BIOGRAPHY
The subject of my work focuses on landscapes that have been affected by technology. This may refer to physical alteration of a landscape, or the psychological effects of such changes. For example, my recent projects have addressed the cycles of industrialization and deindustrialization in Canada’s oil patch, the impact of Internet-based research on wilderness recreation, and the subtle technologies used to survey the Canada/U.S. border. While my medium is principally photography, I acknowledge its limits in articulating the experiences of being in a landscape. Therefore, I often incorporate other media such as video into my research in order to provide the viewer with a more holistic perspective.
I have exhibited in solo and group contexts, including Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Oslo8 contemporary photography in Basel, Gallery 400 in Chicago, The Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery in Sarnia, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, and The Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto. My work has appeared in publications including Artpress, Ciel Variable, ARTnews, and Canadian Art. Born in Winnipeg, and having lived in Montreal for twelve years, I now live in Kelowna and teach photography at the University of British Columbia.
+ CURRICULUM VITAE
// EDUCATION
MFA Concordia University, Montréal, Canada (2007)
BFA University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada (2003)
// SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Out of Office, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse (duo with Jessica Auer)
Borderline, FOFA Gallery, Montréal
2015
The Post-Photographic Condition, Maison de la culture Frontenac (part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal (curated by Joan Fontcuberta), Montréal
Oil!, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal (duo with Ripley Whiteside)
2014
Virtually There, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River
2013
Petrolia, Judith and Norman ALIX Gallery, Sarnia
Petrolia, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
Sea to Surface, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough (duo with Jessica Auer)
Petrolia, Sporobole Centre en Art Actuel, Sherbrooke
2012
Ground Truth, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary (duo with Karen Zalamea)
2010
Virtually There, Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal
2009
Suburb Beautiful, Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal
2008
Peak, Galerie Projex-Mtl, Montreal
2007
A Typological Survey of Canadian Suburbs, FOFA Gallery, Montréal
Peak, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
// GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECT)
2017
Documentar, Contar, Mentir, touring exhibition curated by Mona Hakim and Sylvain Campeau, El Museo de la Cancilleria (Mexico City), l’Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), and the Centro Cultural Clavijero (Morelia)
2016
The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Canada
Shuttered, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Canada
Point of View, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Canada
2015
Field Work, oslo8 contemporary photography, Basel, Switzerland
2014
Encounters at the Edge of the Forest, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA
The Walking Encyclopaedia, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2013
Canada: On the (non) inhabited landscape, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2011
The Creation of Evolution, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Canada
Topographies, The Union Gallery, Kingston, Canada
Projet Stanstead ou Comment Traverser la Frontière, Foreman Art Gallery, Lennoxville
2011
Travelogue as Allegory, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2010
Before and After, (CONTACT festival), Launch Projects, Toronto, Canada
Art Souterrain, Part of the Montréal High Lights Festival
2009
Monumental, Galerie Projex-Mtl, Montréal, Canada
Entre + Deux, Galerie Les Territoires, Montréal, Canada
1+1=1, Espacio Mexico, Montréal, Canada
2008
Modular Nature, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
2006
Imaging a Global Culture (Contact festival), Toronto Image Works, Toronto, Canada
// GRANTS AND AWARDS
2016
Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant
Sessional Research Support Fund, University of British Columbia
Selected artist for the 2016-17 Canadian Forces Artists Program
