Catherine Heard cheard@istar.ca EDUCATION 1985 - 1990  Ontario College of Art (General Studies Programme) 1987 - 1988  Off-campus Study Programme: Florence, Italy ; recipient of Tuition Scholarship UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2003     Open Studio Artists Residency and exhibition 2003     Effigies -Ten Year Retrospective Cambridge Galleries, March - April (solo) 2003     Symmetries - Spin Gallery, Sept 2003. (solo) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002     Allegories Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario 2002     Efflorescence, Moosejaw Gallery and Museum, Saskatchewan 2001     Efflorescence, Medicine Hat Gallery and Museum, 2001 , Canadian Craft Museum,             Vancouver 2001     Proverbs of Hell Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto 2001     Lives of Saints SPIN Gallery, Toronto 2001     Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario 2001     Allegories, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto 2000     Vanitas. Angell Gallery ,Toronto 1999     Allegories Latitude 53, Edmonton 1998     Allegories, Gallery Connexion, Fredricton ,New Brunswick 1997     Effloresecnce, (Dialogue exhibiton with P. Neutsch).The Power Plant, Toronto &             Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen 1994     Siamese Twins, Gallery 44 , Toronto, Ontario 1993     Siamese Twins, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharine's 1993     Excerpts from the Casebook Series, Women's Art Resource Centre, Toronto SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002     Mask and Metamorphosis, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario 2002     The Dark Side of Happy, Art Gallery of Stratford 2001     Summer Show, The Painting Centre, New York 2000     Our Darling, 2 person exhibition, SPIN Gallery, Toronto 2000     Search Open Studio Toronto 2000     Loaded , Angell Gallery, Toronto 2000     Dream, SPIN Gallery, Toronto 1999     Skinjobs, Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, Halifax 1999     Anatomical Permutations, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City 1999     The Doll House,Artcite, Windsor , Ontario 1998     Anatomical Permutations, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico 1998     Artifice'98, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal 1998     Fibreworks 98, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge Ontario 1998     Pairings, Archive, Toronto 1997     Inhabited , Red Dive Collective, The Tenement Museum, New York 1997     Re-Presenting Ourselves, Gallery Connexion, Fredricton, New Brunswick 1997     Dolls Rediscovered, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto 1997     5 Things, Collective exhibition, Toronto. 1996     23rd Room (Duke-u-menta), Duke of Connaught Tavern, 486 Queen Street West, Toronto 1996     Window, 488 Queen Street West, Toronto 1996     Fibreworks 96, The Library and Gallery, Cambridge Ontario 1995     Women and Medicine, Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharine's, Ontario 1995     Nether Mind, collective exhibition, Toronto 1995     Window, 488 Queen Street West, Toronto 1995     Connections , The Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus 1995     Corpus, L'oiel de poisson, Quebec City 1995     Untitled Group Exhibition, OR Gallery, Vancouver 1994     Naked State, The Powerplant Gallery , Toronto 1994     Fibres Nerveuses - Projet d'exposition d'ouvres textiles La Maison de la culture Frontenac,             Montreal 1994     Mediatrics, exhibition sponsored by Cold City Gallery,Toronto 1994      Corpus Interuptus, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario 1994     Langues, torsions et noeuds , La Centrale, Montreal 1993     Nether Mind , 135 Liberty Street, Toronto 1993     &Windows , 488 Queen Street West, Toronto 1993     Facing the Nineties , Art Rental Gallery of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 1993     Ghosts, an exhibition by Blanket Artist Collective, Gallery 76, Toronto 1993     Self-portrait /Auto-portrait - National Photographic Exhibition, Definitely Superior Art             Gallery, Thunderbay 1993     Birganart Gallery , Toronto, (two person exhibition with Greg Hefford) 1992     Artcite Tenth Anniversary Founding Members Invitational Exhibition, Windsor, Ontario 1992     No Hocus Focus(Roundup 92) , Toronto, Ontario 1991     Down & Dirty an exhibition of multiple works by Blanket Artist Collective, Toronto 1991     Cycles: The Eternal Return Exhibition by Sea Monkeys Artist Collective, Toronto 1990     Gallery 76, Toronto 1990     Roundup 90, Toronto 1990     Aurathon, 1400 Dupont Street, Toronto 1989     Gallery 76, Toronto 1989     Round up 89, Toronto PUBLICATIONS 2002     Gathering Shades, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name, MOCCA. Christina             Ghaznavi. 2000     Search, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name, Open Studio, Toronto. 1999     SkinJobs, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name, Mount St. Vincent University, 1999.             Annette Hurtig. 1999     The Doll House, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name, Articite, 1999. Mark Laliberté. 1998     Permutaciones Anatómicas, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name at Festival             Internacional Cervantino 1995     Nether Mind, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name by Nethermind Artists Collective. 