Curriculum Vitae
2006-2008 York
University, MFA in Visual Arts
1998-2002
Concordia University, BFA in Studio Art. Conferred with distinction.
1995-1997 Dawson
College, DEC Fine Arts.
2017 Vanishing Point / Pointe de Fuite, SKOL, Montréal, Québec. september 8-october 14 2017
2015 Portrait Painting, (ongoing project) various locations, Montréal, Québec and Kingston, Jamaica.
(https://www.facebook.com/portraitlibre)
2010 Blue Skies, Articule, Montreal, Quebec.
2008 White
Noise,
Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario.
2004 Look at
Me When I’m Talking to You, Artguise, Ottawa, Ontario.
Catalogue:
Look at Me When I’m Talking to You, essay by Francois Escalmel.
2004 Paintings
by Kristi Ropeleski,
FLY, Montreal, Quebec.
2003 Blood
Harmony,
Zeke’s Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
Catalogue:
Blood Harmony, essay by Christina Bagatavicius, Head of Interpretation, Tate
Britain.
2016 Faculty Bienale, Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Westmount, Quebec.
2014 Pour L'Art, Galerie B-312,Montreal, Quebec
2012 Earth Tone, Ian Shatilla Studios, Montréal, Québec.
2012 Les Refusées, Marché St. Jacques, Montréal, Québec.
2011 Faculty Biennalle, Dawson College, Westmount, Québec.
2011 Les Faussieres, Articule, Montréal, Québec.
2009 Faculty Biennalle, Dawson College, Westmount, Québec.
2009 The Kingston Prize Exhibition, The Grand Theatre, Kingston, ON. (touring, Toronto, Nova Scotia, Alberta)
2009 Re: InSitu, Szentendre Muveset, Szentendre, Hungary. (touring, Keszthely Malom, Canada, etc.)
2009 The Love Show, Spread Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
2008 The Body as Image, The Philoctetes Center, New York, NY.
2008 Peinture Fraiche, Art Mur, Montreal Quebec.
2008 The Art of the Human Canvas, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario.
2008 Committed
to Ink,
Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, California.
2007 milk.
milk. lemonade.
Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2007 Art at
Suite 500,
Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
2007 Tangents, Gales Gallery, York
University, Toronto Ontario.
2006 Beyond
Representation,
curated by Shawn Barber, Scion Dashboard, San Francisco, California.
2005 Beast
Farm,
Core Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2005 Summer
Flesh,
Core Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2005 Electric
Art Derby 5,
Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, Quebec.
2005 Visages
et le Temps Perdu,
Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
Catalogue:
Faces and Transitions, essay "Bodies Without Organs" by Andres
Manniste.
2004 Silent
Auction,
Warren G. Flowers Gallery, Montreal, Quebec.
2004 The 3rd
Annual Jessica Festica, Barfly, Montreal, Quebec.
2004 Group Exhibition, curated by Sefi Amir, Le Salon Vert, Montreal, Quebec.
2004 Visions
Collectives,
McClure Gallery, Westmount, Quebec.
2004 Electric
Art Derby 4,
Casa Del Popolo, Montreal, Quebec.
2003 Festica
Festica,
Sneeky Dee’s, Toronto, Ontario.
2003 Jessica
Festica,
Barfly, Montreal, Quebec.
2003 Preview
Show,
Zeke’s Gallery, Montréal, Québec.
2002 Electric
Art Derby 2,
Casa Del Popolo, Montréal, Québec.
2002 The Sex
Show, The
Lotus Eaters Gallery, Montreal, Québec.
2001 Prom
2001,
Just for Laughs Museum, Montréal, Québec.
2001 Carnival, Just for Laughs Museum,
Montréal, Québec.
2001 Rue du
Quotidien,
VAV Gallery, Montréal, Québec.
2000 Dirty :
A Smut Show,
private venue, Montréal, Québec..
1999 Group
Show,
Centaur Theater Gallery, Montréal, Québec.
1997 Twenty-One/Ninety-Seven, Dawson College,
Montréal, Québec.
1997 Exhibition
Inter-Collegiale de Québec, St. Jérôme, Québec.
Work
Experience and Community Activities
2009 Drawing Instructor, The Visual Arts Centre, Westmount Québec.
Select Community Work
2014-15 Member of the Board of Directors at Articule.
2014-15 : Montreal Monochrome II & III, M.A.I., Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, Quebec.
2012 Artist Talk: The Human Figure in Art, S.P.A.C.E. Conference, Dawson College, Westmount Quebec
2010 Artist Talk, Articule, Montreal, Quebec.
2007 Guest Speaker, “Look at Me When I’m Talking to You”, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2007 Exhibition Coordinator for milk. milk. lemonade. Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2006 Graduate Curator, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto, Ontario.
2005 Guest Speaker, “Blood Harmony”, Dawson College, Montréal, Québec.
2003 Participated in Le Centre de Resources sur la Non Violence (CRNV) artistic symposium commemorating the December 6th massacre at the École Polytechnique.
I hold an active membership at Articule and SKOL artist run centers in Montreal.
2009 Painting instructor, Dawson College, Montreal, Québec.
2007 Painting
Instructor, York University
2007 exhibition
coordinator for milk. milk. lemonade. Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Graduate
Curator, Gales Gallery, York University
2005 Invited
Speaker, Dawson College
2012 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2010 The Elizabeth Greenshields Award
2009 Grant for research and creation, Conseils des Arts et Lettre de Québec.
2007 Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Grant
2006 The
Elizabeth Greenshields Award
2006 MFA Scholarship, York University,
Toronto, Ontario.
1997 Chairman’s
Purchase Prize, Dawson College.
1995 Certificate
for Outstanding Achievement in Art, St. Thomas High School.
2010 featured in Nightlife Magazine.
2009 featured in Poetrs and Artists.
2008 Attention: Peinture Fraiche, La Presse, Montreal, Quebec.
2008 Bodies of Work, Josef Woodward, The Santa Barbara News Press.
2008 Carte
Blanche Volume 2, Magenta Publishing Foundation, Toronto Ontario.
2006 “Portraits
in the Flesh”, by Christina Bagatavicius, NY Arts, Nov/December vol.13,
no.11/12.
2005 "Major
Artists and Their Muses", by Henry Lehman, The Gazette, CanWest, March
5th 2005 p. D4.
2004 "My So-Cool Life" by Amy Dotson, Elle Girl, Elle Magazine, September 2004 p. 68.
2004 "Paintings
Stare Back" by Bernard Perusse, The Gazette, CanWest, February 6th
2004 p.D9.
2004 This
Morning Live, Global TV, Canwest Review of Blood Harmony.
2004 "Blood
Harmony" by Kovacs Edit, Magyar Kronika, February 6th 2004
p.6.
2003 "Blood
Harmony" by Christina Bagatavicius, show catalogue, independent
publication.
2002 "Art
Talks" interview by Catherine Gomby, CBC Radio. Re: Sex Show.
Collections:
Senvest Collection
Tullman Collection
Rapp Optical
Dawson College
Nat and Georgia Kramer Collection
various private collections.