E-mail: terrancehouleart@yahoo.com
2000-2003 (BFA) Alberta College of Art & Design Calgary
Fibre Department
2011 IINNIIWAHKIIMAH, First Nations University Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2010 IINNIIWAHKIIMAH, Gallery 101/ Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective, Ottawa,
IINNIIWAHKIIMAH, IPAC, Prince Albert, Sask.
GIVN’R, Art Gallery of York University, Ont.
2009 GIVN’R, Art Gallery of Thunderbay, Ont.
GIVN’R, Plug-In Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba
Things May Appear Larger, Red Shift Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask.
2008 85.11.16, SKEW Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2005 Remember In Grade … The New Gallery +15 Window, Calgary, Alberta
2003 Kipi-Dapi-Pook-Aki, Taking Back Control, Glenbow Museum, Calgary,
2002 A Little Western, +15 Window Project, Truck Gallery, Calgary
2011 DON’T STOP ME NOW, National Art Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON
HIDE, Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe, NM
85.11.16 series, Exposure Festival, Epcore Centre, Calgary
2010 HIDE, National Museum of the American Indian, NYC, NY, USA.
Friend or Foe, OR Gallery, Vancouver, BC
REZIDENTS, Open Sky Gallery Fort Simpson, NWT
2009 REZIDENTS, Neutral Ground, Regina, Sask.
Alternation, Harbourfront centre, Toronto, ONT.
The World Upside Down, Art Gallery of Victoria, BC
“What Moves Us”, The Western Front, Vancouver, BC
2008 Through the Looking Glass, Glenbow Museum, Calgary
The Dewdney Avenue Project, Common Weal, Regina, Sask. (Bus Shelters)
Face The Nation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Honouring Traditions, Glenbow Museum,
Tracing Histories, Glenbow Museum, Calgary,
Photo LA 2008, SKEW Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2007 Photo Miami 2007, SKEW Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
The World Upside Down. Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, ONT.
Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Living Utopia and Disaster, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2006 Red Eye, Carlton University Art Gallery, Ontario,
The World Upside Down, (Billboard), Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff,
Wagon Burn This! Princess Moonrider that! , Aspace Gallery, Toronto,
The Bodies That Were Not Ours, Linden St. Kilda Centre for the Contemporary Arts, Melbourne, Australia
“Paper bag Indian Princess”, Grunt Gallery Vancouver, BC
2005 Electrofringe Festival, This is Not Art Festival, Field Contemporary Art Space Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
The American West, Compton Verny Gallery, Warwickshire, England
2004 Remember in Grade… “First Nations Now”, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC
…Red Handed. "Out of the Dark" WISEart Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Indian! “Indian. Unquote”, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2003 Turtle Island, Other Gallery, Banff Centre, AB
Culmination, Artspace, Calgary
Select Screenings
2011 Friend or Foe, SAW Video/Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, NB
2010 Friend or Foe, ART STAR 4 VIDEO ART BIENNIAL, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON
Friend or Foe, No Soul for Sale TATE Modern Art Gallery, London, England
Metrosexual Indian, SKIN EXHIBIT, NMAI Smithsonian, NYC, NY USA
2009 Landscape, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
Landscape, Owens Calgary, Mount Allison, NB
2008 Casting Call, HOW exhibit, Trinity Square Video, Toronto
Lulla, Alberta Arts Day, Jubilee Auditorium, Calgary
The Metrosexual Indian, Sapatq'ayn Cinema, University of Idaho, USA
The Wagon Burner, Rencontres Internationales 2008, Madrid, Spain
2007 Metrosexual, Wagon Burner, Cows, REDEYE, Art Gallery of Calgary, AB
The Metrosexual Indian, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Wagon Burner, Arte Nuevo Interactiva ‘O7, Yucatan, Merida, Mexico
The Wagon Burner, The dreaming Festival, Melbourne, Australia
The Metrosexual Indian, REDz on screen2, En'owkin Centre, Pentincton, BC
2006 The Wagon Burner, Native American Film/Video Fest, New York, USA
The Metrosexual Indian, IMAGeNAtion Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
2005 The Wagon Burner, “Considering Human Security, Berlin, Germany
The Metrosexual Indian, ImagineNATIVE Film Festival Toronto, Ont.
The Wagon Burner, Off-Court Film Festival, Trouville, France
Cows, The Calgary International Film Festival, AB
Cows & Wagon Burner, Winnipeg Film Group, Urban shaman, Winnipeg, Man.
