Gary Pearson | CV

Born in Melfort, Saskatchewan

Lives in Kelowna, BC, Canada

EDUCATION

1983 University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, M.A.

1980 University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., B.F.A.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018 The Origins of the Romantic Sensibility, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2018 Gary Pearson: Short Fictions, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC.

2014 Turn Back, Detour, Go On, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver Catalogue

2012 Scenes for a ‘Smoker’s Theatre, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2011 1 2 3 Soliloquy, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

2009 Somewhere, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2008 The End is My Beginning, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2007 Come Back Later, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver

2006 High Early, LAB Project, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria

2006 The Everyday, Winchester Gallery, Victoria, BC

2005 I’m going back to Greenville, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver

2005 Oblique Stories, SCA Galleries I & II, Artist-in-Residence Sydney College of the Arts, Australia

2005 One Way Ticket (tour), Two Rivers Art Gallery, PrinceGeorge, BC

2004 One Way Ticket (tour), Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario

2003 One Way Ticket (tour), The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon

2001 After Hours, Teck Gallery at Harbour Centre, Simon Fraser University

2001 The Creative Voice: Portrait Photographs, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, BC

1998 Two of Everything: Artist-in-Residence Studio Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1998 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

1995 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

1993 New Paperworks, Westwerk, Hamburg

1992 New Drawings, Davidson Gallery, Seattle

1991 The Geometrics of Conjecture, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna

1990 Recent Works, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver

1989 Drawing and Sculpture, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver

1988 A Measure of Distance, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver

1986 Recent Paintings, Or Gallery, Vancouver

1985 Drawings and Paintings, A.M.S. Gallery, U.BC, Vancouver

1984 Fine Lines, Installation at A.K.A. Gallery, Saskatoon

1984 Oasis Gallery, Kamloops

1981 Recent Drawings, Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Through the Memory Atlas: Forty Years of Collecting, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, curated by Charo Neville

2018 Matière écrite, Galerie du Tableau, Marseilles, France, curated by Gary Pearson

2018 Written Matter, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC, curated by Gary Pearson

2018 Living, Building,Thinking: Art and Expressionism, (travel from McMaster Museum of Art), curated by Ihor Holubizky, Vancouver Art Gallery

2017 The Big Picture, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

2017 New Works, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2016 Drawing from Life, Kelowna Art Gallery, curated by Liz Wylie

2016 Living, Building,Thinking: Art and Expressionism, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, curated by Ihor Holubizky

2016 Hand Drawn, Lake Country Art Gallery, Lake Country, BC, curated by Wanda Lock and Katie Brennan

2016 Recent Works, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2015 Living, Building, Thinking: Art and Expressionism, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, curated by Ihor Holubizky, catalogue

2015 Concurrent 2015, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2014 The Edition 2014, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2014 From d’Este to Barr or A Hanging History, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

2014 Concurrent 20/20, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2014 Bonbon Roche, Centro Cultural Ajijic, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico

2013 Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, Galerie du Tableau,Marseille, France

2013 Okanagan Artists in their Studios, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, BC

2013 OK Thaumaturgy, Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC, catalogue

2013 Okanagan Artists in their Studios, FINA Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC

2012 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2012 Collector’s Choice, Winchester Modern, Victoria

2011 Diversity in Drawing, Lake Country Art Gallery, Winfield, BC

2010 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2010 Constructions of Identity: Recent Acquisitions, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna

2010 10 X 10 X 10, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

2009 Take Your Time, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC

2009 Drawing Meaning, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2008 Boundaries, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2008 Winsor Gallery, Vancouver

2007 Crossroads: The Intersection of Man and Nature, Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

2007 Look 3, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver

2007 Nexus: Histories and Communities, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2006 Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC

2006 The Soliloquy Salon,Window Space at The Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC

2006 Bill Laing and Gary Pearson, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver

2006 The Hourglass Interchange, The Long Gallery, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia,

2005 I Am, James Baird Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland

2005 New Contemporaries, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver

2004 University of Washington (Pullman) Fine Arts Gallery, Pullman, Washington

2002 25th Anniversary Selections, The Drawing Center, New York City

2002 BFA Alumni; Selected, Maltwood Art Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria BC

2001 On Pleasure Bent, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC Curated by Liz Wylie

2001 Vancouver Collects: Between Passion and Logic; Contemporary and Modern Works, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, catalogue

