SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 The New Normal (as Drunken Paw), Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary AB
2020 Off Hours, Central Library, Calgary, AB
2019 Cache (as Drunken Paw), Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary, AB
2019 Conspiracy of Crones, TRUCK Contemporary Art U-Hall space, Calgary AB
2013-2015 Traces, Alberta Foundation for the Arts Traveling Exhibition Program
2014 Exile on 3rd Street, New Edward Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2014 Carte Blanche, DNA Art Space, London, Ontario (as drunken paw)
2012 Summer Survey II, Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, Alberta
2011 Bring the Noise (as Drunken Paw) Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, Alberta
2011 Passages: A Chris J. Melnychuk Retrospective Curated by Kari McQueen
(as Drunken Paw), Untitled Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2011 ‘Seafood Market’, Seafood Market Studios, Calgary, Alberta
2010 East Village Seafood Market Mixer, Seafood Market Studios, Calgary, Alberta
2010 Summer’s Edge II, The Edge Gallery, Canmore, Alberta
2010 Genderblender, Sugar Shack Art Salon, Calgary, Alberta
2009 Paper Jam, Sugar Shack Winter Art Salon, Calgary, AB
2009 Spawn, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, Alberta
2008 Nectar Rendezvous, Nectar, Calgary, Alberta
2008 Creature, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, Alberta
2007 Elephant, in collaboration with OYR, One Yellow Rabbit, Calgary, Alberta
2002 Sugar Smut Show, Sugar Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
2001 Idols And Icon, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
PERFORMANCE & INSTALLATION
2012 Equinox at Union Cemetary, Union Cemetary, Calgary, Alberta
2009 Les Voisins, a one month animated installation in collaboration with Elephant
Artist Relief,
International Festival of Animated Objects in conjunction with TRUCK, The
New gallery, Stride, and Untitled Art Society’s Plus 15 Window, Calgary, Alberta
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 In The Dirt, Kaffee Klatsch, Calgary AB
2019 This Ephemeral Body, Gallery 621, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
2008 Seven, Museo Poco, Calgary, Alberta
JOINT EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Ants Go Marching (as Drunken Paw), EPCOR Centre, Calgary, AB
2012 Love Triangle: Evil as All Bejeesus (as Drunken Paw), Hot Wax Records,
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2011 egg drop soup (as drunken paw), Museum of Ephemera, Nakusp, B.C. Canada
2011 The Leavening --- drunken paw at Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, a six week
exhibition and performance, Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2011 Drunken Paw’s Interpretation of Houdini’s Water Torture Trick (with Mark Dicey
& Janet Turner), Sugar Cube Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
PUBLIC WORKS
2013 The Other, Epcor Centre, This Is My City Festival, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2011 Magaera, Millennium Park, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
INTERVENTIONS
2010 - 2013 Guerrilla Hearts, unsolicited public installations, throughout Calgary, #2 Highway
Southern Alberta, Canada, New York, USA
RESIDENCIES
2010 Calgary Allied Arts Foundation, st(art)4Five studio residency program, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada
2008 - 2010 Artist in Residence, Museo Poco, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
COLLECTIVES
Drunken Paw a collaborative drawing trio including Mark Dicey, Janet Turner and myself.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2018 Presenter, Calgary Institute for the Humanities, Water Rites, Calgary AB, Canada
2013-2016 Installation Technician, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2013 Presenter and Facilitator, Public Art 101, Calgary Public Art Program
2007- 2013 Co-founder and Director, Board of Directors of Elephant Artist Relief, Calgary,
Alberta. Canada
1997-1999 Canada Fossils, Painting Department Head, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
GRANTS & AWARDS
2012 Calgary 2012 - Project Grant
2011 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Project Grant
2011 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Visual Arts Project Grant (as drunken paw)
2011 - 2013 City of Calgary’s Pre-Qualified Artist Roster for Public Art Projects
COLLECTIONS
ϖ Alberta Foundation for the Arts (as drunken paw)
ϖ Calgary Municipal Land Corporation
ϖ Dia Holdings, Baku, Azerbaijan
ϖ Numerous private international collections
BIBLIOGRAPHY/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2018 Calgary Institute for the Humanities, The Water Book, University of Calgary Press, 2018
2012 Barry Dumka, ‘Art in the Village’, EVE Magazine, Spring/summer 2012, pp. 51
2012 ‘Mural Mural on the Wall’, Stephen Magazine, Winter 2012, pp, 26
1998 Anthony, Leslie, ‘Hot Rock's’, Equinox, No. 99, July 1998, pp. 28-37.
1993 Gogarty, Amy, ‘Art in the March, Celebrating our Different Voices’, Artichoke, Summer
1993, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp 32-39.
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
2012 Anderson, Drew, ‘A Heart for AGC’, Fast Forward Weekly, 2012/05/23
2011 Tousley, Nancy, ‘Calgary Report: An Artist-Run Alberta’, Canadian Art, March 2011
2012 ‘Mural Mural on the Wall’, Stephen Magazine, Winter 2012, pp, 26
FILM
ϖ Sidewalk Citizen
feature length documentary by Michal Lavi (supported by the Canada Council & the AFA)
ϖ I Am My City, Storm Sound Conglomerate, ‘I Am My City’, short film highlighting Public Art
in Calgary, 2011
RADIO
ϖ CBC Calgary Eye Opener, November 2010
EDUCATION
2021- MFA (in progress), Visual Art, Grenfell School of Fine Arts, Memorial University of Newfoundland
2021 Bachelor of Arts (BA) with distinction, University of Calgary, Communication and Culture