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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.
2007 Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Angela Baker: The François Project, Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. June 14 September 15. Accompanying video installation The place had changed.
2006/7 Untitled [Artspace], (( audio.listening.lab )), Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. December 1,2006 January 6, 2007. Part of Upgrade! International Symposium. With Melissa Creasey.
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.
2005 Toronto Free Gallery, The Corporate World, Toronto, Ontario. January 13 February 27. With the Commons.
2004 Toronto Free Gallery, Propagandista, Toronto, Ontario. November 18 December 23. With Melissa Creasey.
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 Performance Actions
2007 Analogue Loop (brook/birch/brook), Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. April 16.
2006 Broadcasting Map, 1 Pinch Yarrow Seeds : 50 Steps (August 26, 2006), Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. August 26. Part of Public Acts (Act 25: Experimentalism), a series of performances across Canada curated by Christine Shaw.
2005 Calling Crows , Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. January - December.
2004 The Stump Act, along Yonge Street from Toronto to Rainy River, Ontario. June 27 July 4. With Melissa Creasey.
Selected Screenings
2008 SparkVideo (Spark Contemporary Art Space), Kitties and Babies, Syracuse, New York. January 25.
2006 Thames Art Gallery, Calling Crows, screened alongside Tor Lukasik-Foss’s unsatisfied with their depiction, they resisted... exhibition, Chatham, Ontario. October 27 - November 26.
2006 Roxy Theatre, Laughter Through Tears, part of nextfest: Syncrude Next Generation Arts Festival, Edmonton, Alberta. June 7.
2006 Media Research Facility, Trent University, Carnivalesque, Peterborough, Ontario. March 3. With Melissa Creasey.
2005 Innis Town Hall & the John Spotton Cinema, Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario. April 11.
2005 Drake Hotel, Public Space Invaders, Toronto, Ontario. January 18. With Melissa Creasey.
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)
Membership
League of Artists of Western Newfoundland (LAWN)
Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
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.
Miriam Jordan & Julian Haladyn. “A Carnivalesque Introduction,” in The Carnivalesque: Videos of a World Inside Out, ed. Miriam Jordan and Julian Haladyn, 2-5. Peterborough, Ontario: Trent University, 2006.
Tanner Mirrlees, “Anti-Corporate Aesthetics and The Corporate World,” Relay: A Socialist Project Review, March/April, 2005, 26-28.
Stephanie Porter, “Gallery: Mark Prier,” The Independent, January 16, 2005, 14.
Kevin Temple, “Free Falling,” NOW, Dec. 2-9, 2004, Vol. 24, No. 14.
Kevin Hainey, “Propaganda Remixed,” Exclaim!, November 1, 2004. Online, http://www.exclaim.ca/index.asp?layid=22&csid1=3064
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.
Selected Media Interviews
2008 CBC Radio One, Weekend Arts Magazine, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast March 22.
2007 CBC Radio One, Q, Toronto, Ontario. Broadcast July 4.
2007 CBC Radio One, Weekend Arts Magazine, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast June 7.
2006 CBC Radio One, Socket, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast August 16 & 19.
2006 CBC Radio One, Freestyle, Vancouver, British Columbia. Broadcast May 24.
2006 CBC Radio One, Weekend Arts Magazine, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast January 14.
2005 CBC Radio One, Weekend Arts Magazine, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast March 12.
2005 CBC Radio One, West Coast Morning Show, Newfoundland & Labrador. Broadcast January 21.
2003 CIUT Radio, Visual Voice, Toronto, Ontario, Broadcast February 20.