angela henderson
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Exhibitions and Artist’s Residencies
2022 - Speculative Cartographies; Mapping Sites of Difficult History. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Era of Sleep. CYART Gallery. Seoul, South Korea
2021 - All Flesh is Grass: A Multidirectional-Post-Memorial. Pier 21 Museum, Halifax, NS
2020 - Speculative Cartographies: Mapping Five Mass Graves in the Forests of Eastern Poland. Halifax Central Library, NS
2019 - Speculative Cartographies: Counter-Mappings of the Archive, BIENNALE WARSZAWA, PL
2019 - threshold (a longing) Admare Artist Run Centre. Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2019 - threshold (a lapidarian).The Hidden Labour of Artist’s Work, Halifax Animation Festival. NS
2018 – genizah: hulls Poolside Gallery. Winnipeg, MB
2018 - Model Models. Dalhousie University School of Architecture. Halifax, NS
2018 - Dramaturgy Workshop with Lois Brown. Halifax, NS
2017 - INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE. Artist in Residence. Berlin, GER
2017 - Secrets Save Me From Dissolving. Hermes Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Untitled Models for the Debris Field Archives. Chase Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Like a crumbling wall, air came tumbling down. NOCTURNE, Art at Night. Halifax, NS
2017 - Models for Walking the Debris Fields. Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - genizah. INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE. Berlin, GER
2017- Dramaturgy Workshop with Lois Brown, Halifax, NS
2017 - Terrestrial/Subterranean. Curator, Uncommon Common Art. Wolfville, NS
2016 - Between There and Now: A Site Structure. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2016 - what was will be between there and now. NOCTURNE, Art at Night. Halifax, NS
2016 - Speculative Architecture(s). Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - 9 sqft. Fresh Paint New Construction. Art Mur. Montreal, QC
2015 - Site Repair. NOCTURNE, Art at Night, Nova Sculpture Sculpture Symposium. Halifax, NS
2015 - The Thing is… MFA Group Show. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015-2017 -Site Repair. Nova Scotia Sculpture Symposium. Halifax, NS
2014 - Progress in Work - MFA Group Show. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS2013 - Ecotrust Canada. Artist in Residence, Vancouver, BC
2013 - Frank Roger’s Diversion. Creative Time Summit. Vancouver, BC
2012 - Artist in Residence. Art and Social Engagement. Fondazione Pistoletto. Biella, IT
2012 - UNIDESCO, La Pigna Nascosta Della Citta. Cittadellearte. San Remo, IT
2012 - Artist in Residence. Truth is Concrete, 24/7 Marathon Camp. Graz, AU
2012 - Inno al Pane. Fondazione Cittadellarte, Biella, IT
2012 - In the Space of Elsewhere. FRAC - A Parallel Exhibition. Biella, IT
2011 - (re)inversions. City of Halifax. Halifax, NS
2011 - Rose. Screening: Bus Stop Theatre. Halifax, NS
2010 - A conduit for conversation. Graduation Exhibition. Emily Carr University.
Public Presentations
2022 – Counter-Memory Activism Symposium: Witness Trees, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Speculative Cartographies; Mapping Sites of Difficult History. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Artist Talk. Era of Sleep. CYART Gallery. Seoul, South Korea
2021 - Artist Talk. All Flesh is Grass: A Multidirectional-Post-Memorial. Pier 21 Museum, Halifax, NS
2020 - Workshop Facilitator. Mapping the Museum. Cultural Spaces as Living Monuments. Online, Nov. 28+29
2020 - Artist Talk. Speculative Cartographies: Mapping Five Mass Graves in the Forests of Eastern Poland, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, NS
2020 - Artist Talk. The Aesthetics of Experience - Class Presentation. Mount St. Vincent's University. Halifax, NS
2020 - UAAC. Session Chair, Reciprocal Ecologies in Materials Research. SFU, Vancouver, BC
2019 - Artist Talk. Speculative Cartographies:Mapping the Archive, BIENNALE WARSZAWA, PL
2019 - Artist Talk. threshold (a longing) Admare Artist Run Centre, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2019 - University Art Association of Canada. Session Chair, Performing Impasse. Quebec City, QC
2019 - Paper. National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Title: Reimagining Locality: Material, Fabrication and Form. Denver, Colorado
2018 - Panelist. UAAC, Session: Canadian Design Studies Title: Reimagining Locality through Material, Fabrication and Form. Waterloo, Ontario.
