Christine Kirouac
188 Syndicate St, Winnipeg, MB Canada, R2W 3H3
Tel. 204.914.9817 / ckirouac1@gmail.com / http://www.christinekirouac.com
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EDUCATION
2022-23 – Two creative memoir semesters with NY based writer Laurie Stone
2005 Master of Fine Arts – Concordia University, Montreal, QC CAN
1993 Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, MB CAN
1991 BFA Honors – University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB CAN
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 Canada Council Travel Grant – The Recipe Project
2024 Canada Council CKS Small Scale Grant – Body of Trust Book
2023 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant
2023 Canada Council Explore and Create Grant
2022 Canada Council Small Scale Grant
2021 Manitoba Arts Council Support / Adapt Grant
2020 Canada Council Explore and Create / Research Creation Grant
2016 Manitoba Arts Council Visual A Grant; Project Creation / Research
2015 Vermont Studio Center, Residency Fellowship Award, VT USA
2011 Winston-Salem & Forsyth County Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grant, NC USA
2008 Winnipeg Arts Council Professional Development Grant – Lisbon Film Festival, CAN
2007 MAC Visual “A” Research / Creation Grant, CAN
2007 Canada Council Media Arts Grant – Toronto Ireland Park Project, ON CAN
2007 Filmmakers Assistance Program – National Film Board, CAN
2004 National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Education Award, Toronto ON CAN
2003 National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation Education Award, Toronto ON CAN
2001 National Film Board Filmmakers Assistance Program, MB CAN
2001 National Film Board Cultural Diversity Grant, MB CAN
1998 Manitoba Arts Council Visual “A” Research / Creation Grant, MB CAN
1996 Manitoba Arts Council Visual “B” Research / Creation Grant, MB CAN
1993 Canada Council Research / Creation Grant – (France, England, Netherlands), CAN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox BC
2022 Language of Detail, Buhler Gallery Gallery MB (With Paul Robles and Takashi Isawaki)
2019 The Same Leaving, [solo] South Eastern Center for Contemporary Arts SECCA, NC USA
2019 After Winter, Before Spring [with Doug Smith], Les Maison Des Artistes Francophone, MB
2018 Long Career/Small Space [solo], L’brary Gallery, Wpg. MB
2013 Siren Fall [solo], Elizabeth Dunlap Patrick Gallery, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC USA
2012 Paper Men, [solo], Delta Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC USA
SELECTED GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
2022 DRAWN, Manifest; Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati OH
2022 The News Room, Papermen Project, Hotam Press Gallery/Bookstore, Vancouver BC
2020 Bird, Nest, Nature, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA
2012 Prime Time, Asheville Art Museum – New Media Wing Inaugural exhibition, NC USA
2011 Receiverfest – Time Based Media Festival – Live 12 hour performance of
Canadian Time 2, Charleston, SC USA
2007 Ireland Park Video Project [solo] – Site-specific media projection, Toronto, ON CAN
2001 Boxed; Round 2 – Museum London, London, ON CAN
2001 Boxed – Walter Philips Gallery, Banff Centre, AB CAN
2000 World Tea Party – Simmer Down / Tea & Cragging performances, Plug In ICA, Wpg. MB
1999 Sit[E]ings; Trajectories for a Future, Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB CAN
1998 My Girlfriend Can’t Wrestle, But You Should See Her Box – Artcite Billboard Project,
Belfast, Northern Ireland NI
SELECTED VIDEO & FILM SCREENINGS
2023 Docked Film Festival, collaborative partnership with Saskatchewan Film Pool and Sakewewak
Artists’ Collective Inc. and Harbour Collective, Regina SASK
2022 The Harbour Collective, Re/Mirror Experiments – Media web screening Wpg. MB
2016 Nuit Blanche SASK; Food As Agent of Change, curator Wayne Baerwaldt Saskatoon SK
2015 CUFF; Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago IL USA
