PEARSON, Gary
GARY PEARSON
Born in Melfort, Saskatchewan
Lives in Kelowna, BC, Canada
EDUCATION
1983 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, M.A.
1980 University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2012 Scenes for a ‘Smoker’s Theatre, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2011 1 2 3 Soliloquy, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Co-curated by Ihor Holubizky and Gary Pearson, catalogue with essays by Ihor Holubizky and Gary Pearson
2009 Somewhere, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2008 The End is My Beginning, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC
Curated by Jen Budney, catalogue with essay by David Bateman, and artist interview by Jen Budney.
2007 Come Back Later, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2006 High Early, LAB Project, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
Curated by Lisa Baldiserra
The Everyday, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC
2005 I’m going back to Greenville, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
Oblique Stories, SCA Galleries I & II, Artist-in-Residence Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, catalogue with essay by Gary Pearson
One Way Ticket (tour), Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC, Feb 24-May 1
2004 One Way Ticket (tour), Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, May 13–July 4
2003 One Way Ticket (tour), The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Nov 3,–Jan 18, 2004
One Way Ticket, Kelowna Art Gallery, curated by Linda Sawchyn, catalogue with essays by Linda Sawchyn, Michael Turner, and Karen Wilkin
2001 After Hours, Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University
The Creative Voice: Portrait Photographs, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan,
Penticton, BC
1998 Two of Everything: Artist-in-Residence Studio Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
1995 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
1993 New Paperworks, Westwerk, Hamburg
1992 New Drawings, Davidson Gallery, Seattle
Second Order: Paradise, Patrick Doheny Gallery, Vancouver catalogue with essay by Karen Wilkin, and artist interview by Eileen Truscott
1991 The Geometrics of Conjecture, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna
Curated by Robin Laurence, brochure with essay by Robin Laurence
1990 Recent Works, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
1989 Drawing and Sculpture, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver
Curated by Annette Hurtig, brochure with essay by Gary Pearson
1988 A Measure of Distance, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
1986 Recent Paintings, Or Gallery, Vancouver
1985 Drawings and Paintings, A.M.S. Gallery, U.BC, Vancouver
1984 Fine Lines, Installation at A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon
Oasis Gallery, Kamloops
1981 Recent Drawings, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC, brochure with essay by Gary Pearson
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 Concurrent 20/20, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Bonbon Roche, Centro Cultural Ajijic, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, curated by Katherine Pickering
2013 Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, Galerie du Tableau – exhibition held in the rooms of d’honneur de la Préfecture, (with Rodney Graham, Jack Jeffrey, Jayce Salloum, Ian Wallace), curated by Jack Jeffrey and Bernard Plasse, Marseille, France
Okanagan Artists in their Studios, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC
Curated by Patricia Ainsle
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
OK Thaumaturgy, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC, catalogue
Okanagan Artists in their Studios, book launch exhibition, FINA Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC
2012 - Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Collector’s Choice, Winchester Modern, Victoria
2011 Diversity in Drawing, Lake Country Art Gallery, Winfield, BC
2010 - Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Constructions of Identity: Recent Acquisitions, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna
Curated by Liz Wylie, catalogue
10 X 10 X 10, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
2009 Take Your Time, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC
Curated by Bill Jeffries, catalogue
Drawing Meaning, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2008 Boundaries, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Curated by Liz Wylie, catalogue
Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
2007 Crossroads: The Intersection of Man and Nature, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC Curated by George Harris
Look 3, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
Nexus: Histories and Communities, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Curated by Liz Wylie, catalogue
2006 Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Curated by Neil Campbell, catalogue
The Soliloquy Salon, video installation/collaboration with Erin Harrison, Window Space at The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC
Bill Laing and Gary Pearson, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
