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Vikky Alexander
EDUCATION 1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia TEACHING APPOINTMENTS 1998 Associate professor at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1999 Contemporary Art Gallery, Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, Vancouver, British Columbia 1999 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Reflecting Glass Stacks, Regina, Saskatchewan 1998 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario 1998 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1997 Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 1997 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 1996 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, A la recherche du temps perdu, Vancouver, British Columbia 1996 Presentation House Gallery, Between Dreaming and Living, North Vancouver, British Columbia 1996 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1994 domestic setting, Los Angeles, California 1994 Project, Vancouver, British Columbia 1993 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1993 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario 1992 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario 1992 Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal, Quebec 1992 Vancouver Art Gallery, Lake in the Woods, Vancouver, British Columbia 1989 Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal, Quebec 1989 Petrosino Park Project, New York, New York 1988 De Lege Ruimte, Brugges, Belgium 1988 STRIDE Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1987 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California 1987 CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, New York 1987 Julian Pretto, New York, New York 1986 CASH/Newhouse Gallery, New York, New York 1985 CASH/Newhouse Gallery, Vikky Alexander, New York, New York 1985 Centre d´art contemporain, Axe Neo 7, Hull, Quebec 1985 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Window Installation, New York, New York 1984 CEPA, Metro Bus Show: Vikky Alexander, Buffalo, New York 1983 A&M Artworks, Obsession, New York, New York 1983 A&M Artworks, Family Entertainment, New York, New York 1983 CEPA, Vikky Alexander, Buffalo, New York 1983 Coburg Gallery, Obsession, Vancouver, British Columbia 1978 Toronto Dominion Bank Building, Viewing Space, Halifax, Nova Scotia GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1999 Vancouver Art Gallery, Recollect, Vancouver, British Columbia 1997 Contemporary Art Gallery Benefit Auction, Vancouver, British Columbia 1997 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1997 Pittsburg Center for Contemporary Art, Environments, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, curated by Robert Raczka 1996 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1996 Kamloops Art Gallery, The Culture of Nature, Kamloops, British Columbia, curated by Annette Hurtig 1996 Kenderdine Gallery, Modus Operandi, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1996 Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Vancouver Perspective, Yokohama, Japan and Taipei, curated by Greg Bellerby 1996 Seattle Art Museum, Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series: From the floating world to the street, Seattle, Washington 1995 Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario 1995 Phoenix Art Museum, It´s Only Rock and Roll, Phoenix, Arizona 1995 Seattle Art Museum, Documents Northwest, Seattle, Washington, curated by Rod Slemmons 1995 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1994 Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Alberta 1993 Charles H. Scott Gallery, Beneath the Paving Stones, Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Robert Kleyn 1993 Artropolis ´93, Vancouver, British Columbia 1993 Surrey Art Gallery, Arcadia/Utopia, Surrey, British Columbia 1993 Expo ´93, Reflecting Paradise, curated by Jeffrey Spalding, Taejon, Korea 1993 International Center of Photography Midtown, Commodity Image, New York, New York, curated by Willis Hartshorn 1992 Rotterdam Photo Biennale 3, Wasteland, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1992 Annina Nosei, Wasteland, New York, New York 1992 The New