Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art  

Marian Penner Bancroft

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Studies
1965-67    University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
1967-69    Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
1970-71    Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ontario
1989         Simon Fraser University, Visual Arts Summer Intensive (with Mary Kelly)
1990         Vancouver Art Gallery, Workshop (with Griselda Pollock)

Teaching Appointments
1981         Associate Professor, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia
1992,1994    Florence Program, ECIAD, Florence, Italy
1984         Simon Fraser University, Summer Session 1984
1980         Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Spring 1980

Art Community Service
1999-present   Artspeak Artist-Run Centre, Board Member, Vancouver, British Columbia
1999         Selection Panel Member, Richmond City Hall, Public Art Competition, Richmond, British Columbia
1995-99    Member and Co-chair, City of Vancouver Public Art Committee, Vancouver, British Columbia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009         Republic Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2008         Republic Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2002         Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2001         The Mendel Gallery Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2001         Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
2000         Galerie De L'uqam, Montreal, Quebec
2000         Catriona Jeffries Gallery Vancouver, British Columbia
1999         Presentation House Gallery, By Land and Sea (Prospect and Refuge), North Vancouver, British Columbia
1995         Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1993         Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1991         Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1991         Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal, Quebec
1990         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1984         Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1982         Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1981         Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1981         Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1981         Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec
1981         The Photo Gallery, National Film Board, Ottawa, Ontario
1981         Image Co-Op, Montpelier, Vermont
1978         The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1976         Secession Gallery of Photography, Victoria, British Columbia
1972         Baldwin Street Gallery of Photography, Toronto, Ontario

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008         Republic Gallery, The Most Violent Thing, Vancouver, British Columbia
2008         Vancouver Art Gallery, WACK Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver, British Columbia
2006         Artspeak, Not Sheep: Urban Enclosures and Commons, Vancouver, British Columbia
2005         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2005         Cite International Des Arts, Paris, France
2005         Centre D'art Contemporain, Caen, France
2004         Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
2003         Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003         Centre Culturel Canadien, with Sylvie Readman, Paris, France
2001         Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Quebec
1999         Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1999         Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1999         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1997         Art Gallery Of Windsor, with Brenda Pelkey and Arthur Renwick, Windsor, Ontario
1997         Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1996         Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1997         Vancouver Art Gallery, The Body: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia
1997         Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, The Art Gym at Marylhurst College, Road
1997         Movies in a Post Colonial Landscape, curated by Judith Mastai, Portland, Oregon
1996         Kamloops Art Gallery, The Culture of Nature, curated by Annette Hurtig, Kamloops, British Columbia
1996         Toronto Photographers Workshop, curated by Cheryl Soukes, Toronto, Ontario
1995         Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1994         Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1994         Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
1993         Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia
1992         Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1992         Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
1989         Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal, Quebec
1989         Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, Ontario
1988         Presentation House, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1988         Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1987         Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1987         Galerie Caroline Corre, Paris, France
1987         Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1987         Urbanarium, Vancouver, British Columbia
1987         Centre for Book Arts Gallery, New York, New York
1987         Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia
1986         Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia (with Stan Douglas)
1986         Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1986         Galerie Aubes 3935, Montreal, Quebec
1986         Concours International de livres d´artistes du Canada, First prize winner, Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec
1986         Sala I, Ricochet, Rome, Italy
1985         49th Parallel, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art, New York, New York (with Cheryl Sourkes)
1984         Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (with Cheryl Sourkes)
1984         Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia (with Chris Czartoryski)
1984         Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
1984         Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1984         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1984         Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia
1984         The National Film Board of Canada, Still Photography Division, travelling exhibition
1983         October Show, Vancouver, British Columbia
1983         911, Seattle, Washington
1983         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1981         Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art & Design, Annual Faculty Exhibition, Vancouver, BC
1979         National Film Board of Canada, Stills Division, 13 Cameras, Ottawa, Ontario
1979         Photo Gallery, National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1979         National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (with Robert Minden)
1978         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1978         Focus Gallery, San Francisco, California
1978         Artists´ Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1977         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1977         Nova Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia (with Scott MacEachern)
1976         Nova Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1975         Art Gallery of Ontario, Exposure, Toronto, Ontario
1975         The Photo Gallery, The Female Eye, National Film Board of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
1974         Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

