EDUCATION
2024 MFA, Visual Art, Grenfell School of Fine Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2021 Bachelor of Arts (BA) with distinction, University of Calgary, Communication and Culture
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2023 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts & New Media Project Grant
2022-2023 Memorial University Entrance Scholarship
2022 SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship-Master’s (CGS M)
2022 Dean’s Excellence Award, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2022 Calgary Arts Development ArtShare Program
2022 Canada Council Research and Creation Grant (Co-applicant with Drunken Paw)
2013 The EAR Award (Honour)
2012 Calgary 2012 - Project Grant
2011 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Project Grant
2011-2013 City of Calgary’s Pre-Qualified Artist Roster for Public Art Projects
COLLECTIVES
Drunken Paw a collaborative drawing trio including Mark Dicey, Janet Turner and myself.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 In The Dirt, Kaffee Klatsch, Calgary AB
2019 This Ephemeral Body, Gallery 621, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2008 Seven, Museo Poco, Calgary, Alberta
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Shapes and Shadows, Grenfell Art Gallery, Corner Brook NL, CA
2023 Fresh Paint and New Construction, Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2023 Wash Brain Festival, Cloud Factory, Corner Brook NL, Canada
2020 Off Hours, Central Library, Calgary, AB, CA
2019 Conspiracy of Crones, TRUCK Contemporary Art U-Hall space, Calgary, CA
2013-2015 Traces, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program
2014 Exile on 3rd Street, New Edward Gallery, Calgary, CA
2012 Summer Survey II, Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, CA
2011 ‘Seafood Market’, Seafood Market Studios, Calgary, CA
2010 East Village Seafood Market Mixer, Seafood Market Studios, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2010 Summer’s Edge II, The Edge Gallery, Canmore, Alberta, CA
2010 Genderblender, Sugar Shack Art Salon, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2009 Paper Jam, Sugar Shack Winter Art Salon, Calgary, AB, CA
2009 Spawn, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2008 Nectar Rendezvous, Nectar, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2008 Creature, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2007 Elephant, in collaboration with OYR, One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2002 Sugar Smut Show, Sugar Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2001 Idols And Icon, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, CA
PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
2012 Equinox at Union Cemetary, Union Cemetary, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2009 Les Voisins, a one month animated installation in collaboration with Elephant
Artist Relief, International Festival of Animated Objects in conjunction with
TRUCK, The New gallery, Stride, and Untitled Art Society’s Plus 15 Window, Calgary,
Alberta, CA
JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tutti — 20th Anniversary Exhibition (as Drunken Paw), Ruberto-Ostberg Gallery,
Calgary, Alberta, CA
2024 Noise (Solo Exhibition as Drunken Paw) Ruberto-Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, CA
2021 The New Normal (as Drunken Paw), Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, CA
2019 Cache (as Drunken Paw) curated by Kevin Kanashiro, Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary,
Alberta, CA
2014 Carte Blanche, DNA Art Space, (as Drunken Paw)London, Ontario, CA
2012 The Ants Go Marching (as Drunken Paw), EPCOR Centre, Calgary, CA
2012 Love Triangle: Evil as All Bejeesus (as Drunken Paw), Hot Wax Records,
Calgary, CA
2011 Passages: A Chris J. Melnychuk Retrospective Curated by Kari McQueen
(as Drunken Paw), Untitled Art Gallery, Calgary, CA
2011 Bring the Noise (as Drunken Paw) Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, CA
2011 Egg Drop Soup (as drunken paw), Museum of Ephemera, Nakusp, B.C. CA
2011 The Leavening --- drunken paw at Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, a six week
exhibition and performance, Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, Calgary, Alberta, CA
2011 Drunken Paw’s Interpretation of Houdini’s Water Torture Trick (with Mark Dicey
& Janet Turner), Sugar Cube Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, CA
PUBLIC WORKS
2013 The Other, Epcor Centre, This Is My City Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2011 Magaera, Millennium Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
INTERVENTIONS
2010 - 2013 Guerrilla Hearts, unsolicited public installations, throughout Calgary, #2 Highway
Southern Alberta, Canada, New York, USA
RESIDENCIES
2022- 2024. Empire of Dirt, (as Drunken Paw), Creston Valley, BC, CA
2021 Empire of Dirt, Creston Valley, BC, CA
2010 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation st(art)4Five studio residency program, Canada
2008 - 2010 Artist in Residence, Museo Poco, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2022 Presenter (as Drunken Paw), The Calgary Atlas Project + Esker Foundation:
Celebrating Calgary: Art Underground, Calgary Goes to the Movies, and Architecture in
40 Buildings
2022 Presenter (as Drunken Paw) Nickle at Noon: Jim Ellis - The Atlas Project: Calgary’s Art
Underground. Online via Nickel Galleries, Calgary CA
2018 Presenter, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Water Rites, Calgary AB, Canada
2013-2016 Installation Technician, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2013 Presenter and Facilitator, Public Art 101, Calgary Public Art Program
2007- 2013 Co-founder and Director, Board of Directors of Elephant Artist Relief, Calgary,
Alberta. Canada
1997-1999 Painting Department Head, Canada Fossils, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
COLLECTIONS
ϖ Alberta Foundation for the Arts (as Drunken Paw)
ϖ Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
ϖ Covenant Health, Edmonton, AB, CA
ϖ Dia Holdings, Baku, Azerbaijan
ϖ Nickle Galleries (as Drunken Paw), Calgary, AB
ϖ Numerous private national and international collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2018 Calgary Institute for the Humanities, The Water Book, University of Calgary Press, 2018
2012 Barry Dumka, ‘Art in the Village’, EVE Magazine, Spring/summer 2012, pp. 51
2012 ‘Mural Mural on the Wall’, Stephen Magazine, Winter 2012, pp, 26
1998 Anthony, Leslie, ‘Hot Rock's’, Equinox, No. 99, July 1998, pp. 28-37.
1993 Gogarty, Amy, ‘Art in the March, Celebrating our Different Voices’, Artichoke, Summer
1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp 32-39.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2012 Anderson, Drew, ‘A Heart for AGC’, Fast Forward Weekly, 2012/05/23
2011 Tousley, Nancy, ‘Calgary Report: An Artist-Run Alberta’, Canadian Art, March 2011
2012 ‘Mural Mural on the Wall’, Stephen Magazine, Winter 2012, pp, 26
FILM
ϖ Sidewalk Citizen
feature length documentary by Michal Lavi (supported by the Canada Council & the AFA)
ϖ I Am My City, Storm Sound Conglomerate, ‘I Am My City’, short film highlighting Public Art
in Calgary, 2011
RADIO
ϖ CBC Calgary Eye Opener, November 2010