ANGELUCCI, Sara
Canadian, born 1962
www.sara-angelucci.ca
Education Master of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1997
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Guelph, 1990-1993
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Art History, University of Guelph, 1987
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS:
Gibson House
ROM Performance
Nuit Blanche
AGYU catalogue – co-published with Halsey Institute (ex 2016)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Public performance of A Mourning Chorus – February 5, Walker Court, AGO
part of Artist-in-Residence, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2013 Provenance Unknown, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, ON
curated by Emelie Chhangur
2010 Lacrimosa, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Regular 8, Occurrence, Montreal, PQ
2009 Somewhere in Between, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2009 Regular 8, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2008 Room To Remember, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2008 Mining the Family Archive, Elora Arts Centre, Elora, Ontario
2007 Landscape and Light, Curated by Karen Henry, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C.
2007 Art Star 3, Video Art Biennale, Curated by Erik Martinson, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2007 Double Take, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Everything in My Father’s Wallet/Everything in My Wallet, Art Gallery of Hamilton, ON
2006 Somewhere in Between, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
2005 Everything in My Father’s Wallet/Everything in My Wallet, VU, Quebec City, PQ
2005 Everything in My Father’s Wallet/Everything in My Wallet, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Mural Project at Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 Selected Works, McClaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2003 New Photographs, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2002 Selected Works, Artcite, Windsor, ON
2000 The Perfect Past, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Perfect Past, Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Toronto
1998 The Perfect Past, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario
1997 America il Paradiso, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
1994 Accidental Visions, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014 June 19, 2014 - Screening of The Anonymous Chorus, DRIFT Art Projects, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM, USA, curated by Eileen Torpey
2014 A Visual Trace, featuring Sara Angelucci, Melissa General, Rachel MacHenry, Gord Peteran, Aubrey Reeves, Greg Staats, curated by Patrick Macaulay, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2012-14 Take-out/Da-Bao, curated by Shannon Anderson & Doug Lewis, Varley Gallery, Markham, ON, PlugIn ICA—Winnipeg, Surrey Art Gallery, B.C.
2013 We’re in the Library, Curated by Mona Filip, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration, curated by Gaelle Morel
Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, ON
2013 Visions International Festival of Visual Culture, Kiev, Ukraine
2012-2013 Flowers and Photography, curated by Carla Garnet, Art Gallery of Peterborough,ON
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
2012 Passages, curated by Christine Boyanoski, Peel Regional Art Gallery, Brampton, ON
2012 PHrame, curated by Vaya Sigmas, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium
2011 Front Line, 2011 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2011 Revolutionizing Cultural Identity, curated by Claude Baillargeon, Canadian Museum of Immigration, Halifax, NS
2011 Open Your Eyes, PH Neutro Gallery, Verona, Italy
2010 Beyond Likeness, toured by the Portrait Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Victoria, BC
2009 Home, Land & Security, Render Gallery, Waterloo, ON, curated by Jeff Thomas
2008 Revolutionizing Cultural Identity: Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration
Curated by Claude Baillargeon, Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland, Michigan
2007 Your Morning is My Night, Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Your Morning is My Night, CCX Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 tween heart and mine, Kingston Artists, Inc., Kingston, Ontario
2004 That Obscure Object of Desire, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2004 Light Boxes/Boxes of Light, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto
2003/04 The Found and the Familiar, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Confederation Arts Centre, PEI, Bishop’s University,PQ, Gallery Connexion, N.B., Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, PQ, Mount St. Vincent Gallery, NS
2003 Modified 8, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2002 Snow, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, ON
2001 December, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
2000 Parting Ways, VMAC Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Times 2, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON
2000 Whispering Cities, Drabinsky Gallery, Toronto, ON
1999 In Tribute, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S.
1998 Work Re: Work, Install Art Collective, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON.
1998 Proof 5, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
1997 Aspects de la Relève Québécoise et Canadienne, Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Que
1995 Italica, Preston Gallery, Cambridge, ON
A Given Time, installation project as part of NICHE installation festival, Guelph, ON
