CURRICULUM VITAE
MONIQUE MOTUT-FIRTH
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SELECTED SOLO & COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2023 Intricate Arrangements, ACT Gallery, Maple Ridge, Canada w/ Amy Dyck
2022 Paneficio Studios, window display, Strathecona, Vancouver, BC
2021 10th Annual Cairo Video Festival, w/ prOphecy sun, Cairo, Egypt
2018 Emily Carr University Alumni Association, BMO Centre, Vancouver, Canada w/ Carlyn Yandle
2018 solo exhibition, Machinations, The Fields Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 solo exhibition, Consumed, Gallery 1515, in conjunction with Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, Canada
2017 solo exhibition, RE-FIGURATIONS, Mission Arts Council, Rock Family Gallery, Mission, BC, Canada
2015 consume her demand, AgentC Projects, Surrey, Canada. Participating artists Charlene Vickers & Mary Coss
2014 Domestic Interventions, CityScape Gallery, North Vancouver Community Arts Council, Canada. Participating artists, Janet Wang & Carlyn Yandle
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Small File Media Festival, The Cinematheque, Vancouver, BC
2023 Vanimation Festival, the Rio Theatre, Vancouver, BC
2022 low low res, Animation screening, the Hmm Amsterdam, Online, International w/BiglerWeibel & Rachel Stuckey
2022 Small File Media Festival, SFU/VIVO Media Arts/Grunt Gallery/LA’s Video Poetry Festival, The Hmm Amsterdam & Cairo Video Festival, International
2021 Surfacing, Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
2021 Moving Art: Natural Analog/ues, Film & Video series, w/ prOphecy sun, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2021 Small File Media Festival, SFU/VIVO Media Arts/Grunt Gallery/LA’s Video Poetry Festival & Cairo Video Festival, International
2021 Authentic Self, Headline Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2021 Seeking the Periphery, Paul H. Cocker Gallery, Department of Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
2021 Tip of the Iceberg, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, Canada
2020 Igniting Hope, Port Moody Arts Centre, Port Moody, BC, Canada
2020 Subversive Celebration, University of South Dakota, USA
2019 Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
2018 Nuit Blanche Saskatoon, digital installation, Saskatchewan Arts Board, Saskatoon, Canada
2016 Emerging Artist Prize Exhibition, Access Gallery, Vancouver Canada. Participating artists, Mona Lisa Ali Alzghoul, Annie Briard, Aaron Moran, Debbie Tuepah
2016 Artist Recipe Project, New York, USA
2015 EXTENSIONS, Charles H. Scott Gallery Vancouver, Canada. Participating artists, Amanda Arcuri, Dallas Duobaitis, Britta Fluevog, prOphecy sun
2014 Performative Ecologies Graduate Symposium, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada
2012 Library With Books, Whose Salon, Galleri Rotor, Goteborg, Sweden
2012 ERI5, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2011 MERKINtile, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Maynard’s Contemporary Woman Fine Art Auction, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Emily Carr Grad Show, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Interwoven: Matrix of Textiles, Emily Carr Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Knock on Woods: A Roving International Artist Residency/ For the Sake of Community, The Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 The Art of Food, Emily Carr Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
EDUCATION
MFA Emily Carr University, Master of Fine Arts.
BFA Emily Carr University, Bachelor in General Fine Arts.
BA University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Arts, Major Psychology.
RESIDENCIES
2022 Mini Residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver.
2015 Residency, void gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Canada
2014 The Universe & Other Systems with Shary Boyle, The Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta Canada
AWARDS
Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation/ Explore and Create Grant, 2023
Video Distribution Award, DATA DREAMING, The Hmm, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2022
Video Distribution Award, TV PARTY, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, w/prOphecy sun, 2022
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant, 2021
2nd Annual Small File Media Festival, SFU, Best Post-apocalyptic video, w/ prOphecy sun, 2021
Cairo Video Festival Award w/ prOphecy sun, Cairo, Egypt, 2021
Honourable Mention Subversive Celebration, University of South Dakota, 2020
Finalist, Georgia Straight and Capture Photography Festival Canada Line Competition, Vancouver, 2019
Selected Exhibition for Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver, 2017
Finalist, Emerging Artist Award, Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, BC, 2016
President's Fund, Emily Carr University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, 2014
Entrance Scholarship, Emily Carr University, Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Undergraduate Scholar Program Scholarship, University of British Columbia
Margaret Lawrence Scholarship in Arts, University of British Columbia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Post-secondary Arts curriculum writer across Canada, Colour & Design, Drawing, Life Drawing for Design, Fine Arts and Animation
2023- present Instructor, Wilson School of Design, Richmond BC
2022- present Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Entertainment Arts (ENTA), Richmond BC
2016 Seminar Leader, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver BC
2010-2022 Instructor, Visual College of Art & Design, Vancouver BC
2007-2011 Instructor, Art Institute of Vancouver, Vancouver BC
2003-2006 Technicolor Creative Services/ TOYBOX West/Alphacine, Vancouver BC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SCOUT, Vancouver, Playing, Exploring, Inventing and Building with Local Artist Monique Motut-Firth, https://scoutmagazine.ca/2023/01/31/playing-exploring-inventing-and-building-with-local-artist-monique-motut-firth/ T. Stopa, January 2023.
