DIANE COLWELL - CURRICULUM VITAE
                  

 

DATE OF BIRTH

1959, Calgary, Alberta

Lives and works in Calgary, Alberta

 

EDUCATION

1986     University of Calgary, BFA: Double Major; Photography & Painting, Calgary, AB

1985     University of Calgary, Bed, Secondary, Art. Calgary,AB

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005     New Photographic Works, "Martha's Gallery", Martha Cohen Theatre in conjunction with Skew Gallery, Calgary,AB

2001     Motion Pictures & Tourist Views, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON

1998     Motion Pictures, Celadon restaurant in conjunction with TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

New Work: Tourist Views, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, AB

1997     Motion Pictures: New Photo Works, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

1996     Bill's Baby Glacier Series, The Crowsnest Pass Art Gallery, Frank, AB

1994     New Work, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

Recent Work, Suncor Resources Group Gallery, Calgary, AB

1993     Accumulation/Ablation, The Stride Gallery, Calgary

1991     Fragments of Memory, The Floating Gallery, Winnipeg

1990     New Work, Muttart Gallery, Calgary, AB

1989     Colour Photographs, Folio Gallery, Calgary, AB

1988     New Work: Manipulated Polaroid's, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, AB

1987     New Work: Manipulated Polaroid's, Gallery II, Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, AB

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005     Stride Gallery Fundraiser, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB

CPAWS Wild Gala Art Auction, SAIT, Calgary, AB

Camera in Hand: Picturesque Images of Alberta, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Folio Gallery: Revisited, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB        

    

2004     Banff Midsummer Ball, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB

CPAWS Wild Gala Art Auction, SAIT, Calgary, AB

Garden of Earthy Delights, Stride Gallery Fundraiser, Calgary

Truck Silent Auction, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB

 

2003     TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

Banff Midsummer Ball, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB

Delusions of Grandeur, Stride Gallery Fundraiser, Calgary,AB

Truck Silent Art Auction, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB

CPAWS Wild Gala Art Auction, Art Space, Calgary, AB

 

2002     Show and Tell, Group Christmas Show, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

Indemnity: Intimate Efforts Made Dear, curated by Noel Begin for Artcity Festival, Barron Building, Calgary, AB

Art Gallery of Calgary Fundraiser, Calgary, AB

Banff Centre for the Arts Fundraiser, Banff, AB

 

2001     Toronto International Art Fair, TrepanierBaer, Toronto

The New West Project, Art Gallery of Calgary, Banker's Hall, Calgary, AB

People of the Twenty First Century, Stride Gallery Fundraiser, Calgary, AB

Truck Art Auction, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB

The Wild Gala, Fundraiser for Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, The Art Market, Calgary, AB

Group Exhibition, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

The Works, Art Expo 2001 Exhibition Pavilion, Edmonton, AB

TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

The Wheeler Hut Exhibition, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB

Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

The Willagio Collection of Fine Art, Art Gallery of Calgary, AB

 

2000     Fresh, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Fake! Forgery! Silent Auction, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB

Photo, Freeze and Fondue, Silent Auction, The New Gallery, Calgary, AB

Toronto International Art Fair, TrepanierBaer, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON

Vernissage: Landscape, Memory, Myth and Language, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

Summer Group Show, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

 

1999     Paradigms Kost, Art Week Exhibition curated by Victoria Baster, Barron Building, Calgary, AB

Group Show, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

 

1889/99           IN/HERE/OUT/THERE, Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art 1998; curated by Catherine Crowston and Cathy Mastin, Glenbow Museum, Calgary; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

 

1998     Christmas Fundraiser/ Silent Auction Bash, Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB

Transformations: Imaging Nature, curated by George   Moppett, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Six Degrees of Separation, celebrating the 25 th Anniversary of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Collection, The Prairie Art Gallery, Grand Prairie, AB

 

1997     Celebrating a Legacy, 25 Years of the Alnerta Foundation for the Arts, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

P'aint Misbehavin', Fifth Annual Art Auction, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

Eroticism in Contemporary Art, Glenbow lecture series with Katherine Ylitalo, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

