DANA CLAXTON - Curriculum Vitae
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DANA CLAXTON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Eiteljorg Fellowship, Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
King's Lynn Arts Centre, Vancouver InSight, King's Lynn, Norfolk England
Babylon, Les Rencontres Internationales, Berlin Germany
Biennale de Montréal, Crack the Sky, Montreal Quebec
MacLaren Art Centre, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light Barrie Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Blink New Commissioned Works
2006
Red Eye, Galerie d'art de l'Universite Carleton, Ottawa.
Nuit Blanche, Four Car Washes / Four Video Artists, Toronto
Caixiforum Fundacio la Caixa, Canadian Video Barcelona Spain
Musée Malraux, Le Havre, Continuum, Biennale d'art contemporain du Havre, France
Vancouver Art Gallery, 75 Years of Collecting: First Nations Myths and Realities
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University Back/Flash Halifax NS
OR Gallery, Why I am So Unhappy, Vancouver.
Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, 18 Illuminations: Contemporary Art and Light
Art Gallery of Peterborough 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light
St. Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax 18 Illuminations, Contemporary Art and Light
University of Waterloo Art Gallery, 18 Illuminations Contemporary Art and Light
2005
Tom Thomson Gallery, 18 Illuminations ; Contemporary Art and Light
Centre A, Neighbourhood, Vancouver
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Back/Flash, Winnipeg
Mendel Art Gallery, Marking Time, Saskatoon Sask
McIntosh Gallery, U of Western Ontario, Reclamations,
2004
MOCCA, A History Lesson. Toronto, Canada.
Guangdong Museum of Art, Gatherings: Aboriginal Art -WAG Collection, Guangzhou, China.
2003
Diazabo, Language of Intercession, Montreal, Quebec.
Walter Phillips Gallery, BACK/FLASH, Banff,
Museum of Natural History, Gatherings: Aboriginal Art -WAG Collection, Taipei, Taiwan.
WRO 03 International Media Arts Biennale, Stealing to Subvert, Wroclaw, Poland
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Lessons in History, Regina, Sask.
Hamilton Art Gallery, Language of Intercession, Hamilton Ontario.
Folly Gallery, Vancouver Video, Lancaster England
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Photophobia, Hamilton, Ontario
2002
Galleria di Nuova Icona, Vancouver Video Venezia Italia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Gatherings: Aboriginal Art from the Collection
Huashan Arts District, Magnetic North Taipei.
Power Plant, Magnetic North Toronto, Ontario
2001
Plug In, Magnetic North, Winnipeg Manitoba, 2001
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Magnetic North, Ottawa
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Magnetic North, Hamilton Ontario
Mendel Art Gallery, Abattoirs by Artists, Saskatoon
Canadian Museum of Photography, Magnetic North Ottawa
Harvard Film Archives, Magnetic North, USA
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Magnetic North, Lethbridge, Alberta,
2000
Walker Arts Centre, Magnetic North Minneapolis, MN October
Vancouver Art Gallery, From the Collection -The Red Paper, Vancouver Canada
Mackenzie Art Gallery, New Acquisitions Buffalo Bone China
Hong Kong U of Science & Technology, Centrifugal Vision-Video Circle
1999
Centre of Novi Sad, Taste of Landscapes, Yugoslavia
Museo Nacional, Past Life: Future Tense. Buenes Aires
Vtape, Tranz-Tech, Toronto International Video Art Biennial
1998
Walter Phillips Gallery, Material Zones, Banff Centre
Open Space, Red Interiors, Victoria, Canada
Surrey Art Gallery, Red Interiors, Surrey Canada
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Beauty and the Beast
1996
Vancouver Art Gallery, topographies
Presentation House, Urban Fictions, North Vancouver
1994
Museum of Modern Art, Walking with the Ancients, New York, NY
Artspeak Gallery, Racing Thru Space, Vancouver
S O L O E X H I B T I O N S
2006
Prince Albert Art Gallery Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux
Swift Current Art Gallery Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux
2005
Surrey Art Gallery Landscape # 1
2004
Moose Jaw Art Gallery Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux Moose Jaw
2003
Rialto Gallery, Untitled, Venice, Italy, 2003
Change Gallery, The Heart of Everything That Is Rome, Italy
2002
Estevan Art Centre, Buffalo Bone China. Estevan Sask.
