Curriculum Vitae

ALEXANDRA HAESEKER RCA abbreviated CURRICULUM VITAE

• ACAD 1966-68 • BFA honors University of Calgary 1963-66

• MFA degree, Painting, University of Calgary 1970-72

• Professor of Fine Arts ACAD 1973 - 2003 Canada / Professor Emeritus 2004 Alberta University of the Arts

• RCA Royal Canadian Academy, Ottawa 1999

• MUDA Mayors Urban Design Awards Juror, City of Calgary 2014

• I’ve represented Canada in many International Art Biennials and Triennials globally, and had the opportunity of working with Architects, Design Teams, Engineers, Stakeholders, Government Agencies, Corporate Partners and Public representatives on my Public Art projects.

I taught Post-Secondary Fine Arts for 30 years and lecture internationally on my practice as a Canadian artist.

INVITED, SELECTED AND CURATED PROJECTS:

2022 Athem: Expressions of Identity, (invitational), The Museum Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Trials and Errors (solo), feature The Masters Biennial of Drawing, Borsos House Museum, Györ, Hungary Bookplates by the Bay / FISAE World Congress, American Bookbinders Museum, San Francisco,

USA 2021 Prototypes, Canadian feature group exhibition, Krakow International Triennial, Poland 2020 The NORTH Finland Norway Russia Initiative, Artists Book Project, Vyhod Media Centre, Petrozavodsk, Russia The Botanist’s Daughter (solo) EP Edinburgh Printmakers, The Castle Mills Contemporary, Scotland 2019 REBELLIOUS: Women Artists of the 1980s, AGA Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada 2018 IAPA Invitational, International Art Alliance The Taoxichuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen, China City of Calgary Public Art Transit Project, BRT Stations, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Douro International Bienal, The Coa Art Museum, Fozcoa, Portugal (appointed Canadian Commissioner)

2017 Departures: Masterworks from Canada, The Ardel Museum, Bangkok, Thailand The Silk Road Invitational Exhibition, The Shaanxi Art Museum, Xi’an, China Inter-Woven, Kobro Museum of Fine Arts Lodz • National Cultural Centre Gallery Warsaw, Poland 2016 The Phobia Project: New Work on Beauty & Repulsion, Cerveira International Sculpture Biennial, Portugal Canada / Japan, (invited) The Kyoto City Art Museum, Japan 2015 RESONANCE, Canadian Art at the Shengzhi Art Centre, Beijing, China (invited) Impact Changing World Conference, Hangzhou, China (invited) International Biennial Contemporaine, Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium 2014 THE DEEP, solo exhibition for The Centro de Arte Moderno, Madrid, Spain 2013 The New World, MODEM Museum of Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary International Biennial Contemporaine, Trois-Rivières, Quebec Canada Al-Mutanabbi Street Project, The Centre for Book Arts, New York City, USA International Graphics Biennial, Liége Belgium 2011 / 2013 / (Second Prix) 2011 IMPRINT 2011, International Triennial, Warsaw, Poland 2009 - 2010 Akademija Centre for Graphic Art + Research, Belgrade, Serbia (solo invited/ touring) Krakow International Print Triennale / The Poznan Museum, Poland (invited) 2009 Novosibirsk State Art Museum International Biennale, Russia (invited) 2008 Representing Canada in ANOTHER VOICE, The Shanghai Art Museum China (invited) Third International Artist’s Book Biennial, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (invited) EPI Edmonton Print International , Alberta, Canada Jurors Commendation Award Another Voice, The Shanghai Art Museum, China (curated invitation) International Artist’s Book Bienniale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt (invited) 2007 Oldenburg Triennale, Germany (in conjunction with MTG Krakow 2006) Novosibirsk State Art Museum International Contemporary Art Biennial, Russia 2006 Calgary Immigrant of Distinction Arts and Culture Award 5th International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia 7th Bharat Bhavan International Biennial, Bhopal, India (invited) Pendulum/Pendula, (Haeseker/Hall), Yukon Art Centre, Whitehorse, Canada “Quanto”, Centro Culturale Zitelle, Venice, Italy 2005 Creativity + Cognition, University of London, Goldsmiths College, London UK (invited) “Le Jardin du Precambrien” Installations d’art in situ, 10th Anniversary The Baroque of The Americas, Le Fondation Derouin, Quebec, (invited) “Orange Tulips 1945-2005”, Museum of the Regiments, Calgary, Alberta 2004 Kulturspeicher International, Horst-Janssen Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg , Germany International Triennial of Art, Bitola Institute Museum of Macedonia (catalogue) International Solar Cities Congress, Exco Exhibition Center, Daegu, Korea (book) Bharat Bhavan International Biennial 2004, Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, India 2004 Burning Sappho’s Books, Kobe University Gallery School of Art + Architecture, Japan

