ABOUT

Andreas Rutkauskas was born in Winnipeg (Treaty 1 territory, the ancestral and traditional homeland of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation) and currently resides on the unceded traditional territory of the Syilx (Okanagan Valley, British Columbia). 

His projects involve photography and video, often focusing on landscapes that have undergone changes due to a range of technologies; examples include surveillance along the Canada/U.S. border, cycles of industrialization & deindustrialization in Canada’s oil patch, and most recently, the aftermath and regeneration following wildfires in Western Canada.

Rutkauskas was the inaugural recipient of a residency with the Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement in 2020. In 2018, he was a Research Fellow with the Canadian Photography Institute, and he was a finalist for the Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape in 2016. His work has been exhibited in artist-run centres, public art galleries and museums across Canada, as well as internationally.

EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Arts, Photography, Concordia University, Montréal (2007)

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (2003)


EXHIBITIONS (SOLO & DUO)

2023 - Éveil, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Québec. Curated by Franck Michel

2022 - Living Through Wildfire, Vernon Public Art Gallery, British Columbia

2022 - The Prefix Prize, Urbanspace Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2021 - Refuge: Après l’incendie / After the Fire, Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, Québec. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier

2021 - After the Fire, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia

2018 - Chaos, Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, Québec

2017 - Between Friends, Canadian Photography Institute (National Gallery of Canada), Ottawa

2016 - Out of Office, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse. Duo with Jessica Auer

2016 - Borderline, FOFA Gallery, Montréal

2015 - Virtually There, Maison de la culture Frontenac. In collaboration with Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Curated by Joan Fontcuberta

2015 - Oil!, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal. Duo with Ripley Whiteside

2014 - Virtually There, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, British Columbia

2013 - Petrolia, Judith and Norman ALIX Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario

2013 - Petrolia, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa

2013 - Sea to Surface, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough. Duo with Jessica Auer

2013 - 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

2007 - Peak, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal


EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)

2023 - Fieldwork, Lake Country Art Gallery, British Columbia. With Annie Briard, Tara Nicholson, Melany Nugent-Noble, Dr. prOphecy sun and Leah Weinstein

2023 - Slocan City International Music and Arts Fair, British Columbia. With William Bock, Jon Corbett, Patrick Lundeen, Rylan Broadbent, Graham Gillmore, Buck Walker, Seamus Gray, and Nelson Miller. Curated by Alison Trim

2022 - Triennale Banlieue!, Maison des arts de Laval, Québec. With Sophie Aubry, Michael Belmore, Ludovic Boney, Marie Côté, Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Nicolas Grenier, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Catherine Lescarbeau, Deborah Margo, Louise Noguchi, Steven Orner, Graeme Patterson, Boris Pintado, Ariane Plante, Ross Racine, Eugenia Reznik, Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre et Anaïs met den Ancxt), Lisa Sfriso. Curated by Marie Perrault & Yan Romanesky

2020 - Landed, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta. With Anahita Norouzi, Nurgul Rodriguez. Curated by Xanthe Isbister

2020 - Canadian Forces Artists Program Group 8, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. With Philip Cheung, Rosalie Favell, Aislinn Hunter, Simone Jones, Emmanuelle Léonard. Curated by Stacey Barker

2019 - Apparaître – Disparaître, Fondation Grantham, Québec. With Asinnajaq, Aude Moreau, Benoît Aquin, Carl Trahan, Geneviève Chevalier, Guillaume Simoneau, Isabelle Hayeur, Karine Payette, Nadia Myre, Nicolas Baier, Patrick Bérubé, Sara Angelucci, Yann Pocreau, and others. Curated by Bénédicte Ramade

2019 - Territoires II, La Castiglione, Montréal. In collaboration with Momenta – La Biennale de l’image. With Pierre Blache, Gagnon-Forest, Hua Jin, Alain Lefort, Jayce Salloum. Curated by Marie-Josée Rousseau

2019 - Inside/Outside : Images of the LAND, Artexte, Montréal. Curated by Karla McManus

2018 - Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie, Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montréal. With Isabelle Hayeur, Thomas Kneubühler, Jean-François Lemire, Valérian Mazataud. Curated by Jean de Julio-Paquin

2017 - Documentar, Contar, Mentir, El Museo de la Cancilleria (Mexico City), l’Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), and the Centro Cultural Clavijero (Morelia). With Raymonde April, Nicolas Baier, Michel Campeau, Bertrand Carrière, Jacynthe Carrier, Pascal Grandmaison, Alain Paiement, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Carlos et Jason Sanchez, Ève K. Tremblay and others. Curated by Mona Hakim and Sylvain Campeau

2016 - The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto. With Raymond Boisjoly, Edward Burtynsky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Mishka Henner, Chris Jordan, Richard Misrach, Evariste Richer, Joel Sternfeld, Sharon Stewart, and others. Curated by Bénédicte Ramade

2016 - Shuttered, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton. With Arnold Koroshegyi, Victoria Piersig, and Kathy Toth. Curated by Tara Bursey