30 th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition, juried by Vincent Varga, The Nickle Arts Museum, Universary of Calgary, AB

Inheritance, curated by David Wagner, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

A Dialogue Between Idea and Action, curated by Elizabeth Ginn, Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts, Calgary, AB

 

1996     Show and Tell, TrepanierBaer, Calgary, AB

The Camera Obscured, curated by Denis Gautier, organized by the EAG for the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Mini Show and Sale, The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Numbered Company: Graphic-based Works from Calgary, curated by Aurora Landin,

Gallery 1.1.1, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB

Bill's Baby Glacier Series, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Calgary, AB

Suncor Collects, Muttart Public Art Gallery, Calgary, AB

 

SCHOLARSHIPS/ AWARDS

2002     Beauty; thematic residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant

 

1999     The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant

Landscape; thematic residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

 

1996-98            The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant

1996     Scholarship to The Banff Centre for the Arts, Media and Visual Arts, Photography, New Works: Winter, Banff, AB

 

1991 Arctic Awareness Program Participant, sponsored through the Polar Continental Shelf Project and the Canada Council.

Travel Grant for the Arctic awareness Program, Cultural Initiatives Program, The Department of Communication

 

1990-91            Alberta Cultural Project Grant

1989-90            Louise McKinney Post Secondary Scholarship, Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund

Full Scholarship to The Banff Centre for the Arts, Photography and Art Studio Programs, Banff, AB

 

1985     Alberta Culture Society Grant

 

PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

2002     Artcity Festival Art Talk Lecture Series, The Beauty of Stuttering in Time, Nature and Art, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Beauty Residency, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

2001     Visiting Artist, slide presentation and Artist Talk, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

2000     Presentation (at the Glenbow Museum artist's reception) on Dick Averns' exhibition

2000     Coordinating Plots, collaboration for the Carl Rungius exhibition, curated by Luanne Martineau, on view at Stride Gallery, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Visiting Artist, Kootenay School for the Arts, Nelson, BC

1999     Landscape Residency Artist Presentation, The Banff Centre for the Arts, AB

1998-99            IN/HERE/OUT/THERE, Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Glenbow Museum (artist talk); Edmonton Art Gallery (artist open house), Edmonton, AB

1997     Visiting Artists, Presentations in the Arts, slide presentation and senior students seminar, University of Lethbridge, AB

1996     Visiting Artist Lecture Series and Studio Visits, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB

The Long and The Short of IT, Media and Visual Arts Winter Residency Program, The Banff Centre for The Arts, Banff, AB

Artist/ Photographer/ Adventurer, Saint Helena School, Calgary, AB

1993     Accumulation/ Ablation, Stride Gallery, The Banff Centre for the Fine Arts, Banff, AB

 

COLLECTIONS

Alberta Foundation for the Arts, , Edmonton, AB

Alberta Government Telephones (TELUS), Calgary, AB

Basham and Company, Vancouver, BC

Bennett Jones Verchere, Calgary, AB

British Petroleum, Calgary, AB

Business Development Bank of Canada, Calgary, AB

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

Gordon and Daykin, Vancouver, BC

Parlee McLaws, Calgary, AB

Suncor Resources Group, Calgary, AB

Sunshine Village Resortt, Banff, AB

The Banff Centre Rooms Collection, Banff, AB

The Canadiana Fund

The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB

Trans Canada Pipelines, Calgary, AB

Trimark Investments Management, Vancouver, BC

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB

Private Collections

 

PRESS

2005     Naclia, Janet. "{Sudden Exposure; Photography festival takes over Calgary, Banff, Calgary Herald, February 12, 2005, p. G6

Picard, Carol. Whyte teams up for month-long celebration of photography, Rocky Mountain Outlook, January 20, 2005, p. 25

Exposure: The Banff-Calgary Month of Photography, Folio Gallery Revisited, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB, 2005, p. 3-6

Take pART!, Camera in Hand: Picturesque Images of Alberta, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, January - April 2005, p.3

2004     The Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program Catalogue, Camera in Hand: Picturesque Images of Alberta, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB, 2004- 2005, p.6

