Curriculum Vitae

Terrance James Houle

E-mail: terrancehouleart@yahoo.com

 

 

Education

 

2000-2003             (BFA) Alberta College of Art & Design Calgary

            Fibre Department

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

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

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

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

            Casting Call, HOW! Trinity Square Video/ImagineNATIVE Film Festival, Toronto

Don Coyote, Nuit Blanche, Toronto

Don Coyote, Sled Island/ ACAD/ Glenbow Museum, (W/ Matt Masters)

I Will See You…, May Works/AGA, Edmonton, AB

I Will See You…, Tribe Inc./ Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK

Portage 2008/Hey! Who Won?, Free fall Festival,  Theatre Centre, Toronto

2007    Portage 007, Grunt Gallery/ LIVE Biennial of Performance Art, Vancouver

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. 

           

Awards & Nominations

 

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

 

Lectures, Panels

 

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

 

Selected Bibliography/Articles

 

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