CURRICULUM VITAE

GALLERIES

2007 - present Gallery Gevik 12 Hazelton Ave. Toronto ON. M5R 2ER

SOLO & SHARED EXHIBITIONS

2010 Ecology of Narrative Space, Installation & Prints, Reference (Gallery), Queen St. West. westqueenwest.ca 1st Thursday's Walk itinerary, Toronto ON. Solo

2010 Paintings and Prints, Gevik Gallery, Yorkville, Toronto ON. Featured
2010 Available Light, curator Dr. M. Korp, National Gallery of Pakistan, Islamabad

2009 Available Light, curator Dr. M. Korp, Alhamra Gallery, Lahore Pakistan

2009 The Ecology of Narrative Space, Rails End Gallery, Haliburton ON
Photomontage prints, insitu video projection installations. Solo

2009 Arctic Crisis Project: Parts 1 & 2. Centrepointe Theatre Gallery, Ottawa ON
A series of thirty photomontage archival inkjet prints. Solo

2009 Narratives: Personal and Public, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre Alberta. Arctic Crisis Project, parts 1 and 2 (digital photo collage), part 3 Arctic Journal Reading Performance and video installation. Solo

2009 Global Forces, Intimate Spaces, Marianne van Silfhout Gallery, St. Lawrence College Brockville ON. Solo

2008 Arctic Crisis (part 1), Arts and Architecture Gallery, 2nd Annual Ottawa Photography FestivalX. Solo

2007 Liminal Spaces (painting, photography and video), City of Ottawa Gloucester Gallery, Ottawa. Solo.

2004

 

Between Far and Near, painting, photography & installation, X'ian Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Xi'ian China. Support by Foreign Affairs Canada, Canadian Embassy and Ontario Council. Solo

2004 Pedigree for Sale (abstract paintings), National Press Club, Ottawa. Solo

2004 Nature's Wintertime, Small Galerie L'imagier, Gatineau, Québec. Solo

2003

Insights (paintings and interactive video installation), City of Ottawa, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa. Exhibition Catalogue published. 2-artists.

2003 Novus, Lost and Found Innocence, Daimon Video, Québec. Artists: Luc Desjardins, Karen Guttman, Sandra Hawkins, Penny McCann, Jean Perron, Ian Racine.

2001 To New York City and The Business of Art; performance and installations, Galerie 303, Belgo Building, Montréal Québec. Solo

2001 Natural Views (paintings & performance), Gallery 7, Toronto. 4-artists

2001 Le Rouge et Le Noir (paintings), Galerie Calligrammes, Ottawa. Artists: Christopher Lea Dunning, Sandra Hawkins

1999 Trembling, (paintings and video) Gallery 115, University of Ottawa, Ottawa. 2-artists

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

Still Revolution, CONTACT918 Bathurst Photography Festival, Toronto ON

2009 4° HOMENAJE AL AGUA (4th Homage to Water), Extensión Bogotá 2008-2009, Estuary Art Gallery. This is a traveling exhibition throughout Colombia with artists from nine countries. Video screening of Reversal, Banff glacier waters, 11 min. loop

2009 Deep North, transmediale.09 Festival for Art and Digital Culture, House of World Cultures, Berlin Germany. Three videos and one dvd slideshow.

2008 Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC) Residency Collection, Vizivarosi Gallery, Budapest Hungary. Transient Dreams, digital photocollage inkjet prints.

2008 Art and Economics Event, Arts & Architecture Gallery, 1181 Bank St. Ottawa

2008 Eros Festival, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) & Museum of American Erotic Art (MaReA), Bogotá Colombia

2008 Trees Interrupted, Galerie Calligrammes, Ottawa ON

2008-2009 Landscape Impressions (Ongoing) Gallery Gevik, 12 Hazelton Toronto ON
2008 SUBA” Vi Bienal De Arte Internacional organized by Cultural and Indigene Corporation, MACI. Bogotá Colombia

2007 Liminal Spaces, Shafali Studio Gallery, York St. (@ Cumberland) Ottawa ON

2007 FlashFlood International Video Exhibition, Museum of Polydimensional Research, Tuscson Arizona

2007 Sacred Expressions. Anglican General Synod, Toronto. Catalogue.

2007 Expressions of the Heart, Liminal Space series, Tay River Gallery, Perth ON

2007 -
1999
Consignment Paintings, Calligrammes Gallery, Ottawa
2006 Salt of Water, International Multimedia Festival, Kaliningrad Russia

2006 Works on Paper, Oriental Pine, Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa

2005 Multiples, SAW Gallery Fundraiser, Ottawa, Group

2005 Big Smalls Show, CUBE Gallery, Ottawa, Group

1999-
2004
Exclusive Representation by Calligrammes Gallery, Ottawa
2003 Video Poem, Tidal Wave International Film Festival, U. of New Brunswick
2002 Painting Consignments, SPIN Gallery, Queen St. W. Toronto