Finalist for the Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape
2015
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Research and Creation Grant
2014
Canada Council for the Arts – Project Grant
2013
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec – Travel Grant
2011
Canada Council for the Arts - Travel Grant
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Research and Creation Grant
2010
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Travel Grant
2009
Evelyn Wood Memorial Scholarship, The Banff Centre
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Research and Creation Grant
2008
Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec - Travel Grant
// PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2016 – present
Sessional Faculty, Department of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna
2015 – 2016
Photography Facilitator, Visual + Digital Arts Department, The Banff Centre, Alberta
2014 – 2015
Part-time Faculty, Studio Arts Department, Concordia University, Montreal
2012 – 2014
Assistant Professor, Studio Arts Department, Concordia University, Montreal
2010 – 2014
College Instructor, Communications: Art, Media, Theatre Department, Vanier College, Montreal
2006 – 2012
Part-time Faculty, Studio Arts Department, Concordia University, Montreal
// PUBLICATIONS, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS
2017
Hatt, Étienne. "Googlescapes le paysage à l’ère post-photographique / Landscape in the Age of Google Earth". Artpress, Number 440. January 2017
2016
Ramade, Bénédicte (editor). "The Edge of the Earth, Climate Change in Photography and Video". Black Dog Publishing Limited, London, United Kingdom, 2016
McManus, Karla. "Border Lines and Crossing Points". Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Issue 7-1, November 2016
Paquet, Suzanne. “Photographies de l’autre, des nôtres, des autres”. Captures, Vol. 1 Number 1, May, 2016
Fitzpatrick, Meagan. "Photographer’s eyes opened on epic road trip along Canada-U.S. border", CBC News, April 23, 2016
Mallonee, Laura. "The Invisible Security of Canada’s Seemingly Chill Border", WIRED, April 1, 2016
Daro, Ishmael N. "Photographer Spent Three Years Documenting The Canada-U.S. Border", Buzzfeed, April 28, 2016
Tremblay, Élène. “What Has Become of Photography in the Era of Mobile Technologies and Social Networks?”. Magazine Ciel Variable, Number 102. Winter 2016
2015
Fontcuberta, Joan (editor). “The Post-Photographic Condition”. With essays by Derrick de Kerckhove, Suzanne Paquet, Fred Ritchin, David Tomas. Kerber Verlag, 2015
Everett-Green, Robert. “Montreal festival mines for art in the visual heap of online databases”. The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2015
Pohl, John. “Mois de la Photo views the art form through a new lens”. Montreal Gazette, September 10, 2015
Cloutier, Mario. “Mois de la photo: le nouvel ordre visual”. La Presse, September 9, 2015
Moeder, Claire. “Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Parisian Laundry, SBC, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Maison de la culture Frontenac”. ESSE arts + opinions, September 14, 2015
Farca, Paula A. (editor) “Energy in Literature: Essays on energy and its social and environmental implications in twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts”. Oxford:True-Heart Press
2014
Wecker, Menachem. “Chicago Show Highlights Canadian Artist’s Cross-Border Trek”. Canadian Art, May 22, 2014. http://www.canadianart.ca/features/2014/05/22/andreas-rutkauskas/
Wecker, Menachem. “Even Trees can be Political”. The Jewish Daily Forward, May 23,
2013
Bonin, Ève. “Les ruines de la pétrochemie”. La Nouvelle, Vol. 32 No. 41
McManus, Karla. “Revealing Landscape from Sea to Surface”. Exhibition text, Evans Contemporary. May 23 - June 30, 2013
2012
Chevalier, Geneviève. “Randonnée sur les traces de celui qui viendra”. Magazine Ciel Variable, Number 92. Autumn 2012
Rodriguez, Pablo. “Picturing Drift, Mapping Disorientation”. TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, July 2012
2011
Campeau, Sylvain. “Une Aura Intemporelle”. ETC Revue de l’Art Actuel. Number 92
Maisonneuve: A Quarterly of Arts, Opinions & Ideas. Issue 40, Summer, 2011
Dandelion Magazine. Issue 37.1 (The Mapping Issue)
2010
Brynjolson, Noni. “Virtual Explorations of the Sublime”. Exhibition text, Projex-Mtl. May 6 - June 12, 2010
2009
Kozinska, Dorota. Review of Suburb Beautiful. ARTnews. Vol.108, Number 6
Crevier, Lyne. "Spleen Urbain". ICI. Vol. 12, Number 25, Apr. 9 - Apr. 15, 2009