K.I.A.
CV
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS:
2023 The Window 24/7/365/1 photo project (Spacing Magazine, etc.)
2022 Weatherwork installation (ongoing 2013-)
2021 City of Toronto Artworx Year of Public Art - “Chromamunity” 10,000 sq. ft (developing) installation
2020 Co Op Art - globally crowd-sourced co-created painting (Covid project)
2019 Quest Gallery - Group show, Toronto
2019 Disrupted Distributed Disturbed - 200 Gallery, Toronto
2018 McMichael Gallery - Learning Center, Juried Group show, Kleinburg
2018 Quest Gallery — Group show (Juried, Art Gallery Ontario curator of Canadian Art; TD Bank Art Collection curator), spliced paintings, Toronto
2017 Project Gallery, Banff — CRISPR painting & recombinant installation
2017 Residency, Banff Centre Art For Arts & Creativity
2017 Public Art Sculpture — Shortlisted, Aylmer Plaza, Peterborough
2017 Public Art CAMH — Shortlisted for Stand Alone project, Toronto
2016 The Artist Project -Installation Zone (curated).Wall installation, 200+ needles/darts/feathers
2016-2002 Installations & exhibitions in guerrilla spaces: “Acceleration/ Still” (recombinant sculpture); “TreeBoltNeuron” (conduit sculpture); Origami’d metal and intermixable sliced paintings --REVIEWED: Forbes, CBC News; Globe & Mail (National) 2011
2002 “Ev Ex”, Gallery 401,Toronto —REVIEWED: Toronto Star; LOLA magazine
2000 “Polyvictorian” disrupted painting installation, Zed Space, Toronto
COMMISSIONS (selected):
2019 Atrium - private collection, 3 distributed sculptures
2017 Atrium - estate. Large site-specific painting using terroir data
2015 Galley - yacht. Flat sculpture of environment-morphing stainless steel strata
2014 Lobby - hedge fund. Tectonically arranged painting. Toronto
2013 Atrium - recombinant sculpture; wall sculptures, private homes. Toronto
2012 Lobby - spa. Linear abstract. Calgary
2010 Lobby - oil company. Data strata abstract. Calgary
COLLECTIONS (selected):
Comisar Collection (LA)
Taylor Asset Management (Toronto)
Galleon Energy (Calgary)
BASF Int’l (Windsor)
Heineken Int’l (Tokyo)
Starr Law LLC (L.A.)
Henry Less Productions (Toronto)
Various private homes; cottages; corporate offices; a yacht (L.A., London, Tokyo, Toronto)
PRESS (selected quotes):
2018 Fugitive Paint review
2016 ‘Artists to See’ BlogTO
2015 Forbes, pictorial.
2011 Globe & Mail (National), “Madcap kinetic sculptures”
2002 Toronto Star, “Remix music, why not art”
2002 Lola Magazine, “Not constructed so much as grown”
2000 CBC News, “Huge works interpretable like music”
GRANTS & AWARDS
2017 Banff Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Endowed Scholarship for Visual Arts
OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO PRACTICE:
2000-2012 Released 6 albums of music (as Shinjuku Zulu, and K.I.A. ), which included sound-collages. Four-star reviewed Globe & Mail, Gazette, Herald; won awards. Relevance: informs the compositional sensibility of the visual work (notes as discrete units creating larger work; sampling, remixing of forms, global influences, digital experiences)