2001 Crime Seen (painting & video), curated by Don Monet, Gallery 101, Ottawa

2000 Casablanca Video Festival, PIM Video & Daimon Morocco Africa

2000 Rendez-Rous du cinemas de Québecois, Daimon & PIM Video Montréal

1993 Screaming Screens, University of Ottawa

1998 Paintings & Video Installation, National Museum of Nature, Ottawa

EDUCATION - RESIDENCIES - INTERNSHIPS

FORMAL EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, University of Ottawa,1999
Certificate in Fine Arts, 2005 Premier's Award Nominee, St. Lawrence, 1997
Post Graduate study, Sociology of Culture and History, Carleton U.
Masters in Environmental Studies, Urban Planning, York University
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology and Architecture, Carleton University

APPLIED VISUAL & MEDIA ARTS COURSES

Painting and Drawing: University of Ottawa; Ottawa School of Art; St. Lawrence College; Algonquin; France; California; Africa 1996-1999

Analogue and Digital Photography and Video: University of Ottawa; Centre de Production DAIMON; School of Photographic Arts Ottawa,1997-2007


ARTIST RESIDENCIES/INTERNSHIPS
2009 Banff Centre for the Arts, Self Directed Creative Residency Program Alberta
2008 Hungarian Multicultural Center (HMC), Artist International Residency Budapest
2003 Gibralter Point Centre, Independent Artist Residency, Toronto Islands, Canada
2000/01 DAIMON Video Production, Creative Research Program (2000 and 2001)
1998 Ottawa Art Gallery, Internship. Communications Research
1998 National Gallery of Canada, Internship. Crossings Exhibition. Installation artists assisted: CAI GuaoQiang; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons; Lani Maestro, Xu Bing

AWARDS & COLLECTIONS

2010 K.M. Hunter Award Nominee, Ontario Art Council & Ontario Art Foundation
2009 National Gallery of Pakistan Collections, Photomontage Prints and Video
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance, via artspace Gallery, Peterborough
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance, via Gallery 44, Toronto
2008 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2008 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance, via artspace Gallery, Peterborough
2008 Hungarian Mutlitcultural Centre Collection Budapest Hungary
2007 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance, via artspace Gallery
2005 Premier's Award (Ontario) Nominee, St. Lawrence College
2004 Foreign Affairs Contemporary Art Program, via Galerie L'Imagier, Gatineau
2004 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance, recommender Gallery 101
2001 Daimon Video Centre, Research & Creations; 1999 Daimon Residency
1999 University of Ottawa Jacqueline Fry Award Candidate
2004 X'ian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Collection, China
2004 National Archives/Library Video Collection, Ottawa, Canada
1999 University of Ottawa Library Slide Collection, Ottawa, Canada

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 "First Thursdays" in West Queen West presents Sandra Hawkins, Ecology of Narrative Space, Toronto, April 1, 2010
2010 ‘Available Light’, International News, 12/02/10. By Schezee Zaidi, Islamabad
2010 'Available Light', "Islamabad ,The exhibition titled ‘Available Light’ opening at the National Art Gallery here on Thursday showcases a dynamic portrayal of landscapes and lives by six artists in a vibrant blend of contemporary mediums and creative metaphors, published by One Pakistan, 12/02/10
2010 "Digital prints and photography exhibition: Six world artists bring ‘Available Light’ to NAG". By Mahtab Bashir, Daily Times, Islamabad Pakistan. 12/02/10
2009 Available Light, Exhibition Catalogue by Dr. M. Korp, essay by M. Schreier.
2009 ‘Arctic Crisis’ portrayed in photomontage by Joyce MacPhee, Epoch Times Ott. 09/09
2009

Exhibition features photomontage of past and present images, Nepean This Week 09/09

2009

New Exhibition at SLC, Recorder & Times Newspaper St. Lawrence EMC Jan 10 ed.

2009 Photo, Arctic Crisis Series #7, The Ottawa Citizen, January 10th ed.
2008 Photo, Arctic Crisis, SNAP Ottawa Downtown, September ed.
2008

VI Bienal Internacional de Arte, “SUBA”, Exhibition Catalogue

2007 'Liminal Spaces' exhibit takes art to higher level by J. Donnelly East Ottawa Star
2007

'Blank' space filled with imagination and perceptions, Artist finds inspiration in        environment by K. Mannix Vermette Ottawa Metro 07/07

