Scott Walden


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

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