Risa Horowitz has lived and worked in seven Canadian provinces as an artist, educator, writer, and gallery programmer. Her work has been exhibited across Canada in a variety of public galleries and artist-run-centres, as well as internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the Ukraine. She is represented in Toronto by MKG127 Gallery. Horowitz has received numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, several provincial funding bodies, the K.M. Hunter award for excellence in Visual Arts (2006), and the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship for her research in visual arts and practice-based scholarship. Horowitz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Regina, in Saskatchewan.
Horowitz is currently developing a new project that involves becoming an amateur astronomer and astro-photographer in order to collect images of the planet Saturn.
Represented in Toronto by MKG127 Gallery.
2012 Blurry Canada Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba.Brandon, Manitoba
2011 Blurry Canada The Dunlop Art Gallery, Sherwood Branch. Curated by Jeff Nye.Regina, Saskatchewan
2010 Pacing Time: of Presence and Meaning MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 melitzah and TrioGales Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 Trio Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
2008 Trees of Canada MKG127 Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Trees of Canada Profiles Gallery, St. Albert, Alberta
2006 Trio Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2004 Corners Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba School of Architecture, Winnipeg
2003 girl before a mirror Niagara Artists Co., St. Catherine's ON
2002 melitzah Neutral Ground, Regina
2001 girl before a mirror Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax
2001 girl before a mirror The New Gallery, Calgary
2000 girl before a mirror M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition Snelgrove Gallery, UofS
2000 gem digital photo/video installation The Workshop Gallery; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon
1999 verso Photo installation The Workshop Gallery; The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon
1999 aut Photo/Video installation, in collaboration with Tetyana Gershuni Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, UofS
2010 "Aut", Thirtieth Year by Day curated by Tatiana Gershuni, Doroshenko Gryshchenko Clinic, Kiev, Ukraine.
2010 "Test Site", Beat the "Champ" Durham Art Gallery.
2009 "Best of Transmedia" International Film Festival Rotterdam, Studiopace curated by Michelle Kasprzak, Year Zero One/Transmedia
2008 "Unsettled" Instructional Diagram No. 1 B42 Gallery, Oakville, Ontario
2008 "Aussie Screen" Studiopace curated by Michelle Kasprzak, Year Zero One/Transmedia, Melbourne, Australia
2008 "Manchester Urban Screens" Studiopace curated by Michelle Kasprzak, Year Zero One/Transmedia, Manchester, UK
2007 "Corners/Dust" Corners Forest City Gallery, London, Ontario
2006 Trio The Afterschool Supplemental, curated by Maiko Tanaka, Ontario College of Art and Design
2005 melitzah selected artist, FILE Electronic Language Interernational Festival, Sao Paolo Brazil
2005 Studiopace video screening every minute through October, Yonge-Dundas Square Year Zero One/Transmedia
2005 Intuned Silo collaborative sound performance with Linling Hsu and Mohammed AlRiffai. "Sound Madness II", curated by Alissa Firth Eagland. The Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery
2005 Registration Trial Videothon video screenings, aceartinc.
2005 Registration Trial Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, F.A.S.T. Faculty Exhibition
2004 Corners, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg
2004 melitzah, Images Festival 2004, Images off Screen, Toronto
2003 melitzah, COSIGN: Conference on Computational Semiotics, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK
2003 "Daring Confessions: Romance and the Modern Day Woman" Thirtieth Year by Day, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon. Curated by Alexandra Stratulat
2003 "Young Winnipeg Artists" melitzah, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg. Curated by Cliff Eyland and Carol Phillips
2001 The Power of Reflection, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Mois de la Photo a Montreal. curated by Martha Langford [inclusion of girl before a mirror website]
