NANCY BLECK
b. 1969, Toronto, ON
Lives and works in Vancouver, BC
EDUCATION
2005 MA in Fine Art, Utrecht Graduate School of Art, The Netherlands
2000 BFA, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
EXHIBITIONS
2018 TBA, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, BC, Canada (solo)
2015 Children Tomorrow, steʔəxwəɬ ʔə ƛ̓ wə weyələs, Seymour Art Gallery, BC, Canada (solo)
2015 Art and Sustainability Biennale, International Year of Soils, Hamburg, Germany
2009 The World Alliance for Arts Education, WAAE summit, Newcastle, UK
2008 Rest Art, The Arts Factory, Curatorial Team, Su Sang, Lu Hong, Zhao Huanhuan, Juan Li, He Peng, Jessie, Chengdu, China
2008 Four Host Nations, Canada Pavilion, Beijing, China
2007 ART that Matters: Social Justice EcoArt, Curated by Susan Leibovitz Steinman, WEAD co-founder / director (Women Environmental Artists Directory), San Rafael, California, USA
2007 Mirror, Mirror, Little Landscapes and Miniature Worlds, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2007 Uts’am / Witness, 10 Years, The Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007 Another Publication, CASCO Gallery Utrecht, The Netherlands
2006 Dreaming Forward, The Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
2006 Hit the Showers, The Other Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada
2005 Test Department #1, BAK Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2005 MAHKU launch, Academie Gallerie, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004 TAZ, Temporary Autonomous Zone, Xpodium Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003 Arts 2003, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
2003 Framed, Gallery 83, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 Art for Change, National Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2002 Free Flow, Roundhouse Community, Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 Dust on the Road, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002 Juxtaposed, Gallery 83, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 Witness, Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (solo)
2001 Squamish Elders, Capilano Reserve, North Vancouver, BC, Canada (solo)
2001 Uts'am Witness, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 Artropolis, CBC Television Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 On the Threshold, Czech and Slovak Association, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000 Cedar People, Bishop's Art University Gallery, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada (solo)
1998 Witness Arts Exhibition, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1997 Sonic Boom, Installation for Promusica, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1996 Kinder der Welt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
1995 Nice Place to Be, Vancouver Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1995 At the Crossroads/Na Rozcesti, Benham Gallery Seattle, Washington, USA
1994 At the Crossroads/Na Rozcesti, FAMU Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 From Prague to Medzilaborce and Back Again, House of Photography
Prague, Czechoslovakia
PUBLICATIONS
2015 Creating Together: Participatory, community-based and collaborative arts practices and scholarship across Canada, chapter essay: Witnessing Transformations. Co-editors, Diane Conrad, Anita Sinner, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2013 Picturing Transformation: Nexw-ayantsut. Hard cover photography book featuring 15 years of photography. Published by Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, BC
2010 Cinema / Studio; a notebook for Spatial Research: Case Study: Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, Edited by Apolonija Sustersic, The Netherlands, p. 149-151
2008 Access All Areas, Conversations on Engaged Arts, Visible Arts Society, Grunt Gallery, p. 39-47
2007 Cover for Another Publication, Casco Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004 NOR, Ideas of North, published by the Velan Foundation, Quebec, Canada
2003 L’Espace Traverse, Reflections on Interdisciplinary Practices in Art, Editions D’art Le Sabord, Edited by Guy Laramee, p. 45-58
REVIEWS / PRESS
2015 Goodman, John, North Shore News, “Children of Tomorrow”, Sunday edition, August 23rd, 2015, A29-31
2010 Carruthers, B. “Ecoart in Canada – A Conversation and Brief Survey of the Terrain” in WEAD (Women in Environmental Art) E-Journal Part one, Summer 2010, http://weadartists.org/ecoart-in-canada-a-conversation-and-brief-survey-of-the-terrain-2
2009 The Green Chain, published interview with Nancy Bleck, Mark Leirn-Young, Vancouver, BC
2006 Carruthers, B. Arts In Ecology: Mapping the Terrain of Contemporary Eco-ART Practice and Collaboration. A research report commissioned by the Canadian Commission for UNESCO for Arts in Ecology – A Think-Tank on Arts and Sustainability. Published online by UNESCO (2006)http://www.unesco.ca/en/activity/sciences/documents/BethCarruthersArtinEcologyResearchReportEnglish.pdf
2002 CBC Radio & Website, "Next Generation / Young Canadian Artists"
