Selected Organizational, Curatorial, and Publishing
Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, Vancouver, Professional Development Coordinator and Professional Practices instructor, 2023 – present
Publication Studio Vancouver, with Kathy Slade (editor, publisher, and on-demand producer of artists’ books and public domain literature), 2010 – present
Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Head of Publishing and Editor of ECU Press, curator of the Summer School for Artists’ Publishing symposia and exhibitions, 2018 – 2023
UNIT/PITT Projects, Vancouver, Executive Director of an artist-run space presenting exhibitions, publications, low-power broadcasting, performance, and public assemblies, 2010 – 2019
Co-founder, Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres, 1989
Co-founder, Artspeak Gallery, 1986
Editor and print/bindery production, VORTEX Magazine, 1980
Education
B.A. (Fine and Performing Arts, Concentration in Visual Art), Simon Fraser University, 1989
School for the Contemporary Arts Summer Intensive on Public Art (Krzyzstof Wodiczko, Rosalyn Deutsche, Alan Sekula), Simon Fraser University, 1991
Selected Exhibitions
“It’s Difficult to put a Painting in the Mailbox”, 2018, Libby Leshgold Gallery, Vancouver
“SSP”, 2017, Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society, Coquitlam BC
“Charrette Roulette: Language: Kathy Slade, Kay Higgins and Publication Studio Vancouver”, 2015, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
“Through a Window”, 2015, SFU Gallery, Burnaby BC
“Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility”, 2012, Quinary Art Projects, Vancouver
“WE Vancouver”, 2011, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
“The Property in Question” (group) July 2006, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver
“Multiples” (group) Summer 2004, Emily Carr Institute Concourse Gallery, Vancouver
“Binocular Parallax” (group) Fall 2002, Consolidated Works, Seattle
Selected Publications
“Phonetic furniture for tentative living” in LMNTS: fractionating 6 decades of canadian extralinearature, eds. Daniel f. Bradley, Hart Broudy, jwcurry & Marshall Hryciuk, Nietzche’s Brolly, 2025
“Correspondence” in Tear it Down, ed. Brit Bachmann, UNIT/PITT, 2021
“Cris” chapter in Friend Poems, ed. KC Wei, Agony Klub, 2021
“Recite Yourself to All Who Will Listen” – written documentation of performance in Beginning with the Seventies, ed. Lorna Brown, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, 2020
“Living the Domestic Interior: Seven Characters in Search of Home in Vancouver, 2008-2010” – chapter by Kathy Mezei, with Margaret Archibald, Patrick Chan, Emily Fedoruk, Kay Higgins, Fran Moore, and Jillian Povarchook in Sociology of Home: Belonging, Community, and Pace in the Canadian Context, eds. Gillian Anderson, Joseph G. Moore, and Laura Suski, 2016
The Everyday Library (series) – Publication Studio, 2010-2017
How to Look at a Vancouver Special – Publication Studio, 2010
“How to Watch the Weather Channel” – essay in artfiles.ca, Spring 2007
“How I Learned to Stop Worrying About False Autonomy” – essay in Hastings Bridge, Fall 2006
“Vancouver Specials” – photographs in Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Essays and Collective Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture book from Clear Cut Press, 2003
“Location Scout” – series of photos in West Coast Line, No. 38 (Vol. 36, No. 2), Fall 2002
Selected Editorial and Design
Myfanwy MacLeod and Lisa Robertson, The Undesirables: A Bestiary, ECU Press, 2024 (editor)
Michael Hardt and Am Johal, Michael Hardt: The Politics of Love (Below the Radar Series), SFU Vancity Office for Community Engagement and Publication Studio Vancouver, 2024 (designer)
Laiwan, Temper: One Hundred Brief Missives within a Character Limit, ECU Press Reflector, 2023 (editor and designer)
Simon(e) van Saarloos, A Queer Manifesto Against Ageism, ECU Press Reflector, 2023 (editor and designer)
Oliver Coran, Strip Club Book for Leah Jolie (2nd ed.), Publication Studio, 2022 (editor)
Maureen Gruben, QULLIQ, Libby Leshgold Gallery and ECU Press, 2020 (co-editor)
Jamey Braden, SHE ____ THE____, UNIT/PITT and Publication Studio Vancouver, 2017 (Editor, designer, production)
Allison Grimaldi Donahue, Body to Mineral, Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016 (editor and designer)
Kathy Slade, Love Poem, Publication Studio Vancouver, 2015 (editor and designer)
ISSUE Magazine, volumes 5 and 6, UNIT/PITT, 2013-2015 (production, editor/designer of volume 5 number 3.5)
Helen Potrebenko, Sometimes they Sang, Publication Studio Vancouver, 2011 (editor and designer)
Who Owns Canada? (facsimile edition), Publication Studio Vancouver, 2011 (designer and production)
Michael Turner, Free Concert, Publication Studio Vancouver and UNIT/PITT, 2011 (Editor, designer, production)
Reoccurrence: Serial Motifs, Helen Pitt Gallery, 2010 (editor and designer, with curators Stephanie Rebick and Emmy Lee)
Exhibition to be Destroyed, Again, Publication Studio Vancouver and Helen Pitt Gallery, 2010 (designer, co-editor with Rita O’Grady)
Panels/talks/teaching
October 2024, “The Crisis of Masculinity”, panel at Fascist Neoliberalism and the Fate of Radical Democracy conference presented by SFU Institute for the Humanities
Fall 2024, “CA304 Professional Practices in Arts and Culture”, 13-week undergraduate seminar, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Summer 2024, “CA304 Professional Practices in Arts and Culture”, 13-week undergraduate seminar, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
November 2019, “RE/PUBLICATION”, panel at Acid Free Los Angeles Book Market
August 2019, “Beyond Brecht’s Five Difficulties”, presentation at At Least Five Difficulties: A Symposium on Artists’ Publishing, Libby Leshgold Gallery at Emily Carr University of Art + Design
March 2017, “Archives Live!”, panel discussion with Lorna Brown, Marcia Crosby, and Kay Higgins, moderated by Pleasure and Protest Sometimes Simultaneously (Randy Lee Cutler and Magnolia Pauker), presented by Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the Western Front, Vancouver
2010 – 2018, artists’ organizational practice training and mentorship for co-op students, UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness
Boards of Directors
Vancouver Art Book Fair/OCW Publishing (2024 -)
SFU Queer Collective (2024 -)
Modern Baroque Opera (2001 – 2005)
Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres (President, 2004 – 2005 and 2010 – 2012)
Artspeak Gallery (board chair, 1998 – 2002)
ANNPAC/RACA (national board, 1987-88 and 1992)