The Hmm, “The Power of the Poor Image”, Margarita Osipian, March, 2022, Amsterdam. https://thehmm.nl/the-power-of-the-poor-image/
The Tyee, “Get inside an Artist’s Headspace, and the Actual Space…”, D. Woodend, November, 2021.
The La Source, “Les collages dynamiques et engages de Monique Motut-Firth”, N. Astruc, November, 2021.
Georgia Straight, Capture Canada Line Competition, January, 2019.
Beatroute BC, "Monique Motut-Firth Wrestling Images Back from the Dark Side", Yasmine Shemesh, May 2017.
Capture Photography Festival, "Selected Exhibitions", Capture Festival, April 2017.
hamilton arts & letters, "A Confluence of Geographies", Bart Gazzola, April, 2016.
Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, Emerging Artist Prize, Shortlist of finalists, 2016.
Shaw TV Saskatoon, "The Conversation Series". Hamilton, Janella, July 9th 2015.
A Word 03.03.2015 Street Meet/ Finding City. The A Word: Art Writing + Criticism, Bart Gazzola, July 2015.
The Conversation Series. Presented by Finding City and void gallery, Saskatoon, July 2015.
Planet S Magazine, Artsplosion! Bart Gazzola, June 2015.
EXTENTIONS, Graduate Exhibition, show catalogue. Kimberly Phillips, May 2015.
WOO, The Winter Issue 2015. March, 2015, p.51.
The Vancouver Courier, "MERKINtile exhibit puts pubic art on display.", Rossi, Cheryl, April 2011.
Maynard’s Catalogue, "The Contemporary Woman at Maynard’s", September 2010, p.17.
Emily Carr University, "Graduation Catalogue", May 2010, p.46. Introduction, Kimberly Phillips.
City Food Magazine, “Cooks Books Illustrated: The Emily Carr Food Project”. Special Edition. Spring 2008, p. 15.
Mission City Record, “Mother Connects With Her Past and Heritage Through Project”, Thiessen, Kristine, September 2007, p. 22.
PUBLICATIONS
“Travelling through Troubled Landscapes”, Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, 3(1), 97–106. 2022. https://doi.org/10.46863/ecocene.75
“Polly’s Paper Dolls”, Room Literary Journal, “Labours”, vol 35.4, p.78-83. 2012.
“In my Baba’s Kitchen”, self-published children’s book, 12 pgs. 2011.
“In my Baba’s Knitting Basket” self-published children’s book, 12 pgs. 2009.
“In my Baba’s Garden” self-published children’s book, 12 pgs. 2006.
ARTIST TALKS
2023- Guest Lecturer Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Low Rez, MFA students, Vancouver, BC
2023- Guest Speaker Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Media Core Foundations, Vancouver, BC
2022- Animation screening, the Hmm Amsterdam, Online, International w/BiglerWeibel & Rachel Stuckey
2022- Thinking Making. Experimental Practices in Small-file Media. SFU, Vancouver, BC.
2022- Paneficio Studios, Strathcona, Vancouver, BC
2022- Guest Speaker Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Media Core Foundations, Vancouver, BC
2021- “Histories in the Making: From Research to Artwork”, w/ Julie McIntyre & Mia Weinberg, Vancouver, BC
2021- UAAC Universities Art Association of Canada, The Pliability of Paper, Panel #15, Canada
2021- Tracing Lines podcast w/ Aimée Henny Brown, Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC
2018- Constructed Abstraction, in connection with Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, BC
2017- Consumed, in connection with Capture Festival and Gallery 1515, Vancouver, BC
2015 consume her demand, in connection with Agent C Projects, Surrey, BC
2015 The Conversation Series in connection with Finding City and void gallery, the Two-Twenty Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2014 Performative Ecologies Graduate Symposium & Show, U of A, Edmonton, Alberta
2012 Room Magazine Issue 35.4 Launch & Anniversary, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver BC, invited speaker.
2011 Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary, Surrey, BC, invited speaker.