2002     Burroughs, Alexandra. Artcity, Festival: Artists transform city with eclectic exhibitions, Calgary Herald, Sept. 19,   2002, p. E6

Lafortune, Wes. Artcity streets, STRAIGHT, Sept. 19, 2002, p. 19

Williams, Julia. Obsessed d'art: Indemnity curator Noel Begin focuses on concept as well as content, FFWD, Sept. 12 - 18, 2002, p. 27

Begin, Noel. Indemnity: Intimate Efforts Made Dear, Calgary Herald, Artcity Festival exhibition brochure

2001     AGC2. The Willagio Collection of Fine Art, January - April, 2001, p. 3

AGC3. Urbanart program AGC: Here and There, The New West Project, May - August, 2001, p.9

Harvey, Myrna; Will, John. Willagio Collection of Fine Art, catalogue, Art Gallery of Calgary, p. 19

Jonsson, Tom. Public Art Sparks Discussion and Criticism. Galleries and Artists Take Flak for Projects Outside the Mainstream, FFWD, Vol. 6, No. 30, July 5-11, p.49

Paraskevas, Joe. Paint Scrape Pains Gallery, Calgary Herald, Thursday, June 28, p. 1-2

The Cairn. The Wheeler Hut Expedition: Artists of the 21 st Century explore mountain habitat, spring/summer, and p.8-9

Reid, Robert. Exhibitions by Calgary artists take us on a photographic journey, The Record, Kitchener, ON, January 2001

Vida, Sandra. Go Tell It on the Mountain, Border Crossings, p.80-82

2000     Zickefoose, Sherri. Jon Whyte inspiring artists, The Banff Craig and Canyon, Wednesday, August 30, p. B2

1999     Bouchard, Giljbert A. Edmonton Art Gallery explores new frontiers, SEE Magazine, January 28 - February 3, p. 17

Buchinskas, Theo. Albertan artists get the royal treatment, The Gateway, Thursday, February 4, p. 12

DiCenzo, David. Edmonton Art Gallery exhibits frontier mentality, Vue Weekly, January 28 - February 3, p. 27

Groves, Renee. IN/HERE/OUT/THERE, Alberta Views, Vol. 2, No. 1 Winter, p.56

Mandel, Charles. Frontier display unexpectedly diverse, lively, The Edmonton Journal, Monday, February 15,   C2

Vue Weekly, IN/HERE/OUT/THERE, January 21 - 27, p. 19 - 22

1998     Armstrong, Jill. Artist Renderings, Where Calgary, September, p. 12 - 14

Artichoke. An Interview with Cathy Mastin IN/HERE/OUT/THERE: The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Fall/Winter, p.14 - 21

Crowston, Catherine.; Mastin, Cathy. IN/HERE/OUT/THERE, catalogue, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, p. 6, 14

Diamond, Sara. Destination: Alberta, C Magazine, issue # 60, Nov. - Jan, p. 17 - 19

Gustafson, Paula. On the Frontier of Alberta Art, The Calgary Straight, Sept. 3- 10, p. 10

Moppett, George. Transformations: Imaging Nature, catalogue, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, p. 1,2,5,9,11

Morris, Mark. Sunshikne art at the Whyte shows the Rockies in a different light, The Craig and Canyon, Sept. 14, 1988, p. 4

Robertson, Sheila. Collective works stretch definition of landscape, Thyye Star Phoenix, May 16, C10

Tousley, Nancy, Alberta Biennial tries an new tack, Calgary Herald, Oct. 17, p. 16

1997     Rhodes, Richard, Fast Forward, Canadian Art, Toronto, Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring, p. 25-26

Severson, Anne. You can always go home, FFWD, July 10- 16, p. 17

Tousley, Nancy, Motion Pictures: Landscape panorama is a moving experience, Calgary Herald, April 19, J7

1996     Abercrombie, Nora. The Camera Obscured, Vue Weekly, Issue #59, Nov. 14 - 20, p. 20 - 21

Tousley, Nancy. Show and Tell, Calgary Herald, Dec. 14

1995     White, Richard. Three Solo Artists, Muttart Art Gallery Newsletter, Calgary, Vol. 3, Issue 7, Jan. - Feb.      

 

 

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