Christine Kirouac
188 Syndicate St, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R2W 3H3
Tel. 204.914.9817 / ckirouac1@gmail.com / https://christinekirouac.com
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EDUCATION
2005 Master of Fine Arts – Concordia University, Montreal, QC, CAN
1993 Mentoring Artists For Women’s Art (MAWA), Winnipeg, MB, CAN
1991 BFA Honours – University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, CAN
SELECTED GRANTS & AWARDS
2026 Winnipeg Arts Council – Found Series
2026 Canada Council Prof. Dev. / Travel Grant – The Session
2026 Manitoba Arts Council Indigenous 360 – Rain’s Coming
2025 Canada Council CKS Small Scale Grant – Rain’s Coming Drawing
2024 Canada Council Travel Grant – The Recipe Project
2024 Canada Council CKS Small Scale Grant – Body of Trust Book Collaboration
2023 Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant
2023 Canada Council Explore and Create Grant
2022 Canada Council CKS 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
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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2029 Three Seconds, Art Gallery of Southwestern MB, Brandon, MB
2028 The Recipe Project, Estevan Art Gallery and Museum
2027 Gallery 226, Winnipeg, MB
2024 The Recipe Project (premier), 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
2026 Comme La Maison; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, La Maison des Artistes Visuels, WPG. MB
2022 DRAWN, Manifest; Creative Research and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, OH
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
SELECTED VIDEO & FILM SCREENINGS
2024 OurToba Film Festival, Winnipeg Art Gallery – Quamajuq, MB
2023 Docked Film Festival, collaborative partnership with Saskatchewan Film Pool and Sakewewak Artists’ Collective Inc. and Harbour Collective, Regina, SASK
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 the 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
COMMUNITY PROJECTS / ACTIVITIES / EMPLOYMENT
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder of New Material Boutique Hotel Art Fair, South Beach, Art Basel Miami, FL, USA
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder of Verge Art Fair, Soho, New York, NY, USA
2012-14 Director / Curator / Co-Founder of Multiples Chicago; Visual Culture Art Fair, Chicago, IL, USA
1999-2000 CKUW – University of Winnipeg radio show creator and co-host of ArtBites
1998-2000 Satellite Billboard Coordinator for Plug In Inc./Board Member Wpg. MB
RESIDENCIES
2026 North Dakota Museum of Arts McCanna House Artist in Residence USA
2024 Writing Arts Lab 1 with Laurie Stone and Richard Toon, Hudson, NY, USA
2024 Steps Between, Creative Writing Residency CVAG, BC
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
PUBLISHING / PUBLIC READINGS / RECORDINGS / PODCASTS
- – 2025 – Beautiful Gardens; Poetry Writing Workshop Series with Di Brandt, WPG. MB
- 2025 – Body of Trust, an artist book collaboration release with a North Carolina writer Steve Mitchell and hand-binding by Andrew Saulters (edition of 100), Scuppernong Books, NC, USA
- 2024 – Steps Between, Creative Writing Residency in conjunction with solo exhibition The Recipe Project at Comox Valley Art Gallery, BC
- 2023 – Liaison for Filmmakers Toronto LIFT, Essay writer for Harbour Collective
- 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, Christine 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 and March 20/18), ongoing series
ARTIST TALKS & JURIES
2024 North Island College Artist Talk – In conjunction with the CVAG solo exhibition in Comox, BC
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
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, US
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES
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 Les Desirs Secrets de L’art Video, 24 Images Magazine, review of Canadian Time 2 by Marc Mercier, Oct./Nov. Issue, France
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 catalogue), 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, pp. 4-5, Winnipeg, MB, CAN
COLLECTIONS
North Dakota Museum of Permanent Collection
Red River College, Manitoba
Province of Manitoba Legislative Government 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
