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Vida, Simon

Associations

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Apprentissage et enseignement
Formation académique
  • 1990-1993 - BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; semester exchange, Cooper Union, NY
  • 1988-1990 - Creative Arts Programme, Dawson College, Montréal

Ateliers

  • 1994–present: Participated in various performance-related workshops (with Augusto Boal, Linda Montano, Deborah Hay, Yumiko Yoshioka, Andrew Harwood, Nicole Laudouar, Linda Rabin, Lin Snelling, Eddie Ladd, Moeno Wakamatsu, Tedi Tafel, Helge Meyer, Sylvie Tourangeau, Dorothea Rust, Pauline Oliveros, Victoria Stanton, Marilyn Arsem, Marcelle Hudon).
  • 2001–2002 - Improvisational sound apprenticeship with violinist/composer Malcolm Goldstein, Montréal .
  • 2011 - Writing & Illustrating Children’s Books workshop, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver .
  • 2008 - Training for artists to work in hospitals, The Creative Center, New York.
  • 2004 - Certificate in entrepreneurship for women artists, Compagnie F, Montréal.
Enseignement
  • 2002-2019 - Drawing workshops (small groups & private classes in my studio), Montréal
  • 2013-2014 - Commissioned by Fogo Island Inn (Newfoundland) to develop art workshops for guests and local community
  • 1999-present: Visiting artist for various projects and workshops (universities, schools, galleries) across Canada and in France
  • 1999-2009 - Teacher for children, teenagers, adults (various art classes), Visual Arts Centre, Montréal
  • 2008, 2010 - Visual arts workshops for youth, Explorations Summer Program, McGill University, Montréal
  • 2008 - Drawing workshop for choreographers and dancers, Circuit-Est, Montréal
  • 2006 - Intensive Summer Drawing Workshop for Teens, Galerie Skol
  • 2005 - Intergenerational self-portrait drawing workshop, Santropol Roulant, Montréal
  • 2004 - Performative drawing workshop, Concordia University Community Development Summer Program
  • 1996 - Prop/Set/Costume designer for children's theatre, Saidye Bronfman Camp of the Arts, Montréal
Expositions
Groupe
  • 2013 - Papeles Alterados,, Maison de la culture Cote-des-neiges, Montréal
  • 2004 - Caritas 2004 du 1er au 17 avril
  • 2003 - Vitae, part of Voila Québec en Mexico!, Hotel Isabel/Epicentro Gallery, Mexico City
  • 2003 - Caritas 2003 du 10 au 26 avril
  • 2001 - The Third Body, curated by Jack Stanley, Galerie B-312, Montréal
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  • 1999 - The Ghost Leaves,, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto
Duo
  • 2012 - At home and us, collaborative installation with Jack Stanley, At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia
  • 2009-2010 - Approaching Stillness, collaboration with Tedi Tafel, Galerie Articule, Montréal
  • 2008 - Lamplight and Earth, collaboration with Jack Stanley, Galerie Port-Maurice, St.Léonard, Montréa
Solo
  • 2020 - Trop-plein/trop peu, CIRCA centre d’art, Montréal
  • 2018 - Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
  • 2017 - Änlichkeit, Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany
  • 2017 - Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
  • 2014 - Stöcke sammeln (Collecting sticks), Badstrasse Raum für Kunst, Siegen, Germany
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  • 2014 - Partage, L'Endroit indiqué, Montréal
  • 2013 - To Make Ends Meet, Fogo Island, Newfoundland (independent project supported by Canada Council)
  • 2012 - ELLE MARCHE blue mountain. Commissaire : Caroline Loncol Daigneault, OBORO, Montréal
  • 2012 - Einschiffen, Einheit 1 Gallery, Saarbrücken, Germany
  • 2008 - The Coat, Vilnius Graphic Art Centre, Lithuania
  • 2007 - The Paper Ladder, off-site participatory installation for children, Montréal (funded by CALQ Jeune public)
  • 2006 - Sorties/Stories, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal
  • 2005 - Walking In Russia, Maison de la Culture Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montréal
  • 2005 - Drawings, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montréal
  • 2004 - Oravannahkakauppaa, Taidetehdas (Artfactory Gallery), Porvoo, Finland
  • 2004 - She came to my house, she knocked upon my door, curated by Karen Spencer, New Gallery, Calgary
  • 2002 - Palpable, Langage Plus, Alma, Québec
  • 2002 - Opera Eclipses, solo exhibition/performance, Galerie Articule, Montréal
  • 1998 - Puppen, solo exhibition/performance in a derelict store on St.Laurent boulevard, Montréal
  • 1997 - Standing over the deepest darkest hole in the earth, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montréal
  • 1996 - Drawer, a book in an apartment, solo installation supported by Special Projects, Galerie Articule
Actions, performances et événements
  • 2023 - How to eat abstraction, site-specific performance-installation in a former café (supported by Canada Council), Montréal
  • 2023 - Carried Away : Le fruit hors du cadre, performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal
  • 2022 - Carried Away, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal
  • 2022 - Carried Away, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona, Spain
  • 2022 - Carried Away (actual edition), collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia
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  • 2021 - Carried Away: In An Earlier Present (pandemic edition), online exhibition with Jack Stanley, At Home Gallery, Slovakia
  • 2021 - Carried Away: L’écran de charbon, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, La Chambre Blanche, Québec
  • 2019 - Carried Away: peux-tu dessiner ce reve?, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Villa des Arts, Dakar, Senegal
  • 2018 - A very slow blue, solo performance (part of Le chant des pistes) curated by Caroline Loncol Daigneault, L’île Tatihou, France
  • 2018 - Carried Away: rapiti, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley (part of Ad ognuno la sua p’arte event), Villatalla, Italy
  • 2018 - Carried Away : L’interruption, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Galerie B-312, Montréal
  • 2017 - Carried Away, collaborative performance-installation with Jack Stanley, Comox Valley Art Gallery, BC
  • 2015-2016 - Dresser la table, community-based performance-installation, 3e impérial, Granby
  • 2012 - Choosing to save or dispose, performance at Interakcje Festival, Piotrkow Trybunalksi, Poland
  • 2012 - Kapusta (Cabbage), performance at Bielsko Gallery, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
  • 2011 - 3 solo performances, ZAZ Festival for Performance Art, Tel Aviv and Haifa, Israel
  • 2011 - An Unusual Pincushion, solo performance, Carbon Arc Cinema, Halifax
  • 2010 - Arthur et les ouvriers, performance with Christian Richer, TraficArt, Saguenay, Québec
  • 2010 - Geschichte oder Stille (Story or Silence), solo performance, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
  • 2010 - Specimens, solo performance at the 9th International Performance Art Event, Turbine Giswil Switzerland
  • 2010 - Cantastoria, a drawn opera, off-site performance-installation in former stable, Montréal
  • 2010 - Amigdala, solo performance, InterAzioni XXlll Performance Festival, Sardinia, Italy
  • 2010 - Preserves, solo performance-installation, At Home Gallery, Samorìn, Slovakia
  • 2010 - Fourteen Miniatures, solo performance, invited artist at Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique, Montréal
  • 2010 - A Dream of Ash Teeth, solo performance-installation, Artspace, Peterborough
  • 2009 - The Suit, solo performance as part of Animaux et enfants, Galerie B-312, Montréal
  • 2009 - Leopold, performance on street as part of Animaux et enfants, through Galerie B-312, Montréal
  • 2009 - Acts of Carbon, performance-installation curated by Irene Loughlin, Hamilton Artists Inc, Ont.