2001 Prints From Canada’s Pacific Province, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin Ireland.

2000 Colouring the West: A Century of Painting in BC, Vancouver Art Gallery

1999 Headbones Gallery, Vernon, BC

1998 Selections from the Art Bank, National Arts Centre, Ottawa

1996 Aesthetic (Anti)Aesthetic, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

1996 Sutton 96, Sutton Art Gallery, Sutton, Quebec

1996 From the Permanent Collection, Kelowna Art Gallery

1996 Aspects of Abstraction, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC

1995 Posit Poznan, International Artist's Centre, Poznan Poland

1994 Critique Fax, First Draft, Sydney, Australia (travel to ICA Brisbane, PICA Perth 1995)

1994 Drawing Plus, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC, catalogue

1994 Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

1993 Construction in Process IV, The Artists' Museum, Lodz, Poland Curated by Ryzard Wasco, catalogue

1993 Hamburger Künstler, Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Germany. Curated by Jürgen Brockmann

1992 Drift, Installation project, Farsund Kommune, Lista, Norway, curated by Solfrid Mortensen, catalogue

1992 Gallerie Lista Fyr, Borhaug, Norway

1991 Art in British Columbia, Vancouver Art Gallery

1991 Invitational 1991, Davidson Gallery, Seattle

1991 VIVA Award Exhibition, Persimmon Blackbridge and Gary Pearson

1991 Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver

VIDEO, AUDIO & PERFORMANCE

2017 Video premiere, The Cocktail Bar (4 Vignettes), Fernandos Pub, Kelowna, BC, February 22

2014 Theatre: A video survey 1996 – 2012, The Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC, January 27 – 31

2011 Video Premiere, The Waiter Joke, Sturgeon Hall, Kelowna, BC, October 18

2008 Poetry Reading, Jazz and Poetry, at the Commodore Lounge, Kamloops BC, May 13

2002 Director, co-producer, co-script & story, project manager on: video documentary So Good So Far: the way forward, colour 26 min. Filmed on location in Ghana and Canada; sponsored by The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), premiered May 31, at Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, broadcast premiere June 9, CHBC Television Kelowna, BC

2001 Video screening Mirage and Spectacle: a performance documentation, The Laurel Building, Kelowna, BC (group program “Revealing Shorts”)

2001 Video Screening: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, ON (group program “Asleep at the Wheel”)

2001 Video screening: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC (group program “Asleep at the Wheel”)

2000 Premiere of Berlin Jazz Story, independent video; colour, 20 min., 30 sec., Sturgeon Hall, Kelowna, BC, October 16

2000 Art department/set design, independent video, Everything’s Rosie, directed by Roz McKitrick

1998 Art department/set design, music video Pushing the Limits by John Noren Band, Tripod Film and Video Production, Kelowna, BC

1997 Independent video: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, A Poetry Documentation, b+w, 11 min. 13 sec.

1997 Audio cassette with The Notorious Heffel Bros., All in Green, recorded at White Noise Studios, Hamburg. Includes Paradise and The Orient Express

1996/97 Independent producer, director and scriptwriter for 11 part - half hour arts television documentary series, Fran’s CULTure Showcase; broadcast sponsor Shaw Cable

1995 Performance/poetry reading, the Mind Grind Cafe, December 29, Kelowna, BC

1995 Lie to Me, poetry reading with John Lent and Allison Sivak, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC

1995 Performance-reading: Mirage and Spectacle, October 2, Gallery A, Kelowna, BC

1993 Performance-reading: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, with The Notorious Heffel Brothers, October 4, Klub Szafa, Lodz, Poland

1993 Performance: By Train: Berlin-Lodz, April 5, Clocktower Theatre, Kamloops, BC

1992 Performance: performance zone/zone performance, January 21, Okanagan University College Theatre, Kelowna, BC

CURATORIAL

2016 Curator of Ursula Kabis: Prints, at the Fina Gallery, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, February 22 – 26, curatorial essay and exhibition brochure.

2011 Co-curator with Ihor Holubizky, 1 2 3 Soliloquy, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

2010 Curator of Miranda Aschenbrenner: 25 Squares, at the Fina Gallery, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, September 15 – 25

2008 Curator, Point of Origin, (artists: Dora Economou, Huseyin Sami, Rolande Souliere, Jack Jeffrey, Taras Polataiko, Ceal Floyer, Kelly Wood); at Artspace Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, September 11 – October 12, 2008, catalogue text published in Column 3.

