cornelia Hoogland, Rachelle Chinnery, Veronica Lynn Graham, Kim June Johnson, Ted Goodden, and Cimarron Knight, Hornby Festival, Hornby Island, BC
2012 Eastside Culture Crawl 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, Red Door Studio, Mergatroid Building, Vancouver, BC
2010 Legacy 2010: curator Paul Crawford, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
2010 Imagining the Outer Layer Invitational group exhibition, Hornby Festival, Hornby Island, BC
2008 Identity: Shaped by Culture, CVAG: Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
2004 Northern Artists: a mixed media exhibition, Creative Spirit Art Center, Potsdam, NY, USA
1993 Canada Summer Games, cultural component, Kamloops, BC .
SELECTED PERFORMANCE ART
One-Page Score with Plastic Acid Orchestra, January 28, 2023 One-page score provided. Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver, BC ARTSWELLS, Guest Performer for Melisa Devost, 2008, Wells, BC
By Storm: a dynamic and unlikely hornby island collective, 2006 & 2007, a touring exhibition with Tony Wilson, Pest, Melisa Devost, and Michael Lobban: music, performance art, spoken word, and installation. Performances: Vancouver, Victoria, Duncan, Cumberland, Denman Island, and Hornby Island, BC
COLLECTIONS
Nanaimo Art Gallery, permanent collection, Nanaimo, BC 1995
Kamloops Art Gallery, permanent collection, Kamloops, BC 1993
Private collections, Canada, USA, South Africa
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2020 Self-directed, 2 weeks, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2018 Biophony: Ayatana Artist Research Residency, juried participation, Ottawa, ON
2018 Softwear II !: juried participation, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Town Hall / Presentation of residency work: InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Softwear!: juried participation, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2015 Unlearning Practices: juried participation, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
ARTIST TALKS / WORKSHOPS
2007 Postcards from the Rock: an arts celebration workshop, concept development and artist facilitation with Sara Vipond, Hornby Island, BC Sponsored by the Hornby Island Arts Council (fees paid)
2006 Hornby Island Artist Run Gallery, artist guest speaker, BC Arts & Culture Week (fees paid)
2005 Richmond Art Gallery Studio Satellite Program, artist guest speaker Cambie Secondary School, Vancouver (fees paid)
2005 Hornby Island Artist Run Gallery, artist guest speaker, BC Arts & Culture Week (fees paid)
GRANTS / FUNDING
Future Creative Catalysts Graduate Research Fellowship award, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2023
VIURAC Innovate Grant, Vancouver Island University: project title ‘Clothing as Narrative’, 2019
Vancouver Island University MeTa Digital Humanities Lab scholarship: DHSI Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, June 2019
HIAC: Hornby Island Arts Council Professional Development Grant, 2010
SELECTED MEDIA COVERAGE AND PUBLICATIONS
Textile Society of America 2018 Symposium, Pan Global Exhibition Highlights’, Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 2019 Volume 7, Issue 1, pp 139-149 Artwork referenced in article: pp 144 & 147 Image Figures 8A/8B author: Aaron Lee McIntosh: artist/professor Richmond, Virginia, USA
Geist Magazine issue 87, Winter 2012 cover image: collaboration with Meagan Schafer, Trevor Osborn, Cimarron Knight
Eastside Culture Crawl artists navigate sharing space’, Georgia Straight, November 16th, 2011 Arts Features: Jessica Werb
TEACHING
Professor, Faculty of Art & Design, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC 2010-present