The Hourglass Interchange, The Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia, Co-organised by Jelle van den Berg and Gary Pearson
2005 I Am, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
New Contemporaries, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver
2004 University of Washington (Pullman) Fine Arts Gallery, Pullman, Washington
2002 25th Anniversary Selections, The Drawing Center, New York City
BFA Alumni; Selected, Maltwood Art Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC
2001 On Pleasure Bent, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC Curated by Liz Wylie
Vancouver Collects: Between Passion and Logic; Contemporary and Modern Works,
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, catalogue
Prints From Canada’s Pacific Province, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin Ireland. Curated by Doug Biden
2000 Colouring the West: A Century of Painting in BC, Vancouver Art Gallery
1999 Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC
1998 Selections from the Art Bank, National Arts Centre, Ottawa
1996 Aesthetic (Anti)Aesthetic, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
Sutton 96, Sutton Art Gallery, Sutton, Quebec
From the Permanent Collection, Kelowna Art Gallery
Aspects of Abstraction, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC
(travel to Grand Forks Art Gallery). Curated by Roger Boulet
1995 Posit Poznan, International Artist's Centre, Poznan Poland (three-person
exhibition with Jack Jeffrey, Lee Goreas). Curated by Gary Pearson, catalogue
1994 Critique Fax, First Draft, Sydney, Australia (travel to ICA Brisbane, PICA Perth 1995)
Curated by Brad Buckley, catalogue
Drawing Plus, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, catalogue
Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
1993 Construction in Process IV, The Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland
Curated by Ryzard Wasco, catalogue
Hamburger Künstler, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Germany. Curated by Jürgen Brockmann
1992 Drift, Installation project, Farsund Kommune, Lista, Norway, curated by Solfrid Mortensen, catalogue
Gallerie Lista Fyr, Borhaug, Norway
1991 Art in British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery
Invitational 1991, Davidson Gallery, Seattle
VIVA Award Exhibition, Persimmon Blackbridge and Gary Pearson
Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York City
Artists-in-Residence Studios P.S.1 Museum - The Institute for Contemporary Art,
Long Island City NY, catalogue
1990 Disjuncture: As a Syntax, three-person with Jennifer Gordon and Kathleen McFall,
Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver. Curated by David MacWilliam and Greg Bellerby, catalogue
North of the Border: Contemporary Vancouver Art, Whatcom Museum of Art,
Bellingham, Washington. Curated by Ted Lindberg
Recent Contemporary Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery
Selections 49, The Drawing Center, New York City
1989 Black + White, Bau-xi Gallery, Toronto
Works on Paper, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
Curated by Greg Bellerby
1988 Geometric Concerns, Bau-xi Gallery, Toronto
Vancouver/Hamburg, Gallerie Kampnagal, Hamburg, catalogue
1987 Atelier Gallery, Vancouver
Artropolis: an Exhibition of Contemporary British Columbia Art, Vancouver , catalogue
Saskatchewan Art: Tradition and Diversity, Art Centre, University of New Brunswick, touring exhibition. Curated by Cindy Richmond, catalogue
1986 Vancouver Young Artists, Simon Fraser Gallery, Burnaby
National Drawing Exhibition, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna
1984 The Warehouse Show: A Survey of Contemporary Art in Vancouver, catalogue
Water + Colour + Paper, Ring House Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Touring
1983 Cleveland UK 6th International Drawing Biennale, Middlesbrough Art Gallery,
Middlesbrough, UK, touring exhibition, catalogue
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
VIDEO, AUDIO & PERFORMANCE
2014 Theatre: A video survey 1996 – 2012, The Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, January 27 – 31
2011 Video Premiere, The Waiter Joke, Sturgeon Hall, Kelowna, BC, October 18
2008 Poetry Reading, Jazz and Poetry, at the Commodore Lounge, Kamloops BC, May 13
2002 Director, co-producer,co-script & story, project manager on: video documentary So Good So Far: the way forward, colour 26 min. Filmed on location in Ghana and Canada; sponsored by The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), premiered May 31, at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, broadcast premiere June 9, CHBC Television Kelowna BC
2001 Video screening Mirage and Spectacle: a performance documentation, The Laurel Building, Kelowna, (group program “Revealing Shorts”)
Video Screening: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, Trinity Square Video, Toronto (group program “Asleep at the Wheel”)
Video screening: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, Alternator Gallery,
Kelowna (group program “Asleep at the Wheel”)
2000 Premiere of Berlin Jazz Story, independent video; colour, 20 min., 30 sec., Sturgeon Hall, Kelowna, BC, October 16
Art department/set design, independent video, Everything’s Rosie, directed by Roz McKitrick
1998 Art department/set design, music video Pushing the Limits by John Noren Band, Tripod Film and Video Production, Kelowna BC
