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2017 Kissing Project, Oxygen Arts Centre, British Columbia, Canada June 6 -July 8 | catalog Murals, Serde Arts Centre, Aizpute, Latvia 2016 The Lumsden Biscuit, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Scotland 2015 Revisiting a Holiday in Glenrothes, The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture and Design | Produced by the Scottish Civic Trust | March 28 - May 8, 2015 2013 - 14 Camera Histories, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland, Curated by Malcolm Dickson | Exhibition leaflet November 22, 2013 - February 2, 2014 Aerial Fields, Surrey Urban Screen, BC September 8, 2013 - January 6, 2014 Curated by Liane Davison and Alison Rajah 2012 Beyond Sight: Interrogations of a Camera, A&D Gallery, London, UK CHURCHES IN-NI, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Curated by Karen Downey (catalog) 2009-10 Cameras and Watercolour sunsets, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada Curated by Christopher Brayshaw 2008 A Holiday in Glenrothes, Royal Institute of Architect’s Scotland Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Traveling to Glenrothes, Rothes Hall Galleries, Fife, Scotland 2007 EK Modernism, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada Curated by Adam Harrison 2006 EK Modernism: New Town Passages, EKAC Galleries, East Kilbride, Scotland (book publication in conjunction with LightHouse Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland) 2005 New works, East Kilbride Arts Centre, Scotland 2004 Minimalist Portraits, Net Art Launch, SAW Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (catalogue) Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC (catalogue) 2002 Capital Cities, Centre A, Vancouver, BC (solo, catalog) 1999 In Transit, Pocket Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalog) 1996 Of Myth and Muse, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC (catalog) GROUP 1997 Conceived on Christmas Invitational Show , The Print Room, Photographer's Gallery, London, UK Configuration, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC (catalog) Curated by Christopher Brayshaw Apples and Oranges, Atrium Gallery, Hongkong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC (brochure) Curated by Tom Graff 1996 The Japanese Suite, The Print Room, The Photographer's Gallery, London, England 1995 Off The Wall, Exposure Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1994 Space/14, Vancouver House Exhibition Space, Vancouver, BC Classic Shot, FotoBase Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. Curated by Ann Rosenberg 1990 Shared Visions, Shared Concerns, Hongkong Bank of Canada, Vancouver, BC (catalog) 1988 Photoperspectives '88, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC Curated by Robert Keziere |
GROUP2017
Art and Ecology Collective, Exhibition and Launch, Glasgow Sites of Assembly, Helen and Morris Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland Home/Shelter/Belonging: Sylvia Grace Borda, Jim Breukelman, Germaine Koh, Hani Al Moulia, Annie Pootoogook, Itee Pootoogook, Gu Xiong, Exhibition curated by Robin Laurence and Darrin Morrison (July 19 – September 9) West Vancouver Museum: Art, Design + Architecture, BC Glasgow Women's Library Group exhibition, Scotland Summer Exhibition, Mustarinda Arts Society, Finland Lumen Prize Digital Arts Tour 2017: Canary Wharf Winter Festival, London, UK; FQ Projects, Shanghai, China; Leeds Digital Art Festival, UK; New York City’s Creative Tech week, USA 2016 -17 Presentation of EK Modernism and A Holiday in Glenrothes as part of Scotland Through the Lens: 175 years of documentary photography (Sept 2, 2016 – April 5, 2017) curated by Rachel Nordstrom and presented as part of the inaugural launch of the annual St Andrew's Photography Festival. 2016 Lumen Prize, Digital Arts Tour 2016: Hackney House, London, UK; Cardiff Technology Centre, UK; Berlin Electronic Visualisation Conference, Germany; Caerphilly Castle, Wales Man-Made Art, A+D Gallery, London, UK (Jan 11 – February 22, 2016) 2015 Summer show, Photographs and prints. A&D Gallery, London, UK Guest curated by Maika | July 16 - Aug 30 Mantta Summer Exhibition: a new present || uusi nykyisyys Curators: Kalle Hamm & Dzamil Kamanger June 13 - August 31, 2015 | catalog A Sense of Place, Oulu Art Museum, Finland January 23 - March 15, 2015 Curator: Helka Ketonen | catalog Cultural Productions, SERDE Residency, Latvia September 2015 Views from the Southbank: Information, Objects, Mapping, Surrey Art Gallery, BC (September 19 - Dec 13, 2015) Curator: Jordan Strom (w catalogue) 2014 Residency: Frontiers in Retreat workshop, Helsinki International Artist Programme, Finland Curator: Jenni Nurmenniemi & Nuno Sacremento Digital Cultures, Museum of Finnish Photography, Helsinki, Finland 2013 Figuring Ground: Sylvia Grace Borda and Jeremy Herndl, Surrey