2007

Nepean artist has work featured at gallery in Orleans, M. Nunn, Nepean This Week

2007

Sacred Expressions, by S.J. La Rocque. Anglican General Synod. Catalogue

2006

"Salt of Water" International Multimedia Festival, Museumof World Ocean Russia

2006 St. Lawrence College, Voyageur, 2005 Premier's Awards Nominees
2005 St. Lawrence College, Voyageur, Alumni Profile, Tyler Forkes
2005 The Spectator, Annapolis Royal, The business of art and the art of business, putting visual language into words. Carolyn Sloan
2005 CBC Sydney N.S. Business of art for visual artists, W. Bergfeld
2004 National Press Club Canada, Pedigree for Sale
2004 The Ottawa Citizen, Paintings to China and Back, J. Campbell
2004 The Ottawa Citizen, Mending, quarter page photo of painting and caption
2003 Karsh-Mason Gallery, Insights Exhibition Catalogue, ISBN 0-96865078-3
2003 Seeing Beyond 360 Degrees, Insights Catalogue Prologue. V. Tors
2003 Ottawa Xpress, Time for time in many media by Anita Euteneier
2003 Nepean This Week, Video Installation is running Out of Time, Dunn
2002 CBC FM 103.3 Artscape, Visual Art Industry in Canada, by Gary Hay
2002 U. of Ottawa Radio, Dispelling myths re starving artists, M.Caplan
2001 U. of Ottawa Radio, Gallery 101 Crime Scene exhibition, M.Caplan
2001 Ottawa Citizen, Teaching artists about the bottom line, J.Campbell.
Photo L. Ball
1999 Le Doit, Techniques d'une matière consacrée, Le rouge et le noir Bégin.

INSTALLATION & VIDEO TITLES

©1981-
2007
Arctic Crisis. Human-Environmental Interface. Digital photo collage archival prints
©2007 Suspended Riverbed. Kinesthetic investigation. Layered boxes.
©2007 Trees Interrupted. Suspended kinesthetic painting installation
©2007 Reversal. Video installation, expressions in kinesthetic perception
©2007 Golden Pond. 2 minute DVD. Mandela metaphors for spiritual-nature connection
©2007 Reversal. 2-minute DVD. Rushing reversal of glacier waters
©2004 Architecture of Absence. Photo-based installation, NYC Trade Centre
©2004 Nature's Winter Time. Floor projection deconstructs and reinvents images
©2003 River's Residue. Kinesthetic investigation. Floor boxes at intervals
©2003 Out of Time. Interactive video installation. Kinesthetic investigation of seeing beyond peripheral 360-degrees. Slippage between past present and future
©2003 Out of Time. 5-minute DVD. Every day ritual acts at a burial are repeated five times, a number with spiritual significance. Bridging mortality
©2001 To New York City. Photo-based installation. Kinesthetic investigation examines containment and resistance to letting go.
©2001 Lost & Found Innocence. 5-minutes DVD. Performance-based video.
©2001 The Business of Art. Performance & Installation. Theme: aesthetic preferences and identity, exchange, that which does not fit
©2000 Human Bytes. 2-minutes, DVD. Compression of the human spirit.
©2000 Signs of Refraction. Floor projection. Consciousness & distorted truth.
©1998 Nature's Winter Time #1. Video table projection, Identity vs social perception.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, TEACHING, WRITING, DEVELOPMENT

2011

Artist Presentation, Toronto Artist Research Sabbatical, Art Salon 26, a series organized by curator Petra Halkes, Ottawa

2009 Seminar/Workshop Leader, Mid Career Business of Art for Visual/Media Artists; Hosted by Business of Art Training inc./B.O.A.T. inc

2009 Self Directed Creative Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta

2009 Professor Contemporary Visual Art Discourse: How We See and Human Identity, Centre for Initiatives in Education, Carleton University, Ottawa

2009 Professional Development, Using Narrative in Critical Art Writing workshop by Steven Loft, Ottawa Art Gallery

2008 Speaker Tips for Collecting Art, Art For Life Festival, Haliburton ON

2008 Artist Pariticpant, International Symposium, Creative Construction, Building for Culture and Creativity, April 28 - May 1, Ottawa ON.

2008 Artist/Presenter, International Artists Residency, Hungarian Mutlitcultural Centre, Budapest Hungary. Artists from Japan, Israel, U.S.A, Ireland and only one Canadian out of 20 successful applicants from 350 applicants.

2008 Professional Development, Critical Writing Workshop Series, Articulation by Ottawa Art Gallery. Instructors: Kirsten Forkert, Richard Fung

2007 Artist and Teacher, B.O.A.T. Business of Art Training, Visual Arts Summit, Canadian Museums Association, Nov. 25-27, Ottawa

2007 Focus group participant, Artspace Strategies for Ottawa, Arts Court

2006 Invited 1976 Alumnus, United Nations Urban Forum3 (HABITAT), Vancouver

2005 International Project Co-ordinator (3 years) Ottawa-China Artists Exhibition Exchange. Negotiation of support from all level's of governments in Canada, in China, and with the Xi'ian Academy of Fine Arts in China. Organized exhibition for two renown artists from China and hosted their attendance in Ottawa.