1997 Independent video: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, b+w, 11 min. 13 sec.
audio cassette with The Notorious Heffel Bros., All in Green, recorded at
White Noise Studios, Hamburg. Includes Paradise and The Orient Express
1996/97 Independent producer, director and scriptwriter for 11 part - half hour arts television documentary series, Fran’s CULTure Showcase; broadcast sponsor Shaw Cable
1995 performance/poetry reading, the Mind Grind Cafe, December 29, Kelowna BC
Lie to Me, poetry reading with John Lent and Allison Sivak, Okanagan University College
performance-reading: Mirage and Spectacle, October 2, Gallery A, Kelowna
1993 performance-reading: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, with The Notorious Heffel Brothers,
October 4, Klub Szafa, Lodz, Poland
performance: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, April 5, Clocktower Theatre, Kamloops
1992 performance: performance zone/zone performance, January 21, Okanagan University College Theatre, Kelowna
CURATORIAL
2011 Co-curator with Ihor Holubizky, 1 2 3 Soliloquy, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
2010 Curator of Miranda Aschenbrenner: 25 Squares, at the Fina Gallery, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, September 15 – 25
2008 Curator, Point of Origin, (artists: Dora Economou, Huseyin Sami, Rolande Souliere, Jack Jeffrey, Taras Polataiko, Ceal Floyer, Kelly Wood); at Artspace Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, September 11 – October 12, 2008, catalogue text published in Column 3.
2006 Exhibition co-organizer, with Jelle van den Berg, The Hourglass Interchange, exchange exhibition between University of Wollongong, NSW, and University of BC Okanagan
Exhibition organizer Lubos Culen: Victory Elementals, at Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC September 5 – 15; catalogue essay
Curator of Dangerous Games: Shauna Oddleifson, at Fina Gallery, Okanagan University College, (UBC Okanagan) Kelowna, BC September 22 – October 03; catalogue essay
1998 Curator of Jürgen Brockmann - Works on Paper, Goethe-Institute, Vancouver
1997 Curator of Hotel on Fire (artists: Geneviéve Cadieux, Ken Lum, Via Lewandowsky, Brad Buckley,Jenny Watson), catalogue essay, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC
Curator of Jürgen Brockmann, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC
1995 Curator: Posit Poznan, (artists: Jack Jeffrey, Lee Goreas, Gary Pearson), International Artist's Centre, Poznan, Poland, catalogue text
Curator with Dagmar Pearson; Greg Murdock: On Paper, Kelowna Art Gallery
1987 Curator: Abstraction/Drawing: Ann Kipling, David McWilliam, John Scott, Or Gallery, Vancouver, catalogue essay
1984 Curator: Works on Paper, North Battleford Art Center, North Battleford, Saskatchewan
PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY ARTIST:
2013 Exhibition review of Erin Shirreff: Pictures, at The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, April 19 – June 16, 2013, in Border Crossings, Vol. 32, No. 3, Sept/Oct/Nov 2013, pp. 89-90, reproductions
Academia and Art First Research, pp. 35-38, published in conference proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, Barcelona, Spain, January 31st – February 1st, 2013; Hernández-Hernández, F., & Fendler, R. (Eds) Barcelona: University of Barcelona – Dipòsit Digital, http://hdl.handle.net/2445/45264
Exhibition review of Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 27, 2012 – February 24, 2013, in Border Crossings, Vol. 32, No. 1, March. April, May, 2013, pp. 83 – 85, reproductions
2012 Ken Lum: It takes me back somewhere, I’m not sure where... essay on Ken Lum, in Sculpture magazine, Vol. 31, No. 9, November, 2012, pp. 42 – 45, reproductions
Exhibition review of David Alexander, The Shape of Place, Kelowna Art Gallery, Jan. 14 – March 25, 2012, in Border Crossings, Vol. 31, No. 2, June-August, 2012, pp. 85-87, reproductions
Exhibition review of On the Nature of Things, the Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Oct. 15 – Dec. 31, 2011, in Border Crossings, Vol. 31, No. 1, March, April, May 2012
2011 The Point Is, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, August 20 – October 30, 2011, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 30, No. 4, December, January, February 2011 – 2012, pp. 119 – 121, reproductions
On the Go, A Short Narrative Reading: Nhan Duc Nguyen, exhibition essay for Nhan Duc Nguyen’s exhibition “A Shrine to Literature”, at Gallery Vertigo, Vernon BC, Summer 2011
2010 Alan Wood: in conversation with Gary Pearson, in Lake, a journal of arts and environment, Issue 5, 2010, pp 5 – 13, reproductions
Fear and Desire in the Art of Roja Aslani, catalogue essay for the artists’ exhibition “Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be”, at the Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB Catalogue 2009-2010 and published on-line at: http://www.stride.ab.ca/arc/archive_2010/roja_aslani_project/roja_aslani_project.htm#exhibitiontext
2009 The Outskirts of Town: A Peripheral Centre for Art, Agency, and Academia, book chapter in Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The Artist, the PhD, and the Academy, edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Pub. Halifax, NS. Gary Pearson’s chapter #13, pages 164 – 181
Susan Rothenberg, Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC, Feb. 9 – April 11, 2009, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 28 No. 3, August 2009, pages 124 – 126, reproductions
Joseph Plaskett, Paris’s Moveable Feast, feature article in Border Crossings, Vol. 28 No. 3, August 2009, pp. 100 – 105, reproductions
Point of Origin: a Curatorial Essay in Seven Parts, in Column 3, Summer issue 2009, Artspace, Visual Arts Centre Pub. Sydney, Australia, pages 15 – 24, reproductions on pages 160 – 166
Rebecca Belmore, Vancouver Art Gallery, Summer 2008. Exhibition review in Sculpture magazine, May 2009, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 77-78, reproduction.
Alan Wood, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC. November 13 – December
7, 2008. Exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 28, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 99-100, reproductions
2008 Photographs of Tanya Mars in performance of Mz Frankenstein, published in Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, Edited by Paul Couillard, Fado Performance Inc. Publishers, Toronto, 2008. Pp. 21, 88
Location and Actuality: Gary Pearson interviews Christos Dikeakos, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace, in Lake: a journal of arts and environment, Issue No. 2, 2008, pp. 40-58, reproductions
Histories and Communities, exhibition review of Nexus, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Nov. 24, 2007 – March 2, 2008, in Museums roundup, Spring 2008, no. 240, pp. 14-15, reproductions
Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Oct. 18 – Nov. 17, 2007. Exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 108-109, reproductions
An Hour Before the Wind Blows the Colour Away, A short essay on David Alexander, in the catalogue for an exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC, March 2008
2007 The Undigested World Itself, Gary Pearson interviews Kristi Malakoff, in Lake: a journal of arts and environment, Issue No. 1, pp. 16-26, reproductions
On Alan Wood, short essay on artist Alan Wood, in catalogue for Nexus, Histories and Communities, curated by Liz Wylie, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC. P. 40
Kristi Malakoff: The Glade, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC, April 21 – May 27, 2006. Exhibition review in Canadian Art, Spring 2007, Vol. 24, No. 1, page 103, reproduction
2006 Notes on Notes for an Art School, catalogue essay for “Beauty and the Beast, UBC Vancouver Visual Arts faculty exhibition, at the Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC, Sept.-Oct.
Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 25 No. 3, August 2006, pp. 108-09, reproductions
Ceal Floyer: Draft, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 25 No. 3, April 2006. pp. 76-77, reproduction
Essay in exhibition brochure, for “Lubos Culen: Victory Elementals”, alumni exhibition at the Fina Gallery,UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC
2005 Rodney Graham ‘a little thought’, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Feb. 5-May 8, 2005, exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 24, No. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 75-76, reproduction
Catalogue essay, Looking at John Macdonald’s Paintings, John Macdonald, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec, March 31-April 11, 2005, p. 3, French translation, p. 4, reproductions
Youth Matters: A Profile of Randy Grskovic, in The Phoenix, Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 2005, p. 6, reproduction
2004 Published photograph, of Tanya Mars performance of Mz. Frankenstein, at Okanagan Artists Alternative, Kelowna BC, November 1992, in Caught in the Act, an anthology of performance art by Canadian women. Published by YYZ Books, Toronto 2004
Tony Scherman: pensées impensables (unthinkable thoughts), at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Sept. 18 – Nov. 14, 2004, exhibition review in Museums Roundup, Fall 2004, no. 228 p. 12, 13, reproductions
Tony Scherman: pensées impensables (unthinkable thoughts), at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Sept. 18 – Nov. 14, 2004, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 23. No. 4, reproductions
Ian Wallace: The Barcelona Series, at American Fine Arts, NYC; Feb.-
March, 2004; exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 23, No. 1, May 2004; pp. 90-92, reproductions
2004-06 Art Reviews, and Cultural Topics contributor for Off-Centre Magazine, September 2004 – November 2006. Titles of reviews and articles are available upon request
2003 Jack Jeffrey: Recent Work, at Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver February-March 2003; exhibition review in Sculpture, vol. 22, no.7, Sept.2003, pp.76-77; reproduction
Catalogue essay for Shauna Oddleifson: Dangerous Games, at the Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC
2002 Lyndal Osborne: Geographies and Objects of Enticement, at Kelowna Art
Gallery, Jan – Feb. 2002; exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 21, No. 8, October 2002; p. 87, reproduction
Lyndal Osborne: Geographies and Objects of Enticement, at Kelowna Art
Gallery, Jan – Feb 2002; exhibition review in Border Crossings, Issue No. 82, May 2002; pp. 72-73, reproduction
1999 Catalogue essay for Geert Maas Retrospective, Kelowna Art Gallery
1998 Author of The Creative Voice: Art and Life in the Okanagan, an anthology of 35 interviews of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers in the Okanagan, illustrated with B&W photos, 256 pp. published by The Caitlin Press
1997 Catalogue essay for Hotel on Fire, exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC
1995 Catalogue essay and artist interviews for Posit Poznan, exhibition at the International Artist’s Centre, Poznan, Poland
1994 Artist project By Train: Berlin-Lodz in New Observations, Sept/Oct issue
1993 Exhibition review of Claim, by Jack Jeffrey, at Okanagan Artists Alternative, Boomtown, April issue
1992 Exhibition review of 40 Years of British Sculpture, at Kelowna Art Gallery, Boomtown, Oct/Nov issue
1987 Catalogue essay for Abstraction/Drawing: David MacWilliam, John Scott, Ann Kipling, exhibition at the Or Gallery, Vancouver BC
VISITING ARTIST / GUEST LECTURE / CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2014 Conference presenter at 2nd Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, Intuitions and Critical Reflections on Issues and Methodologies. Organized by the University of Granada, Spain, January 27 - 30. Title of paper: Good Art or Good Research?
2013 Conference presenter at 1st Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research: Critical reflections on the intersection between art and research, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona, Jan. 31 – Feb. 1 Title of paper: Academia and Art First Research
Panel presenter, Lightning Talks, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC, January 26
2011 Artist lecture, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, Jan. 21
Guest presentation, on the occasion of Okanagan Institute Raising the Bar award citation to Anna Jacyszyn, Jan. 6
2009 Co-presenter, with Sarah Burwash, Thinking Big in the Small City: Arts, Academia, and the Question of Peripheral, at the Community University Research Alliance (CURA) Small City Conference Whose Show Is It Anyway? Community-Engaged Performance and Exhibition Arts in the Small City, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC. March 26 – 28
Guest lecture & workshop, Writing an Artist Statement, Vertigo Gallery, Vernon, BC. March 29
Visiting Artist, Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA), Victoria, BC. March 12