VIDEO AND VIDEO INSTALLATIONS
2013 The Anonymous Chorus
2010 Beauty Pageant News, commissioned by SAW Video, Ottawa, ON
2008 Room To Remember, produced as part of a residency at Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
2007 When The Cricket Sings, 8.5 minutes, shot during a residency in Shanghai, China
2007 Double Take, 5 minutes
2003 Seeking Grace, 3 minute video, Commissioned by V tape, through the Canada Council in memory of Collin Campbell•
2000 SNOW, 5 minutes, produced at Break Production Studios, Winnipeg, MB
2000 In A Hundred, 4 minutes, produced at Break Production Studios, Winnipeg, MB
1997 America il Paradiso, 12 minutes, produced at The Center for Art Tapes, Halifax, N.S.
1997 Evidence of Her Disappearance, video installation with photographs on duratrans
1996 Questions She’ll Never Answer, video installation with back lit photographs on duraflex
SCREENINGS and VIDEO INSTALLATION
Beauty Pageant News
June 24 2010 Mayfair Theatre, Ottawa, ON
Sept. 15 2010 Library & Archives Canada Theatre, ON, Part of Festival X photography festival, Ottawa
Oct. 2010 Open Video Conference, New York
Mar. 26, 2011 FIFA: International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal, PQ
April 19, 2011 FACT Video Festival, Liverpool, England
Sept. 21, 2011 Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg, MB
Sept. 23, 2011 MediaNet/Deluge Gallery, Victoria, BC
Oct. 5, 2011 No.w.here Gallery, London, UK
Oct. 13, 2011 Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB
Oct. 14, 2011 EMMedia & Production Society, Calgary
Nov. 17, 2011 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y.
Apr. 2012 Halifax
Feb. 18, 2012 Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge Ontario
Mar. 15, 2012 Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Centre, New Orleans Louisiana
Mar. 17, 2012 Eyedrum Arts Centre, Atlanta Georgia
Dec. 5, 2012 Ryerson Art Gallery, Toronto Ontario
Room To Remember
2008 Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON
Double Take
2008 Elora Arts Centre, Elora, Ontario
2007 Art Star 3 Biennale, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2007 Wynick/Tuck Gallery, CONTACT Photo Festival, Toronto, ON
2007 flEXiff Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
When the Cricket Sings
2010 Ed Video, Guelph, ON
2008 Doxa, Experimental Film & Video Festival, Vancouver, B.C.
2007 Art Star 3 Biennale, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2007 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C.
America il Paradiso
2013 Ryerson Image Centre, Media Wall, Toronto, ON, curated by Gaelle Morel
2007 Art Star 3 Biennale, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2001 rePlace, Art System, curated by Dana Claxton, Toronto, ON
1999 Taste of Landscapes, curated by Nina Czegledy, Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
1999 Convergences/Divergences, curated by Jim McSwain, Halifax
1999 Antimatter Film & Video Festival, Victoria, B.C.
1999 Photophobia Film Festival, Hamilton, ON.
1999 Short!, Ed Video, Guelph, ON
1998 Personal Stories, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON.
1997 Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
In A Hundred
2007 Art Star 3 Biennale, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2005 Available Light, curated by Carol Breton, Ottawa, ON
2003 Photophobia, Film & Video Festival, Hamilton, Ontario
2002 Art Centre, Kelowna, B.C.
2001 Videotage Film & Video Festival, Hong Kong, China
2001 SuperNew, curated by Kelly Langaard, Calgary, AB
SNOW
2007 Art Star 3 Biennale, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2005 Available Light, curated by Carol Breton, Ottawa, ON
2005 Out of Body, curated by Aileen McBride, Alley Jaunt, Toronto, ON
2002 Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto
2002 December, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
2001 Weathervane, Ace Art, Winnipeg, MA
Evidence of Her Disappearance
1997 Aspects de la Relève Québécoise et Canadienne, Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Que
Questions She’ll Never Answer
2008 Mining the Family Archive, Elora Arts Centre, Elora, Ontario
2006 Somewhere in Between, Cambridge Art Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2002 Art in the Dark, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Flow, Images Film & Video Festival, Wynick/Tuck Gallery
1996 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
Trinity College, University of Toronto, ON
Art Gallery of Peel, Brampton, ON
National Portrait Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, ON
Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
University of Toronto Library
Private Collections in Canada & U.S.