2016 - Point of View, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff. Richard Harrington, Clive Holden, David McMillan, Alison Rossiter, Stephen Shore, Barbara Spohr, Adrian Stimson, Diana Thorneycroft and others. Curated by Craig Richards

2015 - Fieldwork, oslo8 contemporary photography, Basel, Switzerland. With Thomas Kneubühler, Geoffrey Jones and Jessica Auer. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier

2014 - Encounters at the Edge of the Forest, Gallery 400, Chicago. With Ori Gersht, David Goldblatt, Ken Gonzales-Day Ariane Littman, Steve Rowell and Jennifer Scott. Curated by Rhoda Rosen

2014 - 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, Yukon. With Sol Legault, Lewis & Taggart, Heidi Nagtegaal, Kerri Reid, Matt Shane, and Kara Uzelman. Curated by Lance Blomgren

2011 - Topographies, The Union Gallery, Kingston, Ontario.

2011 - Projet Stanstead ou Comment Traverser la Frontière, Foreman Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Québec. With Ursula Biemann and Christian Phillip Müller. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier

2011 - Travelogue as Allegory, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden

2010 - Before and After, (CONTACT festival), Launch Projects, Toronto

2010 - Art Souterrain, Part of the Montréal High Lights Festival

2009 - Monumental, Galerie Projex-Mtl, Montréal

2009 - Entre + Deux, Galerie Les Territoires, Montréal

2009 - 1+1=1, Espacio Mexico, Montréal

2008 - Modular Nature, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga

2006 - Imaging a Global Culture (Contact festival), Toronto Image Works


GRANTS AND AWARDS

2018 - Research Fellow, Canadian Photography Institute, National Gallery of Canada

2018 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant

2017 - Canada Council for the Arts : Project Grant

2017 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant

2017 - Sessional Research Support Fund, University of British Columbia

2016 - 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

2011 - 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

2009 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Research and Creation Grant

2008 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Travel Grant


RESIDENCIES

2023 - Similkameen Artist Residency, Keremeos, British Columbia

2020 - Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environment, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Québec

2017 - Canadian Forces Artists Program, Department of National Defence

2014 - Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency, Parks Canada, U.S. National Parks, and The Yukon Art Centre

2012 - Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario

2009 - Visual Arts Thematic Residency: The Wanderer, The Banff Centre, Alberta

2009 - Gushul Studio, Blairmore, Alberta. Sponsored by the University of Lethbridge

 

PUBLICATIONS, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS

2023

White, Amanda, Zoë Heyn-Jones and Kirsty Robertson. “Assembling Recipes for Sustainability”. Centre for Sustainable Curating

2022

Michel, Franck. “The Resilience of Landscapes”. Ciel Variable, Number 119, Winter, 2022

Fortin, Noémie. “Andreas Rutkauskas: Refuge: Après l’incendie”. Espace, Number 130, Winter, 2022

Abbott, Amory and Liz Toohey-Wiese. “Fire Season II”.

Perreault, Marie. “Triennale Banlieue! Interrègnes”. Ville de Laval

2021

Chernykh, Andrey. “A Line Made by Clearing”. On Site Review Number 38: Borders, Breaks and Breaches. Winter, 2021

Mulvogue, Jessica. “Art of the Interregnum in Canada’s Chemical Valley”. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change. Edited by T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott and Subhankar Banerjee.

Charron, Marie-Ève. “Sur le radar: en Forêt avec Andreas Rutkauskas”. Le Devoir, October 30, 2021

2020

Fortin, Noémie. “Sur les traces du Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière en temps de pandémie”. Vie Des Arts, Number 259, Summer, 2020

Simon Lloyd, Richard Povall & Jeremy Ralph. “Evolving the Forest”. Kingsbridge, United Kingdom: art.earth

Delgado, Jérôme. “Arts visuels: hors des grands centres, plein de saluts”. Le Devoir

Clément, Éric. “La Fondation Grantham choisit ses deux premiers boursiers”. La Presse

Roy, Christian. “Territoires II”. Ciel Variable Magazine, Number 114, Winter, 2020

2019

Sheren, Ila N. “Border Matters”. The Eyes Magazine, Number 10, Autumn, 2019

Bernier-Cormier, Samuel. “Inside/Outside: Images of the LAND in Artexte’s Collection”. C Magazine, Issue 143, Autumn, 2019

Campbell, James D. “Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie. Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée”. Ciel Variable Magazine, Number 111, Winter, 2019

2018

Sheehan, Tanya. "Photography and Migration". New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Cheethan, Mark A. "Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s". University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press

Gessell, Paul. "A Long and Lonely Border". Galleries West

2017

Sheehan, Tanya. “Border – from the series Photography and Migration”. Still Searching… online discourse on the media of photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur

Hatt, Étienne. "Googlescapes le paysage à l’ère post-photographique / Landscape in the Age of Google Earth". Artpress, Number 440. January 2017

Rutkauskas, Andreas. “Borderline”. InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, New York

Rutkauskas, Andreas. “Against Nature”. SNAPLine, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Edmonton, Summer 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. “Perambulating, Wandering, Fleeing. A Few Notes on Mobile Landscapes”. Esse Arts + Opinions, Number 88, Fall, 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