2014 Innovative Heritage International Conference; Spiesekino Mabit Food Diaspora
Film Program, Berlin GERMANY
2013 Female Impersonators: Women Performing Women, Gallery 1C03; University of
Winnipeg & Institute for Women & Gender Studies, Winnipeg MB CAN
2013 31st Festival International du film Sur L’Art, 31st International Film Festival On Art,
Montreal, QC CAN
2012 25th Instants Video – Exposition Art Video et Multimedia, Marseille FRANCE
2012 APTN Canadian Television – National airing of “Hybred” Feb. 2 & May 10, 2012
on the Prime-Time program ‘Short Cuts’, CAN
2011 Global House, Kunstalle Gwangju, curated by the 3rd edition of Gwang Ju
Biennale International Curator Course, Gwang Ju, Republic of SOUTH KOREA
2010 Cinesonika; 1st Film and Video Festival of Sound Design, Simon Fraser University, BC
2010 4th Cairo International Video Festival, Medrar for Contemporary Art, Goethe Institute,
Cairo EGYPT
2009 Presénce Autochtone: First Peoples’ Festival, Montréal, QC CAN
2008 Indie Lisboa, Lisbon International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon PORTUGAL
SPECIAL COMMUNITY PROJECTS / ACTIVITIES / EMPLOYMENT
2020 Winnipeg Point Douglas Environment Committee active member – ongoing
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder with Micheal Workman of New Material
Boutique Hotel Art Fair, South Beach, Art Basel Miami, FL USA
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder with Micheal Workman of Verge Art Fair,
Soho, New York, NY USA
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder with Micheal Workman of
Multiples Chicago; Visual Culture Art Fair, Chicago IL USA
11/2015 Ace Art Gallery; Critical Distance Essay; Esther MacAdam Exhibition / Wpg MB
2012 Papermen Satellite double pg. piece “Kenny-Ray” [limited edition] appeared in
the Winston-Salem Journal in the Sunday June 24, 2012 issue, delivered to
90,000 members Winston-Salem & Forsyth County, NC USA
2009 Fast Forward Program Teen Mentor – Video Pool Media Arts Center MB
1999 – 2000 CKUW – University of Winnipeg radio show creator and co-host of ArtBites
1998 – 2000 Satellite Billboard Coordinator for Plug In Inc. Wpg. MB
1991 – 2000 Board Member Plug In ICA, MB CAN
RESIDENCIES
2018 Tallest Poppy Artist Residency, Winnipeg MB
2015 Vermont Studio Center Residency Program (Fellowship) – Vermont USA
2002 Other Business Video co-production – Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, AB
2002 Interactive Screen – Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Banff AB CAN
2001 The Sporting Life – Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, Banff AB CAN
1996 Popular & Mass Subcultures – Banff Centre for the Performing Arts, AB CAN
WRITING / PUBLIC READINGS / RECORDINGS / PODCASTS
– 2025 – Artist Book collaboration “Body of Trust” with North Carolina based novelist Steve Mitchell and Editor of Unicorn Press, Greensboro, NC, USA
– 2024 – Steps Between, Creative Writing Residency in conjunction with solo exhibition The Recipe Project at Comox Valley Art Gallery, BC
– 2023 Analogue Resilience: A Film Labs Gathering, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of
Toronto LIFT, Toronto ON
– 2022-23 – Two creative memoir semesters with NY based writer Laurie Stone
Indigenous Protocols Podcast / CARFAC Interview Series – https://www.indigenousprotocols.art/podcasts
Apartment 7 Podcast / Interview Series – https://www.apartment7.art
Odd Social Moments – Readings from Christine Kirouac, Steve Mitchell/Ben Singer, Andrew Saulters
Jan. 20, 2019, Scuppernong Books, Greensboro NC, (read from Beginnings & Ends)
PaperWait Vol. 18, aceart inc. 2015 – 16, Collection of Critical Distance Essays, C
hristine Kirouac on
Esther Simmonds-MacAdam exhibition: Separates Man From Horse, Sept.4 – Oct. 12, 2015,
– Beginnings & Ends; Online Dating Episodes With Christine Kirouac, Recordings with host Hannah
Godfrey of Monkey Sparrow CKUW 95.9, (aired May 23/17, March 20/18), ongoing series
ARTIST TALKS & JURIES
2019 Manitoba Arts Council Recognize/Prizes Program Juror
2019 University of North Carolina School of the Arts – Artist Talk for Art and Social Change