2005 Freelance Teacher, Workshops, Business of Art, Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Halifax (2), Sydney, Annapolis

2005 Author/publisher, The Business of Art for Canadian Visual Artists, Third Edition

2004 Independent researcher, Venice International Biennale in Architecture, Venice Italy

2004 Guest Lecturer, Contemporary Art in Canada, X'ian Academy of Fine Arts, Xi'ian China

2004 Guest Lecturer, Canadian Visual Art Industry, X'ian Institute of Technology, Xi'ian China

2003 -
2006
Freelance Teacher, Business of Art for Visual Artists, Workshop Series, Ottawa Council for the Arts

2003 -
2006
Video productions, V-Tape Distribution Catalogue, Toronto
2003 Video productions, Video Web Streaming Project, SAW Video, Ottawa

2003 Arts Writer, Delicate Boundaries, video by Kate Craig ©1979. Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ Magazine

2002 Artist, Independent Residency, Gibralter Point Centre for the Arts, Toronto Islands

2002 Author, The Business of Art for Canadian Visual Artists 2nd ed. 0-9731049-0-2

2001 Art Writer, Death/Noire by P. Couillard , Gallery 101, performance-art

2001 Art Writer, Hybrid Home Painting, Video Corridor, Kevin Ei-ichi Deforest

2001 -
2002
Freelance Teacher, workshops, Business of Art, U. of Ottawa Campus
2001 -
2002
Board of Directors, CARFAC Ontario, 401 Richmond Toronto ON
2001 -
2002
Affiliate Member, National Council Ontario - Governance Issues.
2001 Professor, Introduction to Legal and Economic Structures for Arts Administration in Canada, Business Adminstration Dept., University of Ottawa

2001 Speaker, National Conference Round Table. Cultural Human Resources Council

2000 -
2001
Freelance Teacher, Getting It Together, Media Sector Algonquin College
2000 -
2001
Freelance Teacher, Art Smart: The Business of Art, Brookfield High School
2000 -
2001
Speaker, Business of Being an Artist in Canada, Ottawa Mixed-Media Association

2000 -
2002
Community Arts Public Speaking: Centre 454; Bytown Art Group; Art East; Ottawa Mixed Media Association (OMMA)

2000 - 2001 Panelist Speaker & Exhibitor, Careers in the Arts Fair, Carleton University
2000 Art Exhibition Juror, SAW Gallery, Artist-run Centre

1999 -
2001
Board of Directors, Personnel Policy, Gallery 101, Ottawa
1998 Communications Internship, Communitcations Research, Ottawa Art Gallery

1998 Internship, "Crossings" International Installation Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Canada: CAI GuaoQiang; Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons; Lani Maestro, Xu Bing

PUBLIC POLICY INTERFACE

1990 -
1997
Senior Social Policy Advisor & Evaluator, Federal Department of Indian Affairs
1982 -
1990
Co-ordinator Native Program Policy, Native Citizens' Directorate, Heritage Canada (formerly Department of Secretary of State)
1989 Project Manager, Alternatives Models for Health Care Service Delivery, Health Co-ops, Agriculture Canada
1980 -
1982
Health Educator, Mackenzie District Zone, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Health Canada
1980 National Facilitator, National Association Native Friendship Centres
1975 -
1980
Freelance Consultant, Social Research and Development: Department of Solicitory General; Health & Welfare Canada's New Horizon's Program.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Teaching

  • Freelance Adult Education Workshops & public speaking
  • Post-Secondary Continuing Education & Credit Courses
  • Public Policy Orientation to Program Managers in a variety of field

Contemporary Art Discourse

  • Ongoing multimedia practice & aesthetic Investigations
  • Theoretical understanding
  • Use of appropriate language
  • Analytical writing skills
  • Museological discussion

Arts Administration & Project Management

  • Ottawa Art Gallery Commnications Research
  • National Gallery Internship, Crossings Exhibition
  • Preparing all aspects of funding & exhibition proposals
  • Staging art exhibitions
  • Co-ordinating international artists exhibition exchange
  • Inter governmental Research & Public Policy Co-ordination and Development
  • Government-organizational Agreements
  • Program Evaluation
  • Interdisciplinary Research across sectors

Analytical & Persuasive Writing

  • Visual/Media Arts Exhibition and Funding Proposals
  • Educational Textbooks, Materials: Arts Administration, marketing
  • Art Reviews, Exhibition Catalogues, Press Releases, Announcements, Brochures
  • Analytical Papers & Reports: technical or everyday language
  • Synthesis of complex ideas
  • Funding Proposals for government agencies, including Federal  
  • Treasury Board submissions

Current Technology - MAC & PC: Word, Adobe CS Suite, Dreamweaver, I-movie, Final Cut Pro, Internet Research, etc.

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