Museum, The Art Mall: A Social Space, New York, New York 1992 A & M Artworks, Trouble in Paradise, New York, New York 1992 Ansel Adams Center, Vikky Alexander and Ellen Brooks, San Francisco, California 1992 Wooster Gardens, Vikky Alexander and Ellen Brooks, New York, New York 1991 Barbican Art Gallery, Un-Natural Traces, London, England, curated by Carol Brown & Bruce Ferguson 1991 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cruciformed, Cleveland, Ohio, curated by David Rubin 1991 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Practising Beauty, Hamilton, Ontario, curated by Ihor Holubizky 1991 London Regional Art Gallery, London Life Young Contemporaries, London, England, curated by Peter Day 1991 The Hyde Collection, "Just what is that makes today´s homes so different, so appealing?", Glenn´s Falls, New York, curated by Dan Cameron 1991 Dorothy Golden Gallery, Vikky Alexander and Ellen Brooks, Los Angeles, California 1990 Kunsthalle Bern, Vikky Alexander and James Welling, Bern, Switzerland 1989 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington 1989 Hybrid Neutral, travelling show curated by Collins and Milazzo 1989 Hamilton College, Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Clinton, New York and Virginia Commonwealth University, curated by Jimmy de Sana 1988 Galerie Pierre Huber, Group Show, Geneva, Switzerland 1988 DIA Art Foundation, Cultural Participation, (Group Material), New York, New York 1988 Annina Nosei Gallery, Mutations, New York, New York 1988 Harvard University, Fabrications, curated by Anne Hoy, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1988 Scott Hanson Gallery, Media Post Media, curated by Collins & Milazzo, New York, New York 1988 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California 1988 Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario 1988 Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Sequence (Con) Sequence: Photographic Multiples of the Eighties, curated by Julia Ballerini 1987 Hillwood Art Gallery, CW Post, Perverted by Language, LI University at Brookville, New York 1987 49th Parallel, Material Fictions, curated by France Morin, New York, New York 1987 Robin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1987 New Territories in Art: Europe-America, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Galerie Pierre Huber, The Art of the Real, Geneva, Switzerland 1987 De Appel, The Art of the Real, Amsterdam 1987 The Art of the Real, Lyon, France 1987 Documenta 8, The Castle, (an installation by Group Material), Kassel, West Germany 1987 Annina Nosei Gallery, Spatial F/X, New York, New York 1987 Nexus, Art Since 1984, curated by Virginia Wright, Atlanta, Georgia 1986 Coburg Gallery, Vikky Alexander and Ian Wallace, Vancouver, British Columbia 1986 Loughelton Gallery, New York, New York 1986 International Center of Photography, commodity image, New York, New York 1986 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, New New York, Cleveland, Ohio 1986 The Kitchen, Art & Leisure, curated by Group Material, New York, New York 1985 Daniel Newburg Gallery, Persona Non Grata, New York, New York 1985 Castelli Uptown, A Summer Selection, New York, New York 1985 Gallery, Group Show, New York, New York 1985 303 Gallery, New York, New York 1985 White Columns, Seduction: Working Photographs, curated by Marvin Heiferman, New York, New Yor 1985 Axe Neo-7, Centre d´art contemporain, Polaroid Deux, Hull, Quebec 1985 Postmasters, Photo Object, New York, New York 1984 Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Appearing, Halifax, Nova Scotia 1984 White Columns, The New Capital, New York, New York, curated by Collins & Milazzo. 