Monique Genton CV

Updated
May 2007

Exhibitions
2012	City of Victoria Grant Award	City of Victoria,150 People and Places. Modern–An exhibit of paintings about Victoria's mid-century modern architecture. The Victoria Public Library, Central Branch.
2010	Presentor	On the Edge of Chaos: Contemporary Neuroscience, Creative Patterns & Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
2008	VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation	Significant donation: Series 3, Grass Project. VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.
2008	Jeffrey Boone Gallery	Group: *Scape* with Sylvia Grade Borda and Jeff Depner
2007	Jeffrey Boone Gallery	Solo: Low-Rise
2006	City of Richmond	Public Art Commission: City of Richmond, Habitat, Keefer and Ash Streets.
2005	Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal	Group: Neverlands: Monique Genton, Toni Hafkenscheid, Martin Parr, and Mike Yuhasz, Maison de la Culture Frontenac. Curated by Martha Langford. Publication: "Neverlands: Monique Genton, Toni Hafkenschied, Martin Parr, and Mike Yuhasz", Image and Imagination, Edited by Martha Langford, McGill University Press, 2005, pp132-137.
	City of North Vancouver	Public Art Award: City of North Vancouver Public Art Program, Vancouver Special. Site: King's Mill Walk.
	Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver	Juried: Evolution: 80 years of Emily Carr Institute Alumni
	Art and Soul Gallery, Vancouver, BC.	Solo: Tidy Review: Robin Laurence, "Grids of Optimism and Control Undermined Genton-Tidy" The Georgia Straight, p 52.
2004	AWOL Gallery, Toronto	Group: Square Foot, 2004.
2003	Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC	Solo: The Grass Project: Garden City, Curated by Corrine Corry. RAG Announcement Publication: Dr. Rory Wallace . "Lots of Grass: Suburban Living and the Modernist Experience." *The Grass Project-Garden City.* Review: Chris Bryan, "The Politics of Grass," *The Richmond Review* , Sept 18, 03, pp. 15-16.
	CBC Television Studios, Vancouver, BC	Group: Artropolis 2003, Curated by Pauline Conley
	Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC	Solo: *The Science of Swimming*
	n.paradoxa	Publication: Rault, Jasmine, preconceptions Healthy Subjectivity: the difference between sinking and swimming: the work of Brenda Longfellow and Monique Genton” *n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal*. London, Vol. 11, pp72-79
	Phthalo Gallery, Vancouver	Group: Christmas Mix
2002	North Vancouver Arts Council, N. Vancouver, BC	Juried: The Game.
	Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design	Group: The 2002 Faculty Show.
2001	Small Computers in the Arts Network, Philadelphia, PA	Group: SCAN 2001
2000	Saddleback College,Mission Viejo, California.	Group: with Susan Hickey and Lucy Hogg: *Coughing Paint: New Feminst Painting*. Curated by Patricia Levin.
	Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.	Group: with Damian Moppett, Kyla Mallett, Karin Bubas, and Nancy Duff: Shoot! A Covert Optimism in New Vancouver Art, University of Saskatchewan.
1999	Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design	Group: The 1999 Faculty Show.
	Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C.	Invitational: *Return of the Corpse*
1998	Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design	Group: 2nd Annual Alumni Exhibition.
	Siggraph 98 Orlando, Florida	Juried: Touchware. International conference for computer graphics.
1997	Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design	Group: Alumni Exhibition.
	Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.	Group: Good Sports - Artists' Views of the Sporting Life and Body Culture. with Andy Worhol, Greg Curnoe, Michelle Normoyle, Daniel Ellingsen, Sergio Finamore, Melanie Stidolph, Sean Thompson, Kelly Wood, Branko Djuras, Tim Rattel, Elizabeth Roy, Curated by Karen Henry.
	Artnetwork	Juried: Global Virtual Gallery, http://www.artnetwork.com/multi/mgenton.html
1996	Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia,	Solo: The Science of Swimming. Curated by Susan Edelstein.
	Women Artists in Canada	Internet exhibition: a digitized Internet archive sponsored by Industry Canada:
	MIX: magazine of artist-run culture Co-publication,	Art, Technofeminism and Monsters: Rumblings From the Belly of the Monster, Summer, 1996. pp. 48-53.
	N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.	Group exhibition and panel discussion: Command, Shift, Control - Sexuality, Fear, and Desire in the Digitized World, with Susan Collins, Andrea Poli, and Nigel Jamieson.
	Leonardo Electronic Almanac	Co-publication with Joan Trukenbrod: "Creating and Ecology of Cyberspace" , April 1996, http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/LEA/bkissues/lea4-4.txt
	Vancouver's Monster Central and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago	Organizer and moderator: Monster Central - An Internet TeleVideo Symposium About Women and Technology between
1995	Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, B.C.	Presentation: The Science of Swimming, for The workshop: "The Cultural Worker and The Social Space of Technology,"
	Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.	Group: Wall to Wall
	Flux Studios Fir St. and First Ave. warehouse, Vancouver, B.C.	Group: Hydromedia: an exhibition of multi-media works .
1994	Nippon Steel USA	Group: Nippon USA/The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Presidential Award Exhibition
	Harry S Truman College, Illinois.	Group: Changing Realities - New Visions.
	Artexte, Montreal, Quebec.	Exhibition and distribution of artist's book: A Bush Book.
1993	Gallery 2, Illinois, 60622.	Group: Opening Pandora's Box.
	Canadian Virtual Worlds, Vancouver	Group: Cyberfeelia, an exhibition of technology-based art.
1992	Gallery 56	Group: The Big Show
	Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia	Group: In Response to Feminist Criticism of Art and Culture.
	Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver.	Projection installation: Vacuuming Woman
1991	American Independent Colleges of Art, , New York, N. Y.	Installation: My life as a Bush.
1989	Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Pentiction, B.C.	Solo: Recent Works

