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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2010
Let’s Get Together for Coffee. PUBLIC (or) cracks in the sidewalk. ARTSPACE. Official selection. Curator: Fynn Leitch. Peterborough, ON.
Attack of the 50-ft Ford. Public art project commissioned by the Toronto Awesome Foundation. Toronto, ON.
Stray, get found. Public art project in collaboration with Jenny Santos. Art in Odd Place Festival. Official selection. Curators: Trinidad Fombella and Kalia Brooks. New York, NY.
Artist talk. HOMEWORK: Infrastructures & Collaboration in Social Practices conference and collaboratively-written publication. Windsor, ON
Terry Tanner. The Gladstone Hotel’s Art Bar. Toronto, ON
Rumblings in the Rouge Expedition and Exhibition. Labspace. Toronto, ON. Curators: John Loerchner & Laura Mendes
Brent Bushmill: Rumblings in the Rouge Lecture. ROOM 212, The Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, ON. Curator: Siya Chen
Free Psychic Readings Redux. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2009
Street View. Project 165 and in The Toronto Star newspaper. Toronto, ON
Pink Lemonade Truck. Lamoureux Park. Cornwall, ON; Byward Market, Ottawa, ON; AKA Autonamous Social Centre, Kingston, ON; The Spill, Peterborough, ON
Beer Tasting: Montreal. Indyish Monthly Mess. Centre Chat Bleu. Montreal, QC
Satanic Coffee. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2008
Lemonade Truck: Brooklyn. Various public locations. Brooklyn, NY
Graham Nash & Wendy Ventricle: Project 165 Library Launch. Collaboration with Alex Bowron. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2007
Stirling Ebanflow: Future. Nuit Blanche. Montreal, QC
Stirling Ebanflow: Past. The Change You Want To See. Brooklyn, NY
Stirling Ebanflow: Now. Various public locations. Toronto, ON
Bark News: Nuit Blanche 2007. Collaboration with Travis Gledhill. Nuit Blanche, Toronto, ON
2006
Psychic Elephant Man. Various public locations. New York City, NY
Ghastly Splatter. XPACE. Toronto, ON
Bark News: Nuit Blanche 2006. Collaboration with Travis Gledhill. Nuit Blanche. Toronto, ON
Trunk Space. Various public locations. Toronto, ON
2005
Bark News: TOAE 2005. Collaboration with Travis Gledhill. Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit. Toronto, ON
Hypemobile, Collaboration with Margaret Saliba. Various public locations. Toronto, ON
Patrol Unit #1. Part of The Urban-Living Response Coalition: Not Just Another Walk in the Park. Various public locations. Toronto, ON
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FESTIVALS
2010
Terry Tanner’s Trading Post. upArt Festival. For What It’s Worth: Curios, Collections and Counterfeits. Invitational. Curators: Laura Berazadi and Britt Welter-Nolan. The Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, ON. 2010
Let’s Get Together for Coffee v. 2.0 (aka Coffee Truck). Official Selection. Conflux Festival. NYC, NY.
Bark News: Fujoko Nakaya’s Fog, Some Enchanted Evenings: A Nuit Blanche 5th Year Retrospective Exhibition. Curator: Fern Bayer. Scotia Plaza. Toronto, ON
2008
Let’s Get Together for Coffee. Chemical Nation. Curators: Laura Mendes and John Loerchner. Labspace Studio. Toronto, ON
The Urban Action Art Agency. Being Young and Restless. Curator: Tejpal S. Ajji. Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. University of Toronto. Toronto, ON
2005
Drake Mission. Collaboration with Jonathan Paul, Margaret Saliba and Trevor Homeniuk. LoveSexyHotel. Curated by P. Elaine Sharpe. Drake Hotel. Toronto, ON
Art Attack. Relational Formations. GO WEST. The Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, ON
SELECTED CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2010
Holiday PopUp Art Shop Village. Project 165. Toronto, ON
Nuit Noir II. Project 165. Toronto, ON
When a Stranger Calls a Friend of a Friend. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2009
PostCards From New York. Project 165. Toronto, ON
Holiday PopUp Art Shop. Project 165. Toronto, ON
We Made a Deal with the Devil touring exhibition. The Spill. Peterborough, ON; AKA Autonamous Social Centre. Kingston, ON; Byward Market. Ottawa, ON; Lamoureux Park. Cornwall, ON; Blockhouse Park. Merrickville, ON; Centre Chat Bleu. Montreal, ON; l’AgitéE. Quebec City, QC; The Manhattan. Moncton, NB; Spring Garden Road Memorial Library. Halifax, NS
