Selected Biography · Shawn Serfas

shawn serfas CurriCulum vitae

formal eduCation 2003 Master of Fine Arts Degree (M.F.A.), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2002 Bachelor of Arts Degree (B.A.), Major in Art History, Graduated with Great Distinction University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (B.F.A.), Graduated with Great Distinction and Distinguished Thesis Exhibition, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

researCh expertise Contemporary painting, drawing and printmaking practices concerning relational bstraction,environmental aesthetics, religion, the landscape as well as issues bordering abstraction and representation.

aCademiC positions held 2021- Associate Professor, Department of Creative Studies, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University of British Columbia 2012-2021 Associate Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University 2004-2012 Lecturer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, University of British Columbia

researCh affiliates Associate, Research Centre in Interdisciplinary Arts and Creative Culture, Centre for Studies in Arts and Culture, Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, Brock University Creative / sCholarly researCh exhibitions and Curatorial projeCts (seleCted) 2020 Industrial Niagara, Group Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario Folding of Gesture, Solo Exhibition, Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2019 Rail Post, Group Exhibition, Front Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Seeing Red, Group Exhibition, Darrell Bell Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 2018 Geographies of Process, Co-Curated with Catherine Parayre, Group Exhibition, Die Baeckerei, Innsbruck, Austria Grid Terrain, Solo Exhibition, Gallery MX, Montreal, Quebec 2017 Pseudo-Fiction (with Catherine Parayre), Pierre Leon Gallery, Alliance française de Toronto, Ontario Poost-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures and Poetics, Group Exhibition, Silo-City, Buffalo, New York

2016 Visual Appropriations and Rewritings, Co-Curated with Catherine Parayre, Group Exhibition, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria Inland, Solo Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario, Curated by Stuart Reid, Please also visit: http://shawnserfas.com/project/inland-2016/ 2015 From Likeness to Fiction: The Portrait Inside Out, Curated by Janet Werner, Exhibition Hall, Department of Creative and Festival Arts, The University of The West Indies St. Augustine, Trinidad W.I Dig, Solo Exhibition, Machine Shop Gallery, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario Please also visit: http://shawnserfas.com/project/dig-2015/ Chaussettes vertes et bonne nuit, les étoiles / Green Socks and Goodnight Stars, Co-Curated with Catherine Parayre, Group Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario BrainStorms: UAlberta Creates, Group Exhibition, Enterprise Square Galleries, Edmonton, Alberta ECAS 21st Anniversary Exhibition, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 34 Mini Print International De Cadaqués, (Catalogue), Gallery L’Etangd’Art, Bages, France Fundació Tharrats d’Art Gràfic, Pineda de Mar, Spain, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaqués, Girona, Spain, Wingfield Barns, Church Rd, Wingfield, Diss, Norfolk, England 2014 In the Park, the Horses Didn’t Mind, Co-Curated with Catherine Parayre, Group Exhibition, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario Insomnia, Group Exhibition, Redhead Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Convergence, 50th Annual Juried Exhibition, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario Academia: Judy Major-Girardin, Martin Pearce, Shawn Serfas, and Bruce Taylor, Earls Court Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario Possible Object, (includes work by William Ronald, Ronald Bloore and Shawn Serfas), Group Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario Northern Notes, Group Exhibition, Lessedra Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, (Catalogue) Plaything, Solo Exhibition, Congress: Borders Without Boundaries, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario 2013 Shawn Serfas: Re-Picturing the Landscape, Solo Exhibition, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, British Columbia (Catalogue Godfrey Dean Art Gallery) Please also visit: http://shawnserfas.com/project/re-picturing-the-landscape-2013/ Polyglot: Braille/Babble, Group Exhibition, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario JNAAG Juried Art Show, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario ECAS 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Enterprise Square Galleries, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

