Mark Philip Venema ~ Curriculum Vitae Exhibition History: 2011 - Currently running campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/Entrenched-Thought • Entrenched Thought, an earthwork, performance and sculpture, as a peace initiative at the 11th DMZ Art Fesitval held with the support of the Seokjang-ri Art Museum, South Korea 6/5/2011 - 7/5/2011 2010 • “Sorry I couldn't be there.” Platea video project with An Xiao at MiamiSeven, during ArtBasel, Miami. Video highlighted concerns around geographic access for large art fairs. 11/30 - 12/5/10 • Work: Curse or calling - Juried, 3 year travelling exhibit with the arts collective CIVA, began at Lawrence and Alletha Barnett Fine Arts Gallery, Springfield, Missouri. 8/27 - 10/1/10 • Hashtag class (#class) at Winkelman Gallery, Chelsea, New York City. An in-gallery art performance held daily, led by Jen Dalton and William Powhida, from 2/21 - 3/20/10 The objective: “a 'think tank', where we work with guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, collectors and anyone else who would like to participate to examine the way art is made and seen in our culture and to identify and propose alternatives and/or reforms to the current market system. on the question of class, dealers, art market, production, poverty, etc....” Aside from daily participation in real-time via social media networks, ustream, skype and twitter, many of their participants also hosted talks; I deliberated on Social Media and Art with Zachary Adam Cohen and appeared projected onto the wall of the Winkelman gallery to field questions to a live audience via skype while sitting in my Montreal studio. 2009 • #MailART: A Social Media Initiative This was an online arts initiative in which I rallied and organized collectively with over 70 artists through the social media networking website Twitter. Three groups of artists, including myself, created and exchanged over 2000 individual works of art and then created an online web gallery posted on the photo and image sharing website Flickr. June and November 2009. • Art and Text: Images, Concepts and Insights A travelling exhibit curated by Teresia Bush, formerly curator and educator for 26 years at Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum. This juried collective exhibition’s first showing was in Washington, DC, USA at the Dadian Gallery from January 22 to March 4, 2009 and then at the Olson Gallery in St. Paul, Minnesota from April 2 to June 21, 2009. 2008 • “Non finito. We are unfinished works.” Master of Fine Arts thesis exhibition at the MFA Gallery, Visual Arts building, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. October 3 to 15, 2008 • Artists interpret the Stations of the Cross - Invited artist for a collective show at St. Stephen’s Church, Westmount, Quebec. Reviewed by CBC radio. • Le Silence dans la Forêt - Collective exhibition of printmakers shown at The Print Studio, Hamilton, Ontario, and at Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Quebec. • Craft and Concept - A showing of work and artist's talk at Art Now, Westmount, Quebec. 2007 • Trans-ed: trans-education - Collective showing at Concordia University Graduate House, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. • Science Observed: Portraits of Scientists by Yousuf Karsh and Mark Philip Venema Commissioned invitation to do photo-etchings of Hans Selye at an Exhibition held in commemoration of Hans Selye at the Symposium on Stress, UQAM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. • Transforming Space - Juried collective showing at Aughinbaugh Gallery, Grantham, PA, USA; curated by James Elaine of UCLA Hammer Museum. • Dark Encounters, Jacob meets with God: paintings in oil An individual showing at St. Vincent de Paul Chapel, Montreal, Canada. • Archives of Innocence - Juried exhibition at Victoria Hall Gallery, Westmount, Quebec. 2006 • Art Westmount 2006 - Collective show, various works, Westmount, Quebec, Canada. • Rotary Blue: Une initiative de l'Université Concordia - An exhibition of graduate students in printmaking from Concordia university at Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Quebec. • Miniature Prints in Diorama Space: the Challenge of Resolution - Collective show at Jason Downie Gallery, Montreal, Quebec. CBC radio cited this as the smallest gallery in Canada. • Objects of contemplation, encountering line: a collaboration in drawing with the artist's daughters - Individual show, FS building, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. 2005 • Inside out consumer: Self-portraits from within Individual show, FS building (Overdale), Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. • A Wider Landscape - Individual show at Fio d'Azeite, Lisbon, Portugal. 2004 • Wunderkammer 2004 - Collective showing at University of Lisbon (FBAUL), Portugal. • 4th International Biennial: Printmaking - Juried exhibition in Evora, Portugal. 2003 • Land Art - A collective art project at the Jardim Municipal de Oeiras, Portugal 7/7/03

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