Kathy Slade

Education

1990
BA, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby/Vancouver

Solo Exhibitions

2008
KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY POWER SUPPLY, Savage School Window Gallery/ 7 Vyner Street, London UK
2006
52 Transactions, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver
Chart, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
2004
Alas Poor Yorick, The Fred and Jock Gallery, Vancouver
2003
I Want it All I Want It Now, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2002
Embroidered Monochrome Propositions and Other New Work, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
1997
Under the Skin, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver (with Warren Murfitt)
1995
Fictional Portraits, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna
1993
by dint of groping and Skin, Or Gallery, Vancouver
1989
Deliberate Transgressions, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Hold On, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2007
Common Threads, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI; Illingsworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB
Idiot Joy Showland, IFC Center, New York, NY
Idiot Joy Showland, Nuit Blanche, Artcore Gallery, Toronto, ON
Mutter ReGina: Rita McBride, Discoteca Flaming Star, Jay Batlle, David Gray, Michael Mahalchick, RH Quaytman, Glen Rubsamen, Kimberly Sexton and Kathy Slade, Whitney Live, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2006
Cristoph Keller Presents ..., Meyer Reigger Gallerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Rhubarb Society: Anne Collier, Adam McEwen, Jonathan Middleton, John Pilson, Kathy Slade, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
A Thing Called Love, Neon Gallery, Brösarp, Sweden
2005
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
I'm a Fan, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
Liste 05, Basel, Switzerland
More is More, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
2004
2048 km: Robert Arndt, Euan Macdonald, Kathy Slade, Ron Terada, Mungo Thomson, Kerry Tribe, Anne Walsh and Ed Ruscha, Or Gallery, Vancouver
At Play, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai
Confidence, Passagen Konsthall, Linkoping, Sweden
2003
Sweet and Sour: Althea Thauberger, Kathy Slade, Shannon Oksanen, Cathy Daley and Janet Werner, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
Thinking Textile, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC
2002
Think Big / Voir Grand, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal
Binocular Parallax, Consolidated Works, Seattle
The Village, Or Gallery, Vancouver
Documents Exhibition, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
1997
framed, Or Gallery, Vancouver
1992
Helen Pitt Awards Show, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1991
Heroic Romance, U.B.C. Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
FIfth Anniversary Exhibition, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
1990
SFU 25th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, Perel Gallery, Vancouver
Access/Acces, Perel Gallery, Vancouver

Reviews / Bibliography

2008
The Banal, Cate Rimmer, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2007
Akimblog, Calgary, Sarah Adams-Bacon, http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/?id=156, December 5
"The stitch finds its niche", Lee Plested and Leah Sandals, The National Post, Toronto, November 29
"Vancouver Singular Plural: Art in an age of Post-Medium Production", Randy Lee Cutler, Vancouver Art and Economies, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
"The Rhubarb Society", Maria Fusco, frieze, London UK, January
"Group Search (Art in the Library)" Vanessa Kwan, C Magazine, Toronto, Winter 2006
2006
"The Vancouver Special", Maria Fusco, frieze, London UK, November/December
"Kathy Slade: Chart", Cate Rimmer, C Magazine, Toronto, Summer
"Rhubarb, rhubarb as the Goons would say", Clint Burnham, The Vancouver Sun, October 19
"2048 km", Melanie O'Brian, d'Or 3: Goin Solo, Or Gallery Vancouver
Akimblog, Vancouver, Clint Burnham, http://www.akimbo.biz/akimblog/index.php?id=37, April 26
"Guitar-tab charts take on a life of their own", Clint Burnham, The Vancouver Sun, April 13
"Kathy Slade", Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, April 6-12
"Charting Kathy Slade's Soundless Chords", Brady Cranfield, Vancouver
"Threads of Note", Danielle Egan, The Globe and Mail, Toronto/Vancouver, March 24
"Hjärta och smärta", Julia Svensson, Kvallsposten, Sweden, April 2
"Ung kandensisk samtidskonst på Neon", Osterlenmagasinet, March
"Schlagerkonst med kärlek i Brösarp", Anders Blomdahl, Kristianstadbladet, Sweden, March 14
"Lekfull konst om kärleken", Ulf Martensson, Ystads Allehanda, Sweden, March 3
"Kärlekfrån Kanada" Sune Johannesson, Kristianstadbladet, Sweden, March 3
2005
"Post No Bills", Michael Wilson, Artforum. October, New York
"Artists see stars in I am a Fan", Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Aug 25-31
"2048km" Trevor Mahofsky, Artforum, New York, January
"Kathy Slade and Sydney Hermant in Conversation", d'Or 2, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2004
"Artists Draw a Line from Vancouver to LA". Fiona Morrow, Westender, Vancouver, Oct 21-27
"Confidence", Bo Borg, C International Magazine, Toronto, Summer
"The Stories of O", Brian Joseph Davis, Eye Weekly, Toronto, April 22
"The Artist as Curator", Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, March 18- 24
"Gränslöst - när det vill sig", Bo Borg, Östgöta Correspondenten, Linkoping, March 9
"Sweet and Sour is Playful and Ironic", Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, January 8 -13
2003
"Kathy Slade and Sydney Hermant in Conversation", Cahier D'Activité, Vancouver, December
Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, Lisa Robertson, Clearcut Press, Astoria, Oregon
"Veruca in The Nut House", essay by Sydney Hermant, I WANT IT ALL I WANT IT NOW poster project, Or Gallery, Vancouver
essay on Origin of the World, by Sydney Hermant, d'Or, Or Gallery, Vancouver
"Like the Rain, Swarm was a Long Time Coming: Three-day gallery crawl was an informal art extravaganza", Michael Harris, The Vancouver Sun, September 9
"Visual Arts Profile: Kathy Slade" by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Sept. 11 - 17
Embroidered Monochrome Propositions and Other New Work, catalogue essays by Lisa Robertson and Jonathan Middleton, interview by Patrik Andersson, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
2002
Patrik Andersson interviews Kathy Slade, Made Magazine, Vancouver, Winter
"Addictive Gallery Crawl Buzzes Downtown" Mary Francis Hill, Westender, Vancouver, September 12-18 issue
1997
"Science, Fiction and Nature", catalogue essay for Under the Skin, Kati Campbell, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
1992
"Heroic Romance", Carol Williams in PARACHUTE, Montreal, January.
1991
Catalogue Essay for Heroic Romance, Scott Watson, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver
"Heroic Romance", Ann Rosenberg in The Vancouver Sun, September 10
"S.F.U. History Project #1: A Memorial" Mordecai Briemberg in New Directions, 6:1, February