Art Gallery, BC September 21 - December 15, 2013 Curated by Jordan Strom NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 Years of Photography, Belfast Exposed Gallery and the MAC, 10 May - 7 July 2013 Curated by Karen Downey, Catalog by Colin Graham Blueprint, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland February 2 - March 31, 2013 Catalog essay by Malcolm Dickson 2012 Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and The Serial Image, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada Curated by Jordan Strom Zoo Art Sculptural Biennale, Cueno, Italy 2011 Seeing and Being in the Landscape, Blue Wall Gallery, Ireland Curated by Joe Keenan 2010 Scoping Worlds, Leitrim Scultpure Centre, Ireland Curated by Sean O'Reilly 2009-10 Glocal, Cultural Capital of Canada Artist Project, Tech Lab, Surrey Art Gallery (catalog) 2008 ‘(Not) A Photograph’ Exhibition Obalne Galerije, Piran, Slovenia Curated by Vasja Nagy re-COLLECT-ing, Naughton Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland (catalog) 2007 Subversive Cartography, National web launch – Virtual Net Art,Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario Curated by Michael Alstad and Daniel Young (catalog) Proun series, HZ Net Gallery (curated by Sachiko Hayashi) Two Chicken Noodle, Barcode Series, Digital Fringe, Melbourne National web launch – Virtual Net Art , Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario (catalog) Curated by Michael Alstad and Daniel Young Node.London’06, Media Arts Festival and exhibition (catalog) 2005 Pixelware, Travelling exhibition: Dazibao Gallery, Montreal and Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto (catalog) Pixelware, a sublime forgery is a collaborative project curated by Dazibao, France Choinière and Marisa Portolese, and Gallery 44, Sara Angelucci and Elaine Whittaker. 2004 Ruins and Civilization: Stan Douglas, Antonia Hirsch, Sylvia Grace Borda, International art exhibition, Eslite Vision Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan (catalog) Curated by Amy Cheng 2003 Pula off - 50. Pula film festival [20.7.2003 - 5.8.2003] curated by Branka Bencic for the Museum of Contemporary art, Zagreb and 50. Pula film festival. (catalog) 2002 Digital Scans, University of California Riverside, California Museum of Photography (web catalog) Present (MFA Graduate Exhibition), Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia (catalog) |
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & LECTURES
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Artist presentation: What has happened to the camera?, photographies Conference, University of Westminster, London, UK (May 17, 2017) Chaired by Liz Wells and David Bate The Kiss in Art from Intimate to Political, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC (February 18, 2017) 2016 'Examining the Visual Arts as part of public debate and wider conservation: Farm Tableaux' International Union for Conservation of Nature, World Congress Forum, Hawaii, USA (September 3, 2016) 'To like? Digital era image making' Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada (April 26, 2016) Artist presentation, Art after Dark: the Urban Screen ~ Surrey Art Gallery, BC Parks and Recreation Annual Conference, Whistler, Canada (April 27, 2016) Helsinki Photomedia Week, March 30, 2015 Keynote: Food and Art, Canadian Culinary Imaginations Symposium, Melville Centre for Dialogue, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Richmond, BC (February 20, 2016) 2015 Food and art – it’s all good for you, University of Helsinki, September 2015 Learning about Food through Art History, presentation for Finn Foods, Oulu Art Museum ( January 27, 2015) Artist roundtable and dialogue with Meri Ojanen (MTK), Oulu Art Museum (January 24, 2015) Scientific pictures of plants – a history of photography and art, workshop and demonstration for MSL, Oulu Art Museum (January 24, 2015) Why EK Modernism matters? Presented as part of Absorbing Modernity Panel: Architecture and Design Scotland for Venice Biennale (March 17, 2015) Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland 2014 Peer to Peer Panel Discussion, Finnish Museum of Photography (April 3, 2014) 2013
Artist Talk and presentation with Photomonitor UK at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, UK (November 24, 2013) Artist Talk and presentation with the Young Farmer's Association at Surrey Art Gallery, BC, (October 10, 2013) Artist Talk: Sylvia Grace Borda and Colin Gray in Dialogue, Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, UK Artist Talk: The Agency of Light, Street Level Photoworks Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2012 Artist Talk: Daniel Blau Gallery, London, UK (October 25, 2012) Artist Talk: Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland 2011 Chair: Photography and the Artist’s Book Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University Roundtable participant: Scottish Sculpture Workshop + Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCam), Ireland “Public Cultures and the Commons 2011” Artist Presentation+Law Panel, A & D Gallery, London, UK Visual Arts Chair & Panelist, Contemporary Arts in Northern Ireland - European Irish Studies Conference, Manchester, UK 2010 Artist presentation: Electronic Visual Arts conference, London, UK Keynote: Visual Arts Ireland (Belfast and Dublin) conference Artist presentation: Cavan County Council Public Arts Artist presentation: Hear About It, Belfast Exposed Gallery, Northern Ireland Artist presentation: University of Ulster (Guest of Paul Seawright) 2009 Artist presentation: University of Aberdeen, Scotland Artist presentation: Image and Text, Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast, Northern Ireland Artist presentation: Glocal – Cultural Capital of Canada Project, Surrey Art Gallery, BC, Canada 2008 Panelist with Sir Peter Hall and Derek Walker, New New Town Conference London Architecture Foundation, London, England Cultural Capital of Canada Award for Community Arts Delivery, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada Workshop presentation about Glocal and Picture-Text at Balkans Exhibition: A Space for Dialogue the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia |
2007 Guest Panelist: Public Art Policy Session - Robert Gray’s School of Art in conjunction with Scottish Arts Council at Scottish Parliament, Holyrood -Edinburgh, Scotland Guest Panelist: Invisible Dynamics Conference, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA Moderated by Peter Richards Curator’s Talk: EastKilbride.uk<>Surrey.ca Suburban Exchange: Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada EK Modernism – Writer’s Reception and Book Launch, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Canada 2006 Led series of artist lectures and built environmental walking tours: Architecture Week (Glasgow) at the LightHouse Gallery, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture Artist talk, Re:Mote exhibition (Curated by Adam Hyde), ISEA 2006, San Jose, USA Artist talk - CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art), Glasgow, Scotland Artist panelist with Charlie Gere, Jon Ippolito and Honor Hager - CRUMB: Newcastle Art Forum, England (June 3, 2006) Keynote panelist: Digital Arts Media Roundtable, College Arts Association, Boston, MA, USA 2005 Presenter: Refresh Conference, Banff New Media Institute and Humboldt University Berlin: Banff Centre, Canada Guest Speaker: 80th Anniversary Open House: Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada Moderator and Keynote Guest Speaker, Resonance Roundtable, South Lanarkshire Arts, Rutherglen, Scotland Guest Presenter: Electronic Media Group (Stanford) AIC, Minneapolis, USA) Guest Lecturer: Department of Art History, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 2004 Artist and Moderator: Reflections on Every Bus Stop in Surrey, BC Art roundtable City of Surrey, Surrey Art Gallery, Canada Curator’s talk and discussion: Electronic Social Culture Exhibition, A Space, Toronto, Canada Artist presentation, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada MUTATIONS < > CONNECTIONS Cultural (Ex)Changes in Asian Diasporas International Symposium and exhibition Centre A (June2-5, 2005): Chair and guest speaker National Research Council, Institute for Information Technology: Keynote speaker University of Ottawa and ArtEngine Association: Guest speaker 2003 Keynote comments and speaker panelist: Skinning Our Tools Conference, Banff New Media Institute (BNMI), Canada Photographer and writer's discussion about HG Cox: Athens on the Fraser exhibition, Presentation House Gallery, Canada 2002 Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) BRIDGES Consortium Two Theme: Cross-Disciplinary Guest panelist: 4th International Cuban Digital Art Symposium Art Perceptions, Havana,Cuba Guest Speaker: 02.02. Digital Dystopias, Dept of Art History, University of California Los Angeles, USA 2001 Guest Speaker: “New Media in Conservation Reporting” Pacific Conservation Group, Museum of Anthropology, UBC, Canada Panelist and Presenter: Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, Washington, 1998 Guest Panelist: The Ultimate Community Experience - Virtual Exhibitions, Museum Computer Network Conference '98, Los Angeles, CA, USA 1997 Guest Presenter: The Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography, London, England --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To read about Sylvia's project reviews click here To view a complete artist profile including articles, chapters and seminars delivered by Sylvia see http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sylvia-grace-borda/4/24b/832 To examine earlier examples of artwork produced by the artist prior to 2007, visit www.sylviagraceborda.com |