2018 - Artist Talk. Architectures of Memory and Trauma. Dalhousie University. Halifax, NS
2017 - Artist Talk. Site Repair. NSCAD University. Halifax, NS
2017 - Artist Talk. Walking the Debris Fields. Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Guest Lecturer. Sculpture and the Projected Image. LaborBerlin, Berlin GR
2017 - Artist Talk. Secrets Save Me From Dissolving. Hermes Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Panelist. Architecture: Materials and Computation. Dalhousie University. Halifax, NS
2016 - Artist Talk. Between There and Now: A Site Structure. Anna Leonowens. Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. The Thing Is.... Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. Counter-Monuments - Sites of Memory and Commemoration. AGNS, Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. Site Repair. Anna Leonowens. Halifax, NS
Awards and Grants
2020 - Co-Applicant. Memory Activism and Collaborative Processes of Counter-Memorialization. SSHRC Insight Grant.
2019 - Co-Applicant. A Tactical Urbanism approach to assessing the value of accessible public spaces. SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Grant.
2019 - Nova Scotia Arts Council. Presentation Grant. Exhibition Title: threshold (a longing). Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2018 - Principal Investigator. Collaborative Design for Unstructured Play: Developing Local Economies through Innovation in Materials and Technology. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant.
Publications
2022/23 - Co-Author + Contributing Artist. Widening the Scripts: Care, COVID-19, and Feminist Survival Dead-Stock series, Punctum Books
2021 - Co-authored with Robert Bean. Walking in the debris field: narratives for peace. Community Stories of War and Peace (MSVU) Nimbus Publishing Ltd.
2021 - Contributing Artist. Mapping contested sites of commemoration. Community Stories of War and Peace (MSVU) Nimbus Publishing Ltd.
2019 - Speculations on Design Practice as a Post-Capitalist Imagination: A curricular case study. Conference Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Issue 35, pp. 309-313. Denver, Colorado
2017 - Contributing Artist, untitled. Sculpting Cinema. A Pleasure Dome Publication
2017 - Exhibition Review. Border Crossings Magazine. It's Gonna Rain. Divya Mehra at The New Gallery
2017 - Contributing Artist, 1 Square Foot Polished for 12 Hours. Sitelines, An Eyelevel Publication
2012 - Contributing Artist Inno al Pane. Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
2010 - Redesigning a Versatile Mobility Aide. Emily Carr University, Current Iss.01
Exhibition Reviews
2020 - On Bodies in Space. Interview by Sally Wolchyn-Raab. Visual Arts News
2017 - Halifax Report. Canadian Art
2014 - Socio-Economics and the Creative Class. Decoy Magazine
2012 - UNIDEE, Art and Social Transformation. Cittadellarte Fondazione
Teaching
Current - Regular Part-Time Faculty. Interdisciplinary Design, NSCAD University
2017-2019 - Assistant Professor. Interdisciplinary Design, NSCAD University
2017 - Instructor. Interdisciplinary Design Studio 6, NSCAD University
2016 - Instructor. Human Factors in Design, NSCAD University
2016 - Technician. Plastics Fabrication Lab and Laser Cutting, NSCAD University
2015 - Instructor. Constructing the Anti-Monument, NSCAD University
Committees
2019 - 2023 - Peer Reviewer, The Design Journal
2016 - 2019 - Programming, Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax, NS
2016 - 2018 - Board Member, Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - MFA Committee, Student Union, NSCAD University. Halifax, NS
2011 - 2012 - Board Member, PAL (Performing Arts Lodge). Halifax, NS
Education
Master of Fine Arts. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2016)
Bachelor of Design. Emily Carr College of Art and Design (2010)
2022 - Speculative Cartographies; Mapping Sites of Difficult History. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Era of Sleep. CYART Gallery. Seoul, South Korea
2021 - All Flesh is Grass: A Multidirectional-Post-Memorial. Pier 21 Museum, Halifax, NS