  • 2009 - Ici on voit l’horizon, solo performance, Vaste et Vague, Carleton, Québec
  • 2008 - Façade and Uprooting, solo performances, Deformes Performance Bienal, Santiago and Valdivia, Chile
  • 2008 - The River Inside My Head, solo projected-drawing performance, Kultflux, Vilnius, Lithuania
  • 2007 - The Study of Soap Remnants, solo performance-installation, The Study, Lethbridge, Alberta
  • 2007 - La souffleuse, solo performance, Galerie La Centrale, Montréal
  • 2007 - Malinas, solo performance-installation, Boréal Art/Nature, Labelle
  • 2006 - Excavation Drawings, solo performance-installation in hotel room, as part of VIVA art action, Montréal
  • 2006 - Puder (Porridge), solo performance, Polli Talu Arts Centre, Estonia
  • 2006 - A Complicated Escape, solo performance in hotel room, Visualeyez performance festival, Edmonton
  • 2005 - The Mobile Museum/Le petit musée itinérant, series of performances (outside and inside), Montréal
  • 2003 - InterAzioni Performance Festival, solo performance and with The Play Group, Sardinia, Italy
  • 2002 - Chimney sweeping, solo performance, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
  • 2002-2007 - Store: a moving sound ensemble, travelling performance for 1 or 2 people at a time, performed in homes across Canada, USA, Italy, Finland, and Estonia
  • 2000 - effigy, outdoor performance (with Jack Stanley), le Mois de la Performance (La Centrale), Montréal
  • 2000 - Master Class 5, performance in 7A11D Performance Festival, Toronto
  • 2000 - Porous, outdoor performance in the context of event supported by Galerie Articule, Montréal
  • 1998 - letter , collaboration with Dagmar Dahle, Galerie Articule, Montréal; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver

  • Sleep Patterns, wall drawing in bedroom at The Embassy Hotel, London, Ontario
    1994 -     Breathing Stories, performance and drawings in group show, Anna Leonowens Gallery l, Halifax
    1994 -     When you were a flapper with a Russian accent, performance curated by Tanya Mars, La Centrale
  • 1995 -
Conférences, écrits, commissariats et jurys
Conférences
  • Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales
  • Ace Art, Winnipeg
  • Alberta College of Art, Calgary
  • Articule, Montréal
  • Baie-Saint-Paul Symposium
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  • College Brébeuf, Montréal
  • Concordia University, Montréal
  • Dawson College, Montréal
  • Eastern Edge, NL
  • Emily Carr University, Vancouver
  • Fogo Island Arts, NL
  • Galerie B-312, Montréal
  • Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
  • Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Germany
  • Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich
  • MOKS Centre for Art and Social Research, Estonia
  • New Langton Arts, San Francisco
  • North Island College, BC
  • NSCAD University, Halifax
  • Open Studio, Toronto
  • Porvoo Paperarts Centre, Finland
  • Sally Studio Youth Art Programme, Estonia
  • Universidad Andres Bello, Chile
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • University of Lethbridge
  • Videographe, Montréal
Textes et articles
  • L’univers bleu d’Anouka, wrote and illustrated children’s book published by Editions du Passage, Montréal, 2021
  • Artwork for book cover, The Face of the Quartzes, by Chus Pato, translated by Erin Moure, Veliz Books, 2021
  • Artwork for journal cover, Canada and Beyond, 2020
  • Artwork for cover of FURIOUS (30th anniversary reissue), book by Erin Moure, 2018
  • Artwork for cover of Paraguayan Sea, book by Wilson Bueno, translated by Erin Moure, 2017
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  • Artwork for cover of The Unmemntioable, book by Erin Moure, 2012
  • Artwork for cover of Laboratoires parcellaires, published by La peuplade/Oboro, Qc, 2011
  • Artwork (multiple pages) for The Conservation, Restoration, and Repair of Stringed Instruments, ICPI, 2010
  • Artwork for My Beloved Wager, book by Erin Moure, 2009
  • Artwork for CD jacket of Dark Boat by Spanner, St. John’s, 2009
  • Drawing for broadside with poem by Chus Pato, translated by Erin Moure, Delirium Press, Montréal, 2006
  • INKLINGS, book of drawings, 2009 (published with assistance from CALQ)
  • Boréal Borscht, or A Malina Miniature, artist book published by Boréal Art/Nature and Souffles, 2008
  • Drawings and writing included in HARBOUR Magazine of Art & Everyday Life, 4 pages, Vol. 2, No. 4, 1993
Résidences, bourses et subventions
Résidences
  • 2022 - Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona, Catalonia (with Jack Stanley)
  • 2022 - At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia (with Jack Stanley)
  • 2022 - Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montréal (with Jack Stanley)
  • 2021 - La Chambre Blanche, Québec City (with Jack Stanley)
  • 2019 - NAIRS, Scuol, Switzerland
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  • 2018 - Le chant des pistes sauvages, residency-event curated by Caroline Loncol Daigneault, L’île Tatihou, France
  • 2018 - Sagamie centre d’impression, Alma, Québec
  • 2017 - Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
  • 2015-2016 - 3e impérial, Granby, Québec
  • 2015 - Residency for Local Artists, OBORO, Montréal
  • 2014 - Badstrasse Raum für Kunst, Siegen, Germany
  • 2012 - Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales (CALQ studio)
  • 2011 - Jennifer Keefe House, Tilting, Fogo Island, Newfoundland
  • 2010 - At Home Gallery, Samorin, Slovakia
  • 2008 - English Harbour Arts Centre, English Harbour, Newfoundland
  • 2006-2007 - Boréal Art/Nature, Labelle, Québec
  • 2006 - Daimon, Gatineau, Québec (residency and production grant to produce video)
  • 2006 - Postsovkhoz Symposium, MOKS Residency, Mooste, Estonia
  • 2006 - Polli Talu Arts Centre, Estonia
  • 2004 - Porvoo Paperarts Centre, Porvoo, Finland
  • 2003 - Symposium international d’art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec
  • 1999 - In/habit, residency and exhibition curated by Marian Butler, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg
  • 1998 - Open Studio, Toronto (printmaking residency)
  • 1997 - Residency at EST-NORD-EST Centre de Sculpture, St-Jean-Port-Joli, Québec
  • 1992 - Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont
Bourses et subventions
  • 2023 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 2022 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2020 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
  • 2020 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2018 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
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  • 2017-2019 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2017 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 2015 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2014 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
  • 2014 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 2013 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 2011 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Studio in Wales
  • 2011 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 2010 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
  • 2010 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 2008 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2008 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 2007 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
  • 2007 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 2006 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2006 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Jeune public Grant
  • 2006 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 2003 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Travel Grants
  • 2003 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 2003 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 1998 - Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grants
  • 1997 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 1996 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
  • 1996 - Canada Council for the Arts, Project Grants
  • 1994 - Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research & Creation Grants
Bibliographie
Revues et articles de journaux
  • Vida Simon & Jack Stanley: Carried Away: The Fruit Outside of the Frame, Nikki Middlemiss, ESSE, Fall 2023
  • Tout juste avant l’embouteillage, Marie Fredette, Le Devoir, 28 et 29 aout, 2021
  • Oddness as Resistance: On the Trail of…, essay by Eve Dorais in The Constellation of Odd Occupations, 3e imperial, 2019
  • A Sense of Place , essay by Irene Loughlin in More Caught In The Act , YYZ Books, 2016
  • A Laying On of Hands: Four Artists , Stephen Horne, ESPACE, Spring 2016
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  • Bleue a dessein , Chantal Paris, Portfolio, Spirale, No. 246, automne 2013
  • Nature a l’étude , Caroline Loncol Daigneault, opuscule pour Elle marche. Blue Mountain , OBORO, 2012
  • Perspective oblique : le dessin en hyperliens , Chantal Paris, ETC, vol 90, 2010
  • Behind The Scenes: Performances of Vida Simon , Stephen Horne, esse, Fall 2010
  • Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon , Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin, Art:21 blog, September 2010
  • Imagined Passage: Vida Simon/Excavation Drawings , Andrew Forster, FUSE, Summer 2007
  • Marcher en Russie, sur une installation de Vida Simon , Caroline Loncol Daigneault, ESPACE, Winter 2005
  • Doll Faced, Vida Simon’s storefront show , Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, June 25-July 1, 1998
  • Worthy objects , Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, February 13-19, 1997
  • Epatée, la galerie , Stéphane Aquin, VOIR, du 13 au 19 février 1997
  • Spinning yarns, Drawing on Vida Simon’s work , Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, March 7-13, 1996