2000 Revolutions cd (curated by Steve Heimbecker) collection of local experimental audio Video Verite
2000 Travelling Light: video art from Saskatchewan. (curated) CFAT, Halifax
2000 It's a Long Haul M.F.A. student group exhibition St. T. More Gallery
2000 Performathon performance of chasing tail aka Gallery, Saskatoon
1999 Reconfigurations Curated Video Screening (Joanne Lyons and Donald Grylls) aut The AnteChamber, Regina, SK
1999 Mute Worth M.F.A. student group exhibition (performance and installation of Onion Joy) Gordon Snelgrove Gallery
1999 Bad Girls, Good Boys Francis Morrison Gallery, Sask.
1999 Site Saskatchewan local emerging artists AKA Gallery, Saskatchewan
1998 Not From Here· MFA Graduate Students Gordon Snelgrove Gallery
1997 Artropolis `97: Browser Box #279 The Roundhouse, Vancouver
2007 Trio on vvork.com
2005 Studiopace Year01/Transmedia web archive
2004 melitzah Year Zero One splash page project [spring], curated by Michelle Kasprzak
2003-2005 melitzah, on Samplesize, artist project page, curated by Kelly Mark
2008 Cité Internationale des Arts, 4 months at the Paris Studio, Canada Council International Residencies Program
2005 Sound & Vision Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts: 7-week residency, production of Trio
2001 SloMo Thematic Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts: 7-week residency, production of melitzah
2001 Wavelength: General Production Support Video Verite: production support for melitzah
2011 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Regina "Imaging Saturn"
2011 Dunlop Art Gallery Blurry Canada
2010 Department of Canadian Heritage Blurry Canada
2009 University of Toronto Master of Visual Studies
2006 Experimental Art Foundation
2007 Forest City Gallery
2006 Sheridan College
2005 The Banff Centre
2004 School of Architecture, Arch 2 Gallery, University of Manitoba
2003 University of Manitoba
2002 Ace Art Inc.
2002 Neutral Ground
2002 The Banff Centre
2001 The Banff Centre
2001 The New Gallery
2011 Fine Arts Presentation Series, University of Regina "Disciplining Art Practice: Work, Hobby, and Expertise in Practice-Based Scholarship" Presenter
2011 University Art Association of Canada, 2011 Conference "Disciplining Art Practice: Work, Hobby, and Expertise in Practice-Based Scholarship" Artist's Pecha Kucha Presenter, National Gallery of Canada
2011 Dunlop Art Gallery "On-Stage Conversation" with Robert Enright, David Garneau, Monica Tap, and Jeff Nye. "Another Roadside Abstraction", "Blurry Canada"
2008 University Art Association of Canada, 2008 Conference "Graduate Students in Visual Arts" Panel Participant
2007 "You Gave Me Hope When I Was at the End" 11th Annual Symposium of Art, panelist for roundtable on the idea of Play, Owens Art Gallery/Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB
2003 COSIGN: Conference on Computational Semiotics University of Teeside, Middlesbrough UK
2002 What Were you Thinking? Postmodernism and Constituency Comox Vallery Art Gallery Visual Arts Conference Presenter
1999 What I Wish I Knew When I Started This Job Panelist; Orientation for New Instructors, University of Saskatchewan
1999 Whatever; Why Bother: The Role of the Artist In the Dying Days of the Millenium Moderator; University of Saskatchewan, Dept. of Art and Art History
1998 Art and TechnologyPanelist; University of Saskatchewan, Dept. of Art and Art Hist.
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2011 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (declined)
2010 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2009 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2009 York University Scholarship
2008 York University Scholarship
2007 The Canada Council for the Arts International Residencies Program, Paris Studio, summer 2008
The Canada Council for the Arts Visual Arts Travel Grant - Australia [Trio]
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2006 The K.M. Hunter Foundation Award for Visual Arts
The Canada Council Research/Creation Grant
The Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Mid Career Grant
The Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2004 The Canada Council Creation/Production C Grant
2003 Manitoba Arts Council Creative B Grant
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
Manitoba Arts Council Travel Grant
Winnipeg Arts Council Profeessional Development Grant
2002 Canada Council for the Arts Grant to Newmedia and Audio Artists
Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant
Saskatchewan Arts Board Creative C Grant
2000 Graduate Teaching Fellowship University of Saskatchewan, Department of Art and Art History
1999 Graduate Teaching Fellowship University of Saskatchewan, Department of Art and Art History
1998 Graduate Service Fellowship University of Saskatchewan, College of Graduate Studies and Research
BMO - Trees of Canada
Private Collection - Pacing Time (Balls I & II)
Private Collection - Blurry Canada, PEI
Private Collections [3] - Trees of Canada
Private Collection - Cupcake
The Canada Council Art Bank - Corners
Private Collection - Pearl Snare
University of Saskatchewan - girl before a mirror website on archive
Enright, Robert. "Borderviews: Blurry Canada." Border Crossings Magazine, No. 117, Spring 2011.
Kerslake, Dan. Blurry Canada. Interview on "CBC Radio, The Afternoon Edition"" January 21, 2011.
Kasprzak, Michelle. Creating Spaces: Net Art in the "Real World". essay on Canadian media art, melitzah. Montreal: Centre Internationale d'art Contemporaine de Montreal's Electronic Magazine, 2009.
Holubizky, Ihor. Practice Makes Imperfect (I'm Perfect)" catalouge for Trio, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Australia. January 2008.
Sasano, Mari. Vast Canadian Wilderness... review of Trees of Canada. The Edmonton Journal. October 19, 2007.
Margo, Deborah. Horowitz, Schubert and Margo Perform exhibition essay for Trio at Owens Art Gallery, 2006.