Oboro, Waterspeak, Montreal Canada
2000
Artspeak, Waterspeak, Vancouver Canada
Kamloops Art Gallery, The Heart of Everything That Is
1997
Tribe & AKA, Buffalo Bone China, Saskatoon
M E D I A A R T B I E N N A L E S
Microwave Media Festival Hong Kong 2005
Art Star Biennale, Saw Gallery, Ottawa 2005
WRO 03 International Media Arts Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland 2003
P E R F O R M A N C E
FLOW, Western Front. Live Performance Festival, Vancouver 2007
Ablakela with Primeaux and Mike grunt gallery Live At the End of the Century. Vancouver 1999
Buffalo Bone China. A Tribe Project with AKA Saskatoon Sask. 1997
SA - (work in progress) Western Front Vancouver Canada 1994
Tree of Consumption grunt gallery Vancouver Canada 1993
10 Little Poems Neo-Nativist Pitt Gallery Vancouver Canada 1991
C O M M I S S I O N S
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Blink 2006
Urban Shaman, Storm Spirits 2006
Alternator Gallery Single Channel Work Anwolek- Regatta City 2005
Moose Jaw Art Gallery 4 Channel Video Installation Sitting Bull and The Moose Jaw Sioux 2003
Weapons From the Heart - Tribe, Saskatoon 2003
P E R M A N E N T C O L L E C T I O N S
Caixiforum Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona Spain - Gunplay single channel video.
Canada Council Art Bank - Tatanka Wanbli Chekpa Wicincala -Buffalo Eagle Twin Girls C Prints 1/6
Vancouver Art Gallery - The Red Paper. Film and mixed media installation - Edition of 1
Mackenzie Art Gallery - Buffalo Bone China. Video and mixed media installation 1/2
Winnipeg Art Gallery - Buffalo Bone China. Video and mixed media installation 2/2
Kamloops Art Gallery - The Heart of Everything That Is. Video Installation. Edition 1/2
Saskatchewan Arts Board -Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux Edition 2/4
L I B R A R Y C O L L E C T I O N S
University of Ottawa
Simon Fraser University University of Western Ontario Carleton University SSAC
University of Saskatchewan First Nations University of Canada University of Regina,
University of Washington University of British Columbia Concordia University, Montreal
Camosun College University of Toronto University of Winnipeg
University of Lethbridge Canadian Trade Office Taipei University of Victoria
Rochester Institute of Technology White Mountain Academy of the Arts University of York
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design University of Saskatoon Kwantlen University College
C H A I R S University of Regina - School of Journalism Fall 2003
G U E S T L E C T U R E R
Indigenous Media Arts Group Vancouver 2004, 2006
Saskatchewan Indian Federated College - Aboriginal Art History 2002
University of Regina Art History, Journalism 2002, 2003
Art College of Alberta - Artist Lecture Series 2001
Concordia University - Artist Lecture Series and MFA Studio Visits 2000
University of Lethbridge Fine Art Program - Guest Lecture Series 1999
Grant MacEwan College Fine Art Program - Guest Lecture Series 1999
University of Victoria - Art History Department - Guest Lecture Series 1999/2000/O1
Simon Fraser University - Communications Department 1998/Women's Study Department 1997
University of British Columbia - Art History Department 1998, 2003, 2006. Theatre Department 2006
Green College - Guest Lecture Series 1998
University of Saskatoon - Art History Department and Native Studies Department 1997, 2005
Capilano College - Art History Department 1995
Emily Carr College of Art and Design 1995,7,98,99
M O D E R A T O R AND P A N E L I S T
Creating Space? Furthering the Discourse and Practice. Moderator
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference, Saskatoon 2007
Curating Interdisciplinary Practices: Performance, Film, Video and New Media Art. Panelist
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference, Saskatoon 2007
Whose Story? Panelist
Vancouver Opera Society discussing the Magic Flute 2007
Artspeak Panelist
Aboriginal Curatorial Collective Conference, Winnipeg 2006
Defining Indian. Panelist
A SAVAC and Tribe Project. Emily Carr Institute of Art, Vancouver 2005, Saskatoon 2005, OCAD 2006
When to Turn it Off: Presenting Sacred Ceremonies and Traditions Panelist 2005
imagineNATIVE Film and Video Festival Toronto
Unregenerate, Action, Rituals, Offerings - Moderator
Indian Acts - Aboriginal Performance Art Conference. Vancouver 2002
Curating Self - Aboriginal Art Collectives Native American Art Studies Association 2001-Portland
Presented talk on 2 Vancouver Projects - Neo-Nativists and First Ladies and Tribe in Saskatoon
Curating Aboriginal Art: Necessity or A Nuisance - International Conference Montreal 2001
Presented a talk about Indian Art Collectives in Canada
Aboriginal Art: Necessary or A Nuisance 1999 - University of Victoria
Illustrated talk about the role of contemporary aboriginal art with socio-political conversations.