2006 Exhibition co-organizer, with Jelle van den Berg, The Hourglass Interchange, exchange exhibition between University of Wollongong, NSW, and University of BC Okanagan

2006 Exhibition organizer Lubos Culen: Victory Elementals, at Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC September 5 – 15; catalogue essay

2006 Curator of Dangerous Games: Shauna Oddleifson, at Fina Gallery, Okanagan University College, (UBC Okanagan) Kelowna, BC September 22 – October 03; catalogue essay

1998 Curator of Jürgen Brockmann - Works on Paper, Goethe-Institute, Vancouver

1997 Curator of Hotel on Fire (artists: Geneviéve Cadieux, Ken Lum, Via Lewandowsky, Brad Buckley,Jenny Watson), catalogue essay, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

1997 Curator of Jürgen Brockmann, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC

1995 Curator: Posit Poznan, (artists: Jack Jeffrey, Lee Goreas, Gary Pearson), International Artist's Centre, Poznan, Poland, catalogue text

1995 Curator with Dagmar Pearson; Greg Murdock: On Paper, Kelowna Art Gallery

1988 Co-curator with Zoe Lambert (Vancouver), Jurgen Brockmann and Hopek Quirin (Hamburg), Vancouver – Hamburg, group exhibition at Pitt International Gallery, Vancouver, and KX Kunst auf Kampnagel, Hamburg

1987 Curator: Abstraction/Drawing: Ann Kipling, David McWilliam, John Scott, Or Gallery, Vancouver, catalogue essay

1984 Curator: Works on Paper, North Battleford Art Center, North Battleford, Saskatchewan

PUBLISHED WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

2017 Essay, The Art of Deep Collecting, Ian Wallace and the Rennie Museum, in Border Crossings, Vol. 36, No. 4, Dec/Jan/Feb 2017 – 18, Pp. 44 – 50, reproductions.

2017 Exhibition review of Fabrications, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Feb. 4 – April 16, 2017, in Border Crossings, Vol. 36, No. 3, Sept/Oct/Nov 2017, Pp. 130 – 131, reproductions

2016 Exhibition review of Valérie Blass: To Only Ever Say One Thing Forever the Same Thing, at Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver, Nov. 21, 2015 – Jan. 9, 2016, in Sculpture, Vol. 35 No. 4, May 2016, pp. 77 – 78, reproduction.

2016 Exhibition review of Landon MacKenzie, Parallel Journey: Works on Paper (1972-2015) Kelowna Art Gallery, October 24, 2015 – January 17, 2016, in Border Crossings, Vol. 35, No. 1, March, April, May 2016. Pp. 108-109, reproductions.

2015 Reflections on Critique and Critical Judgment in Art, in Anywhere V.I, edited by Simone Douglas and Sean Lowry, and published by Project Anywhere and; Parsons Fine Arts, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design; and The School of Creative Arts, University of Newcastle, Australia, pp. 88 – 91, reproduction.

2015 On the Question of Quality in the Absence of Connoisseurship, conference paper for The 3rd Conference on Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research: Conversational Approaches about what is and what is not Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal. January 28 – 30, 2015.

2014 Exhibition review of Erwin Wurm: One Minute Sculptures, at Städel Museum, Frankfurt Germany, May 7 – July 13, 2014, in Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 33, No. 9, November 2014, p. 79, reproductions

2014 Exhibition review of Christos Dikeakos: Nature Morte, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, June 21 – October 5, 2014, in Border Crossings Vol. 33, No. 4, Dec/Jan/Feb. 2014-15, Pp. 88-89, reproductions

2014 Two Short Case Studies & a Memoir: Good Art and/or Good Research? Pp. 121 – 123. 2^ndConference on Arts-based Research and Artistic Research INSIGHTS AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON ISSUES AND METHODOLOGIES. Granada (Spain), 29^th - 30^thJanuary 2014. Marin Viadel, R .; Roldan, J .; Molinet Medina, X. (eds). Fundamentals, criteria and contexts based arts and artistic research investigation. Granada: University of Granada, 2014.