Awards
2006	British Columbia Arts Council, Project Assistance for Visual Artists, Level II Award.
2000	British Columbia Arts Council, Individual Award.
1998	Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant. For travel to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for Kenderdine Exhibition
	Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant. For travel to Siggraph Conference, Touchware Exhibition, Orlando, Florida.
1996	International Student Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
1994	Presidential Award. Sponsored by Nippon Steel USA, Chicago Illinois: a competition, award, exhibition, and pamphlet publication of paintings from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago students.
1993	British Columbia Cultural Fund Senior Award. From the British Columbia Ministry of Small Business Tourism and Culture for studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1993/4.
1993	Helen Pitt Award. Administered by the Vancouver Foundation for excellence in a graduating visual art student, 1993.
1992	British Columbia Cultural Fund Senior Award. From the British Columbia Ministry of Small Business Tourism and Culture for studies at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, 1992/3.
	Takao Tanabe Scholarship. Administered by Emily Carr College of Art and Design for studies in 1992/3.
	W. G. Black Scholarship. Administered by Emily Carr College of Art and Design for studies in 1992/3.
1991	British Columbia Cultural Fund Scholarship. From the British Columbia Ministry of Small Business Tourism and Culture, for studies at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, 1991/2.
	Canadian Colleges of Art and Design Consortium's New York Summer Studio Program. From Emily Carr College of Art and Design, for studies in 1991.
	Friends of Emily Carr Scholarship. Administered by Emily Carr College of Art and Design for studies in 1991/2.
1990	British Columbia Cultural Fund Scholarship. From the British Columbia Ministry of Small Business Tourism and Culture for studies at Emily Carr College of Art and Design, 1990/1.

Education + Teaching
1999-03	Sessional Faculty in Digital and Studio Art, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.
1996	Master of Fine Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art and Technology Department, Chicago, Illinois.
94-95	1994-95 Visiting Graduate Student, University of British Columbia, Department of Fine Arts, Graduate Art History, Vancouver, B.C.
1993	Bachelor of Fine Art, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C.
1992	Philosophy of Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C.
	Student Exchange Programme, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
1991	Canadian Colleges of Art and Design Consortium, New York Summer Studio Programme, American Independent Colleges of Art, New York, New York.
	Undergraduate Studies, Open University, Burnaby B.C. via ECIAD
1978	Medical Radiography, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby, B.C
1974	Richmond Senior Secondary School, Richmond, B.C.