Beyond Tonto, Saskatoon Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, a Tribe Project 1998
Focussed on the shifting paradigm of Aboriginal media arts.
Current Trends in First Nation Art, Universities Art Assc. of Canada, Vancouver 1997
Video and slide presentation of artwork
Challenges in the Arts: Managing & Programming for a Multicultural Community SFU
How to implement strategies of cultural equity 1993
Equal Representation in the Arts - A Conscience Effort in the 90's Capilano College Guest Lecture
Slide presentation demonstrating a curatorial attempt supporting cultural equity.
C U R A T O R I A L P R O J E C T S
Inside Focus - Work from the Pacific Region IMAA Conference 2004
Back/Flash - Aboriginal New Media. Walter Phillips Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery, U of Dalhousie
RumiNATIONS- Doxa Festival Vancouver 2003
Duking It Out on the Northwest Coast - Imaginative Festival. Film Program 2002
RE:Place - Video Program. Vtape and Art System Toronto. Spring 2001
Red Interiors -A Look into First Nations Video - Travelling Group Show 1998/9
Leah Modigliani, To Suffer is to Shine, Pitt Gallery 1994
First Ladies, Pitt Gallery Vancouver. Group Show & Performance Series 1992 - A Space, 1993
Sharyn Yuen, Like A Plague of Locust, Pitt Gallery,Vancouver 1993
Faye Heavysheild, The Heart As, Pitt Gallery 1993, Vancouver travelled to Saw Gallery
Kate Smiths Bed Show Pitt Gallery,Vancouver. Solo Exhibition 1992
ABO - Aboriginal Videos that Unmask Colonialism Video In, Vancouver. 1992
Neo Nativist, Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. Group Show 1991
S C R E E N I N G S
Sundance, Uath Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Carleton University
Cal State, Long Beach USA Paved Art + New Media, Saskatoon
Winnipeg Aboriginal Film and Video Festival
University of Western Ontario Cultural Embassy in Moscow
Edges, MediaNet Aboriginal Awareness Week, Calgary, Alberta
Available Light, Arts Court Groupe Intervention Video Montreal
Capilano College, North Vancouver Northern Travelling Film Festival - Russia
Video Art Plastique'Centre d'art Contemporain, Basse-Normandie. France
Banff New Media Institute Victoria Independent Film and Video Festival
Available Light Screening Collective Beyond Tonto II Saskatoon .
ImagineNATIVE Toronto Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Trinidad
Native American Film Festival, San Francisco 4th Biannual Queer City Cinema Tour, Regina
Bringham Young University Bishops University
ImageNATION Vancouver IFVA/IMAAConference
Staatliche Musseen Zu Berlin UK/Canadian Video Exchange
Laurentian University Honolulu Academy of Art
Vancouver International Film Festival Insights, Montreal
Reel Aboriginal, Toronto Taos Talking Festival, Taos, New Mexico
L. A. Freewaves, LA Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival
Cinematheque Ontario Herland Festival Calgary
Native American Film Festival Chicago Independent Film and Video Alliance
Dreamspeakers Festival, Edmonton Two Rivers Minneapolis, MN
Margaret Mead, New York Sakewewak & Sask Film Pool
Winnipeg Women's Intl. Film Festival Media Arts Center, Columbia South Carolina
Em Video, Calgary Video Screenings Video In, Vancouver 20th Anniversary
Aboriginal Festival, Regina, Sask Yorkton Festival
Western Front OCAD
Canadian Trade Office in Taipei University College, London, England
Trinity Square Video, Toronto Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Buffalo, NY
Ed Video, Guelph, Ontario V Tape Exhibition Project, Toronto
Croatia Southern Alberta Art Gallery.
