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Mark Prier

Hopeville, Ontario, Canada

Exhibition Record

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010      Rails End Gallery & Art Centre, The Lines, Haliburton, Ontario.  August 7 – September 18.

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

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

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

2011      Riverwood Park, HotBox Riverwood, Mississauga, Ontario. October 1 – 30.

2011      Thier + Curran Architects Inc., Containment, Hamilton, Ontario. March 11 - 14.

2010      Studio 22, Just Act Natural, Kingston, Ontario.  June 25 – 27.

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

2011      Canada Council for the Arts, Research/Creation Project Grant

2011      Ontario Arts Council, Emerging Artist Project Grant

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)

2006      Newfoundland & Labrador Arts Council Project Grant

Education

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

Selected Bibliography

Stephanie Vegh, “James North Art Crawl: March,” Stephanie Vegh + Blog, March 17, 2011. http://stephanievegh.ca/blog/2011/03/17/james-north-art-crawl-march-4/

Lisa Visser, “Just Act Natural – a Curatorial Essay,” Just Act Natural, Studio 22, June 25-27, 2010.

Mike Landry, “Ramp - Toronto,” Things of Desire, June 18 - 24, 2009.  http://thingsofdesire.ca/2009/06/18/ramp/#more-1881 [no longer online]

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.

Andria Hickey, “Four Newfoundland Video Artists,” RCA Visual, August 2007.

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.

Janet Bellotto & Wendy Wallace, ed. Deviant Detours, exh. cat. Toronto: Kunsthaus Santa Fé/Red Head 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.