DAVID GARNEAU

Curation CV

2020    Kahwatsiretáti: Teionkwariwaienna Tekariwaiennawahkòntie: Honoring Kinship, the Contemporary Native Art Biennial/Biennale d’art contemporain autochtone (BACA), Montreal, QU. With the assistance of rudi Aker and Faye Mullen. Five galleries, 50+ artists, and numerous online performances, panels, and gatherings. First American Art magazine’s top ten Native Events of 2020.

2017    Transformer: Native Art in Light and Sound. Co-curated with Kathleen Ash Milby. Ten artists. Three new commissions. New media. National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian), New York City. Hyperallergic’s Top Ten list of exhibitions in New York.

2016    With Secrecy and Despatch. Co-curated with Tess Allas. Art about the massacre of Indigenous people in Australia and Canada. Ten new commissions. Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney, AU. International Council of Museums Australia award. New South Wales Imagine Award.

2015    Moving Forward, Never Forgetting. Co-curated with Michelle LaVallee. Seventeen artists respond to the aggressive assimilation of Indigenous people and to (re)conciliation. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.

2014    Adrian Stimson: The Immortal Buffalo Boy. Art Gallery of Regina.

2011   Stop(the)Gap/Mind(the)gap: International Indigenous art in motion. Brenda Croft, head curator. Assistant curators: David Garneau (Canada),

Megan Tamati-Quennell (New Zealand) and Kathleen Ash-Milby (USA). Eight artists. New media. Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, AU.

Diana Thorneycroft: A People’s History. Photography. Art Gallery of Regina.

Reveal/Conceal Eric Cameron and Christopher Gardiner. Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, SK, and Swift Current Art Gallery, SK.

Signs of Sorrow. Vernon Ah Kee (Brisbane, AU.) and Lee Henderson (Toronto). Co-curated with Margaret Farmer (Sydney, AU). Installation, performance. VTape Gallery, Toronto.

Tim Moore: Hybrid. Métis collage. Toured SK by OSAC, eight locations, 2011-12.

2009    TEXTiles. Six artists. Textiles, sculpture. Art Gallery of Regina.

2008    Graphic Visions. Ten artists. Drawing. Art Gallery of Regina.

2007    Non-Compliance. Co-curated with Richard Fung and Cynthia Lickers-Sage. Twelve Indigenous video artists. Urban Shaman. Winnipeg.

2005    Contested Histories. Co-curated with Nicole Brabant. Ten Indigenous artists respond to the Saskatchewan Centennial. Art Gallery of Regina.

2004    Sophisticated Folk. ManWoman and Michelle Boutin. Art Gallery of Regina, and Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon.

            Making it Like a Man! Twelve artists. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina.

2002    Transcendent Squares. Ten artists. Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina.

2001    Drawn From the Vault. Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK., and provincial tour.

2000    Unnatural. Twelve artists. Student exhibition. Neutral Ground, Regina.

1999    The End of the World (as we know it). 30 artists. Calgary ArtWeek ’99. Barron Building.

  • Picture Windows: New Abstraction. Ten artists. Painting. Calgary ArtWeek ’98.

 

CONTRARY PROJECTS, mostly single night events curated by Sylvia Ziemann and David Garneau for our residence gallery. Events consisted of an exhibition, artist talk, and commissioned essays. Attendances range from 20-60 people. We paid CARFAC rates.

2011    Contrary Projects in Venice. Fourteen artists. Indigenous prints posted on walls and give-aways distributed by hand at the Venice Biennale. Italy.

Echo made Proximate. Erin Gee (Montreal). Photographs. Essay by Douglas Barrett.

Remembering Youth. Hillary Knudsen (Victoria). Installation. Essay by Rachelle

Knowles. Compositions. Jeff Morton. Audio performance, drawings. Essay by Jeff Nye.

Untitled (Listening Room). Annie Martin (Lethbridge).  Audio installation. Essay by Jeff Morton.

On Des Esseintes Retiring to his Country House near Fontenay. Jack Anderson.

Drawings. Essay by Jennifer McRorie.

My Girls. Evan Tyler (Toronto). Photography. Essay by Kay Stratton.

2009    Road Show. Scott Ellis, Julie Oaks, Rob Farmer (Toronto), and Charles Bronson (Yorkshire, England). Curated by Headbones Gallery. Essay by Julie Oakes.

Voir Dire. Tammy McGrath (Calgary). Sculptural installation.

2008    Final Proof. Michelle LaVallee. Sculptural installation.

The Impact of Hyphenation in Wasps. Lee Henderson. Photography.