1984 New Math Gallery, Rediscovering Romanticism in NYC in 1984, New York, New York 1983 Gallery Nature Morte, Benefit for Wedge Magazine, New York, New York 1983 Light Works, The Stolen Image and its Uses, curated by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Syracuse, New York 1983 White Columns, Fashion Fictions: Absence and the Fast Heartbeat, New York, New York 1983 Simon Fraser University, Artificial Miracles, Burnaby, Britsh Columbia 1982 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Resource Material, curated by Stephen Frailey, New York, New York 1982 A & M Artworks, Trouble in Paradise, New York, New York 1982 White Columns, Record Covers for Show, New York, New York 1982 Johnson State College, Worlds Apart, Johnson 1981 A&M Artworks, Photoworks, New York, New York COLLECTIONS Air Canada Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario Concordia University Collection, Montreal, Quebec Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Household Finance Corp., Toronto, Ontario Kenderdine Art Gallery, University of Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Saskatoon Light Work Collection, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York London Life Insurance, London, Ontario Long Group, Toronto, Ontario MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario New School for Social Research, New York, New York Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta Pepsi Co. Canada Ltd., Montreal, Quebec Polaroid Corporation, Rochester, New York Progressive Corporation, Ohio Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, New Jersey Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia Various Private collections in Canada, Europe, and the United States Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba CATALOGUES Vancouver Perspectives, Vancouver Art Gallery, Yokohama, Japan, Greg Bellerby ed., 1996 Beneath the Paving Stones, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Robert Kleyn, 1994 Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, Ihor Holubizky, 1993 Reflecting Paradise Taejon, Korea, 1993 Jeffrey Spalding ed., 1993 Contact Sheet #74, Light Work, Syracuse, New York, 1992 , Jeffrey Hoone Experience of Landscape, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, New York, Karl Willers, 1992 Wasteland, Fotographie Biennale Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Bas Vroege, 1992 Practising Beauty, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, April, Ihor Holubiszky, 1991 Cruciformed, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, David Rubin, 1991 Un-natural Traces, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England, Carol Brown and Bruce Ferguson, 1991 London Life Young Contemporaries, London Regional Art Gallery, London, England, Peter Day, 1990 Vikky Alexander: Glass (Not) Sculpture, Bruce Ferguson, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, May 1990 Between Traditions & Oblivions: PastFutureTense, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, curated by Gary Dufour, 1990 PastFutureTense, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, September 1990, Bruce Ferguson With the Grain, March 1990 Roni Feinstein Towards a History of the Found Object, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, January, 1990 Just what is it that makes today´s homes so different, so appealing? Hyde Collection, Glenn´s Falls, New York, Dan Cameron, 1991 Hybrid Neutral, ICI, New York, New York, essay by Collins and Milazzo, 1989 Media Post Media, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, New York, Collins and Milazzo, 1988 Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery, New York, New York, Andy Grundberg and Jerry Saltz, 1988 Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Brian Wallis, 1988 Experience of Landscape, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, New York, Karl Willers, 1988 Sequence (con) Sequence, Bard College, Annandale, New York, Julia Ballerini, 1988 Reconnaissance, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, introduction by Daina Agaitus, 1987 Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, LIU, New York, New York, Robert Nickas, 1987 Material Fictions, 49th Parallel, New York, New York, essay by Ron Jones, 1987 The Art of the Real, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland, Robert Nickas, 1987 New Territories, Oliva, Rome, Italy, Bonito Achille, 1987 Arts and Leisure, The Kitchen Group Material, New York, New York, 1986 Rear Window, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985 Appearing, Mt. St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada, Bruce Ferguson, 1983 BIBLIOGRAPHY: Published Writing on Vikky Alexander Laurence, Robin. "The advantage of being Vikky", Canadian Art, Spring 1999, pp. 