Cows & Wagon Burner First Peoples Film Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada
2004 Cows, Ontario association of Art Galleries, Toronto, OT
Wagon Burn & Cows. ImageNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto
(Wagon Burner- Winner of Best Experimental Film Award)
Cows, Calgary International Film Festival
Select Performances
2011 Friend or Foe #6, SHIFT Strandline/ Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
ACTING OUT, Modern Fuel, Kingston, ON
2010 Look what got us Into Now!!, GIVN’R, AGYU, Toronto, ON
Don Coyote 2, High Performance Rodeo, OYR, Calgary. AB
2009 “PORTAGE2009, Magnetic North Festival, Ottawa, ON.
2008 “Cigar Store Indian” Sienfeld, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC, USA
Landscape, Art Nomade, La Lob, Chicoutimi, Quebec
Landscape, Peterborough Art Umbrella, Ontario
Landscape, Storytellers festival, Sakewewak, Regina, Sask.
Casting Call, World Upside Down, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
2006 A Doowop Thing!, Aspace/ ImagineNATIVE Film Festival , Toronto
Paper bag Indian Tribal Suit, TRUCK CAMPER Tattoo Fest, Calgary
Diplomatic Immunities, Alberta Theatre Projects, Playrites Festival. Calgary,
Paper Bag Indian/ Buckskin Mounting, Talking Stick Festival, Vancouver
2005 Hey! Who Won? CAMPER, The Truck Gallery, Calgary
Portage. MST: 3, Brilliant City Festival EPCOR centre, Calgary
2004 How to Make a Paperbag Indian, Burnaby Art Gallery, BC
2003 The Final Frontier, Banff Centre for the Arts
After, ACAD. Stanford Perron Theatre, AB
Residencies
2011 The Legacy/Le Legs Symposium,
Residencia en la Tierra, Bogota, Columbia, South America
2010 Sâkêwêwak Artists’ Collective, Regina Sask.
The Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson BC.
2008 Good Medicine Project, ACAD, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Dewdney Avenue Project, Common Weal Community Arts. Regina, Sask.
2004 Gulf Island Film & Television School- Aboriginal Intensive Media
2003 Indigenous Media & Visual Arts Residency: Communion and other Conversations: The Banff Centre For the Arts, Alberta
Collections
Your Dreams Are Killing My Culture, NAG of Canada, Ottawa
End Trails, Trails End, Seneca College Art Dept. Toronto, ON
LANDSCAPE #3, private collection of Elton John
End Trails/Trails End, AFA, Alberta.
Urban Indian Series, The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Urban Indian series, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Edmonton
The Wagon Burner. The National Archives Of Canada. Ottawa, Ont.
2008 Sobery Art Award, (long list nomination) Toronto, Canada
2006 Winner Enbridge Emerging Artist Award, City of Calgary Arts Awards, Mayors Luncheon 2006, Calgary, AB
2005 Enbridge Emerging Artist Award, City of Calgary Arts Awards (Nomination)
2004 Best Experimental Film Prize- 2004 ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto,
2nd Prize Red Wire Showcase- 2004 ImageNation Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
2010 Art Work of Terrance Houle, Alberta College of Art and Design, AB
2008 Digital Heritage Symposium, CHIN/Glenbow Museum, Beijing, China
2007 Indigenous Perspectives, Performance Creation Canada Panel, HPR Fest Calgary
2006 Contemporary Aboriginal Art & Issues, Ontario College of Art Design, Toronto
REDEYE, Carlton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
World Upside Down, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff
2005 Art & Design Now Speaker series, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary
Gay, Felicia, “North Central Intervention: Terrance Houle leaves bits of history on Dewdney Avenue”, BlackFlash: Photography and New media in Art, Winter Issue 2010, pg.38
Light, Whitney, Terrance Houle GIVN’R Exhibition Review, Canadian Art, Tornto, Ontario, Canada, Fall issue 2007, pg. 162
Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, “How The West Was Spun”, Art Review International Edition, London, England, July/ August 2005, pg. 29
Hill, Richard, “The American West,” Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, England, 2005, pg 106-107.
Kiendl, Anthony, “The Aesthetics of Noise”, Making a Noise! Banff International Curatorial Institute, Banff, Alberta 2003, pg. 10
Elodie Caron. “Renegade But Not Like That TV Show,” New Tribe, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Vol. 3 No.10, pg. 8, 2005
Ngahiraka Mason. “Experiencing Place,” Artlink Magazine, Queensland, Australia. Vol. 24 No. 4, pg. 87, 2004