2008 Guest lecture, Let’s Start Over, a lecture based on curatorial project Point of Origin at Artspace, Sydney, Australia, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC. November 17
Guest lecture, What is Installation Art? Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Nov. 3
Panel Presenter, curatorial presentation on the exhibition Point of Origin, for the Artspace Symposium Aesthetics, Anti-Aesthetics, Non-Aesthetics, New Aesthetics, Artspace, Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. September 12
Artist lecture, The End is My Beginning, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, March 29
2007 Guest lecture, titled The Creative Voice, Ten Years On, at Mosaic Books, organized by The Okanagan Institute, Kelowna, BC, November 22
Guest lecture, with Liz Wylie, and Patricia Ainsle, called Art in Perspective, at Mosaic Books, organized by The Okanagan Institute, Kelowna, BC, September 20
2006 Lecture presentation/video screening, with Joanne Gervais, called Video Art and Democracy, for the Media Centre, at the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC. October 13
Artist lecture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC; May 4
2005 Artist lecture, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane, Aus. September 9
Artist lecture, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, AUS. August 17
Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC, March 10
Juror presentation: on the subject of the selection of artworks for Right Now!, the Vertigo Gallery, Vernon BC, April 2
2004 Panel presenter, The Artist as Provocateur, in conjunction with the exhibition Tony Scherman: (unthinkable thoughts), at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, October 30
Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, May 16
2003 Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Nov. 30
Artist lecture; One Way Ticket, exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery, June 1
2001 Panel presenter: A Critical Look at Contemporary Canadian Painting, Kelowna Art Gallery, in conjunction with the exhibition TransLinear, November 21, Kelowna, BC
Conference presenter: Careers in the performing, creative, and visual arts, School District #23 Grand Conference Center, Kelowna, BC
Visiting Artist Presentation, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC
Conference presenter, The BC University College Research Conference; Supporting
Research in an Emerging Small University Environment, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC
2000 Guest lecture: Berlin Jazz Story and Film Noir; Interior Film & Television Training Centre, Kelowna
1999 Public lecture: Siteing the Sculpture of Geert Maas, Kelowna Art Gallery
1998 Visiting Artist presentation, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, January 20
1997 Panel organizer and participant: The Audience and Contemporary Art, Kelowna Art Gallery, September 18
1996 Presentation and panel discussion on Censorship, The Mind Grind Cafe, Kelowna, January 20
1995 Visiting artist presentation, Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Visiting artist presentation, Malaspina College, Nanaimo, BC
1994 Visiting artist presentation, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
1993 Guest lecture, Contemporary Art in Germany, BC Art Teachers’ Conference, Kelowna, BC
1991 Visiting artist presentation, Okanagan University-College, Kelowna, BC
1990 Visiting artist presentation, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver
1987 Visiting artist presentation, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby
1984 Public Lecture: Harold Klunder and Contemporary Drawing, in conjunction with the exhibition: Harold Klunder - Drawing Installation, Kamloops Public Art Gallery, 1983
SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, & RESIDENCIES
2014 Travel Grant, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS), UBC Okanagan; in support of travel to Art and Research conference, University of Granada, Spain
2013 Travel Grant, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS), UBC Okanagan; in
Support of travel to Art and Research conference, University of Barcelona, Spain
2010 Artist-in-Residence, Bus from Guadalajara, Artist Residency, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, November 2010
Okanagan Arts Award in Visual Arts, Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, BC
2008 Canada Council Travel Grant
BC Arts Council Travel Grant
UBC Okanagan Travel Grant
2007 UBC Okanagan Publications Grant, in support of Point of Origin, a curatorial project for Artspace, Sydney Australia, September 2008
2006 UBC Okanagan Internal Research Grant, in support of “Point of Origin”, a curatorial project for Artspace, Sydney, Australia, September 2008
2005 Artist-in-Residence Award, Sydney College of the Arts/University of Sydney, Sydney, AUS. August-September
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ASU Research Grant
2004 Canada Council Travel Grant
BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
Studio Residency, Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John’s, NFLD. (April-May)
