Dick Averns EDUCATION 2003                      University of British Columbia - Master of Fine Arts, (Fine Art studio) 2002                      University of British Columbia – Instructional Skills Certificate in Teaching 1996                      Cheltenham & Gloucester College (UK) - B.F.A. Honours (Fine Art sculpture) 1993                      Wimbledon School of Art, London, Diploma in Art & Design (merit student) 1990                      Parson’s School of Art and Design, New York, Summer School PROFESSIONAL TEACHING EMPLOYMENT 2006-current            Principal Investigator, Community of Practice applied research project                             Pioneered interdisciplinary collaborative program deploying art workshops to investigate                                                     mental health, career choice & achievement in the workplace. Based at the Alberta College                             of Art + Design & funded by AACTI: Alberta Association of Colleges & Technical Institutes. 2004-current            Alberta College of Art + Design, Calgary, AB                             Multi-year term Faculty (full course loading) - Teaching sculpture studio, senior liberal                                                     studies, installation & performance, drawing and first year studies. Compiled new curricula,                                         implemented & taught new courses, and established major research project.             2004                      University of British Columbia, Dept of Art History, Visual Art & Theory                             Sessional Faculty - Teaching first year studio sculpture, painting, & photography                                                                including lecturing, setting & grading written academic work and tutoring. 2003                      Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB                             Sessional Faculty (full course loading) - Compiled and taught new senior liberal studies                                                    course in contemporary sculpture. Taught 2nd yr. studio courses in sculpture and drawing. 2002-3                   University of British Columbia, Dept of Art History, Visual Art & Theory                             Teaching Assistant - Three semesters teaching sculpture, drawing, photography,                             painting & complementary art history and theory. Included studio, tutoring & grading. SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC ARTWORK 2007                      London, UK- Ambivalence Blvd, public performances for passing audience 2006                      Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB - Ambivalence Blvd                             University Avenue, Toronto, ON - Ambivalence Blvd, public installation curated by Kym Pruesse                             Lunenburg waterfront, NS - Utopia Pkwy, public installation 2005                      Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa - Ambivalence Blvd, public performances for passing audience 2003                      Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver - Illuminating Language, permanent public installation                             Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver - Seats of Power - The Armchair Terrorist, public performances 2001                      Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC - Trading Time, curated by Michael Bjornson                             Evergreen Cultural Ctr, Coquitlam, BC - Illuminating Language, public installation                             Richmond Art Gallery - Exercising Desire curated by Corrine Corry                             Gallery 83, Vancouver - Exercising Desire curated by Stacey Malysh 2000                      911 Media Arts Ctr, Seattle - Illuminating Language, organised by Brad Thompson                             Stride Gallery, Calgary - Co-ordinating Plots, joint project with Glenbow Museum                             Gallery at Ceperley House, Burnaby, BC - Luxury Avenue, curated by Sarah Dobbs (catalogue)                             Prince George Art Gallery, BC - Luxury Avenue  (included public programs)                             Parkside Ctr, 100 Mile House, BC - Pursue Potential For Unintended Events, permanent installation 1999                      Peace Gallery North, Fort St John, BC - Luxury Avenue  (included public programs) 1998                      Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Critically Framed: Luxury Avenue                             Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC - Luxury Avenue  (included public program) 1997                      CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY - The Passed is Your Presence, transit-mounted public art show 1994                      Prema Arts Centre, UK - Open for Public Consumption, curated by Ken Lush 1993                      Whitechapel High St, London, UK - Operation Indian, multi-site clandestine billboard installation PERFORMANCES & SCREENINGS 2006                      Art Gallery of Calgary, AB - That Thing Between Us: An evening of screen based dance installations 2005                      New Music New Haven, Yale School of Music, CT - Ambivalence Blvd  DVD screening                             Mountain Standard Time festival, Calgary, AB - Ambivalence Blvd  DVD screening                             