62-65 Long, Timothy. "Recent Acquisitions: Vikky Alexander", Vista, March/April/May 1999 Scott, Michael. "Garden of distortions", Vancouver Sun, p. B8, February 8, 1999 Wallace, Ian. "Vikky Alexander: The Mirage of the Sublime", Vikky Alexander: Vaux-le-Vicomte Panorama, pp. 19-28, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1999 Mallon, Matthew. "All Girls School”, Western Living, Winter 1998, pp. 14-17, 30, Vancouver Pakasaar, Helga. "Vikky Alexander", AGW Quarterly, Winter 1998-99 Tousley, Nancy. "Viewer Offered Artificial World", Calgary Herald, Sat. Febuary 28 Bellerby, Greg. "Forword", Vancouver Perspectives, catalogue, p. 6 Laurence, Robin. "Show´s contributors draw the line on graphic question", Vancouver Sun Lin, Mun-Lee. "Forword", Vancouver Perspectives, catalogue, p. 4 Raczka, Robert. "environments", exhibition companion, Pittsburgh Centre for the Arts "Where do we live..." Canadian Art, Spring 1997, p.25 Hurtig, Annette, "The Culture of Nature", Art and its Practices (An Investigation of Contemporary Art), Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia, September 27 - December 1, 1996 Laurence, Robin, "Retrospective slinks between real and dreamed worlds", Georgia Straight, Dec. 5-12 Laurence, Robin. "Postcards and Paris Scenes Manipulate Percieved Realities", Georgia Straight, March 21 - 28 Rimmer, Cate. "Reviews: Crystal Clear", Fast Forward, Calgary Herald Slemmons, Rod. "From the Floating World to the Street", Documents Northwest: The PONCHO Series, exhibition companion, Seattle Art Museum Tousley, Nancy. "Reviews: Photo Exhibition has a Las Vegas Shimmer" Calgary Herald, February 1996 Rubin, David, "It´s Only Rock and Roll", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 1996 Feinstein, Roni, "Report from Toronto", Art In America, July 1994 Hagen, Charles. "Commodity Image", New York Times, May 1993 Hartshorn, Willis. "Commodity Image", exhibition companion, International Centre of Photography, Midtown, New York Holubizky, Igor. "Vikky Alexander", exhibition companion, Mercer Union, Toronto Kleyn, Robert. "Beneath the Paving Stones", Beneath the Paving Stones, catalogue essay, pp. 53-64 Laurence, Robin. "Modern Conventions Defied", Vancouver Sun, Saturday Review, July 31, 1993 Pauls, Naomi, "Profile" Georgia Straight, August 1993 Shaw, Nancy and Lisa Robertson. "A Sunday Drive", Beneath the Paving Stones, catalogue essay, pp. 5-16 Tousely, Nancy. "Vikky Alexander: Modern Landscapes", Canadian Art, Fall 1993 Tousely, Nancy, "Spectacle of consumerism revealed in Modern Landscapes", Calgary Herald, March Watson, Petra. "Reviews" Border Crossings, Summer 1993 Druckrey, Tim. "from Wasteland to toxicity: rediscovering nature as information", 1992 Wasteland: Landscape from now on, pp. 25-31 Dufour, Gary, "An Always Absent Original", Vancouver Art Gallery, May 1992 Gierstberg, Frits and Bas Vroege, "Introduction", Wasteland: Landscape from now on, pp. 3-6 Graaf, Jan. "empty sites", Wasteland: Landscape from now on, pp. 17-22 Hagen, Charles. "Ellen Brooks & Vikky Alexander Camera Cut-ups", Interview, April 1992 Hoone, Jeffrey. "Vikky Alexander", Light Work grants catalogue, Syracuse, New York Jenkins, Steven. "Secondhand Land", Artweek, April 23, 1992 Laurence, Robin, "Arcadia/Utopia", Vancouver Sun, July 31, 1992 Lemaire, Ton. "between wilderness and wasteland", Wasteland: Landscape from now on, pp, 9-14 Read, Michael, Friends of Photography Newsletter, March 1992 Tolnick, Judith. "Frame Up! An Introduction", Frame Up! exhibition companion, Main Gallery, Fine Arts Complex, University of Rhode Island Tousely, Nancy. "Fast Forward" Canadian Art, Volume 9, Number 1, Spring 1992 Ferguson, Bruce. "Un-Natural Acts and Tongue Ties", Un-Natural Traces: Contemporary Art from Canada, pp. 11-15, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1991 Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, Photography at the Dock, Minneapolis: Minnesota Press, 1991 Aquin, Stephane, "faux et usage de Faux", Voir, April 30, 1990 Barrett, Terry. Criticizing Photographs, Mayfield Press, 1990 Dufor, Gary. "Between Traditions and Oblivions", Pastfuturetense catalogue essay, pp. 24-30, illustration p. 31 Feinstein, Roni. "With the Grain", With the Grain