2013 Exhibition review of Erin Shirreff: Pictures, at The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, April 19 – June 16, 2013, in Border Crossings, Vol. 32, No. 3, Sept/Oct/Nov 2013, pp. 89-90, reproductions

2013 Academia and Art First Research, pp.35-38, published in conference proceedings of the 1^st Annual Conference on Arts-Based and Artistic Research, Barcelona, Spain, January 31^st– February 1^st, 2013; Hernández-Hernández, F., & Fendler, R. (Eds) Barcelona: University of Barcelona – Dipòsit Digital.

2013 Exhibition review of Ian Wallace: At the Intersection of Painting and Photography, Vancouver Art Gallery, October 27, 2012 – February 24, 2013, in Border Crossings, Vol. 32, No. 1, March. April, May, 2013, pp. 83 – 85, reproductions

2012 Ken Lum: It takes me back somewhere, I’m not sure where... essay on Ken Lum, in Sculpture magazine, Vol. 31, No. 9, November, 2012, pp. 42 – 45, reproductions

2012 Exhibition review of David Alexander, The Shape of Place, Kelowna Art Gallery, Jan. 14 – March 25, 2012, in Border Crossings, Vol. 31, No. 2, June-August, 2012, pp. 85-87, reproductions

2012 Exhibition review of On the Nature of Things, the Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC, Oct. 15 – Dec. 31, 2011, in Border Crossings, Vol. 31, No. 1, March, April, May 2012

2011 The Point Is, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, August 20 – October 30, 2011, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 30, No. 4, December, January, February 2011 – 2012, pp. 119 – 121, reproductions

2011 On the Go, A Short Narrative Reading: Nhan Duc Nguyen, exhibition essay for Nhan Duc Nguyen’s exhibition “A Shrine to Literature”, at Gallery Vertigo, Vernon BC, Summer 2011

2010 Alan Wood: in conversation with Gary Pearson, in Lake, a journal of arts and environment, Issue 5, 2010, pp 5 – 13, reproductions

2010 Fear and Desire in the Art of Roja Aslani, catalogue essay for the artists’ exhibition “Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be”, at the Stride Gallery, Calgary, AB Catalogue 2009-2010 and published on-line

2009 The Outskirts of Town: A Peripheral Centre for Art, Agency, and Academia, book chapter in Rethinking the Contemporary Art School: The Artist, the PhD, and the Academy, edited by Brad Buckley and John Conomos, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Pub. Halifax, NS. Gary Pearson’s chapter #13, pages 164 – 181

2009 Susan Rothenberg, Sperone Westwater Gallery, NYC, Feb. 9 – April 11, 2009, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 28 No. 3, August 2009, pages 124 – 126, reproductions

2009 Joseph Plaskett, Paris’s Moveable Feast, feature article in Border Crossings, Vol. 28 No. 3, August 2009, pp. 100 – 105, reproductions

2009 Point of Origin: a Curatorial Essay in Seven Parts, in Column 3, Summer issue 2009, Artspace, Visual Arts Centre Pub. Sydney, Australia, pages 15 – 24, reproductions on pages 160 – 166

2009 Rebecca Belmore, Vancouver Art Gallery, Summer 2008. Exhibition review in Sculpture magazine, May 2009, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 77-78, reproduction.

2009 Alan Wood, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC. November 13 – December 7, Exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 28, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 99-100, reproductions

2008 Photographs of Tanya Mars in performance of Mz Frankenstein, published in Ironic to Iconic: The Performance Works of Tanya Mars, Edited by Paul Couillard, Fado Performance Inc. Publishers, Toronto, 2008. Pp. 21, 88

2008 Location and Actuality: Gary Pearson interviews Christos Dikeakos, Jeff Wall, and Ian Wallace, in Lake: a journal of arts and environment, Issue No. 2, 2008, pp. 40-58, reproductions

2008 Histories and Communities, exhibition review of Nexus, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Nov. 24, 2007 – March 2, 2008, in Museums roundup, Spring 2008, no. 240, pp. 14-15, reproductions

2008 Ian Wallace, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Oct. 18 – Nov. 17, 2007. Exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 27, No. 1, February 2008, pp. 108-109, reproductions

2008 An Hour Before the Wind Blows the Colour Away, A short essay on David Alexander, in the catalogue for an exhibition at Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC, March 2008

2007 The Undigested World Itself, Gary Pearson interviews Kristi Malakoff, in Lake: a journal of arts and environment, Issue No. 1, pp. 16-26, reproductions

