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Biography

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GALLERY REPRESENTATION: Burdett-Coutts International, Mississauga;

ON-LINE REPRESENTATION: Burdett-Coutts International Online, Toronto;

EXHIBITIONS (Solo) 2001 MY IDEA OF FUN. Digital Mutations (Berlin)

(Washington); ongoing. FRENZY! Burdett-Coutts International (Mississauga);

2/8-22. 2000 Lenin Tireworks Media Salon (New York). 10/5-21. CERTAIN

TYPES OF INQUIRY. Original Papers (Toronto); 1/4-20. 1994 THEORETICAL

PEOPLE. A Space Members Wall (Toronto); 7/15-31.

1993 INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM. (a site-specific installation) Artist's

Space (New York); 4/13-5/30. MY LIFE AS A NERD. The Bar (New York, NY);

3/5-29. 1992 THE SEX PICTURES. Dick's Bar (New York, NY); 7/17-8/27.

ANTI-CENSORSHIP WINDOW. (with Ron Giii) Pages Bookstore (Toronto);

7/14-8/8. THE BLACK PHOTOS OF SNOW WHITE. (Two-person show with

Ron Giii) La Hacienda (Toronto); 2/22-3/31.

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EXHIBITIONS (Group) 2001 BODY LANGUAGE: EXPLICIT/IMPLICIT. Leslie-

Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 11/7-12/21. 4^TH INTERNATIONAL MEET-ING OF SOUND AND VISUAL POETRY. Espacio Giesso (Buenos Aires); 10/26. EUROART 2001. Sala Marqués de Comillas (Barcelona); 10/5-8. OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION. Cambridge Art Galleries (Cambridge); 9/8-10/7.MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIESLAND. Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); 9/6-22. FAMILY: IT’S PERSONAL. I Gallery (New York); 6/15-3/31. A LOVE STORY. Mercer Union (Toronto); 2/8-10. 2000 ALTARS AND OTHER SACRED SITES. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 11/1-12/9. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 8. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 9/13-31. ARTEXPO 2000. http://art-channel.net (Hanover); ongoing. WORLD ART ON COLLECTION. Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (The Hague); 11/13-24. EROTIC ART SHOW. Pegasus (New York); 9/9-10/10. WORLD FESTIVAL OF ART ON PAPER. Kranj Commune (Kranj, Slovenia); 9/1-15. 9th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 5/16-6/25. REFLECTIONS OF MYSELF. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/3-20. 1999 STUDIO 211 WEBSITE. http://www.studio211.com (ongoing). THE ARTGROUP FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ARTISTS WEBSITE. http://www.art-groupnyc.com (ongoing). EROTIC SHOW. Sacred Body Art (New York); 11/4-28. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 7. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 10/6-31. THE MILLENNIUM ART COLLECTION: 2000 REASONS TO LOVE THE EARTH. The Art Open, Essen; 7/10-8/8. HONING THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/6-30. 1998 http://info-true.com Click on International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors; click on Memorials (ongoing). UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 6. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 7/14-8/15. PRIDE '98. Vincent Louis Gallery (New York); June16-7/4. BODY PRIMITIVE. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/18-7/18. SEXUALITY/OBJECT: THE BACKROOM. New Century Artists Gallery (New York); 6/3-28. 7th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 5/12-6/27. OUT ON THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/6-17. 1997 THE LIGHTBOX. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (New York); 10/18-11/24. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 5. LaMama LaGalleria (New York); 7/24-8/16. GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 7/3-9/2. STRENGTH IN UNITY. 24 Hours For Life (New York); 6/11-8/2. HARTFORD PRIDE. Pumphouse Gallery (Hartford, CN); 6/4-29. 1996 SEXUAL PRIMER. O'Con-nor Gallery (Toronto); 6/6-7/14. 1995 GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 12/12-1/9. REVIEWS (EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) Mercer Union (Toronto); 11/9-12/23. PRIDE '95. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/15-7/7. 1993 SOUVENIRS OF THE REAGAN/BUSH YEARS. Puchong Gallery (New York, NY); 1/20-2/17. 1992 MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL – CONTEM-PORARY SELF-PORTRAITS. Richmond International Airport (Richmond VA) organized by the Richmond Council on the Arts; 10/15-12/18. QUEER BODIES. Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College (Olympia WA); 4/3-30. 1991 ALL GROWN UP. CUNY Graduate Center Library (New York); 10/4-11/1. AIDS: FEAR, RAGE, HOPE. Traveling exhibition, various locations in San Diego; 9/27-10/20. 1990 POSITIVE ACTIONS. The Clocktower (New York); 11/29-1/20. STYLES AND AESTHETICS. La Mama LaGalleria (New York); 11/15-12/2. QUEER: OUT IN ART. Wessel/O'Connor Ltd. (New York); 9/5-29. GAY ALL THE WAY 2. The Tunnel (New York); 3/18. 1989 GAY ALL THE WAY. The Tunnel (New York); 11/19. 1977 De Appel (Amsterdam) 1976 Center for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC, Toronto). 1975 CEAC (Toronto) 1973 Gallery Z (Toronto); University of Alberta Law Center curated by the Edmonton Art Gallery. 1972 GREAT CANADIAN ART SHOW. Edmonton Art Gallery (Edmonton); CHRISTMAS SHOW. Isaacs Gallery (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto).

