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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.