Photo by Dulce Avila Romero

Education/Residency History

 

2015       MFA – Interdisciplinary, Montclair State University (Montclair, NJ)

2012       Vermont Studio Center – Sculpture residency (Johnson, VT)
2011       BFA with Honours – Sculpture, University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, MB)

 

Solo Exhibitions/Performances

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2015       Mother-Father-Daughters-Soil-Cotton-Pig-Sausage-Babies video installation and                       performance, Westbeth Gallery (NYC)

2015       Resurrection video installation and performance, Brian Morris Studio Gallery (NYC) 2015       Resurrection video installation and performance, Finley Gallery (Montclair, NJ) 2014       Reheading installation and performance, Nuit Blanche 2014, La Petite Mort

                Gallery (Ottawa, ON)
2014       Unslaughtering installation and performance, Finley Gallery (Montclair, NJ)

2013       Sausage Fest ’54 installation and performance, Finley Gallery (Montclair, NJ) 2013                     Sunday Afternoon at the Beach with Zen and Larry-Ann, written, directed, and

                performed in, Exchange Community Center (Winnipeg, MB)

2012       Tar Paper Pig, Project Room at aceartinc. (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       Unheimlich II, Gallery of Student Art (University of Manitoba)

2011       Unheimlich, The Edge Gallery (Winnipeg, MB)

Selected Group Exhibitions/Performances

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2016       Catharine Clark Gallery, media room (upcoming) (San Francisco)

2016       Woolgatherers, presented by Asylos at Five Myles Gallery (NYC)
2016       She took me back so tenderly, presented by Ayo&Teresa at DC Fringe Festival

                (Washington, DC)
2016       Woolgatherers, presented by Asylos at Figment Festival (NYC)
2016       Filmvideo Festival, Index Gallery (Newark, NJ)
2016       Pterodactyls, presented by Asylos at Humbolt & Jackson (NYC)
2015       Out of the Ash, presented by Asylos at Glasshouse LifeArtLab (NYC)
2015       Oh, Canada, Westbeth Gallery (NYC)
2015       Worlds Without End, Brian Morris Studio Gallery (NYC)
2015       Dirte, Central Booking Gallery (NYC)
2014       Corpus Vile, Brooklyn Fireproof East (NYC)
2014       Strata, Index Gallery (Newark, NJ)
2013       Mennofolk 2013, Negative Space (Winnipeg, MB)
2013       My Winnipeg: The Artist’s Choice, Plug-In Institute of Contemporary Art (Winnipeg,

                MB)
2012       Pickle: New Work by Teresa Braun and Josh Roach, Frame Gallery (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       Art in the cold, cold night, Exchange Community Church (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       La Deuxieme Partie, Golden City Fine Art (Winnipeg, MB)
2011       Post No Bills Pop-Up Gallery, Fringe Festival (Winnipeg, MB)
2011       Flux in Flux, aceartinc. (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       Thesis Show, Gallery 111 (University of Manitoba)
2011       February: A Salon and Group Exhibition, The White Gallery (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       Collaboration to Promote Art and Music Competition, GoSA
2010      Winter Warmer, aceartinc.
2009      Twenty-four Hands, Four Pianos (University of Manitoba)
2008      Members' Show, Martha Street Studio (Winnipeg, MB)
2007      Mennofolk 2007, aceartinc.

Awards/Grants

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2013-15  Graduate Assistanceship – Montclair State University
2014       Graduate School Travel Grant, Montclair State University
2014       Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award – University of Manitoba
2013       Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Award – University of Manitoba
2012       Artist Grant – Vermont Studio Center
2012       Manitoba Arts Council – Creation/Production Grant in the Visual Arts
2012       Winnipeg Arts Council – Professional Development Grant
2012       New Artist in Media Arts Fund – Video Pool Media Arts Centre (Winnipeg, MB)

2011       University Gold Medal for highest standing in School of Art (University of Manitoba) 2011       University Gold Medal for highest standing in Fine Arts Studio Honours Program 2010       Hirsch Memorial Scholarship – awarded for a piece of outstanding creative writing 2010       Janet Ian Cameron Memorial Bursary in Fine Arts
2009       Dr. A.W. Hogg Undergrad Bursary
2009       Isbister Fine Arts Scholarship
2007       Sculpture Bursary

 

Press/Publications/Public Talks/Collections

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2016       Cosmologies Shaped By Trauma, artist panel discussion (organizer and participant),                 Eyebeam Art & Technology Center (NYC)

2016       MotherFatherDaughtersSoilCottonPigSausageBabies video, Vassar Review, digital                     publication

2016       For Your Island TV show, Mordbid Anatomy Museum interview                                   

2016       Eigengrund video, Video Pool Media Arts Center online collection of new media                           work

2015       From the prairies to NYC: on being an emerging Canadian artist, artist panel                               discussion, Westbeth Gallery (NYC)

2015       “An all-white dinner party with Sylvia Plath” Greenpointers review

2015       “Your Backstage Pass to Out of The Ash” A&B Photography 

2015       De Schwoate Bruhne von Eigengrund by Teresa Braun, Artist Monograph
2014       “Ophelia and Friends, Dominated but in Control: Richard Schechner’s ‘Imagining O’                 at Montclair State” The New York Times review (prop and set design)

2014       “Nuit Blanche Illuminations” Ottawa Arts Council News 

2014       “Must-Sees This Week” Canadian Art

2010       “Where is the Red Thread?” travel essay and photographs, Rhubarb Magazine

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Work Experience

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2015       Founding Member of Asylos immersive theater company (NYC)
2015-16  Adjunct Faculty, Montclair State University
2015       Artist Assistant to Arline Jacoby
2014       Set Design and installation for “Imagining O”, directed by Richard Schechner at the

                Alexander Kasser Theater (Montclair, NJ)
2012       Fabricator for Chico MacMurtrie: Robotic Arts in Canada (University of Manitoba) 2008-11 Student Sculpture Technician (University of Manitoba)
2010       Projectionist, Paper Animation Festival (Winnipeg, MB)
2010       Performer in Guy Maddin’s “Hauntings” (Winnipeg, MB) 

Here lies a foundational fable, where cycles of reproduction and digestion overlap in De Schwoate Bruhne von Eigengrund (The Blacks and Browns of Our Own Ground). The story originates with a Cottonwood Tree planted by The Mother over the graves of The Father and Two Daughters. Performances follow the spirit-seed dispersals of the Tree. The Seeds are ingested by a Pig who is butchered, unbutchered, and eaten by Mother as a sacrificial act of Mourning, Sustenance, and Procreation.

 

My work is loosely framed around narratives of Slaughter, Sacrifice, and Choral Traditions. I am guided by material from the Schwoate Bruhne Archives and perceptions of particular members of the family, from the vantage point of an informed observer of the Mennonite faith, an ethno-religious protestant tradition that emphasizes Pacifism, Literalism, and Martyrdom. I am driven by a particular family story, that of three sisters buried beneath a tree, initiating a family cemetery. Throughout my childhood, my father renovated the cemetery but was unable to locate their graves. He says they were “taken into the root system of the tree”. This mythic logic is the sustenance of my recent work. I oscillate between embodiment and enactment, seeking to deconstruct shared assumptions about how things are done and how things are -- such as how to slaughter a pig, or what a pig even is through reverse births and unbutcherings.