 

PERFORMANCE WORKS (site-specific) 1998 Out on the Edge Festival, Clem-

ente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York). 1978 Studio 16/e (Turin); Museo di Arte Moderna, Bologna (with Arturo Schwartz); Students' Cultural Centre (Zagreb); Podroom (Zagreb); Ghen (Lecce); Alternative Space (Detroit). 1977 London Art Gallery (Ontario); Franklin Furnace (New York); Pier 52 (New York); Joseph Beuys' Free International University at Documenta VI (Kassel); Palazzo Diamante (Ferrara); Arte Fiera (Bologna); Remont Gallery (Warsaw); Karoly Gallery (Lublin); DeAppel (Amsterdam); Gallerie Monnae (Brussels). 1975 CEAC (Toronto). 1972 Gallery 76 (Toronto).

 

RECORDINGS/BOOK DESIGN 1985 CRUISING THE MOVIES by Boyd

McDonald, Gay Presses of New York. 1977 RAW/WAR, 45 rpm, Crash and Burn Records (Toronto).

 

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/AWARDS 2000 Photography Roundtable,

Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York), 6/2. Studio 211 Artist in Residency Program (Denver), 3/15-6/15. 1985 Over All Design Award for Christopher Street magazine (Gay and Lesbian Press Association).

1977 Travel grant for European tour (Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa). 1976 Project grant (Ontario Arts Council, Toronto). 1973 Project grant (Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa).

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ARTICLES/REVIEWS/CATALOGUES 2001 AIDS Council of South Australia

(work used for brochures and advertisements) 2000 WORLD ART ONE COL-LECTION; 2000 Foundation, Netherlands. 1999 5000 ARTISTS RETURN TO ARTISTS SPACE: 25 YEARS edited by Claudia Gould and Valerie Smith. 1998 BECOMING VISIBLE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LESBIAN AND GAY LIFE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman; Penguin/Putnam, New York. 1995 REVIEWS (EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) catalogue with an essay by curator Tom Follard. MEN'S STYLE (commissioned photograph and works on paper to illustrate "Risky Business" by David Thomas) 5/6/issue. 1994 INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM (photograph of installation used to illustrate "Acts of Memory" by Simon Watney) OUT magazine (New York), 9/issue. 1993 "Art With Ideas", interview/review of INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM and MY LIFE AS A NERD by David Hirsh, New York Native, 5/24 issue. WPIX, "A New York Minute". 1992 "The Chill Factor" (News story by Lloyd Wong) PARALLELOGRAMME magazine, (Toronto) Winter issue. "Obscenity Chill, Artists in a Post-Butler Era" by Elaine Carol, Fuse magazine (Toronto), Winter issue. "The Body As Target", interview/review of THE SEX PICTURES by David Hirsh, New York Native, 8/2 issue. QUEER BODIES catalogue with forward by curator Huey Lentz. FUSE magazine, Toronto (a commissioned portfolio) Summer issue. "Choices", interviewed by David Hirsh, New York Native, 3/12 issue. "Restaurant Obscenity Raid Bodes Ill For Artists Creating Sexual Imagery" (news story by Glenn Cooly) NOW magazine (Toronto), 3/2 issue. "Police Warn Restaurant Photos May Be Obscene" (news story) Globe and Mail, Toronto, 2/28.

1991 PERFORMANCE IN/AU CANADA, 1970-1994 by Alain-Martin Richard and Clive Robertson (Coach House Press/Editions Intervention; Toronto, Montreal). REPORTS FROM THE FRONT (a portfolio of recent work), Christopher Street magazine (New York), Issue 164. "Exhibit Shows Many Types of Victims" (review of AIDS: FEAR, RAGE, HOPE) by Chris Jenkins, Los Angeles Times, 9/21. 1990 "New York Adventure", review of STYLES AND AESTHETICS by David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/3 issue. "Tribal Art", (photograph accompanying interview with William O'Connor about the exhibition QUEER: OUT IN ART, by David Hirsh) New York Native, 9/24 issue. "An Original Chaos", review of GAY ALL THE WAY 2 by David Hirsh, New York Native, 4/16 issue. 1989 "The Warmth and the Heat", review of GAY ALL THE WAY by David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/4 issue. 1987 "The CEAC Was Banned in Canada", (historical overview by Dot Tuer) C magazine (Toronto), 9/issue. 1977 An interview with the publisher of FUORI! (Bologna), published in The Body Politic (Toronto) 1975 An interview with Coco Rico, published in TOIKE (University of Toronto).

 

CURATORIAL/PEER REVIEW 1999 Curator: UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 7; Soto

Clemente Velez Cultural Center (New York) 1995 Brooklyn Arts Council peer-review panelist. 1984 Co-founder and curator (l979-88) of International Gay History Archive, now a part of the Research Collections, Rare Book and Manuscripts division, at the New York Public Library. 1976 Curator: BOUND BENT AND DETERMINED, A LOOK AT SADO-MASOCHISM; CEAC (Toronto).

 

COLLECTIONS Public Collections: Franklin Furnace Collection at the Museum of

EDUCATION 1970-74 Ontario College of Art, graduated with honors (AOCA).

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