2007 On Alan Wood, short essay on artist Alan Wood, in catalogue for Nexus, Histories and Communities, curated by Liz Wylie, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC. P. 40

2007 Kristi Malakoff: The Glade, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC, April 21 – May 27, 2006. Exhibition review in Canadian Art, Spring 2007, Vol. 24, No. 1, page 103, reproduction

2006 Notes on Notes for an Art School, catalogue essay for “Beauty and the Beast, UBC Vancouver Visual Arts faculty exhibition, at the Alternator Gallery of Contemporary Art, Kelowna BC, Sept.-Oct.

2006 Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 25 No. 3, August 2006, pp. 108-09, reproductions

2006 Ceal Floyer: Draft, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 25 No. 3, April 2006. pp. 76-77, reproduction

2006 Essay in exhibition brochure, for “Lubos Culen: Victory Elementals”, alumni exhibition at the Fina Gallery,UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC

2005 Rodney Graham ‘a little thought’, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Feb. 5-May 8, 2005, exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 24, No. 6, July/August 2005, pp. 75-76, reproduction

2005 Catalogue essay, Looking at John Macdonald’s Paintings, John Macdonald, Gallerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Quebec, March 31-April 11, 2005, p. 3, French translation, p. 4, reproductions

2005 Youth Matters: A Profile of Randy Grskovic, in The Phoenix, Arts & Entertainment, April 13, 2005, p. 6, reproduction

2004 Published photograph, of Tanya Mars performance of Mz. Frankenstein, at Okanagan Artists Alternative, Kelowna BC, November 1992, in Caught in the Act, an anthology of performance art by Canadian women. Published by YYZ Books, Toronto 2004

2004 Tony Scherman: pensées impensables (unthinkable thoughts), at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Sept. 18 – Nov. 14, 2004, exhibition review in Museums Roundup, Fall 2004, no. 228 p. 12, 13, reproductions

2004 Tony Scherman: pensées impensables (unthinkable thoughts), at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Sept. 18 – Nov. 14, 2004, exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 23. No. 4, reproductions

2004 Ian Wallace: The Barcelona Series, at American Fine Arts, NYC; Feb.- March, 2004; exhibition review in Border Crossings, Vol. 23, No. 1, May 2004; pp. 90-92, reproductions

2004-06 Art Reviews, and Cultural Topics contributor for Off-Centre Magazine, September 2004 – November 2006. Titles of reviews and articles are available upon request

2003 Jack Jeffrey: Recent Work, at Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver February-March 2003; exhibition review in Sculpture, vol. 22, no.7, Sept.2003, pp.76-77; reproduction

2003 Catalogue essay for Shauna Oddleifson: Dangerous Games, at the Fina Gallery, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC

2002 Lyndal Osborne: Geographies and Objects of Enticement, at Kelowna Art Gallery, Jan – Feb. 2002; exhibition review in Sculpture, Vol. 21, No. 8, October 2002; p. 87, reproduction

2002 Lyndal Osborne: Geographies and Objects of Enticement, at Kelowna Art Gallery, Jan – Feb 2002; exhibition review in Border Crossings, Issue No. 82, May 2002; pp. 72-73, reproduction

1999 Catalogue essay for Geert Maas Retrospective, Kelowna Art Gallery

1998 Author of The Creative Voice: Art and Life in the Okanagan, an anthology of 35 interviews of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers in the Okanagan, illustrated with B&W photos, 256 pp. published by The Caitlin Press

1997 Catalogue essay for Hotel on Fire, exhibition at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

1995 Catalogue essay and artist interviews for Posit Poznan, exhibition at the International Artist’s Centre, Poznan, Poland

1994 Artist project, By Train: Berlin-Lodz in New Observations, Sept/Oct issue

1993 Exhibition review of Claim, by Jack Jeffrey, at Okanagan Artists Alternative, Boomtown, April issue

1992 Exhibition review of 40 Years of British Sculpture, at Kelowna Art Gallery, Boomtown, Oct/Nov issue

VISITING ARTIST / GUEST LECTURE / CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2018 Visiting artist, The Department of Creative Studies, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, January 22.