class, Winston-Salem NC
2019 University of North Carolina School of the Arts – Artist Talk with Drama Program cast of
“Still Life With Rockets”, NC
2017 Manitoba Arts Council – Aboriginal Creative Development Grants Jury
2015 Silver & Ink: Savannah College of Art & Design Conference, Savannah GA USA
2013 Winthrop University – Artist talk, Rock Hill SC USA
2012 Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center – Map Lecture Series Artist Talk,
Asheville NC USA
2010 Simon Fraser University – Panel Discussion on Sound and Cinema, Surrey, BC
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
2020 Selected Artist INDA: 14th International Drawing Annual publication, MANIFEST PRESS,
Cincinnati OH, USA
2019 Le Téléjournal Manitoba, Review by Marie-Gabrielle Manard, aired May 31, 2019
2019 After Winter, Before Spring, Galleries West, Stacey Abramson, June 29, 2019
2019 The Same Leaving Moves Through Secca, Savi Ettinger, Triad City Beat, Jan. 24,
2019, North Carolina Triad, NC USA
2019 Substantial Solos, Tom Patterson, Winston-Salem Journal, D5 Feb. 10, 2019
Winston-Salem, NC USA
2012 Papermen, WS Arts Magazine, Cover & Feature Article by Ed Hanes, Nov. Issue
2012, p. 10-13, North Carolina USA
2012 Les Desirs Secrets de L’art Video, 24 Images Magazine, review of Canadian
Time 2 by Marc Mercier, Oct./Nov. Issue, France
2012 Eye on Papermen, Feature article by Ken Keuffel, Winston-Salem Journal/Living,
May 20, 2012, p. D3-4, Winston-Salem NC USA
2008 Bridging the Waters, Phil Koch, The Beaver-Canada’s History Magazine, Issue
April/May 2008, p. 12, Toronto ON CAN
2007 Site Subconscious, Steven Matijcio, Uncubed-Locus Suspectus Magazine,
Edmonton AB, Issue December 2007, p. 16-19, Edmonton AB CAN
2001 Sit(E)ings: Trajectories for a Future (exhibition catalog), Shirley Madill,
Winnipeg Art Gallery, MB
1999 My Girlfriend Can’t Wrestle, But You Should See Her Box, Gavin Weston,
The Sunday Times, Jan. 3, 1999, p.35, Northern & Southern Ireland
1999 Poster Sparks Sex or Art Arguments, Laura Bradley, News Letter: News,
Dec. 19, p.5, Northern Ireland
1998 Portrait of an Artist as Pin-up-by Herself, Ian Hill, News Letter: Arts Focus,
Dec. 21, 1998, p.14, Northern Ireland NI
1998 Art for the Feint-Hearted, Robert Enright, Border Crossings Magazine,
Issue No.66, May 1998, p.4-5, Winnipeg, MB CAN
COLLECTIONS
Province of Manitoba Collection
National Museum of the American Indian; Media Study Collection – NYU, USA
Centre for Aboriginal Media Video Collection – Ottawa, ON CAN
Outfest Legacy Collection – UCLA Television & Film Archive, Los Angeles USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery Video Collection – Winnipeg, MB, CAN
Daniel Langlois Foundation Video Collection – Montreal, QC, CAN
Banff Centre for the Performing Arts – Banff, AB, CAN
Kearns/Mancini Architects Inc. – Toronto ON CAN
Private Collection – San Francisco CA
Private Collection – Vancouver BC
TEACHING: Canada / United States
Full-time and Adjunct:
Fall / 2012 – MFA Appointed graduate student mentor for the MFA Low Residency
Graduate Program at the University of Arts, Philadelphia, PA USA
Spring / 2013 – Visiting Assistant Visual Arts Studio Professor – Studio Foundations
Art 111 & Intro to Drawing – Wake Forest University, Winston-
Salem NC USA
Fall / 2012 – Visiting Assistant Visual Arts Studio Professor – Studio Foundations
Art 111 – Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem NC USA
Spring / 2012 – Art History Lecturer – Art History II:
Fine Arts Dept. Greensboro College, Greensboro, NC USA
Spring / 2011 – Visiting Assistant Visual Arts Studio Professor – Intro to Drawing
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC USA
2009 – 2011 – Lecturer – Intro to Art
Fine Arts Dept. / Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
Fall / 2009 – Visual Arts Studio Professor – Intro to Oil Painting, Salem College for
Women, Winston-Salem, NC USA
2005-06 – Full-time Associate Professor in Visual Arts, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON CAN