2020 - Speculative Cartographies: Mapping Five Mass Graves in the Forests of Eastern Poland. Halifax Central Library, NS
2019 - Speculative Cartographies: Counter-Mappings of the Archive, BIENNALE WARSZAWA, PL
2019 - threshold (a longing) Admare Artist Run Centre. Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2019 - threshold (a lapidarian).The Hidden Labour of Artist’s Work, Halifax Animation Festival. NS
2018 – genizah: hulls Poolside Gallery. Winnipeg, MB
2018 - Model Models. Dalhousie University School of Architecture. Halifax, NS
2018 - Dramaturgy Workshop with Lois Brown. Halifax, NS
2017 - INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE. Artist in Residence. Berlin, GER
2017 - Secrets Save Me From Dissolving. Hermes Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Untitled Models for the Debris Field Archives. Chase Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Like a crumbling wall, air came tumbling down. NOCTURNE, Art at Night. Halifax, NS
2017 - Models for Walking the Debris Fields. Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - genizah. INSTITUT FÜR ALLES MÖGLICHE. Berlin, GER
2017- Dramaturgy Workshop with Lois Brown, Halifax, NS
2017 - Terrestrial/Subterranean. Curator, Uncommon Common Art. Wolfville, NS
2016 - Between There and Now: A Site Structure. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2016 - what was will be between there and now. NOCTURNE, Art at Night. Halifax, NS
2016 - Speculative Architecture(s). Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - 9 sqft. Fresh Paint New Construction. Art Mur. Montreal, QC
2015 - Site Repair. NOCTURNE, Art at Night, Nova Sculpture Sculpture Symposium. Halifax, NS
2015 - The Thing is… MFA Group Show. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015-2017 -Site Repair. Nova Scotia Sculpture Symposium. Halifax, NS
2014 - Progress in Work - MFA Group Show. Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS2013 - Ecotrust Canada. Artist in Residence, Vancouver, BC
2013 - Frank Roger’s Diversion. Creative Time Summit. Vancouver, BC
2012 - Artist in Residence. Art and Social Engagement. Fondazione Pistoletto. Biella, IT
2012 - UNIDESCO, La Pigna Nascosta Della Citta. Cittadellearte. San Remo, IT
2012 - Artist in Residence. Truth is Concrete, 24/7 Marathon Camp. Graz, AU
2012 - Inno al Pane. Fondazione Cittadellarte, Biella, IT
2012 - In the Space of Elsewhere. FRAC - A Parallel Exhibition. Biella, IT
2011 - (re)inversions. City of Halifax. Halifax, NS
2011 - Rose. Screening: Bus Stop Theatre. Halifax, NS
2010 - A conduit for conversation. Graduation Exhibition. Emily Carr University.
Public Presentations
2022 – Counter-Memory Activism Symposium: Witness Trees, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Speculative Cartographies; Mapping Sites of Difficult History. Halifax, Nova Scotia
2022 - Artist Talk. Era of Sleep. CYART Gallery. Seoul, South Korea
2021 - Artist Talk. All Flesh is Grass: A Multidirectional-Post-Memorial. Pier 21 Museum, Halifax, NS
2020 - Workshop Facilitator. Mapping the Museum. Cultural Spaces as Living Monuments. Online, Nov. 28+29
2020 - Artist Talk. Speculative Cartographies: Mapping Five Mass Graves in the Forests of Eastern Poland, Halifax Central Library, Halifax, NS
2020 - Artist Talk. The Aesthetics of Experience - Class Presentation. Mount St. Vincent's University. Halifax, NS
2020 - UAAC. Session Chair, Reciprocal Ecologies in Materials Research. SFU, Vancouver, BC
2019 - Artist Talk. Speculative Cartographies:Mapping the Archive, BIENNALE WARSZAWA, PL
2019 - Artist Talk. threshold (a longing) Admare Artist Run Centre, Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2019 - University Art Association of Canada. Session Chair, Performing Impasse. Quebec City, QC
2019 - Paper. National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Title: Reimagining Locality: Material, Fabrication and Form. Denver, Colorado
2018 - Panelist. UAAC, Session: Canadian Design Studies Title: Reimagining Locality through Material, Fabrication and Form. Waterloo, Ontario.
