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Solo Exhibitions • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, fall 2009 • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus, The Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, August 9 - 25, 2007 • New Industries and Unsettled, Anna Leonowens Gallery, curated by Peter Dykhuis, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 7-18, 2005 • Memory and Entropy, The Phatory, New York, New York, January 14 - February 11, 2005 • Unsettled, Christopher Pratt Gallery, Bay Roberts, Newfoundland, Summer 2004 • Unsettled, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario, July 5 - August 30, 2003 • Unsettled, The Ryan Premises, Bonavista, Newfoundland, June 1 - October 15, 2002 • Unsettled, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, Newfoundland, curated by Bruce Johnson, August 9 - October 28, 2001 Group Exhibitions • In Retrospect: Fifteen Years of Pedagogical Photography at NSCAD, curated by Sue Earle and Susan McEachern, The Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 21 - November 1, 2008 • Newtopia, curated by Bruce Johnson, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, September 26, 2008 - January 25, 2009 • REcollections, curated by Bruce Johnson, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, November 23, 2007 - May 28, 2008 • New Industries, The Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, August 7 - 31, 2005 • Exhibit A: Photography in Atlantic Canada, curated by Scott McLeod, touring: Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 1 - November 21, 2004; Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook, Newfoundland, July 14 - September 15, 2005; Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario, September 29 - November 26, 2005 • Summer Show, Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, August 2004 • Inside/Out, June Bateman Gallery, New York, New York, July 9 - September 7, 2002 • Images of Us, curated by Doreen McCarthy, Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland, July 4 - August 7, 1999 • Aspects of An Urban Environment, curated by Michael Spano, The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, New York, May 3 - June 29, 1994 Portfolios • All the Clubs from Holyrood to Brigus (2007), a photographic record of the social clubs along one of Newfoundland’s oldest stretches of highway • New Industries (2005), remnants of sixteen industries created as part of the Newfoundland post-confederation industrialization program • Informers (2004), portraits of Newfoundlanders who make models of resettled communities from memory • Unsettled (2000), the physical remnants of Newfoundland’s resettled communities • Meadowlands (1996), natural and artificial features in an undeveloped region west of Manhattan • Long Island City (1991), light-and-texture studies in an early twentieth-century Queens industrial park Reviews • Gallery Profile, by Stephanie Porter, The Newfoundland and Labrador Independent, August 10, 2007, page 22 [pdf] • Club Life, by Joan Sullivan, The St. John's Telegram, Friday August 10, 2007, page B4 [pdf] • Unsettled, by Lisa Moore, Arts Atlantic, Spring 2002, Number 71 [pdf] Books • Editor, Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature (United States), a collection of essays by philosophers on photography, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 • Places Lost: In Search of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities (United States, Canada) photo-text book based on Unsettled, chronicling the histories of various resettled communities visited, and introducing philosophical issues related to resettlement; Lynx Publishing, Toronto, 2003 Essays and Photo-Essays • Review of Kendall L. Walton, Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, September 8, 2008 • Review of Art Photography Now, edited by Susan Bright; Metapsychology Online, February 2007 • “Objectivity in Photography,” The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 45, Number 3 (July 2005) • Entries on Photographic Theory and Ethics and Photography in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, Routledge, New York, 2005 • Unsettled, in Prefix Photo, Issue 10, November 2004 • Unsettled, photo-essay, including excerpts from Places Lost, in CVphoto, Issue 62, January 2004 • “Ghost Ports,” a photo-essay in Maclean’ s Magazine, August 13, 2001 • “Newfoundland’ s Unsettled Communities,” Painted Bride Quarterly, Spring 2000 • “The Spire at Great Paradise,” Newfoundland Quarterly, Summer 1999 • Reviews of Poetics of Place by Lynn Geesaman, C Magazine, #62, May-August 1999, and Passengers by Luis Mallo, C Magazine, #58, May-August 1998 Grants and Other Funding • Duke and Duchess of York Prize in Photography, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2007 • Artist in Residence, Terra Nova National Park (administered by the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador), Newfoundland, August 1-25, 2006 • Artist in Residence, Landfall Cottage (administered by the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador), Brigus, Newfoundland, August 1-26, 2005 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2003 • Research/Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, 2001; Travel Grant, 2001 Lectures, Panel Discussions, and Other Activities • Invited Speaker, “New Media: Digital Photography,” The American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Mount Holyoke College, Northampton, MA, November 6, 2008 • Invited Speaker, “Kendall Walton and the Aesthetics of Photography and Film: A Two-Day Symposium,” University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, November 30 - December 1, 2007 • “Entropy and Memory,” lecture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, November 2004 • Panel Discussion: Traces of Human Presence in the Land, Saint Mary’ s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November, 2004 • “Photography and the Ghost in the Machine,” lecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, November 2004 • Philosophical Issues in Photography, seminar at Memorial University, summers 2002-2004 • “Objectivity in Photography,” American Society for Aesthetics (Eastern Division) Meeting, Philadelphia, April 2004 • “Photography and Place,” lecture at the Rhode Island School of Design, October, 2003 • Coördinator, Light Symposium, a conference on photography co-organized by the Philosophy Department at Memorial University and the Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’ s, September 28-30, 2002 • “Hujar, Avedon, and Candy Darling: The Ethics of the Photographic Image,” presentation as part of the M.Phil. Lecture Series at Memorial University of Newfoundland, July 2000 • Certificat D'Ecole, French Immersion, Ecole d'Ete de Trois-Pistoles, Trois Pistoles, Quebec, Canada, 1990 Collections • The Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario • The Alcan Collection, Montreal, Quebec • The Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, Newfoundland • Numerous private collections Education • Ph.D. (Philosophy), 1994, Graduate School of the City University of New York • M.A. (Philosophy), 1985, Dalhousie University • B.A. (Hons.) (Philosophy), 1984, University of Western Ontario Employment • Department of Media and Fine Arts, NSCAD University, Summers 2005, 2006 and 2007 • Department of Philosophy, New York University, 1990 - 2004 Representation • Christina Parker Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland (709)753-0580 • The Phatory, LLC, New York, New York (212)777-7922 |