Curriculum Vitae

ANDREAS RUTKAUSKAS

www.andreasrutkauskas.com

EDUCATION

Masters of Fine Arts, Photography 2007 Concordia University Bachelor’s Honours, Bachelor of Fine Arts 2003 University of Manitoba SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (Solo, unless otherwise noted)

(2022) Living Through Wildfire, Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, British Columbia Fire Season, Island Mountain Arts, Wells, British Columbia. Group exhibition: Amory Abbott, Ana Diab, Kerri Flannigan, Eli Hirtle, Kay Penney, Andreas Rutkauskas, Liz Toohey-Wiese, and Emily Wilson Triennale Banlieue. Maison des arts de Laval, Quebec. Group exhibition including: Ludovic Boney, Marie Côté, Nicolas Grenier, Marilou Lemmens et Richard Ibghy, Louise Noguchi, Graeme Patterson, Ariane Plante

(2021) Refuge: Refuge: Après l’incendie. Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment, SaintEdmond-de-Grantham, Quebec After the Fire. The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia

(2020) Landed. Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre, Medicine Hat, Alberta. Group exhibition: Anahita Norouzi & Nurgül Canadian Forces Artists Program. Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. Group exhibition: Philip Cheung, Rosalie, Favell, Aislinn Hunter, Simone Jones, Emmanuelle Léonard

(2019) Apparaître – Disparaître. Fondation Grantham, Quebec. Group exhibition: Lynne Cohen, BGL, Sylvie Readman, Edward Maloney, Sébastien Cliche Cliche, Ana Rewakowicz, Caroline Cloutier, Jocelyne Alloucherie, Pierre Thibault, Adad Hannah Territoires II. La Castiglione, Montreal, Quebec. Group exhibition: Pierre Blache, Gagnon-Forest, Hua Jin, Alain Lefort, Jayce Salloum Inside/Outside: Images of the LAND. Artexte, Montreal, Quebec. Group exhibition

(2018) Chaos. Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, Québec Regards Critiques et Nouvelle Photographie: Environnement et Société. Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montréal, Québec. Group exhibition: Isabelle Hayeur, Thomas Kneubühler, JeanFrançois Lemire, Valérian Mazataud

(2017) Between Friends. Canadian Photography Institute, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Documentar, Contar, Mentir. El Museo de la Cancilleria (Mexico City), l’Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), and Morelia. Group exhibition. Touring exhibition curated by Mona Hakim and Sylvain Campeau, presented by Occurrence in Montreal

(2016) Out of Office. Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon. Duo exhibition with Jessica Auer Shuttered. Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario. Group exhibition The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video. Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto, Ontario. Group exhibition: Edward Burtynsky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Richard Misrach, Robert Rauschenberg, Chris Jordan, Gideon Mendel, Brandi Merolla, Jean-Pierre Aube, Adrien Missika, Evariste Richer Borderline. FOFA Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

(2015) The Post-Photographic Condition. Maison de la culture Frontenac. Part of Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, curated by Joan Fontcuberta Field Work. oslo8 contemporary photography, Basel, Switzerland. Group exhibition Oil! Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal. Duo exhibition with Ripley Whiteside

(2014) Encounters at the Edge of the Forest. Gallery 400, Chicago, USA. Group exhibition Virtually There. Campbell River Art Gallery, British Columbia

(2013) Petrolia. Sporobole Centre en Art Actuel, Sherbrooke, Quebec Petrolia. Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario Sea to Surface. Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Ontario. Duo exhibition with Jessica Auer

(2012) Ground Truth. TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, Alberta. Duo exhibition with Karen Zalamea

(2011) The Creation of Evolution. ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon. Group exhibition Travelogue as Allegory. Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. Group exhibition Projet Stanstead ou Comment Traverser la Frontière. Foreman Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Quebec. Group exhibition: Ursula Biemann and Christian Phillip Müller RESIDENCIES