Gilbert, André et al. Self-Portraits in Canadian Photography Montreal: Editions J'ai Vu, 2004.
Stratulat, Alexandra. Daring Confessions: Romance and the Modern Day Girl curator's essay. "The Mendel Art Gallery" fall 2003.
Karlinsky, Amy. Escape Velocity. "Galleries West" fall 2003. read this article
Walker, Morley. Ace Artist Heads Overseas. "Winnipeg Free Press" August 25, 2003.
Sengara, Lorissa. Fast Forward Manitoba. "Canadian Art" Summer, 2003. p. 18.
Gillmor, Alison. Home Invasion: The New Art of Decor. "The National Post" June 7, 2003. p. SP3.
Enright, Robert. The Spirit of the West. "Globe and Mail" May 10, 2003. p. V23. read this article
Enright, Robert. Nouveau Winnipeg. "Border Crossings" May 2003. p. 1516.
Skrobotniak, Tina. Sounds Like Canada. Interview on "CBC Radio One" May 8, 2003.
Roberts, Lorne. melitzah review. "www.newwinnipeg.com" April 23, 2003. p. V23.
Martino, Kelly. Youth Movement: Diverse Voices. "Uptown Magazine" March 20, 2003. p. 7.
Karlinsky, Amy. Young Winnipeg Artists. "Winnipeg Free Press" March 20, 2003. p. V23.
Walker, Morley. Art Attack! YWAs". "Winnipeg Free Press" March 13, 2003. p. D1.
Eyland, Cliff. Young Winnipeg Artists. Curators Essay "Plug In ICA" April 2003. read this article
Anderson, Jack. Work Points to Social Impact of Word Usage. "Regina: Regina Leader Post" 4 July, 2002. read this article
Langford, Martha. The Power of Reflection exhibition Catalogue. Montreal: "Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts" 2001.
Langford, Martha. The Power of Reflection. "Border Crossings #78" Manitoba: Arts Manitoba Publications Inc., 2001.
Shaw, Kyle and Tara Thorne. Art Beat: the Arts in Review. "The Coast" Halifax weekly November 18, 2001.
Muri, Allison. review of Girl Before a Mirror. "BlackFlash Journal of PhotoBased and Electronic Art Production." Vol. 18:3. Saskatoon: Buffalo Berry Press, 2000.
Bristol, Joanne. Travelling Light: Video Art from Saskatchewan exhibition catalogue essay. Halifax: "CFAT" 2000
Horowitz, Risa. review of On Kawara Exhibition "Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills". Border Crossings Magazine, Spring, 2006.
Horowitz, Risa. review of group exhibition curated by Christof Migone "Disquiet". C Magazine, Winter, 2006.
Horowitz, Risa. "The Unbearable Earnestness of Benny" review of "Neverending Song of Love". Canadian Art, Winter, 2004.
Horowitz, Risa. "Infest: International Artist Run Conference" feature article. Mix Magazine. Spring, 2004.
Horowitz, Risa, ed. "twitch" exhibition catalogue and curators essay, with Steve Dietz and Jennifer Woodbury. Ace Art Inc. Winnipeg, 2003. online catalogue
Horowitz, Risa, Lori Fontaine eds. "PaperWait 2003: Anniversary Issue" Ace Art Inc. Winnipeg, 2003.
Horowitz, Risa. "A Brief Utterance" for "COSIGN: Conference on Computational Semiotics for Games and New Media. University of Teeside, UK. 2003.
Horowitz, Risa. "The Decor Project" curators essay for The Decor Project: White on White by Hadley and Maxwell. Ace Art Inc. Winnipeg, 2003.
Horowitz, Risa. "Home and Garden" exhibition review of work by Andrew Wright, Oakville Galleries. "Border Crossings" Winnipeg, 2003.
Horowitz, Risa. "Before a Mirror. Again." review of The Power of Reflection curated by Martha Langford.BlackFlash Journal of PhotoBased and Electronic Art Production.Vol. 19:3. Saskatoon: Buffalo Berry Press, 2002.
Horowitz, Risa. "A Mad Tea Party IV" The Craft Factor. Summer 2001. Saskatoon: The Craft Council, 2001.
Horowitz, Risa. "Introut to a Third Millennium: a Response." Interplay Saskatoon: The Photographers Gallery, 1999.
York University, Toronto, PhD Visual Arts, 2012
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Master of Fine Arts, 2000
Ryerson University, Toronto/Prince Edward Island, Image Arts Program, 1995
York University, Toronto, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, 1995
Updated December 2011 | Acknowledgements | Copyright ©1998-2012 Risa Horowitz