Published Writing

2004
"Contemporary Art is Sex" feature Interview with Rita McBride, C International Magazine, Toronto, Spring
"New Cool Art or Cool New Art?", curatorial essay for Specific Objects catalogue, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
2002
"Songs For Girls" essay / CD Liner notes, in Althea Thauberger's Songstress CD, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
Essay on the work of Robin Arseneault, Postscript #1, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
2001
"On the Brink: Daniel Laskarin's Illusion, Catastrophe, Suspense" brochure, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
Review, Rodney Graham at the Presentation House Gallery, C International Magazine, Toronto, Spring 2001
Panel Discussion on The Ladies Afternoon Art Society, Mix Magazine, Toronto, May June 2001
2000
"Myfanwy MacLeod: The Edge of Reason" in Myfanwy Macleod: A Brief Overview of Personology, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver

Published Art Projects

2007
Artist's Book, Kathy Slade: 52 Transactions, Trapp Editions/Sigurdardottir, Vancouver/Los Angeles
2006
Cover, Chicago Review 51:4 & 52:1 Spring, Chicago
2004
Contributed a chapter to Heartways: The Exploits of Genny O, a collaborative novel by Rita McBride, published by The Whitney Museum of American Art , Printed Matter Inc. (New York) and Arsenal Advance (Vancouver)
1997
Cover of Lisa Robertson's book Debbie: an Epic, New Star Books, Vancouver
Fall, Mix Magazine, Toronto, Fall '97 issue
Fall, centerfold of Boo Magazine #10, Vancouver
1990
Currer Bell: Four Paintings from Charlotte Bronte's Villette, FRONT Magazine, Vancouver, Summer issue
Excerpts from Deliberate Transgressions, West Coast Line, 24: 1, Vancouver

Curatorial Projects

2008
Elspeth Pratt, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
2006
The Rhubarb Society, co-curated with John Pilson, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
2004
Rita McBride: No Fixed Address, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver
2002
Specific Objects, Co-curated with Greg Bellerby, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver

Editorial Projects

2006
Vancouver Special, a series of artists' books co-edited with Christoph Keller for Charles H, Scott Gallery, ECI Press, Vancouver and JRP/Ringier, Zurich. Included in the series are: Rodney Graham, The Rodney Graham Songbook, Tim Lee and Mark Soo, Modern Experiments in Typography, Sydney Hermant, Aunt Maud's Scrapbook, Brady Cranfield, The Music Appreciation Society Presents: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2005
Caracas, Hecho en Venezuela, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver and Revolver Archiv für actuelle kunst, Frankfurt/Main
2000
Brian Jungen, Charles H. Scott Gallery. Vancouver

Awards

2007
Canada Council Production Grant
2006
B.C. Arts Council Level 2 Grant
2004
VADA Award
2003
Canada Council B Grant
2001-04
B.C. Arts Council Project Grant
1997
B.C. Arts Council Project Grant
1995
Canada Council Short Term Award
1990
Helen Pitt Graduate Award

Other

2007
Music Appreciation Society Panel: Brady Cranfield, Rodney Graham, Rich Jensen, Mike McGonigal, Kathy Slade, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Music Appreciation Society Panel: Brady Cranfield, Jennifer Gately, Marc Joseph, Matt McCormick, Kathy Slade, Gus Van Sant, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2005
Artist Talk, Vancouver Art Gallery Associates
Artist Talk, University of British Columbia
2004
Music Appreciation Society Round Table: Clint Burnam, Brady Cranfield, Rodney Graham, Sydney Hermant, Narduar the Human Serviette, Kathy Slade, Althea Thauberger, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2003
Artist Talk, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Artist Talk, Düsseldorf Akademy, Düsseldorf, Germany
Artist Talk, Capilano College, North Vancouver

Represented by

Lawrence Eng Gallery
1531 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
T: 604.730.2875
F: 604.730.2870
E: info@lawrenceeng.com

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