2002 Art Le Sabord, 2002, art magazine #62, Quebec, p. 28-35
2002 in si.tu, Art Gallery of Bishops University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Catalogue
2001 Artropolis 2001, Celebrating Contemporary BC Visual Art, p. 87
2001 Grande, John, "Cedar Woman Returns to the Elaho", Arts Alive, Spring 2001,
2001 Grande, John, "CedarPeople: Ancestors Living Among Us", Vie des Arts, no 181, Winter 2001, p. 70
2000 Grande, John, "Earth Sensitive", Public Art Review, fall 2000, p. 19
2000 Lennoxville Edition, "Preserving Sacred Ground", Nov. 15, p. 9
2000 Durfresne, Denis, "La Photographe qui voulait sauver la Nature", La Tribune,
Sherbrooke, Quebec, November 25, G2
2000 Alain Berube, La Nouvelle, "Un reflexion sur l’environment a Bishop" Lennoxville, Quebec, November 21, p. 31
1999 Grande, John, ‘Canada’s Natural Landscape’, Public Art Review, p 5
1999 Co-op Radio, When Spirit Whispers, The Witness Project, Vancouver, BC
1998 Gravelsins, Harald, "Witness: Land, Justice, Community Arts", Planet of the Arts, Cover story, Vancouver, BC
1998 Vision TV, Vancouver TV, Bravo, Rogers TV, BCTV, Witness Arts Exhibition, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
1998 CBC Radio 1 & 2, Witness Arts Exhibition, Roundhouse Community Centre
1995 Co-op radio, Women's Visions, Artist Profile, Vancouver, BC, Canada
GUEST ARTIST
2016 UBC Longhouse, First Nations House of Learning, Artist talk, UBC, Vancouver, BC
2015 Emily Carr University, North Island College, Artist talk, Comox, BC
2014/15 Mulgrave School, Guest Artist, West Vancouver, BC
2009 Emily Carr University Lecture Series, Why Collaborate? Vancouver, BC
2007 Vancouver Art Gallery, Lecture Series, Philosopher’s Café, Emily Carr and
The Group of Seven, Vancouver, BC
2006 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Foundation Series, Vancouver, BC
2006 North Island College, Artist Talk, Comox, BC
2005 BAK Gallery, Test Department #1, Dialogue with Philosopher Dr. Rosi Braidotti, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002 Millennium Scholarship Foundation, National Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2001 Dawson College, Fine Art Department, Montreal, QC
2001 Kwantlan College, Photography Department, Burnaby, BC, Canada
2001 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Photo Department, Vancouver, BC
2000 Bishop's University Art Gallery, Lennoxville, QC
1999 University of Northern Bohemia, Photo Dept., Usti nad Labem, FAMU, Prague
CONFERENCE SPEAKER
2012 Creating Together: Participatory, community-based and collaborative arts practices and scholarship across Canada, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2011 Staging Sustainability: Arts, Community, Culture, Environment, York University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2009 Resilient People + Climate Change, Vancouver Convention Centre, Vancouver, BC
2007 Bioneers, Eco-Arts Strategy: Towards a Culture of Sustainability, San Rafael, CA
2002 Art for Change, Millennium Scholarship Foundation, National Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2000 INTER2000, Interdisciplinary Arts Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
1999 1st Annual BC Ancient Rainforest Conference, UBC, Vancouver, BC
1997 The Songbird Project, Living City Forum, Vancouver, BC
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2017 Comox Valley Art Gallery, summer artist residency, Comox Valley, BC
2009 International Arts Residency with stipend, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Summer Studio Residency, Visual Arts, Banff Centre, Banff, AB
1997 Artist-in-residence for the opening of The Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2014/15 Faculty Association Executive Member, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2012 Co-founder, Vice-President of the Uts’am Witness Society, 1997-2007, Vancouver, BC, Canda
2007 Jury Member, Stanley Park Environmental Art Project, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1997 Elected Student Representative to the Board of Governors, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
AWARDS / HONOURS
2015 BC Arts Council, Awarded Visual Arts Grant, Victoria, BC, Canada
2014 Nominated for the City of Vancouver’s ‘Remarkable Women’ Award, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007 Woman of Distinction Award Recipient, YWCA, Category of Arts, Culture & Design, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2003 The Canada Council, Visual Arts Grant for Emerging Artist, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2002 Attractions Tourism, Uts’am Witness, Western Canada, Best Cultural Event, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2001 Traditional Naming Ceremony, The Squamish Nation, Slanay Sp’ak’wus,
Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1998 Ethics in Action, Van-City, On-going Social Responsibility, nominated for the
Uts’am Witness Project Vancouver, BC, Canada
1997 Academic Scholarship from Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Small Business, Vancouver, BC, Canada
1992 The Canada Council, Explorations Grant, Ottawa, ON, Canada