RECENT PROJECTS
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law / 2019 / Film & Video Installation
Special Works School / 2018 / Video, Sculpture, Installation
The People vs. the Cock of Basel / 2016 / Video-performance
Sashay Away / 2015 / site-specific installation for The Campbell House
Empire Symbol, Or A Man and his Mule / 2015 / video & installation
Not an Hour, Not a Day / 2014 / sound & video installation
Silent Citizen / 2014 / audio-video participatory installation
An Objective Odyssey / 2014 / participatory installation
Where the Trees Stood in Water / 2013 / cyanotype prints
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts / 2011-2012 / 5:00 / video
Border Sounds / 2011 - 2015 / mixed media installation
Inextricable / 2009 / 5 channel film and video installation
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Sobey Art Award / Longlist / Canada / 2020
Canada Council for the Arts / Media Arts Production Grant / 2016
Doc Circuit Montreal Talent Lab at RIDM Festival / Montreal, Canada / November 2016
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Seminar Participants / Oberhausen, Germany / May 2016
Steam Whistle Homebrew Award / Images Festival / 2014
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
CCA Glasgow / Glasgow, UK / 2020
Darling Foundry / Montreal, QC / 2019
MacDowell Artist Colony / New Hampshire, USA / 2018
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship / Stuttgart, Germany / 2016-2017
Santa Fe Art Institute / Santa Fe, New Mexico / 2016
Nes Artist Residency / Skagastrond, Iceland / 2012
SELECTED SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
2021
Henry Art Gallery / Bugs& Beasts (Solo Exhibition) / Seattle, US, February - May
2020
Beijing International Short Film Festival / Bugs and Beasts / China, December
Art of the Real / Bugs & Beasts / New York, NY, December
Kassel DokFest / Bugs & Beasts / Germany, November
La Casa Encendida / Bugs & Beasts / Madrid, Spain, November
Cámara Lúcida Film Festival / Bugs & Beasts / Cuenca, Ecuador, November
Curtocircuíto International Film Festival / Bugs & Beasts / Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, October
IndieLisboa International Film Festival / Bugs & Beasts / Lisbon, PT, August
European Media Arts Festival / Bugs & Beasts // Osnabrück, DE, May
Vilnius International Film Festival / Bugs & Beasts / Vilnius, LT, March
International Film Festival Rotterdam / Bugs & Beasts / Rotterdam, NL, January
2019
RIDM Festival / Bugs & Beasts / Montreal, QC, November
Dazibao / Special Works School (Solo Exhibition) / Montreal, QC, November – December
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival // Bugs & Beasts / Northumberland, UK, September
Mercer Union / Bugs& Beasts Before the Law (Solo Exhibition) / Toronto, ON, Sept - Nov
2018
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival / Special Works School / November
BFI London Film Festival / Special Works School / London, UK, October
Videomedeja / Special Works School / Novi Sad, Serbia, August
Union Docs / Special Works School / Brooklyn, New York, May
AKA Gallery / Silent Citizen (solo exhibition) / Saskatoon, Canada, March
Berlinale - Forum Expanded / Special Works School / Berlin, DE, February
Gallery TPW / Special Works School (solo exhibition) / Toronto, Canada, January
2017
Gallerie KUB / Border Sounds / Im-Mobilities (group show) / Leipzig, Germany, June
NORD Festival / The People v. The Cock of Basel / Stuttgart, Germany, June
Rhubarb Festival / The People v. The Cock of Basel / Toronto, Canada, February
2016
Modern Fuel Gallery / Empire Symbol and The Atomic Ark (Lecture Performance) / Kingston, On, November
Akademie Schloss Solitude / The People vs. The Cock of Basel / Stuttgart, DE, June
Akademie Schloss Solitude / The Atomic Ark (lecture performance) / Biographies and the Production of Space / Sttuttgart, DE, May
Les Complices / Empire Symbol & The Atomic Ark (lecture performance) / Screening and Performance / Zurich, CH, May
Santa Fe Art Institute / The Atomic Ark (Work in Progress) / Santa Fe, NM, February
2015
Art Gallery of Ontario, First Thursday / Empire Symbol / Toronto, Canada
Articule / Silent Citizen / Montreal
Gallery44 / Empire Symbol / Toronto
Campbell House / Sashay Away & Where the Trees / Memories of the Future / Toronto
Wilfrid Laurier University / Empire Symbol, Or A Man and His Mule / Waterloo, Canada
Art Gallery of Windsor / Border Sounds / Windsor, Canada
2014
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // Museo de la Ciudad // Guadalajara, Mexico
Not an Hour, Not a Day // Long Winter // Toronto, Canada
Not an Hour, Not a Day // Word on the Street Festival // Toronto
Silent Citizen // The Images Festival Off-Screen // Toronto
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // Bristol Radical Film Festival // Bristol, U.K.