2016 Conference presenter, 4th International Conference on Artistic and Arts-based Research: Rethinking arts-based & artistic research – and global/local communities, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki Finland, June 28-30, 2016.Title of Paper: Reading Artistic Models and Cultural Codes in Contemporary Sculpture.

2015 Conference presenter, 3rd Conference on Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research: Conversational Approaches about what is and what is not Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, Portugal, Jan, 28 – 30. Title of paper: On the Question of Quality in the Absence of Connoisseurship.

2014 Conference presenter, Project Anywhere Conference 2014 (New York), Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Location-Specificity, School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons, The New School for Design, a division of The New School, New York, NY, Nov. 13 – 14; Title of paper: The challenges of critique and critical judgment in response to arts paradigmatic shifts and increasing hybridity of artistic fields.

2014 Conference presenter: Arts-Based and Artistic Research, Intuitions and Critical Reflections on Issues and Methodologies. Organized by the University of Granada, Spain

2013 Conference presenter: Arts-Based and Artistic Research: Critical reflections on the intersection between art and research, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona

2013 Panel presenter, Lightning Talks, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2011 Artist lecture, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton ON

2011 Guest presentation, on the occasion of Okanagan Institute Raising the Bar award citation to Anna Jacyszyn

2009 Co-presenter, with Sarah Burwash, Thinking Big in the Small City: Arts, Academia and the Question of Peripheral, CURA, Small City Conference Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC

2009 Guest lecture & workshop, Writing an Artist Statement, Vertigo Gallery, Vernon, BC

2009 Visiting Artist, Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA), Victoria, BC

2008 Guest lecture, Let’s Start r, Artspace, Sydney, Australia, at the Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

2008 Guest lecture, What is Installation Art? Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC

2008 Panel Presenter, curatorial presentation Artspace Symposium Aesthetics, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

2008 Artist lecture, The End is My Beginning, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2007 Guest lecture, titled The Creative Voice, Ten Years On, at Mosaic Books, organized by The Okanagan Institute, Kelowna, BC

2007 Guest lecture, with Liz Wylie, and Patricia Ainsle, called Art in Perspective, at Mosaic Books, The Okanagan Institute, Kelowna, BC

2006 Lecture presentation/video screen Video Art and Democracy, Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, BC

2006 Artist lecture, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC

2005 Artist lecture, Queensland College of the Arts, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

2005 Artist lecture, Sydney College of the Arts, University Of Sydney, Australia

2005 Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC

2005 Juror presentation: on the subject of the selection of artworks for Right Now!, the Vertigo Gallery, Vernon, BC

2004 Panel presenter, The Artist as Provocateur, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC

2004 Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON

1991-2004 Instructor: Drawing, Painting, UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC

2003 Artist lecture, One Way Ticket, exhibition at The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

2003 Artist lecture; One Way Ticket, exhibition at Kelowna Art Gallery, BC

2001 Panel presenter: A Critical Look at Contemporary Canadian Painting, Kelowna Art Gallery TransLinear Exhibition, Kelowna, BC

2001 Conference presenter: Careers in the performing, creative, and visual arts, School District #23 Grand Conference Center, Kelowna, BC

2001 Visiting Artist Presentation, Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, BC

2001 Conference presenter, The BC University College Research Conference, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC

2000 Guest lecture: Berlin Jazz Story and Film Noir; Interior Film & Television Training Centre, Kelowna, BC

1985-1989 Part Time instructor: Drawing, Painting, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

AWARDS | Scholarships, Grants, Awards, & Residencies

2018 Elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA)

2016 Travel Grant and Research Grant, FCCS Research Support Fund, UBC Okanagan Campus

2015 Artist-in-Residence, Bus from Guadalajara, Artist Residency, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, June 2015

2014 BC Arts Council Travel Grant, University of Granada, Spain.

2014 Travel Grant, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS), UBC Okanagan.

2013 Travel Grant, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS), UBC Okanagan; in Support of travel to Art and Research conference, University of Barcelona, Spain

