BLAKE SENINI - CURRICULUM VITAE
 

DATE OF BIRTH

1954   Nanaimo, British Columbia

EDUCATION

1981   MFA (Honours) Sculpture The University of Calgary, Alberta

1975   BFA ( Honours) Sculpture University of Victoria, British Columbia

1971-73   Studied Ceramics and Sculpture, Malaspina College, Nanaimo, British Columbia

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007   After Lawren, Skew Gallery, Calgary

2006   Selected Works, Summit Gallery, Banff

2004/05   A Foreign Film, Skew Gallery, Calgary

2002   A Month After Words, The Art Gallery of Calgary

2000   Ether, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts , Calgary

1998   The Without, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts , Calgary

one, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

1995   Natura Morta, Stride Gallery, Calgary

1994   Natura Morta, Galerie Optica, Montréal, Quebec

1993   Ashes to Ashes, Eau Claire Centre, Calgary

1991   Lure, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary

1989   Recent Works, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary

1988   Recent Works, Galerie Franklin Silverstone, Montreal, Quebec

1987   Sculpture, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

1986   In Sweet and Vicious Memory , Off Centre Centre, Calgary

1985   New Sculpture, Canadian Art Gallery , Calgary

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006   Group Show, Summit Gallery, Banff
Faculty Exhibition : Illingworth Kerr Gallery
Building a Collection : 80 Years at The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery , Edmonton.

2005   Form - Space - Concept - Metaphor : Contemporary Alberta Sculpture, Triangle Gallery , Calgary
ACAD Faculty Exhibition , Illingworth Kerr Gallery

2004   Artrageous 2004 , Alberta College of Art and Design ACAD Faculty Exhibition , Illingworth Kerr Gallery

2003   Selections from the Alberta Art Foundation Permanent Collection Vertigo Theatre , Calgary
Alberta College of Art and Design Faculty Exhibition , Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary

2002   Selections from the Permanent Collection, Edmonton Art Gallery

2001   The Alien Project, Edmonton Art Gallery

2000   The Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art
The Edmonton Art Gallery and Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
Presence & Sweet Relief, Alberta Art Foundation (selections from the collection) 102 Street CentreEdm, Edmonton
Silver, The New Gallery, Calgary

1999   Exquisite Corpse ( with Gordon Ferguson and Walter May ) , Stride Gallery , Calgary

1998   Distance (with Chris Cran and Walter May) , Artweek '98
Real Objects, Edmonton Art Gallery

1997   Celebrating a Legacy, Edmonton Art Gallery
Neoteric, Beaver House Gallery, Edmonton

1996   Faculty Exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary
Gaining Ground, Edmonton Art Gallery

1995   Looking Back II, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge

1994   ACAD Faculty Exhibition, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary

1993   Group Show, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery, Calgary

1992   In-Form (with Gordon Ferguson), Art-Evo Gallery, Edmonton

1991   Square Deal Squared, The New Gallery, Calgary

1990   Sculpture '90, Four Alberta Sculptors, Triangle Gallery, Calgary
Spun-Out, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary

1989   AutoRetrato '89, Art Appreciations Centre, Victoria, B.C.
Sculpture By Invitation, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton
Links To Reality, Muttart Gallery, Calgary
Construction De-Construction, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta , Edmonton

1988   ACAD Faculty Exhibition, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary
New Sculpture, Paul Kuhn Fine Arts, Calgary
Survey Alberta '88, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary

1987   Dreaming Before Nature, (Eight Calgary Artists), Edmonton Art Gallery
Gang of Three (New Sculpture from Calgary), Plug-in Inc. and Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Wall/Space (New Sculpture by Six Calgary Artists), Glenbow Museum,Calgary

1986   Spring Bizarre '86 (with Rita McKeough & Gordon Ferguson), Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
A Square Deal, Off Centre Centre Gallery, Calgary

1985   Have You Seen The Mountains?, Canadian Art Gallery, Calgary
Five Sculptors from Southern Alberta, Whyte Museum, Banff
The First Ten, Off Centre Centre, Calgary
Peace Earth Peace, Off Centre Centre, Calgary

ARTFAIRS

2007   ArtLA art fair, Skew Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

COLLECTIONS

Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Alberta Foundation For the Arts, Centennial Collection 2006
Grant MacEwan College
Edmonton Art Gallery
British Petroleum
Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
Calgary Civic Art Collection
University of Victoria , B.C.
MacLeod Dixon, Calgary
The Estate Collection , Calgary
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Canada Council Art Bank
Private Collections

 

 

AWARDS

2004    The Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project Grant

2003    The Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project Grant

2002   ACAD Professional Development - Project Grant

2000   The Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project Grant

1998   The Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project Grant

1994   The Alberta Foundation for the Arts - Project Grant

1993   Plus 15 Sculpture Competition, City of Calgary

1989   Canada Council - Arts Grant B

1987   Municipal Plaza Sculpture competition (second stage), Calgary

1984   Cash Award, Elements of Earth, Juried Exhibition, Banff

1981   Alberta Government Graduate Scholarship

1980-81   Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The University of Calgary

1980   Thesis Research Grant, The University of Calgary

Dean's Special Scholarship, The University of Calgary

1979   Graduate Scholarship Award, The University of Calgary

1975   Arthur S. Deny, University of Victoria
President's Scholarship, University of Victoria
Scholastic Merit Award, University of Victoria
Sculpture Competition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, first prize
President's Scholarship, University of Victoria

 

 

SELECTED BIOGRAPHY

Mary Beth Lavoilette and Patricia Ainslie, Art and Artists of Alberta, Ed Pa`s Journal Art in Calgary
Calgary Herald, review of After Lawren

Radio interview for After Lawren , CKUA Feb. 2007

Laviolette, Mary- Beth, An Alberta Art Chronicle, pgs.216, 232-233, 343, 347 - 349. Altitude Publishing, 2005.