(2020) Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environment, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Quebec (2016-17) Canadian Forces Artists Program, Department of National Defence (2014) Chilkoot Trail, Parks Canada, U.S. National Parks, and The Yukon Art Centre (2011-12) Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario (2009) Visual Arts Thematic Residency: The Wanderer, Banff Centre, Alberta (2009) Gushul Studio, Blairmore, Alberta. Sponsored by the University of Lethbridge

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS

(2021) Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec : Research & Creation Grant (2019) Research Fellow, Canadian Photography Institute, National Gallery of Canada (2018) Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant (2016-17) Canada Council for the Arts : Project Grants to Visual Artists (2016-17) Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Project Grant (2014-15) Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec : Research & Creation Grant (2013-15) Canada Council for the Arts : Project Grants to Visual Artists (2010-11) Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec : Research & Creation Grant

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Lecturer Sep. 2018 - present Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, Okanagan, University of British Columbia

Sessional Instructor Sep. 2017 - Jul. 2018 Visual Arts Department, Alberta College of Art and Design

Photography Facilitator May. 2015 - Sep. 2016 Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta

Part-time Faculty Sep. 2008 - May. 2015 Studio Arts Department, Concordia University, Quebec SELECTED INTERVIEWS

(2021) Les feux de forêt en Colombie-Britannique au cœur d’une exposition au Centre-du-Québec. ICI Mauricie – Centre-du-Québec. Radio Canada. Interviewer: Jacob Côte. Broadcast television.

(2021) Landed explores immigration, borders and adaptation. CKUA. Interviewer: Rudy Howell. Broadcast radio.

(2016) Photographer Spent Three Years Documenting The Canada-U.S. Border. Buzzfeed. Interviewer: Ishmael N. Daro. Online.

(2016) Photographer’s eyes opened on epic road trip along Canada-U.S. border. CBC News World. Interviewer: Meagan Fitzpatrick. Online.

(2016) The Invisible Security of Canada’s Seemingly Chill Border. WIRED. Interviewer: Laura Mallonee.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

(2022) Fire Season (2nd edition). Anthology, edited by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese. Vancouver, Canada. (2021) Cahier 02. Exhibition catalogue, with contributions by Geneviève Chevalier, Mark A. Cheetham and Mathieu Bourbonnais. Montréal, Canada: Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement (2020) Fire Season (1st edition). Anthology, edited by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese. Vancouver, Canada. (2020) Evolving the Forest. Photo essay and academic text titled Wildfire in an Uncertain Time. Editors: Simon Lloyd, Richard Povall & Jeremy Ralph. Kingsbridge, United Kingdom: art.earth. (2020) Landed. Exhibition catalogue, with contribution by Xanthe Isbister. Medicine Hat, Canada: Esplanade Arts & Heritage Centre. (2016) The Edge of the Earth, Climate Change in Photography and Video. Exhibition catalogue, with contributions by T.J. Demos, Benedicte Ramade and Paul Roth London, United Kingdom: Black Dog Publishing.

Magazines & Newspapers:

(2021) Andrey Chernykh. A Line Made by Clearing. On Site Review, (38), 10-13 (2020) Noémie Fortin. Sur les traces du Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière en temps de pandémie. Vie des Arts, (259), 20-22 (2020) A Postztfotográfia Állapota. FotóMuvészet, 32-42 (2020) Jérôme Delgado. Arts visuels: hors des grands centres, plein de saluts. Le Devoir. (2020) Éric Clément. La Fondation Grantham choisit ses deux premiers boursiers. La Presse. (2018) Paul Gessell. A Long and Lonely Border. Galleries West. (2017) Etienne Hatt. Googlescapes le paysage à l’ère post-photographique / Landscape in the Age of Google Earth. Artpress, 440. (2016) Suzanne Paquet. Perambulating, Wandering, Fleeing. A Few Notes on Mobile Landscapes. Esse Arts + Opinions (2014) Menachem Wecker. Chicago Show Highlights Canadian Artist’s Cross-Border Trek. Canadian Art.

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