We Made a Deal with the Devil: Devil’s Night Edition. In collaboration with the Brooklyn Art Project. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery. Brooklyn, NY
2008
Uncle Ronnie’s Holiday PopUp Art Shop. Project 165. Toronto, ON
Lost Boys 2: Drawings-as-urban sorcery by Daniel Rocca and Ryan Solski. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2007
La Moustache touring exhibition. Sublime. Toronto, ON; Hope. Brooklyn, NY; Boa. Montreal, QC
Friday the 13th. XPACE. Toronto, ON
2006
Montorontreal. The Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, ON
Feature Creatures. Galapagos Art Space. Brooklyn, NY
Escape from Toronto. XPACE. Toronto, ON
Relational Formations. The Gladstone Hotel. Toronto, ON
2005
Interplay. Co-curated with Zoe Stonyk. Galapagos Art Space. Brooklyn, NY
Freezerburn. Co-curated with Adam David Brown and Ana Barajas. Galapagos Art Space. Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED “OTHER” PROJECTS
2010
The Urban Action Art Agency: Rumblings in the Rouge urban expedition and exhibition. In collaboration with Alex Bowron, Catharine MacIntosh, John Loerchner, Peter Riggs, Travis Gledhill and Siya Chen. Labspace Studio’s East-End Expedition Series. Curators: Laura Mendes and John Loerchner. Rouge Park and Labspace Studio. Toronto, ON
2009
We Made a Deal with the Devil month-long art tour. In collaboration with Alex Bowron, Karol Orzechowski, Lisa Keophila, Rick Kresta and SIO. The Spill. Peterborough, ON; AKA Autonamous Social Centre. Kingston, ON; Byward Market. Ottawa, ON; Lamoureux Park. Cornwall, ON; Blockhouse Park. Merrickville, ON; Centre Chat Bleu. Montreal, QC; l’AgitéE. Quebec City, QC; The Manhattan. Moncton, NB; Spring Garden Road Memorial Library. Halifax, NS
Gargantuan Garage Sale Redux. Collaboration with Alex Bowron, Karol Orzechowski, Lisa Keophila, Rick Kresta and SIO. Project 165. Toronto, ON
2007
The Pulse: Acts I, II, III multi-city immersive fiction project. Collaboration with Jonathan Paul, Matias Costa, Rick Kresta. Various public and private locations. Toronto, ON; The Change You Want To See and various public locations. Brooklyn, NY; Various public locations. Nuit Blanche. Montreal, QC
2005
The Urban-Living Response Coalition: Not Just Another Walk in the Park immersive fiction project. Collaboration with Jonathan Paul, Rick Kresta, Will Hourigan, and Matias Costa. Various public and private locations. Toronto, ON
MegaBuilding performance-installation. Collaboration with Jonathan Paul and Margaret Saliba. Commissioned by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Butterfiled Park. Toronto, ON.
PRESS
2010
Fowlie, Kate. Project 165′s Ryan Ringer Brings Art, Community and Organized Bus Trips To Kensington Market. SheDoesTheCity.com
Stevenson, Reb. Connect with your inner artist. The Toronto Star
2009
Kathleen Hay. The devil is in the details. The Standard Freeholder
CBC Radio ONE. Metro Morning. Interview
Smith, Bryoni. City of Craft, Portobello-East, Holiday Pop-Up and More Indie Art and Craft Markets This Weekend (And Beyond). BlogTO.com
Hershberg, Erin. Holiday PopUp Art Shop. Martiniboys.com
Hay, Kathleen. Artists Make a Deal with the Devil in Lamoureux Park. The Standard Freeholder
Baird, Julia. Toronto’s Methinks Made a Deal with the Devil. Mondo Magazine
CBC Television. The National. Interview
Wallace, Kenyon. Where is that Google Car? The Toronto Star
2006
Young, Carrie. Nuit Blanche Artists: As Is Northern Lights Sanctuary and Bark News. BogTO.com
2005
Sandals, Leah. Urban Art in Toronto. Canadian Art Magazine. Spring
EDUCATION
2007
AOCAD. Sculpture/Installation. OCAD. Toronto, ON
2000
Diploma. General Arts & Science. Centennial College. Toronto, ON
WORK HISTORY
2003 – present
Freelance Creative Professional
2008 – 2011
Founding Director. Project 165 artist-run gallery and work studios. Toronto, ON
2003 – 2010
Co-founding Director. Methinks. Toronto, ON
2004 – 2009
Founding Director. The Roadtrip Project. Toronto, ON
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2010
Project Grant. The Awesome Foundation. Toronto, ON.
2010
Residency. Broken Pencil Magazine. Toronto, ON. Winter
2006
Project Grant. The Office of the President of the Ontario College Art & Design (OCAD). Toronto, ON