2012

City of Victoria Grant Award

City of Victoria,150 People and Places. Modern–An exhibit of paintings about Victoria's mid-century modern architecture. The Victoria Public Library, Central Branch.

2010

Presentor

On the Edge of Chaos: Contemporary Neuroscience, Creative Patterns & Material Practice, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

2008

VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation

Significant donation: Series 3, Grass Project. VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

2008

Jeffrey Boone Gallery

Group: Scape with Sylvia Grade Borda and Jeff Depner

2007

Jeffrey Boone Gallery

Solo: Low-Rise

2006

City of Richmond

Public Art Commission: City of Richmond, Habitat, Keefer and Ash Streets.

2005

Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal

Group: Neverlands: Monique Genton, Toni Hafkenscheid, Martin Parr, and Mike Yuhasz, Maison de la Culture Frontenac. Curated by Martha Langford.

Publication: "Neverlands: Monique Genton, Toni Hafkenschied, Martin Parr, and Mike Yuhasz", Image and Imagination, Edited by Martha Langford, McGill University Press, 2005, pp132-137.

City of North Vancouver

Public Art Award: City of North Vancouver Public Art Program, Vancouver Special. Site: King's Mill Walk.

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver

Juried: Evolution: 80 years of Emily Carr Institute Alumni

Art and Soul Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

Solo: Tidy

Review: Robin Laurence, "Grids of Optimism and Control Undermined Genton-Tidy" The Georgia Straight, p 52.

2004

AWOL Gallery, Toronto

Group: Square Foot, 2004.

2003

Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC

Solo: The Grass Project: Garden City, Curated by Corrine Corry. RAG Announcement

Publication: Dr. Rory Wallace . "Lots of Grass: Suburban Living and the Modernist Experience." The Grass Project-Garden City.

Review: Chris Bryan, "The Politics of Grass," The Richmond Review , Sept 18, 03, pp. 15-16.

CBC Television Studios, Vancouver, BC

Group: Artropolis 2003, Curated by Pauline Conley

Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC

Solo: The Science of Swimming

n.paradoxa

Publication: Rault, Jasmine, preconceptions Healthy Subjectivity: the difference between sinking and swimming: the work of Brenda Longfellow and Monique Genton” n.paradoxa, international feminist art journal. London, Vol. 11, pp72-79

Phthalo Gallery, Vancouver

Group: Christmas Mix

2002

North Vancouver Arts Council, N. Vancouver, BC

Juried: The Game.

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Group: The 2002 Faculty Show.

2001

Small Computers in the Arts Network, Philadelphia, PA

Group: SCAN 2001

2000

Saddleback College,Mission Viejo, California.

Group: with Susan Hickey and Lucy Hogg: Coughing Paint: New Feminst Painting. Curated by Patricia Levin.

Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.

Group: with Damian Moppett, Kyla Mallett, Karin Bubas, and Nancy Duff: Shoot! A Covert Optimism in New Vancouver Art, University of Saskatchewan.

1999

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Group: The 1999 Faculty Show.

Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C.

Invitational: Return of the Corpse

1998

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Group: 2nd Annual Alumni Exhibition.

Siggraph 98 Orlando, Florida

Juried: Touchware. International conference for computer graphics.

1997

Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design

Group: Alumni Exhibition.

Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, B.C.

Group: Good Sports - Artists' Views of the Sporting Life and Body Culture. with Andy Worhol, Greg Curnoe, Michelle Normoyle, Daniel Ellingsen, Sergio Finamore, Melanie Stidolph, Sean Thompson, Kelly Wood, Branko Djuras, Tim Rattel, Elizabeth Roy, Curated by Karen Henry.

Artnetwork

Juried: Global Virtual Gallery, http://www.artnetwork.com/multi/mgenton.html

1996

Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia,

Solo: The Science of Swimming. Curated by Susan Edelstein.

Women Artists in Canada

Internet exhibition: a digitized Internet archive sponsored by Industry Canada: