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Mark Prier
Hopeville, Ontario, Canada
Exhibition Record
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.
2009 The Black Thorn Stick Gallery, Plant Material, Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. March 31 – May 31.
2008 Brucebo Stipendiegård, Structure, Själsö, Sweden. August 18 – 25.
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
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.
2008 Full Tilt Creative Centre, CIRCUIT, McIvers, Newfoundland & Labrador. November 2 – 22.
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
2009 TALK (Rambling Assembly), West Street and Environs, Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador. February 21. Part of East Coast Music Awards Arts & Cultural Linkages and 2009 Corner Brook Winter Carnival.
2008 Broadcasting Map, 1 Pinch Yarrow Seeds : 50 Steps (Röllika), Sweden. July 21 (Väskinde), September 1 (Stockholm). Part of Stockpile, a showcase of art from Atlantic Canada.
2008 Survival Walk, Newfoundland & Labrador. July 11 (Corner Brook), August 3 (Fogo), August 8 (St. John’s). Part of Stockpile, a showcase of art from Atlantic Canada.
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
2011 FADO Performance Art Centre, Screening of Performance Art in the Natural Environment (SPANE 2011), Artscape Gibraltor Point, Toronto, Ontario. August 28.
2011 HBK Braunschweig, 3. Internationales Digitalisiertes Filmfestival presents Art-Picnic: Filme der kanadischen Künstlergruppe „Stockpile Artists Collective“, Braunschweig, Germany. July 9.
2010 North Shore Drive-in, 7mins7days, Bay of Islands, Newfoundland & Labrador. September 12.
2008 The Rooms Theatre, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Strange Terrain, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador. Part of the Eastern Edge Video Series 2008. December 13.
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
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)
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
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]
Craig Francis Power, “Strange Terrain,” Eastern Edge Video Series 2008 in collaboration with The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, December 13, 2008.
Sara Smith, “State of Sabotage declared on Wolfe Island: State Greetings: Pushing the Boundaries of Nationalism,” Modern Fuel, Spring 2008, 1, 12.
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.
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.
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
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.
Selected Media Interviews
2011 Rogers Television, Daytime, Mississauga, Ontario. Broadcast September 27.
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.