Debora Alanna
deboraalanna.com
SOLO
2013
Hybrid (Lava & Light)
– Populus Tremula, Akureyri, Iceland - Curator:
Kristján Pétur Sigurðsson
2012
Everything Else is Winter
– Xchanges Gallery, Victoria BC
2011
Outside In - Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria BC (May) - Curator: Aubrey
Burke.
Hanging out the Laundry – Balcony Gallery, Victoria BC (Oct) - Curator:
Christine Clark.
2010
Edmonton AB outdoor installation: Revisioning/Auricle. Commissioned by Joe Clare.
2008
Congregation – The State Museum of Art of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan (named for A. Kasteev). Curator:
Yuliya Sorokina
2007
Coda – Galerie
Aquai Siam Ben 11, Vallauris, France. Curator: Dale Dorosh. - Sculpture
Ebb and Flow – Spiazzi Cultural Association, Venice, Italy. Curator: Gaetano di
Gregorio.
Catharsis – Adonis, Vallauris, France. Curator: Dale Dorosh.
1998
Trident –- Gallery Steps, New Delhi,
India - Curators: Ajay Khanna& Anil Vyas
1992-93
End and Continuation –- Centre for
Image and Sound Research (CISR), Vancouver, BC
1991
Light as Material –- Burnaby Art Gallery,
Burnaby, BC. Curator: Todd Davis.
1988
Lightworks –- Gallery Too, Vancouver, BC. Curator:
Randy Anderson. .
1988-94
Tetrahedrons on Trafalgar –-Vancouver, BC
1987-88
Challenge of the Mountains –-Triumph, UBC, Vancouver, BC.
1986
Three Forms –- or Gallery, Vancouver,
BC – Gallery Board Juried exhibition
1984
Sculpture: Garden –- Unit Pitt Gallery,
Vancouver, BC - Curator: Todd Davis
GROUP
2013
Difference and Repetition – Slide Room Gallery - Curator: Efren Quiroz
(Invitational)
100 Artists – Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria BC - Curators: Katie Sage, John
MacDowell
Diversity Makes us Stronger – CAC Victoria BC
- Betty Meyers, Joan McHardy (Invitational)
2012
ECCE Artists – FABBRICAIMMAGINERome, Italy (travelling), Curator: Mariagrazia Benvenuti
Integrate Arts – Galley 1580, Victoria BC, Curator Richard Pawley
Lost LP Covers –- Deluge, Victoria BC, Curators: Deborah de Boer, Todd Eacret
2011
Mary and Moses Sculpture Garden –- Deep Cove BC, Curator: Christine Clark
Lost LP Covers –- Deluge Art Gallery, Victoria BC, Deborah de Boer, Todd Eacret
2010
Seeking
Kali –CW Post, Long Island, NY, Curators:
Susan Schulman, William Evertson
Signs of our Times – Mobius, Inc. Boston MA, Curator :
Jane Hsiaoching Wang
SurrealEstate – Mobius,
Inc. Boston MA, Curator : Jane Hsiaoching Wang
Um Livro Sobre A Morte –- Museu Brasileiro da Escultura Curators:
Angela Ferrerra, Matthew Rose
Vancouver Island - Save it or Sell it – Collective Works /Dogwood Initiative, Victoria BC Curators: Collective Works Adjudication Committee
2009
Art and Soul –-Victoria, BC, Curator: Jody
Patterson
Els Colors Del Foc (The Fire of Colour) –- Exposició Collectiva
Davis Museum, Barcelona Span. Curator: Davis Lisboa
“Look” – Community Arts Council, Victoria BC
MUSEUM MKAC, Museo Karura Art Centre – Second
Life. Permanent
Collection of Contemporary Art by Davis Museum. Curator: Davis Lisboa
2008
Rétrospective: Galerie Aqui Siam Ben – Vallauris, France. Curator: Dale Dorosh
2007
East Side Culture Crawl – Vancouver, BC
Verrocchio Art Centre –
Casole d’Elsa, Italy, Curators: Nigel Konstam , Ben Brotherington
Vallauris
Expo – Espace
Grand-Jean, Vallauris, Curator: Dale Dorosh
A.I.R. prends l'Air – Au
Lavoire de Mougins, Mougins, France, Curator: Dale Dorosh
Fête Picasso – Small Art
Objects : Galerie
Aqui Siam Ben – Vallauris, France, Curator: Dale Dorosh
1996
Gallery Steps –- New
Delhi, India. Curators: Ajay Khanna, Anil Vyas
Digital Investigations: Differential Space –-Teck
Gallery, SFY Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC. Catalogue. Curator: Petra Watson.
1987
BC Chamber of Commerce –-Vancouver, BC. Invited
participant.
Urbanarium
–-Vancouver,
BC. Curators: Urbanarium Development Society. Catalogue.
1979
Crystal Gardens –-Victoria, BC
Invitational exhibition by the Architectural Institute of BC, BC
Sculptor’s Society.
