Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

Solo
2009 Open Space, Circuitous Routes: Abundance/Excess
2005 Portland International Art Fair (Affair@theJupiter) Yellow Field II
2005 Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Taxonomy
2003 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Order of Blue: A Contingent Agreement
2003 University of Victoria, Audain Gallery, White Construction Built Upon Single Point Failure (MFA Exhibition)
2003 Richmond Art Gallery, Blue Field II
2002 BC Festival of the Arts (Solo category), Surrey, Red Field III

Group
2008 Produce Gallery, San Diego, Push/Pull
2007 Slide Room Gallery, Paper Palace
2005 Open Space, Shape-Shifter, Group Show, Catalogue of an Archeological and Geographical Nature
2006 Fairfield Road, Deconstruction/Reconstruction
2002 Visual Arts Burnaby, The Colourists
2002 Art Gallery of Calgary, Painting News
2002 MacPherson Library Gallery, UVic, Catalogue of Disclosure
2002 LA Mission College, Veteran’s Park Installation Project, Red Field II (group)
2002 The Ministry of Casual Living, The White Project I
2001 Open Space, To Remain at a Distance IV
2001 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Eye Candy
2001 Nanaimo Art Gallery, The Interior Garden
1998 First Street Gallery, Los Angeles, Artists’ Choice
1993 Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, Parallel Movements

Education
2003 University of Victoria, Victoria, MFA
1988-89 California State University, Los Angeles (one year of MFA program)
1986 Concordia University, Montreal, BFA (with distinction) in Studio Arts
1979 Marianopolis College, Montreal, DEC in Creative Arts

Teaching Experience
2004 Vancouver Island School of Art, Founder and instructor (Drawing, Painting and Seminar)
2002 University of Victoria, Art Foundation (Art 100)
1998-04 Victoria College of Art: Sculpture, Drawing, Painting, Third Year Seminar (Issues in Contemporary Art)
1998-02 Art Adventures, proprietor of business that offered workshops in outdoor locations around the Greater Victoria Area and studio-based classes
1994-99 Camosun College, Continuing Education: Drawing and Painting
1994-96 University of Victoria, Continuing Studies: Art and Nature, New Approaches to Landscape Painting
1991-93 Vancouver School Board, Career and Community Education; North Shore School Board, Continuing Education: Drawing, Watercolour, Mixed Media

Other teaching related activities
2003 Whitehorse Art Centre (Yukon): Mixed Media Workshop
2003 University of Victoria, Teaching assistant, Art Theory (Art 151)
2002 University of Victoria, Teaching assistant, Introduction to Contemporary Art (Art 150)
2001-04 Metchosin International Summer School for the Arts: Drawing and Painting courses
2000-01 Art Gallery of Greater Victoria: instructor for New Extreme Program (a program bring contemporary art teaching to junior secondary schools)
1999 Lochside Elementary School: Artist-in-residence (hands-on sessions of basic sculpture techniques).

Curatorial Activities
Slide Room Gallery, Board of Directors’, on-going curatorial projects and administration of curatorial program at VISA
Method and Museology, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (2002); curated and wrote monograph for this four-person exhibition.
Constructing Nature, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (2000); curated this three-person exhibition and wrote monograph essay.
25 Pieces of Art, Open Space Gallery, Victoria (1997); curated this exhibition which commemorated the 25th anniversary of Open Space. Artists from Victoria, Vancouver, Seattle and Los Angeles participated in this show.
West Coast Artists, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria (1995); as curator of this exhibition I brought together artists from Los Angeles,Victoria and Vancouver. The focus was on small work that made use of non-traditional art materials.

Bibliography
2005 Gates, Jan, Taxonomy, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (catalogue)
2003 Giroux, Christian, “Victoria’s Secret” Border Crossings, August, Vol .22, no. 87, p. 60-67
2003 Kangas, Matthew. “Dispatches: Victoria, B.C”, Sculpture Magazine, April, Vol 22, no. 3, p. 86-87
2003 Amos, Robert, “A Contemporary Response to Lawren Harris” Times Colonist (Victoria), August 28, p. D8
2003 Soodeen, Jeanine, “Artist re-invents landscape ideals”, Victoria News, August 20
2002 Hopkins, Michelle, “Installation explores objects in opposition”, The Richmond News, January 15
2002 Kerwin, Barbara “Inaugural Installation Project”, exhibition catalogue essay, LA Mission College Art and Multimedia
Black, Anthea, “Coast-to-coast survey of painters”, FastForward (Calgary) October 3, p.30
2001 Chow, Wanda “Colourists at Shadbolt” NewsLeader (Burnaby), December 7,
Annie Boulanger, “Gallery has colours to lift moods” NOW (Burnaby), Nov 20, p.11
2001 Corry, Corrine, “Wendy Welch” (interview), Richmond Art Gallery News, Fall/Winter, p.1
2001 Allen, Jan, “Eye Candy”, exhibition catalogue essay, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Speight, Pamela, “Interior Garden”, exhibition catalogue essay, Nanaimo Art Gallery

Writing
2011 “Throw Down” Exhibition catalogue for show of the same name, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (January 2012)
2005 “Interface” Canadian Art, Winter 2004
2004 “Incarnation, the Photographs of Susan Bozic” Artichoke, Fall 2004
2003 “Incarnation” (Susan Bozic), catalogue essay, The New Gallery
2003 “Nature Morte” (Susan Bozic, Deanna Georgeson, Jan Smart), catalogue essay, Nanaimo Art Gallery
2003 “Canvasback” (Dan Painchaud) catalogue essay, The New Gallery
2002 “Method and Museology (Bob Brown, Susan Detwiler, David Ferguson, Fiona Mowatt), catalogue essay, Open Space
2001 “Transference” (Jo Cook, Leah Decter, Jan Gates), catalogue essay, Nanaimo Art Gallery, October
2000 “Constructing Nature” (Margaret Glavina, Kevin Kelly, Roland Martin), catalogue essay, Open Space, March

Visual Arts writer for Monday Magazine (a Victoria-based weekly) 2002-2008