Alexandre Castonguay C.V.
solo exhibitions:
2005 Elements, Salle banque Laurentienne, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, curator Sandra Grant-Marchand
2005 Alexandre Castonguay, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal
2004 Alexandre Castonguay, Galerie d'art de l'Université de Sherbrooke
2004 Digitale, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal
2003 Three, Galerie d'art d'Ottawa, curator Renee Baert
2003 générique, Galerie Glendon, Collège Glendon, York University, Toronto
2003 Chutes, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal
2001 générique, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal
2001 générique, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico
2000 Le Dessin des Passions, Centre d'exposition de Val d'Or, Val d'Or
1999 Les Quatres Saisons, curator Marie-Michèle Cron, Espace Vidéographe, Montréal, exhibition presented as part of the 17e Rendez-vous du cinéma Québecois
1998 Le Dessin des Passions, Galerie de l'Université de Québec à Hull
1997 Passions, artengine, projet W3
group exhibitions:
(upcoming)
(2006) DiVA - Digital and Video Art Fair, New York, NY
(2006) ARCO, Madrid
(2006) Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Art Forum Berlin, Berlin
2005 DiVA - Digital and Video Art Fair, New York, NY
2004 Repères, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, curator Stéphane Aquin
2004 PureData, Graz, Austria, curator Franz Xaver
2004 Où, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, curator Josée Bélisle
2004 Musée d'art urbain, in collaboration with Adad Hannah, Old-Port, Montréal, curator France Gascon
2003 The Thousand and One Faces of Ottawa, Ottawa Art Gallery, curator
Karen Love
2002 La demeure, Optica, curator Marie Fraser
2002 L'Échelle de la langue, Axe Néo-7, Hull
2000 Alternate Realities, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
2000 Capter le réel, curator Natalie Côté, Musée régional de Rimouski
2000 Bâtisseurs de cathédrales, Internet, project, Daimon, Hull
2000 Images sans paroles, invited artist, CEGEP de Vieux-Montréal, Montréal
2000 Body Language, curator Sandra Dyck, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
1999 Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, curator Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1999 Lo-tek and Loving It, curator Laura Marks, Galerie SAW, Ottawa
1998 Artifice, curators Marie-Michèle Cron, David Liss, John Massier and Katia Meir, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal
1998 Interface, curators Jonathan Newman and Carol Payne, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
1998 Stop, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Chile
1997 New Media ‘97, Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, Ottawa
1993-1997 Enriched Bread Artists, annual open house exhibitions
1996 Deconstructing Duchamp, curator Dew Harrison, web project
1996 Intervals, inaugural exhibition, Artengine, Hull
DEGREES:
Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Open Media, 2004
Bachelor of Arts, University of Ottawa, Art History and Theory, 1993
Bachelor of Arts, University of Ottawa, Fine Arts, 1991
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
2004-2005 Assitant Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of Ottawa
2003-2004 Invited Professor, Visual Arts Department, University of Ottawa
1999-2003 Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of Ottawa
1999-2000 Lecturer, Petit Séminaire de Québec, Hull
HONOURS
2004 Graff Prize, Montréal
2002 Conseil régional de la culture de l'Outaouais, artiste médiatique de l'année
SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
2004 Presenter, New Forms Festival, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, British Columbia
2004 Presenter, Lieux et Non-Lieux de l'art contemporain, Colloquia ESSE, Montréal
2003-2004 Member of the Executive, Board of Directors, Ottawa Art Gallery
2002-2004 Member of the Interstices research group, Concordia University / UQAM
2003 Presenter, artist and research roundtable, Societé des arts technologique (SAT), Montréal
2000-2004 Artistic Director, Artengine, Ottawa
1997-1998 Researcher, Radio-Canada FM, chaîne culturelle, Expositions series on contemporary art
1996-2005 Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors, Artengine
1997-1999 Member, Board of Directors, Daimon, Hull
1996 President, Board of Directors, Gallery 101, Ottawa
1990-1996 Founding Member and Member of the Board of Directors, Enriched Bread Artists
CURATORIAL WORK (ON-LINE EXHIBITIONS FOR ARTENGINE)
2003 Survey Field, Germaine Koh
2003 Stills, Adad Hannah
2003 Blue on Blue, Sandra Killian
2002 Scouting for Indians, Jeffrey Thomas
2001 Sound Drawings, Diana Burgoyne
2001 for you, Germaine Koh
COLLECTIONS:
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Art Bank, Canada Council for the Arts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
City of Ottawa
Private and Corporate Collections
PUBLICATIONS:
2005 "De la production = Consuming production", Alexandre Castonguay: Extended Play, PFOAC
2004 "As Data Flows", BlackFlash, Vol 21.2 / 2003
2003 "Open Source / Open Centres", mediumi, site culturel finlandais
http://www.mcult.net/mediumi/article.html?id=199&lang=en&issue_nr=2.1&issueId=5
2001 "Le rôle du logiciel libre dans les centres d'artistes", ARCO conference, Ottawa
REVIEWS AND WORKS INCLUDED IN PUBLICATIONS
catalogues and essays:
Alexandre Castonguay: Elements, Sandra Grant-Marchand, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, 2005, (exhibition catalogue)
Body Language, Sandra Dyck, Carleton University Art Gallery, (exhibition catalogue)
Capter le réel; de la machine à l'oeuvre, Natalie Côté, Musée régionale de Rimouski, (essay)
Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul 1850-2000, Robert Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press, 1999 (catalogue, 322 pages)
Les Quatres Saisons, installation vidéo 1995-1999, Marie-Michèle Cron, 1999 (essay)
Interface: Encounters with New Technology, Carol Payne, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1998 (essay)
Videography:
"Le numérique", TVO, panel with Derek De Kerchove, May 2002
"Art virtuel, Ozone, TVO, produced by François Desrochers, Octobrer 2000
"L'Art", Ecce Homo, épisode #19, produced by Lisette Marcotte, Production Coscient inc., Canal Vie, May 1999
Articles (selected)
Viau, René. Le Devoir, "De Visu - éléments de base", Saturday October 15 – 16, 2005
Redfern, Christine. The Mirror, "Obsolutely wonderful", September 29 - October 5, 2005
Tousignant, Isa. Hour, "In his Elements", September 1-7, 2005, cover, p6.
Ludovic Fouquet, "Fables et installations, esquisses d'une relation (Alain Fleischer, Sophie Calle, Alexandre Castonguay, Ann Hamilton), ETC, No. 71, September, October, November 2005, pp. 22-25
Sylvain Campeau, "Alexandre Castonguay : Digitale", CV ciel variable, No. 66, May, 2005
Dault, Julia,"In Charge of the Moment", National Post, p.B6, August 5, 2004
Lamarche, Bernard, "Le doigt à l'honneur", Le Devoir, July 17 and 18, 2004
Lehmann, Henry, "Digital", The Gazette, July 17, 2004
Lamarche, Bernard, "Reeves/ Sévigny/ Castonguay/ Corbeil", Le Devoir, May 13 and 14, 2000
Wonnacott, Justin, "Interface - A Review", Black Flash, 16:3, April 1999, pp. 22-29, reproduced on cover page
Galland, Emmanuel, "Les Quatres Saisons", Mix: Independent Art & Culture, vol. 24, No. 4, spring 1999
Lamarche, Bernard, "Plats, les écrans, revue d'exposition Les Quatres Saisons", Le Devoir, February 27 and 28 February, 1999 p. D9
Aquin, Stéphane, "Cocktail artistique", Voir, July 2-8, 2000
Eutenier, Anita, "Art on screen", Capital City, June 4-10, 1998, p. 23