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BORN
Manitoba, Canada. Currently lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta.
EDUCATION
1999 Master of Fine Arts (Printmaking), University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 censor, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013 Survey 1999-2013, Avis Frank Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2007 trachea and the hero, and other such stories..., Open Studio, Toronto, ON, Canada
2006 trachea and the hero, and other such stories…, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2001 exhibition of small prints, New Leaf Editions, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 untruths: an exhibition of prints and paintings, Keyano College Art Gallery, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
2000 untruths: an exhibition of prints and paintings, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1999 ffi MFA Exhibition, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
PUBLIC ART COMMISSION
2023-24 SUPERTRAIN, temporary public art project with Kyla Fischer created through an initiative led by SNAP (Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists),
Edmonton Arts Council and Pattison Outdoor Advertising. Included two month residency at SNAP.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 SNAP 40th Anniversary Portfolio exhibition and fund raiser, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2021 Artists in the Fallow, Part II, 5 Floors of Art/Installation/Performance at Brighton Block, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2019 Printed Matter, works by the faculty, staff and graduate students from the Department of Art & Design/Printmaking at the University of Alberta
Galeria Kobro | Kobro Gallery, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi, The Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts Łódź
2019 Open Books – Chinese Folding Books and Works on Paper Exhibition, Art Central Gallery, Town Hall, King Square, Barry, Wales
2018 Brains and Breasts: Omitted Anatomies: Helen Gerritzen and Mariléne Oliver, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2016 International Print Exhibition: Canada and Japan, 2016, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Japan, and University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2017 PrintAustin Invitational, LInk & Pin, Austin, TX USA.
2016 Open Books, exhibition of books by invited artists from U.K., China and Canada, National Library and Archives, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (upcoming
September to November)
2016 International Print Exhibition: Canada and Japan, 2016, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan (upcoming October)
2016 Rock, Paper… Keyano Art Gallery, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada
2015 Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates, Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2015 From Time to Time, portfolio honouring Professor Emeritus Walter Jule, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
2015 Connections: Edmonton & Houston, An international exchange of art prints between the Society of North Alberta Print-Artists and PrintMatters,
Houston, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, USA (traveling to Edmonton in 2016)
2015 ART Houston: May the Rainbow Always Touch Your Shoulder, with artists Ricky Armendariz, and Meredith Jack, Nicole Longnecker Gallery,
Houston, TX, USA
2015 Connections: Edmonton & Houston An international exchange of art prints between the Society of North Alberta Print-Artists and PrintMatters
(Houston), Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX, USA
2015 IMPRESSIONS 2015 PrintMatters membership exhibition, curated, The West Loop Gallery of Houston Community College Southwest, Houston,
TX, USA
2015 “Ink + Print, A PrintAustin Invitational" Curated by Annalise Gratovich, Link and Pin Gallery, Austin, TX, USA2015
2014 PRINTHOUSTON: NEXT 2014 Juried by Yizhak Elyashiv, Rhode Island School of Design, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2014 THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN, Curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, Director, Andrew and Anya Gallery
(New York), Athens School of Fine Arts, Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Venue, Athens, Greece
2013 IMPRESSIONS: PrintMatters Members’ Exhibition, Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC, USA
2012 Expressing the Social Conscience: Art Prints and Human Rights, curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, John Jay College, New York,
NY, USA
2012 IMPRESSIONS 2012: PrintMatters Members’ Exhibition, The Museum of Printing History, Houston, Texas, USA
2012 Houston PrintMatters Invitational, DesignWorks Gallery, Galveston, TX, USA (curated)
2012 What’s in Store, UNIT at Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX, USA
2012 SNAP: thirty artists celebrate 30 years, Art League of Houston, TX, USA
2012 Luck of the Draw 2012, Diverseworks Art Space, Houston, TX, USA
2012 Steamrolled II: Wonderland, Gallery M Squared, Houston, TX, USA
2010 Gambol. Juried Member's Exhibition , Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, USA (Juror Miranda Lash, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art,
Museum of Art in New Orleans)
2009 Synergies 2009: Prints from the University of Alberta, Osmanhamdi Bey Gallery, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 edmonton prints, SNAP/Red Strap Market, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2008 Agave, University of Alberta Centenary Portfolio, Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2007 Illinois State University Printmaking Faculty: Five Decades and Border Crossings: an International Portfolio Exchange, University Galleries,
Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
2005 Recent Work (two-person), Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2005 Collaborative Print Exhibition between Silpakorn University, Tama Art University and the
University of Alberta, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand / Tama Art University Tokyo, Japan, 2006
2005 4th Novosibirsk International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Krasny Prospect, Novosibirsk, Russia
2005 Synergies: Prints from the University of Alberta, Westfalische Gallerie, Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany
2005 Re:search Visions: Department of Art & Design staff exhibition, Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
2004 Quintessence (five person), Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
2004 How to Become a Mirror, Juried SNAP members show, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton
2003 Lines of Site 2003, Sherman Gallery, Boston University College of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
2003 Sixieme Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format in Chamalieres, Auvergne, France
2003 Interconnection - Japan & Alberta, Gallery San Chun, Calgary, AB, Canada
2003 Junge Kunst Im Fokus, Waldhof Museum, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
2003 SNAP member exhibition, Print Arts Northwest, Portland, OR, USA
2003 Sojourn: An Exhibition of Members’ Works from SNAP, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 2nd Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (BIMPE), Vancouver, BC, Canada (award)
2002 1st LUC Print Biennial, juried national print competition, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, USA (first prize)
2002 Surface & Mettle, an exhibition of prints pertaining to vernacular culture, Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,
Canada
2001 Faculty Biennial and New Faculty Exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
2001 Third Biennial of Engraving in Ile-de-France, Versailles, France
2001 standing room only juried members’ show, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton and Keyano Art Gallery, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, AB, Canada
1999 Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms and Materialities, curated exhibition of printworks from the division of printmaking, Department of Art & Design,
University of Alberta
- Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London, UK (March-April, 1999)
- Musashino Art University Galleries, Tokyo, Japan (May-June, 1999)
- Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB, Canada (December, 1999)
- FAB Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada (May-June, 2000)
- Old Town Hall Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (October, 2000)
1997 Alberta Print Artists, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1996 SNAP Members Exhibition, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Centred – In, SNAP Members Exhibition at the Works Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1995 How Does It Smell? 3rd Annual Members Exhibit, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1995 Posters as prints, prints as posters, Fringe Gallery, Edmonton, AB, Canada
EXHIBITIONS CURATED AND/OR CHAIRED
2012 Co-Chair, PRINTHOUSTON: NEXT, A national biennial of Contemporary Print, 4411 Special Events Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2008 re-drawing the line: Works from the University of Alberta Graduate Studios (co-curator) Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (catalogue)
2007 Visual Thinking: The Practice of Drawing from the Graduate Studios at the University of Alberta (co-curator) Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2005 Here and Now: Current Drawings, drawings from graduate students in the Department of Art & Design (co-curator), Art Gallery of Alberta
PUBLIC LECTURES
2024 Confluence presented by Art & Life Foundation, Yorath House, Edmonton; presentation on SUPERTRAIN Project with Kyla Fischer
2018 Artist talk, in conjunction with Brains and Breasts: Omitted Anatomies: Helen Gerritzen and Mariléne Oliver, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton
2016 University of Houston Clear Lake, Department of Art & Design; public lecture on current research
2015 University of Calgary, Department of Art, Nickle Gallery Theatre; public lecture on current research
2005 The Power of Representation: Drawing as a Contemporary Artistic Practice. Part of a lecture series presented by the Art Gallery of Alberta,
Edmonton in conjunction with the exhibit, French Drawings from the National Gallery.
2001 Keyano College, Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Fort McMurray, Alberta. Lecture on current research.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Library of Wales, U.K.
Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Krasny Prospect, Novosibirsk, Russia
University of North Texas, USA
Gallery San Chun, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Normal Editions Workshop, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
The Print Study Center, University of Alberta, Canada
Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Edmonton, Alberta
COMMISSIONS/PRINT PORTFOLIOS
2022 SNAP 40th Anniversary Portfolio
2015 Connections: Edmonton & Houston, international exchange of art prints between the Society of North Alberta Print-Artists and PrintMatters
2014 From Time to Time, portfolio honouring Professor Emeritus Walter Jule