The Banff Centre - Benchmarks and Bookends solo performance                             Alberta Scene, Ottawa - Ambivalence Blvd  solo performance                             Alberta College of Art and Design - Live Action, armchairterrorist and tokyosexwhale                             Critical Art Ensemble defence fund benefit, Calgary - Feel the Heat & President’s Choice screening 2004                      Scribes Club, Vancouver - President’s Choice: The Armchair Terrorist interviews George Bush 2003                      Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver - Seats of Power - the Armchair Terrorist                             Vancouver Live:Biennial of Performance Art - Seats of Power - The Armchair Terrorist 2002                      New York City - Ambivalence Blvd public performances for passing audience 1999                      Banff, AB - Sketch of an Idea to Refocus Audience, public performance for passing audience 1996                      Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, UK - Concentric Motion Dance Co                             Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham, UK - Concentric Motion Dance Co 1995                      Prema Arts Centre, UK - It’s Alright to Feel, performance installation as part of Time Being festival 1993                      Waterloo Station, London, UK - Down The Drain; Never the Same, commissioned by British Rail                             Northern Line Tube Trains, London, UK - The Great Train Robbery, clandestine performance GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007                      Bjornson Kajiwara, Vancouver – Gallery Artists                             Stone House Residency, Cowley, AB – Residency open house 2006                      YYZ, Toronto, ON, Art and Activism, group show curated by Kym Pruesse (publication)                             Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON - Neon, 2-person show curated by Virginia Eichorn 2005                      Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courteny, BC - Invitational                             The Banff Centre, AB - Banff Festival of the Arts - Open Studios                             The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, AB - Where I Lay my Heart, informal architecture competition                             Mountain Standard Time festival, Calgary, AB - Residual: Performance Art Relics and Ephemera                             Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB - ACAD Faculty Show 2004                      Bjornson Kajiwara Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Gallery artists                             Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB - ACAD Faculty Show 2003                      Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Belkin Invitational  (catalogue)                             Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Emergency Measures  (catalogue)                             Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, AB - ACAD Faculty Show                             Artropolis, CBC studios, Vancouver, BC - The Armchair Terrorist, curated by Vjeko Sager (catalogue)                             Artropolis, CBC studios, Vancouver, BC - Position Indicators, curated by D Szoke (catalogue)                             Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC - Art Irritates Life, curated by Tony Martin 2002                      Toronto International Art Fair, ON - Third Avenue Gallery                             Fine Art Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC - Principles of Occupation                             Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Draw, concept drawings 2001                      Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC - Past Futures, with Byron Johnston’s Sorting/Packing                             Architectural Institute of BC, Vancouver, BC - Architectural Photography 2000                      Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC - Gallery artists                             Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC - Exotic Erotic                             Parkside Ctr, 100 Mile House, BC - Pursue Potential For Unintended Events 1999                      Vancouver Museum - City Lights: Neon in Vancouver                             Critical Mass Gallery, 100 Mile House, BC - Don’t Just Draw - Shoot 1996                      CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY - Chambers of Enchantment, curated by Bob Hirsch 1995                      Gloucester Docks, Gloucester, UK - Locations, public sculpture festival (catalogue) 1994                      Axiom Arts Centre, Cheltenham, UK - A Bakers Dozen RESIDENCIES 2007                      The Stone House - collaborative residency 2006                      The Banff Centre - self-directed writing residency 2005                        The Banff Centre - Canadian Art Colleges thematic residency 2004                      Paul Schwartz Law Corporation - research and writing residency 1999                      The Banff Centre - Landscape, thematic residency 1995                      Scottish Youth Clubs, Benbecula, Scotland, immersive arts residency for youth 1994                      Guildhall Art Ctr & High School, Gloucester, UK - The Female Image Public Art Project 1993-4                                        Old Vic Theatre, London, UK - The Health of the Nation?  