Johannes Zits C.V.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Wharf, Centre D’Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, France
2006 Open Studio, Space Studios, London
2006 Bizart, Shanghai
2005 Spin Gallery, Toronto2004 The Berlin Suite, Pierre-François Ouellette art contemporain, Montréal
2003 Dual Edge, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2001 Home Gallery, Rotterdam
2000 Fotogalerie, Vienne
2000 Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2000 Gallery 44, Toronto

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Collage Party, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal
2006 Le Corps Gay, Écomusée du fier monde, Montreal
2005 Le Corps Gay, Centre d'exposition de Rouyn-Noranda, Rouyn
2005 Canadian Club, Canadian Culture Centre, Paris and Rodman Hall, St. Catherines
2005 Bug City, Winnipeg Art Gallery
2005 Persona Volare, Centre culturel canadien, Paris
2004 Musterhaus, Galerie Nord, Berlin
2003 Bonheur et simulacres, Manif d’art 2, La Manifestation internationale d’art de Québec
2002 Le corps gay, Centre d’exposition du Vieux-Palais, Saint-Jérôme, Québec
2002 Parkhaus, Berlin
2002 Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax
2001 Vice Squad, YYZ, Toronto
2001 Artcité, Windsor
1999 Pelliculages picturaux, Centre des arts actuels SKOL, Montréal

Performances & Screening History

2006 Body Print performance, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver; Bizart, Shanghai,
2006 Love Me, Club Ying Yang, Shanghai
2005 Body Print performance, InsideOut Festival, Toronto; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
2003 The Colin Campbell Sessions, Tranz<>Tech Video Festival, Toronto
2003 The End of the World, Staircase Theatre, Hamilton
2003 Pink Edition, Dziga, Nijmegen
2002 Dutch Treats, Roze Filmdagen, Amsterdam
2002 North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina
2002 Video Art Plastique, Herouville, Sainte Claire, France
2001 TransSexTech, Tranz<>Tech Video Festival, Toronto

Awards & Residencies

2006 British Arts Council, Shanghai residency
2005 Wharf, Centre D’Art Contemporain de Basse Normandie, France
2000,01 Ontario Arts Council Mid-Careers Project Grant
2001 Toronto Arts Council Project Grant
1999 Canada Council Mid-career Grant
1998 Canada Council Travel Grant
1998 Artist Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts
1997,98 B.C. Arts Council
1988 Canada Council, Visiting Artists Program
1985,86,88 Materials Assistance, Ontario Arts Council

Reviews

2006 Shanghai Daily, Wu Ying Ying, February
2006 That’s Shanghai, Xingyu Chen, March
2005 National Post, R. M. Vangh, May
2003 Border Crossing, Robert Enright, October
2002 Spirale Magazine, Jean-Claude Rochefort, November
2002 Le Devoir, Bernard LeMarche, February
2002 ETC, Karl-Gilbert Murray, December
2000 The Globe & Mail, Gary Michael Dault, November 18
2000 The Toronto Star, Soo Kim, November 11
1998 The Globe&Mail, John Bentley Mays, January 15
1991 Het Nieuwsblad, Desiree Meulenbroek, April 17 and June 10
1991 The Globe & Mail, John Bentley Mays, April 27
1989 Edmonton Journal, Elizabeth Beauchamp, October
1989 The Globe & Mail, John Bentley Mays, March 17

Selected collections

Alberta Arts Foundation
Banff Centre for the Arts
University of Alberta
York University