2010 Artist-in-Residence, Bus from Guadalajara, Artist Residency, Ajijic, Jalisco, Mexico, November 2010

2010 Okanagan Arts Award in Visual Arts, Arts Council of the Central Okanagan, BC

2008 Canada Council Travel Grant

2008 BC Arts Council Travel Grant

2008 UBC Okanagan Travel Grant

2007 UBC Okanagan Publications Grant, in support of Point of Origin, Sydney Australia

2006 UBC Okanagan Internal Research Grant, in support of “Point of Origin”, Sydney, Australia,

2005 Artist-in-Residence Award, Sydney College of the Arts/University of Sydney, Sydney, AUS

2005 Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) ASU Research Grant

2004 Canada Council Travel Grant

2004 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant

2004 Studio Residency, Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John’s, NFLD. (April-May)

2004 Studio Residency, Triangle Arts Association, DUMBO Studios, Brooklyn, NY (March)

2002 Canada Council Travel Grant

2000 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant

1998 Canada Council Travel Grant

1998 Okanagan Artist Recognition Award (OARA), literature category

1998 Studio Residency, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

1997 Oskar Award (best documentary) Okanagan Society of Independent Filmmakers

1991 VIVA Award (Vancouver Institute of Visual Arts)

1991 Canada Council Visual Arts "B" Grant

1990/91 Studio Award / International Studio Program, Museum/MOMA, Long Island City, NY

1990 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Grant

1989 Canada Council Project Cost Grant

1988 Canada Council Travel Grant

1987 Canada Council Project Cost Grant

1983 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Assistance Grant

1982 Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Assistance Grant

1981/83 Graduate Student Scholarship, College of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

COLLECTIONS

University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Mary Chan, Interspace Design, Saskatoon

Canada Council Art Bank

Vancouver Art Gallery

Westbourne Industries, Montreal

Kelowna Art Gallery

Kamloops Art Gallery

Artist’s Museum, Łόdz, Poland

Pouch Cove Foundation, St. John’s, Newfoundland

Two Rivers Art Gallery, Prince George, BC

Residence Collection, Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane, Australia

University of Sydney, Sydney College of Art and Design, Australia

Morris & Helen Belkin Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Drückwerkstadt, Berlin, Germany

McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario

Private Collections

ARTICLES AND REVIEWS ON ARTIST

2018 Review of Living, Building, Thinking: art and expressionism, by John Thompson, in Galleries West

2016 ZINE You Be See Oh, interview with the artist, by Moozhan Ahmadzadegan, un-paginated.

2015 Depths of the Ersatz, by Julie Oakes, exhibition review of Turn Back, Detour, Go On, in Vie Des Arts, No. 237, Winter 2014-2015, pp. 80 – 81, reproductions.

2013 Exhibition review of Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, in Eye and Mind, a chronicle of Marseille, Provence) December 21

2013 Exhibition review of Nous reviendrons, vous reviendrez, in Galerie du Tableau – exhibition held in the rooms of d’honneur de la Préfecture, Des artistes de Vancouver se dévoilent, October 24

2013 Ainsle, Patricia; Okanagan Artists in their Studios, pub. Calgary, Frontenac House Ltd. Essay on the artist pp. 158 – 171, reproductions

2013 Radio Interview with Gail Mowatt, on The Muse, CKVS 93.7 FM - Voice of the Shuswap, Salmon Arm, BC aired March 27 and April 14. Broadcast length 1:17 hours

2012 Gary Pearson’s Scenes for a Smoker’s Theatre, essay by Portia Priegert, for Winsor Gallery

2012 Gary Pearson: Scenes from a “Smoker’s Theatre, by Mia Johnson, Preview, Feb/Mar. p. 40, reproduction

2011 1 2 3 Soliloquy, Akimbo – Akimblog – Stephanie Vegh in Hamilton, February 1

2009 Somewhere: A Solo exhibition by Gary Pearson, by Monique Kroeger, in The La Source, May 4

2008 The End is My Beginning, exhibition review by Liz Wylie, Border Crossings, August 2008, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 185-186, reproductions

2008 The End is My Beginning, exhibition review by Portia Priegert, Galleries West, Fall/Winter 2008, Vol. 7, No.3, pp. 40-41, reproduction

2008 A picture’s worth a thousand words, by Greg Sabatino, Kamloops This Week, May 9, p. C2

2008 Kelowna’s Gary Pearson has Major Show in Kamloops, Off-Centre Magazine, May

2008 KAG combines jazz, poetry, The Daily News, Kamloops, May 2, p. B4

2008 BC painter explores today’s urban woes, The Daily News, Kamloops, March 28, p. B2

2008 Windows on Everyday Lives, by Mike Youds, The Daily News, Kamloops

2007 Cover image in Okanagan Arts magazine, Fall 2007, One Way Ticket, 2002, oil/canvas

2005 Alone in a Crowd, by Adriana Barton, in Western Living, p. 10, October 2005, vol. 35, no. 8, reproduction

2005 Artist didn’t have a One Way Ticket, Josh Hammerstadt, in Prince George This Week, p. 11, March 6, 2005, reproduction