Performance & residency PUBLISHED WRITING 2007                     Canadian Art Vol 24 No 3, p 149-50, “The Laboratory of Feminist Pataphysics”                             Canadian Art Vol 24 No 1, p 96-7, “MakeBelieve”                             Ctr. for Contemporary Canadian Art  “Official Acts & Unofficial Actions – War Art Today”                             Hyperactive, Obsessive, Tourette: Career Success (36 page mental health guide)                             Current Projects, Vol 7, p.3  - “Foreword”                             ACADFA Magazine “Mental Health, Career Choice & Achievement in the Workplace” 2006                      Canadian Art Vol 23 No 3, p 162-5, “The Vanguard War Art of William MacDonnell.”                             New Green (catalogue) “New Green: Evolution or Revolution” Art Gallery of Calgary                             ACADFA Magazine  “From Homes to America to the West Edmonton Mall: A Road Trip                             with Dan Graham.”                             Norman’s Spectator Letter of the Day, July 10, “The Environment and You (Globe)”                              (http://www.members.shaw.ca/nspector4/LETT.htm Aug 8, 2006) 2005                      Canadian ArtVol 22 No 4 p 106 - “CAMP(sites)                             ACADFA Magazine  “Walls Without Walls.” 2004                      Artichoke Vol 16 # 4 - “Canada’s Art and Design Schools”                             Globe and Mail  Dec 6, p 12 - “Invading Space”                             Front Magazine  Vol XV, No 2, p 18-19  - “Art in the Face of The Project for a New American Century” 2003                      ACADFA Magazine  “Conferring Notions of Art and the (Acad)emy - Changing Perceptions                             in the Workings of Joseph Beuys & the Alberta College of Art & Design.”                             Artichoke Vol 15 # 1 -  “Presentation House Gallery/Giclee Prints” 2002                      Front Magazine  Vol XIII, No 4, p 19-21 & 38 - The Armchair Terrorist 2000                      Co-ordinating Plots (cat) - Stride Gallery, Calgary. ISBN 0-921132-35-2                        1999                      Illuminating Language (cat) - Visual Arts Burnaby. ISBN 09686744-0-2 PUBLIC PROGRAMS & ARTIST TALKS 2008                      University of Calgary, AB – Visiting Artist and Scholar Program 2007                      Museum of the Regiments, Calgary - Official Acts & Unofficial Actions: War Art Today 2006                      York University, Toronto - Navigating Ambivalence Blvd, public lecture                             University of Calgary - Official Acts & Unofficial Actions: War Art Today, public lecture                             Triangle Art Gallery, Calgary - Contemporary War Art, public lecture 2004                      Arts Alliance, Vancouver - HRDC arts employment program, presenter 2003                      Morris & Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver – gallery talk                             Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver – gallery talk 2002                      Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC – visiting speaker 2001                      Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, panel discussion 2000                      Prince George Art Gallery – panel discussion                             Gallery at Ceperly House, Burnaby – panel discussion 1998                      Okanagan University College, Kelowna – Fine Art Dept visiting artist                             Headbones Gallery, Vernon – panel discussion CONFERENCES 2008                      Presenter - 32nd Congress, International Cttee of the History of Art, Melbourne University 2007                      Presenter - National Conference on Tourette Syndrome, Niagara Falls, ON                             Presenter - Embodied Territories, Liberal Studies International Symposium, ACAD Calgary 2006                      Presenter & Chair - University Art Association of Canada conference, NSCAD, Halifax                             Delegate – International Conference on Tourette Syndrome, Edmonton 2005                      Co-chair - University Art Association of Canada conference, University of Victoria                             Moderator - Mountain Standard Time, performative art festival panel, Calgary                             Moderator - Decoration and Ornament Colloquium, Alberta College of Art & Design 2004                      Moderator - Graduate Art History Symposium, University of British Columbia 2003                      Moderator - Graduate Art History Symposium, University of British Columbia 2002                      Moderator & Panel Chair - Comox Valley Visual Art Conference (3 day national event)                             Presenter - Graduate Art History Symposium, University of British Columbia 1996                      Delegate - Death, Desire, Dream & the Machine, Banff Centre for the Arts 1995                      Delegate - Community Arts Conference, University of Western England, UK GRANTS & AWARDS 2007                      Canada Council for the Arts – International travel grant                             Alberta College of Art + Design - Faculty professional development award                             Alberta College of Art + Design - Applied