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Mark Prier

Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Exhibition Record

Solo Exhibitions

2009     Red Head Gallery, ramp, Toronto, Ontario.  June 24 – July 18.

2008      Brucebo Stipendiegård, Structure, Själsö, Sweden.  August 18 – 25.

2007      Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, State Greetings, Kingston, Ontario. August 22 ­ September 29. With Robert Jelinek.

2007      Window Project, Continental Drift, Victoria, British Columbia. January 20 ­ February 28.

2006      White Water Gallery, The Stump Act, North Bay, Ontario. April 29 ­ May 27. With Melissa Creasey.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009      The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Arts and Letters Visual Art Exhibition, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador.  May 5 – 17.

2009      Kunsthaus Santa Fé, Deviant Detours, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.  February 7 – March 29.

2007      RCA Visual, Four Newfoundland Video Artists, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. August 12 ­ September 16.

2007      The Lost O, Nomadsland, Ashford (Kent), United Kingdom. July 1 ­ 8.

2006      Lonsdale Gallery, The Forest for the Trees, Toronto, Ontario. November 9 ­ 30.

2004      City Without Walls, Video:1 MIN:1800 frames, Newark, New Jersey. March 26 - May 12. With Melissa Creasey.

2003      Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area 03, Nomadsland, Kitchener, Ontario. September 20 - 28.

Selected Grants & Awards

2009      Arts and Letters Award in Visual Art, Senior Division (Government of Newfoundland & Labrador)

2008      Brucebo Summer Residency Scholarship (The Brucebo Foundation of Gotland, Sweden)

2008      Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council Project Grant

2006      Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council Project Grant

2003      John Wolfe McColl Memorial Award in Fine Art (Visual Studies)

Education

2004      Honours Bachelor of Arts Visual Studies (with High Distinction), University of Trinity College, University of Toronto.

Selected Bibliography

Mike Landry, “Ramp - Toronto,” Things of Desire, June 18 - 24, 2009.  http://thingsofdesire.ca/2009/06/18/ramp/#more-1881

Kate Feld, “Galleries at Home,” Art World, Issue 2, December 2007/January 2008, 56-57.

Lauren Raham, “Modern Fuel show goes the distance: State Greetings builds art around notions of citizenship, states and national identity,” The Journal, September 14, 2007, 11.

Erin Flegg, “Become a Nomad, or a citizen of State of Sabotage,” The Kingston Whig-Standard, September 8, 2007, Ticket 4-5.

Louise Cohen, “The road less traveled,” The Times (London), June 30, 2007.

Sean Flinn, “Putting the ‘art’ in apartment,” This Magazine, January/February, 2007, 38.

Barbara Godard. Catalogue essay, in The forest for the trees, ed. The Intersperse Curatorial Collective, 8-16. Toronto: The Intersperse Curatorial Collective, 2007.

Cory Hurley, “Road Show: Performance part of Canada-wide cultural exhibition,” The Western Star, August 30, 2006, 1.

Betty Ann Jordan, “Mark Prier,” Toronto Life, April, 2006, 126.

Stephanie Porter, “Gallery: Mark Prier,” The Independent, January 16, 2005, 14.

Kevin Temple, “Free Falling,” NOW, Dec. 2-9, 2004, Vol. 24, No. 14.

Catalogues

Charlotte Jones, ed. Time and Place, exh. cat. Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador: Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, 2009.

The Intersperse Curatorial Collective, ed.  The forest for the trees, exh. cat.  Toronto: The Intersperse Curatorial Collective, 2007.

Jacqueline de los Santos, ed.  Upgrade! International: DIY, exh. cat.  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: Upgrade! International, 2006.

Miriam Jordan & Julian Haladyn, ed.  The Carnivalesque: Videos of a World Inside Out, exh. cat.  Peterborough, Ontario: Trent University, 2006.

Virginia Eichhorn and Ernest Daetwyler, ed.  Probing into the Distance: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, CAFKA.03, exh. cat.  Kitchener: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, 2004.