Curriculum Vitae
Lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and Malmö, Sweden
Education
1998 MA in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1995 BA in Fine Arts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2016 Le Grand Balcon, 4th Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada
2015 Beam Me Up, Kristianstads konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden
2012 Elles@Centre Pompidou at the Seattle Art museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
2011 Take me to you leader, Bergen Kunst Museum, Bergen, Norway
2010 Take me to you leader, The Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
2009 Elles@Centre Pompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Projections, Mckenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2007 Projections, [Travelling Exhibition] Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Words and Pictures: Recent Acquisitions in Context, Justina Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005 Horror, Science Fiction, Porn. Art Gallery of York University,Toronto, Canada
2004 The Shadows of Productions: Work from the collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Thriller, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
2003 Melodrama, [Travelling Exhibition] Centro Jose Guerrero, Grenada, Spain, Marco Museo Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain, Artuim
Centro Museo Vascote Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Centre of Attraction, Baltic Triennale, Villinus, Lithuenia
40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen, Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Germany
2001 Looking at you, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
These Days, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Videonale 9, Bonn, Germany
2000 Eine Emunition Unter Anderen , Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Split-Ends, BureauFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Shoot, Moving Pictures by Artists, Malmö, Sweden
1999 O Hitchcock, Kunsthalle Tirol, Tirol, Austria
1997 New Work From Vancouver, Catriona Jefferies Gallery,Vancouver, Canada
Solo Shows
2002 Action, Objectif @MUHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
2001 War, Malmö Kunst Museum, Malmö, Sweden
1999 Horror, Kino der Dekonstruktion Project”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Nathalie Melikian, Attitudes: 8éme semaine de Video et cinema, Geneva, Switzerland
Melodrama, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
Horror, Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium
Screenings
2010 Projected Images, Platform 2010, Art Hall, Artsonje Center, Seoul, S.Korea
2008 Science Fiction and Charlotte and her Boyfriend, The Melodrama, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
2007 Action, Netwerk/centrum voor hedendaagse kunst , Houtkaai, Aalst, Belgium
2005 Action, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
2002 Action, Cinema Opera, Lyon, France
2001 War, Still Moving, Cinema Sture, Stockholm, Sweden
Action, Stories, Pulsions: Centre Culturel Swiss à Paris, France
2000 Action, Signal, Malmö, Sweden.
2000 War, Joint Research Forum, School of Art and Design and the Department of English and Drama. Loughborough University, UK
1999 Horror, South Hampton Institute, South Hampton Institute of Fine Arts, UK
Charlotte and her Boyfriend: The Melodrama - Special screening for Jean- Luc Goddard’s 70’s birthday, 8éme semaine de Video et Cinema, Maison Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
Horror, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
Public Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, New Media, Paris, France.
Malmö Kunst Museum, Malmö, Sweden
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
Residencies and Awards
2001 IASPIS: Nov-Feb, co-organizing a conference on Film and art, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 IASPIS, International artist studio program Stockholm, Sweden
1998 British Fellowship for Women Grant, UK
1996 British Columbia Arts Council Award, Canada
Teaching
1999- Present External lecturer, Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
Lectures, workshops and panels:
Nov 2015 Joan Jonas’s Early Works and the broader context of video art in the 60’s, Seminar on Joan Jonas and Q&A with Joan. In collaboration with the Malmö Kunsthall and the Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
Nov 2007/15 History of Experimental Film, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
Nov 2014 Is Your Video Art? History of video art, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
Feb 2008 Nathalie Melikian, Colourschool, interview with Johan Lund, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2006/2007 History of Experimental Film, Royal Danish Art Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark
June 2001 Genres, Hollywood Films and Horror, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Feb 2001 Still Moving 2001: Conference on Art and Cinema, Co-Organizer/panelist with (amongst others): Raymond Bellour, Stockholm, Sweden
Sept 2000 Art Exchange, Artists in residesidence, Panelist with DAAD, De Apple, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian and IASPIS, Berlin, Germany
Nov 2000 Film and genre, Public lecture, Städelschule Frankfurt, invited by Thomas Bayrle, Frankfurt, Germany
Nov 2000 Methods, Signal center for contemporary art, Malmö, Sweden
Jan2000 Filmmaking as a working methodology part II, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
May 1999 Cross-Over in Art, :moderator: Jorg Heiser, Editor of Frieze, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
Sept 1999 Filmmaking as a working methodology part I, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden
Sept 1999 O Hitchcock, with: Slavoj Zizek, Kunsthalle Tirol, Austria
Nov 1999 Remake, Remix and Reference, with: Chris Dercon, 8éme semaine de Video et Cinema, Maison Saint Gervais, Geneve, Switzerland