Profile Photo by Karin McGinn
Education
M.F.A. Sculpture. Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA, 2008
B.F.A [Honours, with Distinction] Visual Arts, University of Windsor, Canada, 2004
Selected Professional Activity
Selected Exhibitions | Festivals
2018
Orphan Well Adoption Agency, Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB (solo)
If the river ran upwards, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB, curator: Jacqueline Bell
...a slick, a smear, awash in green, The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, Mississauga, ON, curator: Christine Shaw, presented by Blackwood Gallery
we cannot fathom the depths of our shadows, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s, NL
HOLD FAST Festival, (performance), headlining artist
2017
A Woman Walking (the City Limits), TREX and Alberta Society of Artists (solo), Curator: Shannon Bingeman, created for M:ST Performative Arts Festival (2016)
Selected Video Screenings
Media City International Film and Video Festival, Windsor, ON
Simultan Festival #10, Timisoara, Romania
The Vault #8, Groupe Intervention Vidéo, Montréal, QC
Berlin Feminist Film Week, Berlin, Germany
Selected Collaborative Projects | Public Art
2018
a hint of perennial magic lingers in its fingertips, Esker Project Space, Calgary, AB in collaboration with Mia Rushton + Eric Moschopedis, curator: Shauna Thompson
2016
Water-witching for Wanderers (and Wonderers), City of Calgary Public Art program site-responsive walking project in collaboration with Sarah Nordean
Essential Oils for Alberta, City of Calgary Public Art Program, a project for the Open AiR residency program
2014
Restless Precinct, Guildwood Park, Toronto, ON (site-responsive performance) in collaboration with Community Arts Guild, Curators: Orev Reena Katz and Alize Zorlutuna
Landscape of Forgetting, Neighbourhood Spaces Symposium, Windsor, ON, community walk in collaboration with Camille Turner
Selected Grants
2018
Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
Calgary Arts Development, Artist Opportunity Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization Grant
Alberta College of Art+Design, Faculty Professional Affairs Funding
2017
Alberta College of Art+Design, Faculty Professional Affairs Funding
2016
Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grant to Visual Artists
2014
Ontario Arts Council (OAC), Emerging Artist Grant, Visual Arts
OAC, National and International Residency Grant
2013, 2014, 2015
OAC, Exhibition Assistance Grant
Selected Residencies
2019
CONFLUX, Dawson City, YT
Canadian Forces Artists Program
2018
Eastern Edge Gallery, Summer Artist Residency, St. John’s, NL
2017
Santa Fe Art Institute, Water Rights Residency, Santa Fe, NM
2016
City of Calgary Public Art Program, Open AiR, Calgary, AB
2015
Banff Centre, Food Water Life, Thematic Winter Residency
Selected Publications
Kim, Areum. “When Oil is Our Life Blood.” Canadian Art, Climates, fall 2018, pp. 98-101. canadianart.ca/features/when-oil-is-our-lifeblood
Crocker, Eva. “Hold Fast Contemporary Arts Festival.” Canadian Art Online, 20 Aug. 2018, canadianart.ca/reviews/hold-fast-contemporary-arts-festival
Hanna, Maeve. “Review: Alana Bartol.” Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2018, p. 70.
Sharman, Lindsey V. “Art and Industry.” Galleries West, 11 Jul. 2018, gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/art-and-industry
Sprawlcast Ep 6: Beyond the Blue Ring partially recorded at the d.talks forum on public art in June 2018.
2018 Bingeman, Shannon. ed. A Woman Walking (the City Limits), Exhibition Catalogue, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program (TREX), 2017. Print.
Sandals, Leah. “What Happened When One Artist Tried to Walk Calgary’s 174-km City Limits,” Canadian Art Online, 7 Nov. 2016, canadianart.ca/features/alana-bartol
Rodney, Lee. Looking Beyond Borderlines: North America’s Frontier Imagination. London, UK: Routledge, 2016, pp. 109-110.