2018 - Artist Talk. Architectures of Memory and Trauma. Dalhousie University. Halifax, NS
2017 - Artist Talk. Site Repair. NSCAD University. Halifax, NS
2017 - Artist Talk. Walking the Debris Fields. Dalhousie Art Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Guest Lecturer. Sculpture and the Projected Image. LaborBerlin, Berlin GR
2017 - Artist Talk. Secrets Save Me From Dissolving. Hermes Gallery. Halifax, NS
2017 - Panelist. Architecture: Materials and Computation. Dalhousie University. Halifax, NS
2016 - Artist Talk. Between There and Now: A Site Structure. Anna Leonowens. Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. The Thing Is.... Anna Leonowens Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. Counter-Monuments - Sites of Memory and Commemoration. AGNS, Halifax, NS
2015 - Artist Talk. Site Repair. Anna Leonowens. Halifax, NS
Awards and Grants
2020 - Co-Applicant. Memory Activism and Collaborative Processes of Counter-Memorialization. SSHRC Insight Grant.
2019 - Co-Applicant. A Tactical Urbanism approach to assessing the value of accessible public spaces. SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Grant.
2019 - Nova Scotia Arts Council. Presentation Grant. Exhibition Title: threshold (a longing). Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, QC
2018 - Principal Investigator. Collaborative Design for Unstructured Play: Developing Local Economies through Innovation in Materials and Technology. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant.
Publications
2022/23 - Co-Author + Contributing Artist. Widening the Scripts: Care, COVID-19, and Feminist Survival Dead-Stock series, Punctum Books
2021 - Co-authored with Robert Bean. Walking in the debris field: narratives for peace. Community Stories of War and Peace (MSVU) Nimbus Publishing Ltd.
2021 - Contributing Artist. Mapping contested sites of commemoration. Community Stories of War and Peace (MSVU) Nimbus Publishing Ltd.
2019 - Speculations on Design Practice as a Post-Capitalist Imagination: A curricular case study. Conference Proceedings, National Conference on the Beginning Design Student. Issue 35, pp. 309-313. Denver, Colorado
2017 - Contributing Artist, untitled. Sculpting Cinema. A Pleasure Dome Publication
2017 - Exhibition Review. Border Crossings Magazine. It's Gonna Rain. Divya Mehra at The New Gallery
2017 - Contributing Artist, 1 Square Foot Polished for 12 Hours. Sitelines, An Eyelevel Publication
2012 - Contributing Artist Inno al Pane. Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, IT
2010 - Redesigning a Versatile Mobility Aide. Emily Carr University, Current Iss.01
Exhibition Reviews
2020 - On Bodies in Space. Interview by Sally Wolchyn-Raab. Visual Arts News
2017 - Halifax Report. Canadian Art
2014 - Socio-Economics and the Creative Class. Decoy Magazine
2012 - UNIDEE, Art and Social Transformation. Cittadellarte Fondazione
Teaching
Current - Regular Part-Time Faculty. Interdisciplinary Design, NSCAD University
2017-2019 - Assistant Professor. Interdisciplinary Design, NSCAD University
2017 - Instructor. Interdisciplinary Design Studio 6, NSCAD University
2016 - Instructor. Human Factors in Design, NSCAD University
2016 - Technician. Plastics Fabrication Lab and Laser Cutting, NSCAD University
2015 - Instructor. Constructing the Anti-Monument, NSCAD University
Committees
2019 - 2023 - Peer Reviewer, The Design Journal
2016 - 2019 - Programming, Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax, NS
2016 - 2018 - Board Member, Eyelevel Gallery. Halifax, NS
2015 - MFA Committee, Student Union, NSCAD University. Halifax, NS
2011 - 2012 - Board Member, PAL (Performing Arts Lodge). Halifax, NS
Education
Master of Fine Arts. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2016)
Bachelor of Design. Emily Carr College of Art and Design (2010)