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Mark Prier
Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
Exhibition Record
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Red Head Gallery, Clearing a Fencerow, Toronto, Ontario. March 26 April 19.
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.
2006 Red Head Gallery, Follow the Crows, Toronto, Ontario. March 29 April 22.
Selected Group Exhibitions
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.
2005 Red Head Gallery, Work Space, Toronto, Ontario. August 31 September 10.
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
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
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.
Corinna Ghaznavi. Catalogue essay, in Probing into the Distance: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, CAFKA.03, ed. Virginia Eichhorn and Ernest Daetwyler, 70-79. Kitchener: Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, 2004.