1994     Naked State: A selected view of Toronto Art, Catalogue for exhibition of same name, 1994     Power plant, 1994. Louise Dompierre, Arthur Renwick. 1993     Nether Mind, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name by Nethermind Artists Collective. 1993     Ghosts, Catalogue for exhibition of the same name by Blanket Artists Collective 1993     1994 Women's Daybook, Second Story Press, Toronto. (Illustration from Siamese Twins             Series) 1991     Cycles: The Eternal Return, (Cover and center-spread illustration) Bookwork published by             Sea Monkeys Artist Collective. 1990     OCAP Anthology #12, published by Ontario College of Art Press. 1987     OCAP Anthology #6, published by Ontario College of Art Press. SELECTED REVIEWS 2000     Body Narratives in Canada,1968-1999: Sarah Maloney, Catherine Heard, and Kathleen             Sellars Lianne McTavish,Women's Art Journal Vol 21, #2. Fall 2000/Winter 2001 2000     Catherine Heard, Elizabeth Fearon Vie des Artes, No. 181, Winter 2001 2000     Gothic Gloom and Black Humour..., G. Dault 'Gallery Going', Globe and Mail, Sept 2, 2000 2000     Vanitas at Angell Gallery, G. Dault 'Gallery Going', Globe and Mail, Sept 9, 2000 2000     Vulnerable Bodies of Autumn, K.Fullerton 'Gallery à Go Go', Xtra, Sept. 7, 2000 2000     Romancing the Bones, T. Hirschman 'At the Galleries', National Post, Sept. 9, 2000 2000     Heavy Heard, D.Hannah, NOW, Sept 14-20, 2000 1999     Philosopher Kings and Icarus Wings, Danielle Zyp, Vue Weekly, Nov 4 - 10, 1999.             Edmonton 1999     Sculptures Critique Info Society, Gilbert Bouchard, See Magazine, October 21-27, 1999.             Edmonton. 1999     Using an Art Show as a Pretext to Rant about Identity and National Politics Richard Moszka,             Espacio Critico para las Artes, # 14, 1999. 1999     Catherine Heard: The Allegorical Impulse Revived, Ray Cronin, Artfocus, Winter/Spring, 1999     1999. 1999     Nightmarish Images of Dolls, Barbara Isherwood, Fibre Arts, Jan//Feb 1999, Vol.25 No.4. 1998     Catherine Heard, Lisa G. Mark, Poliester, Vol. 6, No. 21, p.22-27. Winter 1998. 1998     Heard Exhibit Raised Questions, Ray Cronin, The Fredricton Gleaner, August 8, 1998. 1997     Soul's Kitchen, Donna Lipchuk, Toronto Life, November 1997 1997     Art that Speaks Volumes, Blake Gopnik, Globe and Mail, April 14, 1997 1997     Dolls Reclaimed, Margaret Cannon Ontario Craft, Vol. 22, No. 2, Summer 1997. 1996     Women and Medicine, Debbie O'Rourke, Matriart, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1996. 1995     Textiles Redressed, Robin Laurence, The Weekend Sun (Vancouver), May 13, 1995 1995     Artists mark Women's Day with exhibition, Don Sutton, Toronto Star, March 2, 1995 1995     Nether Mind Artists Jam in Dynamic Group Show, Deirdre Hanna, Now, Sept. 14, 1995 1993     Ghosts, Fuse, Jennifer Rudder, Vol.XVII, No.1, Fall 1993. 1993     Focus on Catherine Heard, Matriart, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1993 1992     Dolls bear message about society's view of women, Sean Condon, The Standard,             December 4, 1992. 1990     Gallery Walkabout, Judith Sandiford & Ronald Weihs, Work Seen, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 12), 1989     Larger than Life (Roundup 89) Judith Sandiford, Work Seen, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 9). GUEST LECTURES 2002     Art Gallery of Hamilton 2001     Surfacing Lecture Series, Toronto 2000     Ontario College of Art and Design (textile department), Toronto 1998     McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario 1998     Fanshaw College, London, Ontario 1997     Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat, Erlangen, Germany 1997     University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario 1997     University of Toronto, Sheridan campus, Oakville 1997     The Power Plant, Gallery of Contemporary Art , Toronto 1996     University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pensylvania 1996     Humberside Collegiate, Toronto 1995     Optica Gallery, Montreal, Québec 1995     University of Toronto, Scarborough Artist's Talk and panel discussion Topic: Feminist             Influences 1995     OAC Artists in Education Conference,Panel Discussion 1994     Gallery SAW Video Artist's Talk 1994     Dundas Valley School of Art Nether Mind Artist's Collective (w. M. Streicher) 1994     Sir Winston Churchill Collegiate Artist's Talk 1993     Toronto School of Art Blanket Artist's Collective (w. other Blanket members) 1992     Niagara Artists' Centre, St. Catharine's Artist's Talk MEMBERSHIPS 1993 - 1996  Nether Mind Artist Collective 1991 - 1995  Blanket Artist Collective 1990 - 1992  Sea Monkeys Artist Collective 1990 - 1991  Roundup 91, Organizing Committee GRANTS AND AWARDS Canada Council 2000 B grant, 1995 B grant, 1993 Project Grant Toronto Arts Council 2001, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1991 Ontario Arts Council 2001, 1996, 1994, 1992, 1991 Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation 1993 OCA Tuition Scholarship 1989 COLLECTIONS Canada Council Art Bank Private Collections Participant in the Art Gallery of Ontario Artists with their work program. Catherine Heard is represented by SPIN Gallery, Toronto. Selected works available from Angell Gallery, Toronto