An Objective Odyssey // Ice Follies // North Bay, Canada
2013
Where the Trees Stood in Water // Soho Lobby Gallery // Toronto
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // Queeristan // Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // Rebels with a Cause Film Festival // Toronto, Canada
Citizen Kenney // Under New Management // Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Inextricable & Citizen Kenney // That’s So Gay // Toronto, Canada
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // The Politics of Play // Toronto, Canada
2012
Inextricable // International Media Art Festival // Yangon, Myanmar
Citizen Kenney: A Love Letter in 3 Parts // Video Fag // Toronto, Canada
Queen of Canada // Parkdale Film Festival // Toronto, Canada
Inextricable // Decent Exposure // Living Arts Centre // Mississauga, Canada
Inextricable // Hidden and Forbidden Identities, International Art Expo // Venice, Italy
Border Sounds // Catalyst Arts // Belfast, Northern Ireland
SELECTED CRITICAL WRITING AND REVIEWS
Canadian Art / Bambitchell at Mercer Union. Review by Margaryta Golovchenko.
Hyperallergic / Reimagining Cinema from Nature’s Perspective. Review by Ben R. Nicholson, Fall 2019
ArtForum / Critics Pick, Bambitchell, Mercer Union. Review by Steffanie Ling, Fall 2019
MAP Magazine / Against Dialogue, or, We Need to Sing to Mountains. Review by Marcus Jack, Fall 2019
Brooklyn Rail / Bambitchell: Bugs & Beasts Before the Law. Review by Esmé Hogeveen, October 2019
The Senses and Society Journal 14:1 / Surveillance is Meta: Bambitchell Special Works School, by Erica Cristobal, 2019
Contemporary Citizenship, Art and Visual Culture, Routledge, January 2018
Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2016
Undercurrents: Journal of Critical Environment Studies, March 2016
Mobile Desires: The Erotics and Politics of Mobility Justice, Palgrave Pivot, October 2015
Kapsula Magazine: Bad History 1/3, January 2014
No More Potlucks, November - December, 2013, Queer Cartographies: Reprinting Toronto's Harbour, Interview with Deborah Cowen
SELECTED ARTIST TALKS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Performance Reading: ‘Dolphins, ships and other vessels’ // Henry Art Gallery // March 2021
Artist Talk // Mercer Union // Toronto, September 2019
Artist Talk // CCA Glasgow // Glasgow, SCT, April 2019
Artist Talk / Gallery TPW / Toronto, Canada / January 2018
Artist Talk // Modern Fuel Gallery // Kingston, On, November 2016
Panel // Akademie Schloss Solitude // Biographies & the Production of Space // Stuttgart, DE, May 2016
Artist Talk // VMK - Zurich University of the Arts // Zurich, CH, May 2016
Artist Talk //Articule Gallery // Silent Citizen // Montreal, October 2015
Artist Talk //The Campbell House // Memories of the Future // Toronto, October 2015
Artist Talk // Gallery 44 // Empire Symbol // Toronto, October 2015
Panel Discussion // Mapping Violence, Projecting Desire, Seeing Futures // American Studies Association // Toronto, Oct 2015
Artist Talk // Memories of the Future // The Campbell House // Toronto, August 2015
Panel Discussion // Visible Evidence Documentary Conference // Toronto, August 2015
Artist Talk // The Oncoming Corner // New York, USA, February 2015
Panel Discussion // Making and Being Made: Visual Representations and/of Citizenship // College of Art Conference // New York, NY// February 2015
Artist Talk // Collaborative Practices // YYZ Artist Outlet // August 2014
Artist Talk // Images Festival // Toronto, Canada // April, 2014
Panel Discussion // The Sound of Affect: Thinking Feeling Conference // Ryerson University //Toronto, Canada // March 2014
Panel Discussion // Homework II: Long Forms Short Utopias // Windsor, Canada // November, 2013
Artist Talk // Video for Artists // Ontario College of Art & Design University // Toronto,Canada //November 2012
COLLECTIONS
University of Ottawa
McGill University
Deborah Cowen Private Collection
University of British Columbia
University of Toronto
Ryerson University
Ontario College of Art & Design University
Seneca College Media Collection