Nickle Arts Museum (solo ) University of Calgary, Alberta Canada (catalogue) Pendulum/Pendula, collaborative works with John Hall, Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (catalogues) 2003 BURNING SAPPHO’S BOOKS, (solo), Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, Japan (touring) Silpakorn University 60th Anniversary International Exhibition, Bangkok, Thailand 2003 Krakow International Triennial, Museum of Art, Krakow, Poland International Festival of Graphic Arts, National Museum of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Rijeka International Graphics, Iceland (catalogue) Beijing International Biennale, Beijing, China Canada Prints Now, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

PARTICIPATION IN MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BIENNALES INCLUDE:

2001 The National Gallery of Art, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 1994 Belgrade Biennale International, Invitational Belgrade, Serbia 1993 The MECC, Maastricht Museum, Holland 1992 Expo 1992 in Seville, Spain / Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, tour Contemporary art museums in Guadalajara, Monterrey, Aguascalientes, and Queretaro, Mexico. 1991 Krakow, Poland / Nürnburg, Deutschland 1987 Premio Biella Internazionale, Italy 1984 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Ibiza, Spain 1982 The Bronx Museum, New York City USA 1979 The Grenchen Art Society Triennale, Switzerland 2005 Invited to 2005 International Conference: Creativity + Cognition, Goldsmiths College, University of London U.K., the Bharat Bhavan International Biennial in Bhopal, India 2006, Novosibirsk International Biennial Russia 2007, Oldenburg International Triennial, Germany 2007.

AWARDS INCLUDE:

2013 Museum prize for Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium 2013 Matrices Award, Magyar Electrographic Art Association, Budapest Hungary 2013 2008 The Shanghai Art Museum, China for VOICE project + exhibition 2008 2006 Immigrant of Distinction Arts + Culture Award, City of Calgary 2003 Selected for the Florean Museum Artists Award in Maramures, Romania 1983 The National Museum of Modern Art Superior Prize in the Seoul Biennale, Korea 1977 The De Cordova Museum Purchase Award / Boston Printmakers Exhibition, USA

MAJOR MUSEUM INSTALLATION PROJECTS AT:

2004 - 2003 Solo exhibitions in 2003-4 in Japan at the Prince Takamado Gallery / Canadian Embassy Tokyo and School of Art + Architecture, Kobe University, titled “Burning Sappho’s Books”, as well as The Nickle Arts Museum, Canada 2004 (with catalogue text by British author, Jeanette Winterson). 2003 The 60th Anniversary of Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 2003 The Krakow Triennale, Poland 2003 The Guangzhou Museum of Art and The Beijing International Biennale in China 2002 Liu Haisu Art Museum Shanghai, China 2002 Sunkok Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea SELECTED COLLECTIONS:

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts The National Ballet of Canada Queensland College of Art Gallery, Australia The National Art Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt Shanghai Art Museum, China MODEM Art Museum, Debrecen, Hungary Musée des Beaux-Arts, Belgium Dept. of Foreign Affairs Canada, Tokyo Embassy

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS INCLUDE:

2017 City of Airdrie Alberta, Genesis Place Sports Complex murals 2013 Savage Trailhead Exterior façade Mural, Edmonton Arts Council, Alberta, Canada 2009 The Dark, Outdoor installation, Danish Arts Council + ET4U, Denmark 2005 Outdoor large in-situ installations Quebec, Foundation Derouin. The Library of The PreCambrian 2004 Calgary International Airport, mural for Air Canada Terminal A

1990 The Business Revitalization Zone, BRZ 17 Avenue Mural Commission

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2017 “Un air de liberté” André Seleanu, Vie Des Arts 248, Montreal, Québec, Canada 1996 “Selected Canadian Artists”, Instituto de Seguridad Y Servicios de Los Traba Jadores Del Estado”, Celaya, Mexico

1995 “Ideas and Inspiration: contemporary Canadian Art”, Heartland Motion Pictures Inc. for Saskatchewan Education (CD ROM) (expanded version, 1996), Included with essay by Director of Collections, Patricia Ainslie, Glenbow Museum in; North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, biographical dictionary by Jules Heller and Nancy G. Heller, Garland Publishing Inc., New York & London 1995 1994 Investing in Art Series, Documentary Video, Media One Productions, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, CBC Sunday Art, Friends of University Hospitals Edmonton postcard and calendar fundraising project, Swain, Robert Hidden Values, Contemporary Canadian Art in Corporate Collections, Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver and Toronto 1993 Laviolette, Mary-Beth. Alexandra Haeseker, Twenty Years, Artichoke, Spring 1993 1992 Tousley, Nancy. Haeseker Celebrates 20 Years of Art, The Calgary Herald, Dec. 4, 1992 1992 Tippett, Maria. By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art By Canadian Women, Penguin Books Canada Ltd., Markham, Ontario

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