PUBLIC ART

2008         ROOT SYSTEM, Pipeline Road, Stanley Park 2007, 6-month installation, Davie Street and Pacific Boulevard,
                commissioned by InTransitBC and Canada Line, September 2007 to March 2008,
                Vancouver, British Columbia
2007         Souvenir of Heaven and Earth, Short-listed proposal with Colin Browne, Concord Pacific Beatty Street
                public art competition, Vancouver, British Columbia
1996         Lost Streams of Kitsilano, City of Vancover, Park Board permanent site-specific installation

AWARDS

2009         Mayor's Arts Award, Studio Arts: Visual Art, Vancouver, British Columbia
2008         Canada Council Project Costs Grant
2008         The Banff Centre Self-Directed Visual Arts Residency
2005         Canada Council International Residencies Programme, Paris Studio, January to April
2005         Canada Council Travel Grant
2002         Emily Carr Institute of Art And Design, Emily Award
2001         Canada Council Arts Grant "A"
2000         Canada Council Travel Grant
1996         Canada Council Arts Grant "A"
1995         City Of Vancouver Artist in Residence Program, project grant
1991         Canada Council Arts Grant "B"
1990         BC Cultural Fund Project Cost Grant
1989         Canada Council Project Costs Grant
1986         Concours International De Livres D'artistes Du Canada, 1st Prize, Montreal, Quebec
1986         Department Of External Affairs, Travel to Rome, Italy
1985         Canada Council Travel Grant
1985         Canada Council Project Costs Grant
1980         Canada Council Arts Grant "B"
1978         City of Vancouver Artists Grant

COLLECTIONS

Air Canada, Montreal, Quebec
B.C. Central Credit Union, Vancouver, British Columbia
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
City of Vancouver, British Columbia
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs
Grossman and Stanley, Barristers and Solicitors, Vancouver, British Columbia
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

"Active Process: Artists´ Books, Photographic and Contemporary", Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, 1987.
Bancroft, Marian Penner. "from Paris Streets." The Capilano Review. Fall 2007. 39-48 and cover image.
Bancroft, Marian Penner, Ed. "UBC in the Sixties: A conversation with Audrey Capel Doray, Gathie Falk, Donald Gustein, Karen Jamieson, Glenn Lewis, Jamie Reid, and Abraham Rogatnick." Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. 2009. [www.vancouverartinthesixties.com]
"B.C. Women Photographers", Victoria, British Columbia, 1979.
"Beau", Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1992.
"Contemporary Canadian Photography", Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1985.
"Exposure", exhibition companion, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1975.
"Eye of The Mind/Mind of the Eye: Photographs with text", Presentation House Gallery,
"From this Point of View", Vancouver Art Gallery, 1977.
"Ten Years Later", Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1986.
"The Female Eye", exhibition companion, National Film Board, Ottawa, 1975.
"Two Places at Once", Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1986.
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13 Cameras, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1979.
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Beck, Claudia, "Two Places at Once", Vanguard, 17:6, Dec-Jan 1988-89, p 24-29
Beck, Claudia. "Vancouver Art and Artists", catalogue essay, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, 1983.
Birnie-Danzker, Jo-Anne, "Art That Heals:  Marian Penner Bancroft", Shift, Brenda Wallace Gallery, November 1990
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Catalogues
2008         The Most Violent Thing. Republic Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia. Essay by Vanessa Sorenson.
2002         Trouble en Vue/Trouble in View: Marian Penner Bancroft/Sylvie Readman. Centre culturel canadien, Paris.
                Essays by Martha Langford and Catherine Bédard.
2002         Facing History: Portraits from Vancouver. Karen Love, ed. Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver,
                British Columbia. Arsenal Pulp Press.
2000         Traversing Territory, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland.
                Essays by Judith Mastai and Lois Allan.
1991         Holding, Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1988         Photographic Memory, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, curated by Rod Slemmons
1986         Ricochet, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
1986         Mechanics of Memory, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia
1985         Contemporary Canadian Photography, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography,
                Ottawa, Ontario
1984         Art and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia