Employment:
02001-Present:
Associate Professor (New Media, Printmaking, Photography), Visual Arts Program, Division of Fine Arts, Grenfell Campus, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Education:
01989–01992
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, M.F.A., studio arts – photography
01984-01988
Bachelors’ of Visual Arts, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, photography and lithography
01982–01984
B.Sc. Biochemistry, Université de Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick
01981-01982
DEC Sciences Pures, CÉGEP Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
Training:
02010, Printed Matters: The disembodied book made whole (again)” – w/Scott McCarney, SSHRC funded
02009, Digital Printing Seminar, Digital Art Supplies, San Diego CA
02008, Photogravure workshop, Lothar Ostenberg, Brooklyn NY
Funded Work:
02010-02014
“Artists’ Publishing: An Investigation into Digital Media as a means to Integrate Dissemination into the Creative Cycle”, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Research/ Partnership Grant, Role: co-applicant, Principal investigator: Prof. Marlene MacCallum, G.C.,research partners: Clifton Meador, Steve Woodall, Columbia College, Chicago IL, Funded: $ 75,000.00 over 3 years, Woodall funded through National Endowment for the Arts.
02010
“du littoral” in Burnie, Tasmania, Vice-President’s Research Fund, Grenfell Campus, $1000.00
Fine Arts Division Research Fund, seed funding, research in sound art practices, $500.00
02008-02010
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Research/Creation Grants in Fine Arts, Project: Creating the visual book through integration of the technologies of photogravure and digital processes, Role: co-applicant, Principal investigator: Prof. Marlene MacCallum, G.C., Funded: $ 145,945.00/3 years
02008
“du littoral”, Vice-President’s research Fund, Grenfell Campus, Shorelines Project, $1000.00
02007-02012
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) – Community-University Research Alliances Grant, project: Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA), Role: co-applicant, Principal Investigator: Dr. Barbara Neis, M.U.N.(St. John’s), Funded: $ 1,000,000.00 over 5 years
01996
“…for those in peril on the sea”, Creation Grant, New Brunswick Arts Board, $5 200.00
Non-Gallery Works:
02014
“Distância”, Performance with dancer Candice Pike as The Group for Spacial Temporization, Lumière Festival 2014, Cape Breton Fudge Co., Sydney NS
02013
“Project: Wandering Soul” as The Nomadic Sonic Warfare Machine Ensemble (w. J. Fowler) released as Playbutton in a limited edition of 50
“On the first night of the strike, Owen went to the market”, Sound Cloud Release- http://soundcloud.com/gedeon-commission
“On the second night of the strike, Owen broke his mother’s favourite glass animal figurine.”, Sound Cloud Release- http://soundcloud.com/gedeon-commission
02011
“Mapping the Bay of Islands” – Box-set of 4 book-works, M.MacCallum, D.Morrish, C.Meador, P.LeBlanc, SSHRC funded
“The wringing in your ear”, Grenfell Campus, M.U.N., SSHRC funded
Touring Exhibitions:
02011
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania Siamsa Tire Arts Centre, Tralee, Ireland
02010
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland, The Rooms Provincial Arts Gallery, St. John’s Newfoundland, Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook Newfoundland
Select Solo Exhibitions:
02014
Excerpts from “Plants”, Permanent Exhibition, Bonne Bay Marine Station, Norris Point, Newfoundland
02012
“Plants”, Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance Symposium, Bonne Bay Marine Station, Norris Point, Newfoundland
“Cod-Culture-Fish” – Poster intervention, Norris Point, Newfoundland
02006
“Travaux Récents” – La Galerie d’Art de l’Université de Moncton – Moncton NB
02004
“…for those in peril on the sea”–The Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook NL
02002-02015
“Smallwood”, Atlantic Cultural Spaces, http://www2.swgc.mun.ca/pleblanc/pages/index_smallwood.html, Web Piece, Léa Deschamps, curator.
01997 – 02015
“The Slow and Painful Death of Revolutionary Thought in the Americas” – Imago Virtual Gallery, http://www.umoncton.ca/gaum/gedeon/rev.html, Photographic labyrinth, commissioned work.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
02014
“DIY, DWI (rapaces – 732nd Cantos for Gilles Deleuze)”, Exposition 50/50/50, Galerie Louise et Ruben Cohen, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB
02011
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Ten Days on the Island, Festival, Burnie, Tasmania
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Siamsa Tire Arts Centre, Tralee, Ireland
02010
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland
“du littoral”, “The Shorelines Project”, Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook NL
“Mixer”, faculty and staff exhibition, Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook NL
02009
“Rock and Roll”, A1C Gallery, St. John’s NL, Gordon Laurin, curator
“Climate Wars”, Charlotte Jones, curator, Pepsi Centre, Corner Brook NL
02008
“Postcards from Newfoundland”, Auralog, Thisisnotashop Gallery, Dublin Ireland, D.E.A.F. (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival)
02006-2018
“ARTothèque”, online retrospective of 10 Acadian artists, Virtual Museum of Canada, http://www2.umoncton.ca/cfdocs/artotheque/index.html
02005
“FAST” (FAculty and STaff), exhibition of recent work by faculty and staff, Visual Arts Program, Grenfell Campus Art Gallery, Corner Brook, NL
02004
“Géographie du regard”, Festival interceltique Lorient (by invitation), Paris, France
02003
“De y’ou-ce-que j’viens” (where I come from), Auditorium Saint-Germain-des-Prés (by invitation), Paris, France, Photographs, Galerie Sans Nom (Moncton NB),curator
Presentations/conferences:
02015
“Jodorowsky, The Tarot and Narrative”, Popular Culture Association /American Culture Association 2015 Conference, New Orleans Louisiana
02012
Culture in research and tourism, Rebuilding Collapsed Fisheries and Threatened Communities, CURRA final symposium, Panel, Norris Point NL
02011
Presentation of “du littoral”, Ten Days on the Island Festival, Burnie, Tasmania
Congrès national de la Fédération culturelle canadienne française, workshops, focus groups and presentations, Ottawa ON
02009
“[inter]section – inter[media]”, Hybrid Book Conference, Philadelphia PA
02002
“Atlantic Cultural Spaces” (via Webcam) – launch of the webpiece: “Smallwood”
“J.G. Ballard and the Image of Medicine”, Symposium on Medicine and Art, The Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus
02000
“Hindsight Diaries/Travels to the Hyperdygm”, Visual Arts Program, Grenfell Campus
Publications:
Selected reviews of my work:
“On the Shoreline”, Sean Flynn, Visual Arts News, Fall 2010, review of “du littoral”
Shorelines exhibition catalogue, essay on process by Charlotte Jones, published by the ArtGallery of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College.
“…for those in peril on the sea” by Charlotte Jones, Arts Atlantic, winter 2004, No. 78
Reviews written by myself:
“The Tactile Vision” – Dorothy Caldwell and Beth Oberholtzer, review of exhibition at the Art Gallery of Grenfell Campus, Arts Atlantic, Summer 2002 No.72, p.56
Collections:
“Oyster Farms”, Psychiatric Wing, George L. Dumont Hospital, Moncton, New Brunswick
“Research Project II, section C”, Art Gallery of the Université de Moncton, Cohen Fund Purchase
“A Few Corkscrews”, M. Élide Albert (Architect), Bouctouche, New Brunswick
“En Traversant la Manche / Crossing the Channel”, Art Gallery of the Université de Moncton, Cohen Fund purchase