Studio Residency, Triangle Arts Association, DUMBO Studios, Brooklyn, NY (March)
2002 Canada Council Travel Grant
2000 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
1998 Canada Council Travel Grant
Okanagan Artist Recognition Award (OARA), literature category
Studio Residency, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997 Oskar Award (best documentary) Okanagan Society of Independent Filmmakers
1991 VIVA Award (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts)
Canada Council Visual Arts "B" Grant
1990/91Studio Award / International Studio Program, The Institute for Contemporary Art
P.S.1 Museum/MOMA, Long Island City, NY
1990 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
1989 Canada Council Project Cost Grant
1988 Canada Council Travel Grant
1987 Canada Council Project Cost Grant
1983 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Assistance Grant
1982 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Assistance Grant
1981/83 Graduate Student Scholarship, College of Graduate Studies and Research,
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2012 External Examiner, PhD Thesis defence by Aithan Shapira, at the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Australia
Juror, 2012 Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Vancouver, BC
2011 Desk Examiner, proposed Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) degree, Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Toronto
External Examiner, MFA Thesis defence by Jeremy Herndl, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver
2005 Associate Professor, Department of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan (2005 – present)
Juror, Right Now!, juried exhibition at Vertigo Gallery, Vernon, BC
2002 Delegate, Banff Television Festival, Banff Alberta
Jury member, independent video section, Okanagan Film Festival, Kelowna BC
2000 Jury member, Vancouver Foundation, Visual Arts Development Awards (VADA)
Jury member, Kelowna and District Arts Council (KADAC), arts competition
1999 Jury member, Vancouver Foundation, Visual Arts Development Awards (VADA)
1998 Jury member, Vancouver Foundation, Visual Arts Development Awards (VADA)
1997 Assistant Director Workshop, conducted by Shea Wageman, Okanagan Society of Independent Filmmakers
1995-97Committee member and juror, Grants-in-Aid of Research, OUC
1991-04 Instructor: Drawing, Painting, Okanagan University/College, (now UBC Okanagan) Kelowna, BC
1985-89 Part-time Instructor: Drawing, Painting, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design,
Vancouver
1985 Participant: Emma Lake Artists' Workshop, Emma Lake, Saskatchewan
1984 Participant: Instructional Skills Workshop, BC Ministry of Education, Kamloops, BC
M.A. Thesis Title: Form in Repetition: A View of Non-hierarchical Composition in Art (thesis examines Twelfth Copper Corner, 1975 and Casting, 1969 by Carl Andre,
and Richard Serra, respectively)
1983-84 Instructor: Studio and Art History, Dept. of Art, Cariboo College, Kamloops
1982-83 Sessional Lecturer in Drawing (Graduate TA), Dept. of Art, University of
Saskatchewan
1982 Workshop participant: Care and Handling of Two-Dimensional Works of Art,
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon
Set Designs for Shaggy Dog Operas, by Tom Johnson, visiting composer, Department of Music, University of Saskatchewan
1981/82 Gallery Assistant, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
ARTWORK IN COLLECTIONS
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Mary Chan, Interspace Design, Saskatoon
Canada Council Art Bank
Vancouver Art Gallery
Westbourne Industries, Montreal
Kelowna Art Gallery
Kamloops Art Gallery
Artist’s Museum, L?dz, Poland
Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC
Residence Collection, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, Australia
University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art and Design, Australia
Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Drückwerkstadt, Berlin, Germany
McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ON ARTIST
2013 Exhibition review of Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, in Eye and Mind, a chronicle of Marseille, Provence) December 21,
http://eyeandmind.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/des-canadiens-a-marseille-nous-reviendrons-vous-reviendrez/
Exhibition review of Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, in Galerie du Tableau – exhibition held in the rooms of d’honneur de la Préfecture, Des artistes de Vancouver se dévoilent, October 24, www.laprovence.com
Ainsle, Patricia; Okanagan Artists in their Studios, pub. Calgary, Frontenac House Ltd. Essay on the artist pp. 158 – 171, reproductions
Radio Interview with Gail Mowatt, on The Muse, CKVS 93.7 FM - Voice of the Shuswap, Salmon Arm, BC aired March 27 and April 14. Broadcast length 1:17 hours
2012 Gary Pearson’s Scenes for a Smoker’s Theatre, essay by Portia Priegert, for Winsor Gallery, see: http://www.winsorgallery.com/past_exhibits.php?event=pearson12
Gary Pearson: Scenes from a “Smoker’s Theatre, by Mia Johnson, Preview, Feb/Mar.