Research Honorarium 2006                      Marion Fund for Innovation in Teaching and Research – Applied research grant                             Alberta Association of Colleges & Technical Institutes – Applied research grant                             Alberta College of Art + Design - Faculty professional development award 2005                      Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project grant                             Alberta College of Art + Design - Faculty professional development award                             Assoc. of Canadian Colleges and Institutes of Art & Design - Scholarship                             Assoc. of Canadian Colleges and Institutes of Art & Design - Residency funding 2003                      Alberta College of Art & Design - Faculty professional development award                             Savage Media, BC - Production & publication funding via BC gaming commission                             Savage Media, BC - Production grant via Vancouver Foundation 2002                      Savage Media, BC - Research & creation grant via BC gaming & Hamber Fdn            1999                      Canada Council for the Arts - Travel grant for Luxury Avenue tour                             Banff Centre for the Arts, AB - Residency funding 1996                      Enterprise in Higher Education, UK - Conference funding 1995                      Charlton Trust, UK - Research funding 1994                      Enterprise in Higher Education, UK - Grant for educational residency 1993                      Wimbledon School of Art - Subsistence funding SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2007                      Canadian Art – Preview, Vol 23, No. 4, p 11                             Program Guide– “The Terms of Art are Endless”, 2007-8, cover. (ACAD) 2006                      Whyte, Murray. The Toronto Star – “All Signs Point to Reactivation”, Jan 16, p C9                             Front Magazine – “Dick Averns Does America…”, May-Jun, p 18-19                             Evenden, Kirstin. Ambivalence Blvd  (Art Gallery of Calgary)                             Lafortune, Wes. Ffwd “No Freedom in the Streets” Nov 9, p 40                             Lafortune, Wes. Ffwd “artbeat” Oct 5, p 62                             Barber, Bruce. NSCAD – The 80s  p 51 (Anna Leonowens Gal.) ISBN 978-0-920149-20-1                             Reid, Robert. The Record – “Study in Contrasts”, Jan 14, p C1                             Vida, Sandra. Legacy -  “Stirring Culture”, Spring, p 13                             YYZ Artist Outlet. Art + Activism – p 9.                             http://www.acad.ab.ca/dick_averns.html. Nov 1 2006 2005                      Lafortune, Wes. ffwd - “Support for persecuted artist”, Jan 20, p 18                             Janes, Todd & Jonsson, Tomas. Performance Art in Alberta  (Galerie SAW Gallery) -                             “Four Strong Winds... Field Guide to Alberta Artists”                             www.canadianart.ca/home/home.cfm, 8 May 2005 2004                      Dowd, Amy. The Calgary Journal - “Celebrated Sculptures Visit Town”, Oct 21, p 13                             http://www.finearts.ubc.ca/newsletter_current/page3.html 2003                      Harris, Michael. The Vancouver Sun  - “Two hours of ranting that won’t be recovered” -                             Oct 27, p C1-2.                             Barenscott, Dorothy. Emergency Measures - “Emergency Response - This is Only a                             Test”. Vancouver, Savage Media Society. ISBN 0-9734170-0-5                             Keong, Geoff. CJSF Radio “Emergency Measures”, Nov. interview and web review,                             Todd, Paul. Vancouver Magazine - “Boom Times”, October issue, p 101                             Passmore, Heather. Postscript 11  (Artspeak Gallery) - “Emergency Measures”                             Barenscott, Dorothy.  Belkin Invitational - “The Enduring Body - Towards a Logic of the                             Agit-Garde” ISBN 0-9733711-0-2                             www.finearts.ubc.ca/newsletter_summer2003/page7.html 2002                      Shaw Cable “news”, performance documentation, Vancouver, Mar 24                             Global TV “news”, performance documentation, Vancouver, Mar 14                             Global TV “news”, interview, Vancouver, Feb 24. 2001                      Brayshaw, Christopher.  The Georgia Straight - “Exercising Desire”, Sept 6, p 58                             Froneman, Kristin.  The Morning Star - “Past Futures”, Mar 9, p 17 2000                      Breckenridge, Carie.  Prince George This Week - “Luxury Avenue”, Jan 9, p A 10                                         ffwd - “Co-ordinating Plots”, Jun 7, p 28                             Whyte, Murray.  National Post - “Luxury Avenue”, Apr 4, Arts & Life Avenue p B7 1999                      Brayshaw, Christopher.  Border Crossings - “Luxury Avenue”, p 67 1999                      Gauthier, Gerald.  Alaska Highway News - Luxury Avenue, Oct 29, p B2 1998                      The Georgia Straight - Straight Choice, Oct 15 p 69 1996                      Artvoice - Chambers of Enchantment, Nov 6, p 3 1995                      Locations (catalogue) - Sketch of an Idea to Refocus Audience, p 6 1994                      The Health Service Journal - Operation Indian, Feb 3, p 8