catalogue essay, Whitney Museum of American Art @ Phillip Morris Ferguson, Bruce. "Pastfuturetense: or What is a Meta For?", Pastfuturetense catalogue essay, pp. 6-13, Vancouver Art Gallery, Winnipeg Art Gallery Ferguson, Bruce. "Vikky Alexander: Glass (Not) Sculpture", exhibition companion, Kunsthalle Bern, 1990 Duncan, Ann. "Victoria Artist´s wry urban images a hit in New York", The Gazette, Montreal, Dec. 23 "LMCC Presents Park Spruces Up", Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 1989 Willers, Karl Emil. "The Experience of Landscape: three decades of sculpture" exhibition companion, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York 1988 Hoy, Anne, Fabrications, Abbeville Press, 1988 "International Style", New Observations, Issue #55, 1988 Salvioni, Daniela, Reviews, Flash Art, May/June, 1988 Schwendenwein, Jude, Reviews Artscribe, June, 1988 Tousley, Nancy, "Art Gallery is re-presented as a designer showroom", Calgary Herald, May 12, 1988 Tousely, Nancy, "Profiles", Canadian Art, September, 1988 Wallis, Brian. "Vikky Alexander", catalogue essay, Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, 1988 Augaitus, Daina, "Reconnaissance", Banff, Walter Phillips Gallery, 1887 Braff, Phyllis. "Language Becomes the Medium of the Message", New York Times, March 1, 1987 Cameron, Dan. "Post-Feminism", Flash Art, Feb/March 1987 Campitelli, Maria. "Review" Juliet Art Magazine, Oct/Nov 1987 Ess, Barbara and Glenn Branca, Editors, Thought Objects, JAA #7, 1987 Fox, Catherine. "´Modern´ twists has little momentum", Jan. 18 Handy, Ellen. "Reviews", Arts magazine, May 1987 Harper, Glenn, "Review", Art Paper, February, 1987 Jones, Ronald. "Cool Canadians", Material Fictions exhibition companion, 49th Parallel, New York Levin, Kim. "Reviews", Village Voice, February, 1987 Linker, Kate. "Reviews" Artforum, Summer 1987 Lipson, Karin. "A few words on Art", Newsday, Feb. 20 Stretch, Bonnie Barrett. "Contemporary Photography", Art & Auction, May 1987 Cameron, Dan. "Report from the Front", p. 91,1986 Cohrs, Timothy. "Reviews", Arts Magazine, December 1986 Collins and Milazzo, "Tropical Codes" Kunstforum, March-May 1986 Decter, Joshua, "Reviews" Arts Magazine. March 1986 Hagen, Charles. "Review" Artforum. April 1986 Handy, Ellen. "Reviews" Arts Magazine, March 1986 Handy, Ellen. "Reviews", Arts Magazine. September 1986 Norman, Sally. "New New Art", Dialogue, June/July 1986 Robinson, Walter. "Reviews", C Magazine. #10, Summer 1986 Serafin, Bruce. "Reviews", C Magazine #10, Summer 1986 "New Faces", American Photographer, Feb. 1986 Davis, Douglas. "Seeing isn´t Believing", Newsweek, June 3, 1985 Indiana, Gary. "Voice Pick", Village Voice, June 11, 1985 Linker, Kate. "Review" Artforum. March 1985 Robinson, Walter, "Reviews", Art In America, April 1985 Wallis, Brian, "News from Nowhere", New Museum of Contemporary Art statement, September 1985 CEPA Newsletter, February 1984 Solomon-Godeau, Abigail, "Winning the Game When the Rules Have Been Changed: Art photography and Postmodernism", New Mexico Studies in the Fine Arts 7 (1983): 5-13. Reprinted in Screen Vol 25, No. 6, Nov/Dec Cone, Michele, "Lettre de New York", pp. 12-13, (French), 1983 CEPA Newsletter, September 1983 Ferguson, Bruce. "Appearing", catalogue essay, November/December 1983 Lichtenstein, Therese, "Trouble in Paradise", Arts Magazine 57, February 1983, p. 33 Lichtenstein, Therese, Reviews, Arts Magazine March 1983 Grundberg, Andy, "In Today´s Photography, Imitation isn´t Always Flattery", The New York, 1982 Times, Sunday, November 24, 1982, pp. 31, 39 Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. "Playing in the Fields of the Image" AFTERIMAGE, 10, no. 1-2 Summer 1982 Graham, Dan. "Signs" Artforum 19, No. 8, April 1981 pp. 38-43, 1981 PUBLISHED WRITING AND ARTIST´S PROJECTS BY VIKKI ALEXANDER Canadian House and Home, (work used in a photoshoot of a home), pp. 99-101, April 1996 Absolut Vodka Benefit Ad, American Photographer, May 1993 "Vikky Alexander", Beneath the Paving Stones catalogue, p. 17, 1993 "Vertical Dreams" C Magazine, No. 12, 1987 Artist´s Statement, Rear Window exhibition companion, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 1985 "Canada/New York," Review, Vanguard, Summer 1984, p. 36 |