AWARDS and COMMISSIONS
2013 Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2012 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2010 Canada Council for the Arts Research Grant
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2008 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2008 Toronto Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2008 Ontario Arst Council Exhibition Assistance
2007 Canada Council for the Arts Artist Production Grant
2006 Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
2006 Toronto Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2006 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2006 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2005 Toronto Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2004 Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant, Exhibition Assistance
2003 Video Commission V Tape, A Project in Honour of Colin Campbell
2002 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
2002 Ontario Arts Council Mid Career, Visual Arts Grant
2001 Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
2000 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
Canada Council Emerging Artist
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist
1999 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist
1998 Canada Council Emerging Artist
1998 Ontario Arts Council First Film and Video
Ontario Arts Council Emerging Artist
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance
1997 Nova Scotia Arts Council Travel Grant
1996 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design Joseph Beuys Memorial Scholarship
1994 Ontario Arts Council Interdisciplinary Grant
Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1993 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Annual Juried Exhibition
Wellington County Museum Annual Juried Exhibition Award
1992 Macdonald Stewart Art Centre Annual Juried Exhibition Award
1985 University of Guelph Alma-mater in course scholarship
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (Books, Exhibition Catalogues, Periodicals)
ARTICLES & CATALOGUES
2014 We’re in the Library, brochure, essay by curator Mona Filip, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 Flowers and Photography, Art Gallery of Peterborough, McMaster Museum of Art
2013 Provenance Unknown, primary exhibition in Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival Guide, essay by
Emelie Chhangur
2012 DaBao/Take Out, Shannon Anderson and Doug Lewis, Varley Art Gallery
2011 Ho Tam, Frontline: Interviews with International Contemporary Photo Artists, Xiandai Press (Modern Press), Beijing, China
2011 Public Domain, Ottawa: SAW Video
2011 Shannon Anderson, Lacrimosa, in Eyemazing Photography Magazine, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fall Issue
2008 Katy McCormick, Scene as Space across Time: Presence, Passage and Transition,
Blackflash Magazine, Vol. 25.3, 2008
2008 Claude Baillargeon, Revolutionizing Cultural Identity, Oakland University Art Gallery
2007 Erik Martinson, Everything in Your Life, Everything in Mine, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2007 Karen Henry, Landscape and Light, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, B.C.