National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, New York
T E L E V I S I O N AND R A D I O I N T E R V I E W S
CBC Radio - Arts Report -Le Harve Biennale 2006
StarTV - Aboriginal Production 2005
CBC Radio - What is Canadian Identity 2003
CBC Radio - Arts Report - What is Aboriginal Art 2002
CBC Radio - Arts Report - Live from Sundance Film Festival 2002
CBC Radio - Oboro, Montreal Jan 2002
Global TV - Montreal - Waterspeak 2002
First Story, VTV Aboriginal Media Fall 2001
Vision Television - What is Wakan - Sacred 1999
CBC - 6 o'clock news - Aboriginal Media Fall 1999
CFRO - Aboriginal Contemporary Art and Media - 1991 to 2001
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
Alteen, Glenn. "Liturgy for a New Secular World". CDROM grunt gallery. November 2000 *
Anderson, Jack. "Exhibit Rewrites History". Leader Post, Regina June 1, 2000.*
Bell, Lynne. The Post/Colonial Photographic Archive and the Work of Memory * 2006 Gallery 44 YYZ Books
Bissley, Jackie. "Dana Claxton." Indian Cinema Entertainment. Winter 2001 *
Deadman, Pat "Dana Claxton: Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux" catalogue essay. *
Dowell, Kristin. " Exploring the Sacred in Aboriginal Performance Art". E-misferica Issue 2.1 Spring 2005
Duurtsema, Elsbeth."Traditional story, contemporary medium for Claxton." Kamloops News 2000
Feindel, Pat. "A Women's Place." Current. March 1996
Gale, Peggy " Dana Claxton: In Search of Sitting Bull" essay*
Garneau, David. "Dana Claxton's Patient Storm," Urban Shaman, Winnipeg,
Garneau, David. "Dana Claxton: Sitting Bull and the Moose Jaw Sioux." Vie des Arts #197 2004: 93.
La Flamme, Michelle."Unsettling the West: First Nations Films in BC." Women Filmmakers:Refocusing UBCPress.
Vancouver. 2003*
Fung, Richard. "If Walls Have Ears" Reports Brochure. V Tape. Toronto. Canada 1998
Kin Gagnon, Monika. "topographies". Catalogue Essay. Vancouver Art Gallery. 1996 *
Kin Gagnon, Monika. "Worldviews in Collision: Dana Claxton's Video Installations" Other Conundrums, Race and Canadian
Art. Arsenal Press, artspeak, Kamloops Art Gallery. 2000 *
Kin Gagnon, Monika. 13 Conversations art & cultural race politics Artextes Editions, Montreal 2002
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. Canadian Art,"topographies" March 1997 *
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. Guide to Native North American Artists. St. James Press 1998 *
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. "Let X = Audience." Reservation X. Museum of Civilization 1998 *
Hewitt, Chris. "Ten Great Things To Do". St. Paul Pioneer Press. Oct. 1996
Holt, Jim. "Canadian First Nation Films dominate at Sundance fest. Associated Press Jan 2002.
Holt, Jim. "Canadians Make Themselves Seen and Heard." National Post Jan 14, 2002
Laurence, Robin. "Visual Art." Georgia Straight, March 2006*
Laurence, Robin. "Visual Art." Saturday Review, Vancouver Sun. Jan 1996
Laurence, Robin. "Visual Art". Georgia Straight, June 17, 2000 *
Laurence, Robin. "River Run". Canadian Art Magazine. Fall 2000*
Laurence, Robin. " Wandering Spirit. Georgia Straight, March 24, 2005*
Lee, Vico. "Aboriginal Works of Art From Canada" Taipei Times, Sept 2003
Mastai, Judith. "The Post-Colonial Landscape". BlackFlash. Summer 1996 *
Mastai, Judith. "The Elevation of BC Art". C Magazine Feb. April 1997 *
Robinson, Tim. "Native artists, new media". The Silhouette Volume 74.Issue 2. June 27th, 2003.