2011 Borderlands – Imagining the Immaterial, Solo Exhibition, (Catalogue Vernon Public Art Gallery), Art Gallery of Prince Albert, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan Insight - Artist as Educator, Penticton Art Gallery, Penticton, British Columbia University of British Columbia Faculty Exhibition, Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia 2010 Borderlands – Imagining the Immaterial, Solo Exhibition, (Catalogue Vernon Public Art Gallery), The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton, Saskatchewan Field + Canal, Solo Exhibition, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta ECAS 18th Anniversary Exhibition, Edmonton Contemporary Artists’ Society, Common Sense Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 2009 Radial Grey, Solo Exhibition, SOPA Fine Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia 2008 Borderlands – Imagining the Immaterial, Solo Exhibition, (Catalogue), Vernon Public Art Gallery, Vernon, British Columbia Tide + Recess, Solo Exhibition, SOPA Fine Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia Boundaries, Group Exhibition, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia (Catalogue) 2007 Borderlands, (with Luc Bernard), Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton2006 Basin and Range, Solo Exhibition, SOPA Fine Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia The Hour Glass, The Long Galley, Group Exhibition, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW, Australia 2005 Telluric Currents, Solo Exhibition, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta 2004 ECAS 12th Anniversary Exhibition, Edmonton Contemporary Artists’ Society, Edmonton, Alberta 2003 Journey to the Surface of the Earth, Solo Exhibition, Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton Other Voices, Group Exhibition, Latitude 53 Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta Connect Four, The Works Art and Design Festival, The Works International Visual Arts Society, Edmonton, Alberta Fast Forward, Group Exhibition, FAB Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta refereed publiCations, exhibition Catalogues, monographs, image Credits and essays (seleCted) Culen, Lubos. Introduction and Interview in Borderlands – Imagining the Immaterial (Catalogue), Vernon Public Art Gallery, March 2008, pp. 4-5 and 14-24

Daniels, Lisa. Introduction to the Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery Juried Art Show (Catalogue), Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, 2003

MacHardy, Carolyn. “Liminal Spaces” in Borderlands – Imagining the Immaterial (Catalogue), Vernon Public Art Gallery, March 2008, pp. 6-11

_______________. “Encounters with the Sublime: The Art of Shawn Serfas” in Re-Picturing the Landscape (Catalogue), Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, 2011, pp. 8-11

Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas, and Caitríona Ní Chasaide, editors, Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Release Date, September 2016, Cover Image: Rise, Plaything Series, 2010, Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media on Canvas, 152.4 cm x 121.9 cm (60 inches x 48 inches)

Parayre, Catherine, ed. “Alloyed” Silo City, Buffalo, NY. Post-Industrial Ephemera: Soundings, Gestures and Poetics. Ed. Catherine Parayre and Reinhard Reitzenstein. St. Catharines, ON: Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts, 2018, pp. 18-20

Parayre, Catherine and Shawn Serfas. “De l’art, du francais, des histoires pour les enfants: une experience d’enseignement a l’universite.” Quo vadis, Romania? 49 (2017), pp. 7-27

Parayre, Catherine and Shawn Serfas. Erasures, ti< A Journal of Text-And-Image Criticism/Creation, Vol 8, No.1 (2019)

_______________. Colour Constructs / Constructions de couleurs, ti< A Journal of Text-And-Image Criticism/ Creation, Vol 7, No.1 (2018), pp. 13-19

_______________. Visual Appropriations and Rewritings, ti< A Journal of Text-And-Image Criticism/Creation, Vol 5, No.1 (2016), pp. 17-20, pp. 1-12

_______________. Chaussettes vertes et bonne nuit, les étoiles / Green Socks and Goodnight Stars, ti< A Journal of Text-And-Image Criticism/Creation, Vol 4, No.1 (2015)

Serfas, Shawn. “Acrylique sur toile.” Voix plurielles 15.2 (2018), pp. 240-247

Serfas, Shawn. Inland, with creative writing by Richard Fausset and an essay by Derek Knight. St. Catharines, ON and Vienna, Austria: Small Walker Press and Salon für Kunstbuch, 2019

Stein, Donald. “Introduction” in Re-Picturing the Landscape (Catalogue), Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, 2011, p.4

Wylie, Liz. Exhibition and Artist Introduction in Boundaries (Catalogue), Kelowna Art Gallery, University of British Columbia Okanagan Artists Exhibition, November 2008