2013 Burning Bones Press Cooperative Portfolio
2012 Portfolio: A Tribute to James D. Butler
2012 SNAP 30th Anniversary Portfolio
2007 Agave University of Alberta Centenary Portfolio
Border Crossings: an International Portfolio Exchange
2006 Student/Faculty Portfolio Exchange between the University of North Texas and University of Alberta
2003 Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP) Newsletter Artist
2000 SNAP Millennium Portfolio
SELECTED AWARDS/GRANTS/NOMINATIONS
2016 Edmonton Arts Council Travel Grant
2010 2010 Faculty of Arts Contract Instructor Teaching Award, University of Alberta
2006 University of Alberta Celebration of Teaching, Teaching Unit Award (Printmaking)
2006 Faculty of Arts Awards 2006, University of Alberta, Unit Teaching Award (Printmaking)
2002 First prize, 1st LUC Print Biennial, Loyola University, Chicago, IL
Honourable mention, 2nd Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Vancouver
2004 Nomination to Jury, Ernst & Young Great Canadian Printmaking Competition
1998 KPMG Graduate Award for Excellence in Printmaking, Edmonton, AB, Canada
1997 University of Alberta Master of Fine Arts Scholarship
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES/PUBLICATIONS
2014 PRINTHOUSTON: NEXT 2014
2014 THE RULE OF LAW AND THE RIGHT TO BE HUMAN
2011 Publication of works in Harvard Review, Number 39 (Fall/Winter)
2007 trachea and the hero, and other such stories… Open Studio Gallery, commissioned essay by Gilbert Bouchard
2005 nb.4 Novosibirsk Graphic Art Biennial, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia, 75
2004 Quintessence, Nanaimo Art Gallery
2003 Sixieme Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format in Chamalier
Junge Kunst im Focus, Museum Waldhof, Bielefeld, Germany
Lines of Site 2003 Confluent Visual Cultures at the University of Alberta, 27
SNAPline, Fall 2003, essay on newsletter print by Anne Whitelaw
2001 Troisieme Biennale de la Gravure d’Ile de France
1999 Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms and Materialities, 91-93
1997 International Printmaking Cooperatives Symposium, article Alberta Print Artists
MCMXLVII University of Alberta Art & Design Graduation Catalogue
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES EDITED
2009 Synergies 2009: Prints from the University of Alberta, published by the Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
2008 edmonton prints, published by SNAP
2008 re-drawing the line Works from the University of Alberta Graduate Studios, published by the Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
REVIEWS/PREVIEWS OF EXHIBITIONS
2006 Agnieszka Matejko, preview in Vue Weekly, August 31 - September 6, “Gerritzen branches out with trachea and the hero”
Mary Christa O’Keefe, article in See, August 31-September 6, “Heroic measures: Helen Gerritzen explores the transformation impulse at SNAP”
cbc radio One, Radio Active, August 30, segment on trachea and the hero... with host Peter Brown and visual arts and culture reporter, Gilbert
Bouchard (recorded in gallery)
Gilbert Bouchard, preview in Edmonton Journal, August 25, “Recreating mythical stories on canvas”
Mary Joyce, preview of SNAP solo exhibition in Galleries West magazine, Summer, 34
2004 Jennifer Lannan, review in The Nanaimo Navigator, Volume 35/Issue 14, March 31, “Quintessence redefined”
Mia Johnson, Preview - The Gallery Guide, preview of Quintessence exhibition
2002 Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal, August 23 preview of Surface & Mettle, “finding the elegant in the everyday”
2001 Fort McMurray Today, February 27 article “True Story: untruths on display
Maureen Fenniak, Vue Weekly, Jan 4-10 issue, “Guns bad, Jesus Good: 2000’s best visual art was free from millennium hype”
2000 Maureen Fenniak, review in Vue Weekly, July 13-July 19 issue, “Helen Gerritzen fabricates some untruths”
Edmonton Journal, July 4 article “The Works: Here’s a short list of must-see work”
Gilbert Bouchard, article in Edmonton Journal, July 2, “Playing Hooky at the Works: an artistic tour”
Pheobe Dey, University of Alberta Folio, February 4, review “Artists at Work” for exhibition 113 Degrees West: In the Cross Hairs
1999 the scene, CBC TV News, coverage of MFA exhibition ffi
REVIEWS OF CURATORIAL WORK
2008 Mary Christa O’Keefe, Vue Weekly, January 17-23,review of curated exhibition re-drawing the line
2007 Mary Christa O’Keefe, Vue Weekly, February 15-21,review of curated exhibition Visual Thinking
Paul Blinov, The Gateway, volume XCVII number 31,review of Visual Thinking
Zoltan Varadi, Folio, February 2, review of Visual Thinking
Amy Fung, See, review of review of Visual Thinking
2005 Gilbert Bouchard, Edmonton Journal, November 20, article “Back to the Drawing Board”
Edmonton Journal, November 11, preview of Here and Now exhibition
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2015-2020 Academic Teaching Staff, Printmaking, Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
2016 Instructor, Drawing, Printmaking and 3D Design, Winter Term, Visual Art & Design, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta
2012 Instructor, Printmaking, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2011-12 Board Member, PrintMatters, Houston
2005-2010 Coordinator of Drawing Division, Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
1999-2010 Contract Academic, Printmaking and Drawing, Department of Art & Design, University of Alberta
2001-02 Instructional Assistant Professor, Intaglio Printmaking, School of Art, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA
2000-04 Board Member, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists (SNAP), Edmonton