2007 Katy McCormick, Double Take, Contact Photo Festival Guide, Toronto, ON
2006 Ivan Jurakic, Shirley Madill, Somewhere In Between, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
2005 Katy McCormick, Gallery Vu, Quebec City, PQ
2004 Colin Wiginton, Art City, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON
2001 Lisa Gabrielle Mark, Paper Wait, Ace Art, Winnipeg, MB
2000 Lisa Gabrielle Mark, The Perfect Past, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, ON
1999 Gordon Hatt, Work Re: Work, The Install Art Collective, Cambridge, ON
1999 Jim McSwain, Convergence/Divergence, Atlantic FilmMakers Co-operative, Halifax, NS
1995 John Massier & Gordon Hatt, The Install Art Collective, Guelph, ON
1994 Nancy Campbell, Accidental Visions, The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON
REVIEWS
2013 Fran Schechter, “Library Love”, NOW Magazine, Dec. 19-26, Vol. 33, No. 16
2013 Elana Sadinsky, Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists, Fall 2013, pp. 161-166
2013 Exhibit reminiscent of grade-school days, by Murray Whyte, Toronto Star, Nov. 18, 2013, E1-2.
2013 Shannon Anderson, Carousel Magazine, Dec. 2013
2013 Jennifer Rudder, C-Magazine, Autumn 2013, p.48, 50.
2013 Sarah Milroy, In Fine Feather, Saturday, April 13, 2013, R11
2013 Fran Schaecther, NOW Magazine, Thursday, May 23, 2013
2010 Sean Finn, Crossing Paths, Visual Arts News, Spring 2010 Issue, p. 2-4.
2009 Sean Finn, Family Ties, The Coast, Nov. 5-11, 2009, p. 50
2009 Kristen den Hartog, C Magazine, Fall 2009, p. 50
2008 Joanne Shuttleworth, Guelph Mercury, April 11, 2008, Section B1
2008 Francis Baker, Elora-Fergus News Express, January 16, 2008, p. 5
2006 Robert Reid, Kitchener/Waterloo Record, April 15, 2006, Section E
2004 Susan Douglas, Canadian Art Magazine, Fall 2004, p.161-162.
2004 Michel Hellmann, Le Devoir, February 14, 2004, p. E6 (review of The Found& the Familiar)
2003 Peter Goddard, Toronto Star, April 19, 2003, p. H9
2003 Melissa Levin, LOLA, Winter 2002/2003, p. 73
2002 Mayville, Nikki The Perfect Past, XX Magazine, p.9
2000 Mackay, Gillian. Sara Angelucci, Canadian Art Magazine, p.15
Hackett, Sophie. Sara Angelucci, Lola#6, p. 53, 91
Mackay, Gillian. Gallery Goings: Sara Angelucci, The Globe and Mail, 08/04/00
1998 Al-Solaylee, Kamal. Pictures at 11: Proof 5 monitors new directions in Canadian photography,
Eye Weekly (18/06/98)
Challen, Paul. Memory, Technique and Focus, Id Magazine
1997 September le Mois de la Photo, Le Plateau
Couelle, Jennifer, Me, my Grandmother, the Object and the Others, CV Photo, pp 5-9
Stephane Aquin, Jeunesse d’aujordi’hui, Voir
1995 Niche: Public Installations, Interventions and Performances, Espace Magazine, pp. 21-24
1994 MacDonald, Max, Of Accidents and Deliberation, id magazine, p.29
Hill, Valerie, For Art’s Sake, The Guelph Mercury, p. B7
Lachowsky, Tara, Of History and Memory, The Ontarion, p.7
1993 Gordon, Mike, Trying to make art accessible, Guelph Tribune, p.12
1992 Johnson, Bill, Art through women’s eyes, Guelph Mercury, p.D1
On-Line articles/reviews:
June 9, 2014 The Design Observer, article by John Foster
Spring 2014 – Wondereur Magazine by Doreen Wang
Spring 2014 – Magenta Magazine on-line, Aviary portfolio feature
Winter, 2014 - Musée Magazine – No. 8, Vol. 1, 2014
November 17, 2013, Slate, The Photo Blog, by David Rosenberg
Nov. 2, 2013 – Canadian Art Magazine on-line, Review: (Da bao) (Takeout): Good to Go, by Mariam Nader
Nov. 17, 2013 – AGYU, review of Provenance Unknown by Natasha Chaykowski
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT and EXPERIENCE
2014 Panel discussion “A bird’s eye view on Art & Extinction”, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
2014 Panel discussion with Marla Hlady & Spring Hurlbut, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario
2012 Panel discussion with author Kristen denHartog at Peel Regional Museum, Brampton, ON
2008-2013 Instructor, Photography, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University
2002-2008 Instructor, Photography, Ontario College of Art & Design
2012 Visiting artist, University of Waterloo
2012 Visiting artist, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick
2010 Panelist at the SPE Conference, Philadelphia, Facing Diversity, Leveling the Playing Fields in the Photographic Arts
2008 UAAC Panel, Navigating the self: the autobiographical impulse in art, Toronto, 2008
1998-2007 Director, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, ON
2006 Artist in Residence, Biz Art, Shanghai, China
2006 Visiting Artist, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Visiting Artist, York University, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Special Project Manager, Canadian Art Foundation, Toronto, ON
2004 Participation on a panel on Italian/Canadian artists, Museum of Civilization, Hull, PQ
2004 Visiting Artist, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2003 Visiting Artist, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
2003 Prize Juror - Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2003 Self Directed Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts
2003 Visiting Speaker, University of Guelph
2002, 2003 - Portfolio Reviewer, CONTACT Photography Festival
2002 Photo Juror, Burlington Art Centre
2002 Artist Talk, Ontario College of Art & Design
2002 Panel discussion, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
2001 Visiting Artist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
2001 External Examiner MFA Program, University of Guelph
2001 Photo Juror, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair
2001 Portfolio Reviewer, CONTACT Photography Festival
2001 Panelist, Art Gallery of Ontario, for CONTACT Photo Festival
1999 Visiting Artist, University of Guelph
1998 Photo Instructor, University of Guelph
1998 Consultant, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON
1997 Photo Instructor, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
1995 Juror, Ontario Arts Council
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2005 Member of the Board of Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
2001-03 Member of the Board of CONTACT, Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario
1993-1997 Member of the Install Art Collective, Guelph, Ontario
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2008 Constellations, Aubrey Reeves, Ivan Jurakic, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2003 Time and Again, Raymonde April, Dianne Bos, Bertrand Carriere, Tashia Friesen, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2000 Thick Skinned, Suzy Lake, Glynis Humphrey, Lisa Deanne Smith, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
ARTIST RESIDENCES
2001 – Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
2003 – Banff Centre, self-directed residency
2006 – Biz Art, Shanghai, China
Nov. 2013 – Jan. 2014 – Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
Source: Sara Angelucci
Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario
Person TypeIndividual
Canadian, b. Iceland, 1966
Canadian, b. Hungary, 1936
