EXHIBITIONS (selected from 1996)
2022 No Place, Nowhere, Owens Art Gallery (Sackville, New Brunswick). Curated by Jack Symmonds
2021 Holding Pattern: Additions to the City of Ottawa Art Collection, City Hall Art Gallery (Ottawa, Ontario)
2020 Land Lines (of time and place) in no particular order, Gallery 101 (Ottawa, Ont.). Solo exhibition
2019 Land Lines (of time and place) in no particular order, Flux Gallery, MediaNet (Victoria, BC). Solo exhibition
2018 Adisokamagan/Nous connaître un peu nous-memes/ We’ll all become stories, Ottawa Art Gallery.
2016 Love Letters to Arts Court (Group exhibition), Ottawa Art Gallery
2013 Crossing Terrain, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC) Curators: Catlin Lewis & Michelle Jacques
2009 Home/land Security, Render Gallery, University of Waterloo (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) Curator: Jeff Thomas
2007 It’s a Wonderful Life, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University (Sackville, NB) Curators: Gemey Kelly & Jon Tupper
FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS (selected from 2013)
2025 Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, Ohio)
IFFO - International Film Festival of Ottawa (Ottawa, Ontario)
Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video (Mexico City, Mexico)
Local Heroes, Mirror Mountain Film Festival (Ottawa, Ontario)
Resolution 2025, Digital Art Resource Centre (Ottawa, Ontario)
2024 Nektar from Another Planet screening series (Poznan, Poland)
Cauldron International Film and Video Festival (Salt Lake City, Utah)
International Festival of Winter Cinema (Edmonton, Alberta)
Harkat 16mm Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
Collections CQ, Panorama XP, Cinémathèque Québecoise (Montreal)
Philip Hoffmann - Film Farm 7 Canadian Experimental Cinema, Curitiba International Experimental Film Festival (Brazil)
Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Local Heroes, Mirror Mountain Film Festival (Ottawa, Ont)
Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC)
Revolutions per Minute Festival (Boston, Mass)
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, New York)
Hull Underground Film Festival (Gatineau, QC)
Silver Wave Festival (Fredericton, NB)
Light Leaks Experimental Film Screening, Flux Media Gallery (Victoria, BC)
2022 Urban View competition, Short Waves Festival (Poznan, Poland)
23rd Dresdner schmalfilmtage (Dresden, Germany)
True/False Film Festival (Columbia, Missouri), Official Competition
Film Maudit 2.0 (Los Angeles, California, USA)
Dawson City International Short Film Festival (Yukon)
Imaginary Cinematheque, Flourish Festival (Fredericton, NB)
Collective Work: Experimental Films from the Lightproof Film Collective (Ottawa) and the Handmade Film Collective (Halifax), VUCAVU
The Celluloid Specimen, Labocine (online)
London Experimental Film Festival (Walthamstowe, UK)
Process Experimental Film Festival (Riga, Latvia)
Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris, France) & Festival Internacionale Signos de Noite (Lisbon, Portugal)
Photophobia11, Art Gallery of Hamilton (Hamilton, Ontario)
2016 Sunspot Cinema, University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida) presented by Antimatter Media Art
Moving Images in the Nation’s Capital, MediaNet (Victoria, BC) Programmed by Windows Collective
2015 Emulsion in Motion, presented by CFMDC and IFCO for National Arts Centre’s Ontario Scene (Ottawa)
Terrain (Chicago, Illinois). Curated by Fereshteh Toosi
2014 Nature/culture (nouvelle experimentations), Cinémathèque Québecoise (Montreal, QC) Curator:Guillaume Lafleur
Performance Proyecciones Taller, Mexico City), Puebla, Mexico, and Oaxaca, Mexico, Antimatter Festival tour
2013 Hamburg International Short Film Festival (Hamburg, Germany)
Vidéos de femmes dans le parc, Groupe Intervention Vidéo (Montreal, Quebec)
PRIZES/AWARDS
Winner, International Found Footage Competition & Audience Awards, Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (Expo Film)/ 2021
Honorable Mention, Experimental Forum, Los Angeles (Gibraltar Point transformed) / 2017
ARCCO Achievement Award / 2014
2nd Place, James Rivers Shorts Festival (Lot 22, Concession 5) / 2012
Victor Tolgesy Arts Award, Council for the Arts in Ottawa / 2007
Reel Award - Best Dramatic Film, Ottawa-Hull Film and Television Association (Crabapple Jelly) / 1996
Telefilm Canada Award, National Screen Institute Drama Prize (Crabapple Jelly) / 1994
RELATED EXPERIENCE (2012 to present)
2025 Director (Consumer and Public Interest), Broadcasting Participation Fund. Appointed in 2022 for second term
2024 Artist talk, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, Carleton University (Ottawa, Ont)
2023 Writer, The Mirror Mirror Tapes: Reflections on Ottawa’s Contemporary Art Scene in the 1990’s, SAW Video/Digital Art Resource Centre (Ottawa, Ont)
Guest Artist, Experimental Cinema Auteurs class, Carleton University
2022 Artist talk, DePaul University School of Cinematic Arts (Chicago, Illinois)
2021 Instructor, Meech Lake and Wascana Labs, Harbour Collective (Regina, Sask. and Chelsea, QC)
2018 Director, SAW Video (Ottawa, Ontario) Employed in position from Jan. 2004 to June 2018
2017 Writer, On the Margins: Experimental Film and Video Practices in Ottawa, Adisokamagan/ We’ll all become stories, Ottawa Art Gallery (Ottawa)
2015 Moderator, In Dialogue: Canadian Women Directors, Reflecting Light: 40 Years of Canadian Cinema, WFG Cinematheque, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Writer, 40 Years @ 24 frames per second: Film Cooperatives in Canada, Reflecting Light: 40 years of Canadian Cinema, Winnipeg Film Group
2014 Guest artist, Moving Collages: art video, experimental cinema and animation cinema symposium, Centre Production Daimon (Gatineau, QC)
2013 Artist talk, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, BC)
2012 Moderator, Colin Campbell panel discussion: Jon Davies / Peggy Gale / Lisa Steele, Carleton University Art Gallery (Ottawa)
Panelist, Rear View Mirror: A Discussion on the Visual Arts in Ottawa, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
COLLECTIONS
City of Ottawa Art Collection Ottawa Art Gallery Owens Art Gallery VUCAVU
Library and Archives Canada Cinémathèque Québecoise CFMDC VTape
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT (selected)
2020 - present Founding member, Lightproof Film Collective
2011 - 2018 Board of Directors, Media Arts Network of Ontario (MANO), Chair 2014 – 2016
1994 - 1999 Member, Board of Directors, Independent Film and Video Alliance. President 1996-99
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