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I am a queer Trinidadian-Canadian filmmaker and media artist of European descent living in the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations also known as Vancouver. As a storyteller, I focus on narrative and experimental works that revolve around gender, Caribbean identity, and the human impact on the land.

I have exhibited my work at galleries and film festivals around the world. I teach media arts, performance, and graduate studies at  Emily Carr University at Art + Design.

 

EDUCATION

2010 

Master of Fine Arts, Social Practice, California College of the Arts

 

2005 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts, University of Victoria

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2017 

Birds of Paradise, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada

 

2016

The Seasonal Bachelor The Frisky Entrepreneur The Sociopathic Gentleman The Affectionate Drug Dealer The Son of a Dead Rock Star, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada

 

2015

Ecstatic Time, Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

 

2014

5 Types in 3 Parts, Et al. Gallery, San Francisco, USA

 

2011

Set for an Altered State, Sight School, Oakland, USA

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS  & FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

 

2023

Victoria Film Festival, Canada

Martinique International Film Festival

2022

Trinidad + Tobago Film Festival

Orlando Film Festival, USA

Pride Film Festival, Chicago, USA

Chilliwack Independent Film Festival, Canada

Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival, USA

Image+nation film festival, Montreal, Canada

Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival, India

2021

Roots Revealed, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada

2020

A Matter of Taste, Koffler Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada         

2019 

Shooting Gallery Performance Series, Left of Main, Vancouver, Canada

2018 

Preservation and Permanence, InterAccess Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Feathers Ether Sand Speech, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Out of Place, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, Canada     

                                         

2015

The Scary, New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada

Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival, New Media Program

 

2014

Adjacencies, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada

Behind the Wall xx In Front of the Wall, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada

Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, Canada

Collective Walks and Spaces of Contestation, UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada

The Broken Altar Touring Film Programme, Antimatter Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2013 

This is the Sound of Someone Losing the Plot, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Antimatter Film Festival, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, Canada

LIVE Biennale, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada

Your Kontinent Film Festival, Richmond, Canada

I THINK WE’RE READY TO GO TO THE NEXT SEQUENCE, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA

Intersections,  Cineworks, Vancouver, Canada

 

2012

The Museum Problem, Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy

 

2011 

F for Fetish, Shudder Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

The George Spelvin Show, Adobe Books, San Francisco, USA

The Doubtful Bureaucrat Comes Home, Skydive Art Space, Houston, USA

 

2010

OPENwater, St. George Distillery, & SFMOMA, Alameda, USA

SC13, SF Antique and Design Mall, San Francisco, USA

 

2009

Exercises in Seeing, Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco, USA

Visi-Cue Cue, Canteen Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

Home is Something I Carry With Me, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA

 

2007

Hogan’s Alley Welcomes You, 200 Block Union St. Vancouver, Canada

 

2006

Shopdropping: Experiments in the Aisle, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

 

 

ART RESIDENCIES & MENTORSHIPS

 

2020

Women in Focus Mentorship program, Whistler Film Festival

Quest University Artist in Residence Program, Squamish, Canada

2019

What Lab Artist Residency, Vancouver, Canada

2019 Sointula Art Shed, Malcolm Island, Canada

2015

Quest University Artist in Residence Program, Squamish, Canada

Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

RECENT GRANTS & AWARDS

 

2022

BC Arts Council: Project Assistance for Media Artists

Canada Council: Concept to Realization 

Chilliwack Independent Film Festival: Chilliwack Spirit Award

Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival: Best Short Film Jury Award,

2021

BC Arts Council: Project Assistance for Media Artists

BC Arts Council: Pivot for Individuals Grant

Canada Council for the Arts: Digital Now Grant

2020

Women in Film + Television Vancouver, From Our Dark Side Incubator Program

Canada Council for the Arts: Digital Originals

2019

Canada Council for the Arts: Research and Creation Grant

Canada Council for the Arts: Arts Abroad Travel Grant

PUBLICATIONS

 

2019

The Familial Millennial, exhibition essay for Ever Gold Projects, San Francisco, USA

2018 

The Channelers exhibition catalogue, EMMEDIA and LUMA Quarterly, Calgary, Canada

2016

The Book of Types, self-published, Vancouver, Canada

 

2013 

Site Non-Specific, Et al. Projects, Oakland, USA

 

2012

The Museum Problem, Frutta Gallery, published by Motto Distribution, Zurich, Switzerland

2010

After Words: Texts on Voice, published by Practice & Practice, San Francisco, USA

Recollecting the Archives of Ethel Parker, MFA Thesis, self-published, San Francisco, USA

 

 

ARTIST TALKS

 

2018

Access Artist-Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada

2016 

Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada

 

2015 

Quest University, Squamish, Canada

New Media Gallery, New Westminster, Canada

Sunday Supper, Iris Film Collective, Vancouver, Canada

Alice Yard, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago

 

2014 

Capilano College, Studio Art Program, North Vancouver, Canada

Et al. Gallery, San Francisco, USA UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada

 

2013 

InterUrban Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2012 

School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

 

2011 

Sight School Lecture Series, Oakland, USA

 

 

REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS

 

Interview with Sydney Southam, Shooting Gallery Performance Series (2019)

Interview with Florence Hwang, La Source (2015)

Interview with Linda Sjostrom, CFUV Radio (2014)

Interview with Celesse McCarthy, VANDOCUMENT (2013)

Set for an Altered State, Christina Linden, Art Practical (2011)

Set for an Altered State, Aaron Harbour, ArtCards Review (2011)

SC13: With Love, From Mabel, Noah Krell, Art Practical (2010)

 

 

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