Oak, Arlene, Artichoke Magazine, `Ornament and Language', Summer 2005, Volume 17, no.2, pg. 16 - 21.

Naclia, Janet, Blake Senini: A Foreign Film, Canadian Art Magazine, Rewind Section, Summer 2005 issue,
Volume 22 , Number 2 , pg. 95.

Gogarty, Amy, Artichoke Magazine, Review of `A Foreign Film`, `One Month of Decoration and Ornament`, Summer 2005, Volume 17 no. 2, pg. 13-15.
Shaw Cable, Television Interview of Blake Senini and `A Foreign Film` Jan. 10th / 2005.
Mabie, Don, `This is not a Mission Bell`, essay written to accompany the exhibition, `A Foreign Film`, Skew Gallery, Calgary, Jan. 2005.
Naclia, Janet, "Elusive Tales", Calgary Herald, ( `Books and the Arts` Section ), Feb. 5, 2005, Sec. G, pg. 1 & 2 .

Bloom, Bernard, "Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art", Artichoke Magazine, Vol. 13 No. 1 Spring, 2001 pg. 26 -29

Gopnik, Blake, The Arts, The Globe and Mail, July 3, 2000

Abercrombie, Nora, Visual Arts, November '98, pg. 23. Edmonton Journal.

Tousley, Nancy, "Statial Sensations", Calgary Herald, April 26, 1997, Sec. I, pg. 16

Long, Timothy, "Simone: Blake Senini", exhibition catalogue, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Sask. 1996
Beatty, Greg, "Artist Sculpts Works for the Spirit", The Leader Post, Regina, Sask. April 6, 1996, pg. D2
Beatty, Greg, "Dedicated to Simone Weil", Espace Magazine, Montreal, Quebec, Fall '96, pg. 31-34

Tousley, Nancy, "Sculptures Set Up Paradoxes", Calgary Herald, March 30, 1994, pg.6
Lehmann, Henry "Optica Vision", The Mirror, December, 1994 Vol.10, No. 28, P. 43.
Crom, Marie-Michèle, "A` la recherche du temps Perdu", Les Arts, December 1994, pg. D18Tousley, Nancy, "Reviews,

Artwalk/Artweek", Canadian Art, Winter 1993, Vol. 10, pg. 62.

Tousley, Nancy, "Spun-out", Calgary Herald, May 1990

Tousley, Nancy, "Sculptor Makes Big Changes in Sixth Solo," Calgary Herald (Scene), June 2, 1989

MacKay, Allan, "Survey Alberta '88", Alberta College of Art Gallery, (Catalogue), 1988

Bond, Eleanor, "Gang of Three (New Sculpture from Calgary)" (Catalogue), Ace Art and Plug-in Inc.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1987
Ylitalo, Katherine, "Wall/Space - New Sculpture by Six Calgary Artists" (Catalogue), Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, 1987
Tousley, Nancy, "Glenbow Exhibit's Sculpture Interacts with Architecture", Calgary Herald
Butler, Sheila, "Gang of Three", Vanguard Magazine, September/October 1987, pp. 33-34
Goslin, Mark, "Dreaming Before Nature" (Catalogue), Edmonton Art Gallery, 1987
O'Neill, Colleen, "Wall Space - New Sculpture from Calgary", Vanguard Magazine, November 1987, pp. 34-35
Blanchette, Manon, "Five Sculptors from Southern Alberta," Vanguard, Feb.pp. 64-65

Laviolette, Mary-Beth, "Oddly Out of the Ordinary", Cityscope, May/June, 1986, pp. 10-11; pp. 46-47
Tousley, Nancy, "Gallery-filling Installation Reflects Stories' Two Sides", Calgary Herald, June 20, 1986, D11
Strong, Marla, Blake Senini/Off Centre Centre, Vanguard, October 1986, p. 34
Laviolette, Mary-Beth, "Blake Senini - Sculpture" (Catalogue), Southern Alberta Art Gallery,Lethbridge Alberta, 1986
Tousley, Nancy, "Sculptor Finds Independence in Own Studio," Calgary Herald, January 26, 1986, p.F2

Mabie, Don, "Blake

Senini/Canadian Art Galleries," Vanguard, October 1985, pp. 43-44
Westra, Monique, "Five Sculptors from Southern Alberta," (Catalogue), Whyte Museum, Banff, Oct. 1985
Tousley, Nancy, "Exhibit Samples Sculpting Efforts", Calgary Herald, November 1,1985, p. F
Mabie, Don (ed.), "The First Ten/The Catalogue," Off Centre Centre, 1985, pp. 31 and 108, illus.  

 

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