
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
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
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
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
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
Work Experience
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.