EDUCATION and
Training
2010
- Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC - Continuing Studies: Communication,
Writing
2007
- NextEngine/Rapidworks - 12 hrs of on-line tutorials; 3D scanning
1998
- BCIT
(British Columbia Institute of Technology) - 4 Workshops on Multimedia
1996
- ECCAD – Vancouver, BC (part-time) – Sound Design. Professional
Practices for Designers & Artists,
UBC – Continuing Studies – Introduction to Multimedia
Workshop
1983
- Ontario College of Art - AOCA – 4 yr program (Associate of Ontario College of
Art) – Toronto, ON
1972 -74 - UBC – Vancouver, BC - English, Film, , Banff
School of Fine Arts – Banff, AB (summer) - Painting, music composition, Vancouver School of Art – Vancouver, BC
(part-time) - Drawing, painting, metal sculpture
HONORARIUMS
2008
– Canadian Embassy - Kazakhstan
1996
– Canadian Embassy - India
RESIDENCIES
2013 – Akureyri Artist Studio - Akureyri , Iceland. Juried Residency
Ø
Exhibition: Hybrid: Lava & Light. Populus
Tremula Gallery Akureyri Iceland.
2008 – The State Museum of Art of the Republic of
Kazakhstan named after A. Kasteev & Asia Art+ PF - Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ø
[1st artist to be invited] – Pilot
Project . Exhitibion: Congregations.
Co-sponsored by Canadian Embassy.
Ø
Lecture & Master class,
Kasteev Museum, Kazakh National Academy of Arts (named after T.K.Zhurgenov)
Ø
Interview with Yuliya
Sorokina - published & Kazakhstan TV x 2
2007 – A.I.R. Vallauris, France, Spring and
Winter. Juried Residency
Ø Produced
2 shows - Catharsis, Coda)
Ø Produced
videos of artists: Anne Eliot, USA & David Franklin, Ireland
2007 – Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Venice, Italy
Ø
Juried
Residency
Ø
Produced
show - Canal: Ebb and Flow
2007 – Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain Juried
Residency
Ø
Produced
video interview of artist: Huilo Wonder, American performance artist.
2007 – Verrocchio Art Centre, Casole d’Elsa, Italy.
Produced sculpture & drawings; group exhibition.
2006 – Atelier Silex –- Trois
Rivières, PQ. Juried residency – Sculpture
Ø 6
sculptures created for the purpose of digitization and stereolithography
production.
1998 – Kanoria Art Centre – Ahmenabad,
Gujarat India. Juried residency
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Present – since 2010
Writer/Critic: Exhibit-v:
http://exhibit-v.blogspot.com/search/label/write%20ups
2013 – Craig’s Stroke –
sound interpretation of visual score by Lance Austin Olsen
Ø Collaboration with
Lance Austin Olsen & John Luna
2011
Video production: Sounds in a Room – 4, Syngja
Instructor: Considering
3D – Royal Roads University2009
Invitational Juror: Fête Picasso – Small Art Objects – Vallauris FR
2007
– Invitational Juror: Fête Picasso – Small Art Objects, Vallauris,
FR
Raku Workshops – École Municipal de Beaux Arts de Vallauris – Espace
Grand-Jean, Vallauris FR
2006
– Open Trajectory - Sculpture
made for digitization and stereolithographic production
Ø
Research: Form
Lab, University of Montreal PQ
Ø Workshop
– Form Lab, University of Montreal, PQ. 3D scanning techniques. Produced
photomontage of scanning process.
1993-1995
Centre for Image and
Sound Research (CISR) – Vancouver, BC
Ø Board
member; Devised and Chaired Art and Industry program, Level 11 Project
participant
Ø Explored
technological applications to sculpture; produced various 3D drawings and
virtual sculptures. Community Development Committee member, Collaborated on the
creation and adjudication of Seed Research grants for Artists and
Technologists.
1996-98
Writer: Asia Pacific
Sculpture News/ Asia Pacific Art News, Hong Kong
Ø Reviewed
sculpture exhibitions, including New Horizons, Bangalore, India, a
collaboration between artists of Australia & India
Writer: Times of India, Ahmedabad,
India - Art critic and
cultural commentator - Weekly column.
Canada-India
Cultural Exchange – Communications Director
Ø
Established
cooperative educational opportunities between Canada & India
Ø
Office
space donated by Shastri Indo Canadian Institute
Ø
Honorarium,
Canadian High Commission, New Delhi
Lecturer: “Sculpture as
it Evolves in Technological Development”, Various
institutions in India, including:
Ø International
Centre for Cultural Development, Trivandrum
Ø Lalite
Kala, New Delhi
Ø University
of the Arts, Rajamundry
Ø Chitralka
Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore
Ø Ken
School of Art, Bangalore
1994
Magic
Lab – University of British Columbia - Guest Artist
Ø Studied
the effects of CAD/CAM programs on the development of sculptural ideas.
Ø Computer
Based Technologies in the Visual Arts – Vancouver Art Gallery
Ø Invited
Participant
Round
Table Forum – the application of technology to art, the affects of the use of
technology in art on the artists and public.
Cultural
Leadership Development Program – Edmonton, Alberta - Invited Participant