2003 Radio interview with Cheryl MacKay, CBC North by Northwest, June 1

2003 Dark Musings, by Glenna Turnbull, The Capital News, Showcase, June 19-25, p.3, reproduction

2001 Belton, Robert; Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture, pub. University of Calgary Press., essay on painting In the Distance a Siren Wails (reprod); pp 168,328,329

2000 Social Grit, by Portia Priegert, Event, Kelowna, Nov. 9 - 15; p. 13, reproduction

1998 Interview with David Grierson, CBC Radio North by Northwest, October 17

1998 An Artist Turns Author, by Hazel MacClement, The Daily Courier, Kelowna, November 1, p. C3, reproduction

1998 Pearson Writes Valuable Reference Book, by Andrew Hanon, Capital News, Kelowna, p. 8, Showcase Nov. 13 – 19, reproduction

1995 Spectacle Did Not Threaten, by Maev Brennan, The Daily Courier, October 5, p. C1

1995 Performance Art Comes to Alternator, by Maev Brennan, The Daily Courier, September 28

1995 Taksowka z Kanady, Gazeta Wyborcza, July 8, 1995, p. 3, by Monika Bakke

1995 Vivid, Thoughts From the Okanagan, The Nanaimo Times, March 30, p. B1, by Anne Gilroyed, reproduction

1993 The Slate, BBC television documentary, directed by Peter Tellfer, October 14, 1993, featuring 10 artists at Construction in Process IV

1992 Drift by Gunvald Opstad, Hrymfaxe Kunsttidsskrift, no. 3, September 1992, pp.3-8, reproduction

1992 Maps To Nowhere, by Sheila Farr, Reflex, vol. 6, no. 5, September/October, p.23, reproduction

1992 Drift - 92, by Atle Christiansen, Dag Og Tid, September 17

1992 Nature Becomes the Canvas, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review, August 22, 1992, p. D9 (catalogue review)

1992 Haerverk pa Bragdoya, by Gunvald Opstad,Faedrelandsvennen, July 18, reproduction

1992 Drift Tar Form, by Bernt Erik Pederson, Farsunds Avis, June 16, p. 7 reproduction

1992 Drift, television documentary by Marianne Jakobsen NRK, Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., June

1992 Studio Watch: Gary Pearson, by Eileen Truscott, Extension, vol. 1, no. 3, Winter 1992, pp.14-15, reproduction

1991 The Pacific Northwest: Sex, Landscape, and Videotapes, by Patricia Failing, ArtNews, vol. 90, no. 10, December 1991, pp. 88-91 (p. 90)

1991 Drawing Out City's Finest, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Seven Days Magazine, May 30, 1991, p. F4

1991 Art in the Okanagan, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review, March 30, p. D7

1991 Artist's Foreboding Imagery..., by Maev Brennan, Kelowna Capital News, March 8, p. 14, reproduction

1990 Man's Triumphs of Technology Critiqued as False Gods, by Ann Rosenberg, The Vancouver Sun - Saturday Review, November 3, 1990, p. D10

1990 The Eye of the Beholder, by Jean Gordon, West, vol. 2, no. 9, October, pp. 30 – 41 reproduction

1990 North of the Border, by Sheila Farr, Reflex, vol. 4, no. 3 May/June, p. 24

1990 Odd Geometrics Transcend Their Awkwardness, by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, vol. 24, no. 1159, March 9 - 16, p. 23

1988 Human Geometry, by Robin Laurence (reproduction), Vanguard, vol. 17, no. 6, Dec. 88/Jan. 89, p 43

1988 Saskatchewan Art: Tradition and Diversity", by Christina Sabat, Arts Atlantic 31, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 11-12

1984 Symbolism or Metaphor, by Sandra Albers,The Kamloops News, June 27, 1984, reproduction

1983 Artistic Community Welcomes New Member, by George Allen, The Kamloops News, September 29, reproduction

1981 First how for New Talent, by Mark Lightfoot, The Citizen, Prince George, January 7, reproduction