p. 40, reproduction
2011 1 2 3 Soliloquy, Akimbo – Akimblog – Stephanie Vegh in Hamilton, February 15
2009 Somewhere: A Solo exhibition by Gary Pearson, by Monique Kroeger, in The La Source, http://thelasource.com/fr/index May 4
2008 The End is My Beginning, exhibition review by Liz Wylie, Border Crossings, August 2008, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 185-186, reproductions
The End is My Beginning, exhibition review by Portia Priegert, Galleries West, Fall/Winter 2008, Vol. 7, No.3, pp. 40-41, reproduction
A picture’s worth a thousand words, by Greg Sabatino, Kamloops This Week, May 9, p. C2
Kelowna’s Gary Pearson has Major Show in Kamloops, Off-Centre Magazine, May
KAG combines jazz, poetry, The Daily News, Kamloops, May 2, p. B4
BC painter explores today’s urban woes, The Daily News, Kamloops, March 28, p. B2
Windows on Everyday Lives, by Mike Youds, The Daily News, Kamloops
2007 Cover image in Okanagan Arts magazine, Fall 2007, One Way Ticket, 2002, oil/canvas
2005 Alone in a Crowd, by Adriana Barton, in Western Living, p. 10, October 2005, vol. 35, no. 8, reproduction
Artist didn’t have a One Way Ticket, Josh Hammerstadt, in Prince George This Week,
p. 11, March 6, 2005, reproduction
2003 Radio interview with Cheryl MacKay, CBC North by Northwest, June 1
Dark Musings, by Glenna Turnbull, The Capital News, Showcase, June 19-25, p.3, reproduction
2001 Belton, Robert; Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture, pub. University of Calgary Press., essay on painting In the Distance a Siren Wails (reprod); pp 168,328,329
2000 Social Grit, by Portia Priegert, Event, Kelowna, Nov. 9 - 15; p. 13, reproduction
1998 Interview with David Grierson, CBC Radio North by Northwest, October 17
An Artist Turns Author, by Hazel MacClement, The Daily Courier, Kelowna, November 1, p. C3, reproduction
Pearson Writes Valuable Reference Book, by Andrew Hanon, Capital News, Kelowna, p. 8, Showcase Nov. 13 – 19, reproduction
1995 Spectacle Did Not Threaten, by Maev Brennan, The Daily Courier, October 5, p. C1
Performance Art Comes to Alternator, by Maev Brennan, The Daily Courier,
September 28
Taksowka z Kanady, Gazeta Wyborcza, July 8, 1995, p. 3, by Monika Bakke
Vivid Thoughts From the Okanagan, The Nanaimo Times, March 30, p. B1,
by Anne Gilroyed, reproduction
1993 The Slate, BBC television documentary, directed by Peter Tellfer, October 14, 1993, featuring 10 artists at Construction in Process IV
1992 Drift by Gunvald Opstad, Hrymfaxe Kunsttidsskrift, no. 3, September 1992, pp.3-8, reproduction
Maps To Nowhere, by Sheila Farr, Reflex, vol. 6, no. 5, September/October, p.23,
reproduction
Drift - 92, by Atle Christiansen, Dag Og Tid, September 17
Nature Becomes the Canvas, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review, August 22, 1992, p. D9 (catalogue review)
Haerverk pa Bragdoya, by Gunvald Opstad,Faedrelandsvennen, July 18, reproduction
Drift Tar Form, by Bernt Erik Pederson, Farsunds Avis, June 16, p. 7 reproduction
Drift, television documentary by Marianne Jakobsen NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., June
Studio Watch: Gary Pearson, by Eileen Truscott, Extension, vol. 1, no. 3, Winter 1992, pp. 14-15, reproduction
1991 The Pacific Northwest: Sex, Landscape, and Videotapes, by Patricia Failing, ArtNews, vol. 90, no. 10, December 1991, pp. 88-91 (p. 90)
Drawing Out City's Finest, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Seven Days Magazine, May 30, 1991, p. F4
Art in the Okanagan, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review,
March 30, p. D7
Artist's Foreboding Imagery..., by Maev Brennan, Kelowna Capital News, March 8, p. 14, reproduction
1990 Man's Triumphs of Technology Critiqued as False Gods, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review, November 3, 1990, p. D10
The Eye of the Beholder, by Jean Gordon, West, vol. 2, no. 9, October, pp. 30 – 41 reproduction
North of the Border, by Sheila Farr, Reflex, vol. 4, no. 3 May/June, p. 24
Odd Geometrics Transcend Their Awkwardness, by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, vol. 24, no. 1159, March 9 - 16, p. 23
1988 Human Geometry, by Robin Laurence (reproduction), Vanguard, vol. 17, no. 6,
Dec. 88/Jan. 89, p 43
Saskatchewan Art: Tradition and Diversity", by Christina Sabat, Arts Atlantic 31, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 11-12
1984 Symbolism or Metaphor, by Sandra Albers, The Kamloops News, June 27, 1984, reproduction
1983 Artistic Community Welcomes New Member, by George Allen, The Kamloops News,
September 29, reproduction
1981 First how for New Talent, by Mark Lightfoot, The Citizen, Prince George, January 7,
reproduction