Rico, Diana. "Cultures Crash" LA Freewaves Festival Program. 1998
Schimke, David. "The Final Cut". Twin Cities Reader. Oct. 1996
Scott, Micheal. "Artists emerge in Topographies". Vancouver Sun. Sept 1996
Stoffman, Judy. "Heirs to the Group of Seven". The Toronto Star. December 2001
Shaw, Nancy. "Tree of Consumption" Video In 25th Catalogue Essay, 2000 *
Steel, Lisa. "Appropriate Behaviours" Toronto International Video Art Biennial 1999 *
Walsh, Andrea. "Complex Sightings Aboriginal Art and Intercultural Spectorship". On Aboriginal Representation in the
Gallery. Canadian Museum of Civilization. 2002. *
Willard, Tania. Starting From Home. Online Curatorial Essay. danaclaxton.com 2007
E D U C A T I O N
Masters of Arts - Liberal Studies Simon Fraser University 2007
P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S
Exhibiting Interdisciplinary Artist/Film &Videomaker/Performance Artist 1991-2007
Curator 1991-2007
Founding Treasurer Indigenous Media Arts Group. Vancouver 1998- 2005
Founding Treasurer Independent Aboriginal Screen Producers Association. National Organization 2005-07
Conference Co-Curator- Indian Acts Aboriginal Performance Art Vancouver 2002
Adjunct Professor First Nations Art. Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design 2001 to 2006
On-line course developer Emily Carr 2005, 2006
Executive Producer/Director - ArtZone - 39 Episodes 1/2 Hour 2002/4 Broadcaster APTN
Producer/Director Wakanheja - 52 Episodes 2000, 2001 Broadcaster APTN
Director National Film Board of Canada, CBC, Canadian Labour Congress, Province of BC
Associate Producer/ Storyteller. First Story - Vancouver Television1997/8/9/2000.
Co-ordinator/Programmer Imag - Indigenous Media Arts Group Contractual 98/99/2000/01/02/
Substitute Instructor First Nations Art, Emily Carr College of Art & Design 1998
Jury Member Canada Council 1992 to 2006, Visual Arts, Artist Run Centres 2x, Media Arts 2x, Aboriginal Media Arts.
Jury Member Aboriginal Arts Development Awards Prov. BC. 1St Peoples Foundation 1993/8/9
Peer Assessment Jury Saskatchewan Arts Council Assistance to Galleries 1997
Advisory Member First Peoples Forum on Media Arts. Canada Council 1996
Associate Producer/Researcher Myths and Realities. International Series TVO 1996
Advisory Member Media Arts Awards to Organizations (BC) 1994/95
Jury Member Heritage Canada Film and Video Section 1995
Jury Member Canadian Native Arts Foundation 1993
Director Helen Pitt Gallery Vancouver, Canada 1991-94
Assistant Arts Administrator Spirit Song Native Indian Theatre Company Vancouver 1983-5
N O M I N A T I O N S A N D A W A R D S
ImagiNATION Honouree - Vancouver 2006
Best CDRom - ImageNative Festival Toronto, Ontario 2002
Viva Award Commitment to Contemporary Art in Vancouver. Doris and Jack Shadbolt Foundation 2001
Nominee - Best Short Subject - Native American Film and Video Festival, San Francisco
Nominee - Yuxweluptun Man of Mask. Best Documentary Short Subject Yorkton Film Festival 1999
Nominee - Yuxweluptun Man of Mask. Best Sound, Best Music Leo Awards, Vancouver 1999
Best Experimental Film. The Red Paper Dreamspeakers Festival 1997
Nominee -Grant Her Restitution, Best Experimental Yorkton Film and Video Festival 1992
Art Grants - Canada Council for the Arts, BC Cultural Services, National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation.
