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COLLEEN
HESLIN
Born: Toronto, 1976
colleenheslin@gmail.com
157 East Cordova Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
V6A 1K7 / Canada
EDUCATION
2003 Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver BC, BFA
SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Upcoming, Black & Yellow Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 I SEE WATER, LES Gallery, Vancouver BC
SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 WALK IN/HERE YOU ARE part 3, Long Roads and Small Places a photo essay, curated by Cate Rimmer, outdoor installation by Christian Kliegel, City of Vancouver Public Art project, Vancouver BC
2010 BEFORE AND AFTER, Olympic Exhibition, curated by Sophie Brodovitch, Queen Elizabeth Theater, Vancouver BC
NO SEX NO LIFE, cuated by Soi Fischer, Vancouver BC
2009 TAKE YOUR TIME SFU Gallery, curated by Bill Jeffries, Burnaby BC
2008 COUNTRY HORSE AND WAGON Pentiction Art Gallery, Pentiction BC
2007 TOO MANY WORDS Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC
2006 DEFINING SPACES Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC
DON'T STOP BELIEVING Antisocial Gallery, Vancouver BC
HEARTPOUNDER
upcoming,
Hotcake Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2005 PLACED AND FOUND, Access Gallery, Vanouver BC
Film Festivals
2000 2nd ANNUAL VANCOUVER UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL,curated
by Alex Mackenzie and jury Blinding Light Cinema!!, Van, BC
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
1999-Present The Crying Room an independent art space for emerging artists founder, curator and director of programming for over 60 exhibitions
RESIDENCIES
2011 BRUNO ARTS BANK, upcoming August 1-31st, Bruno, Saskatchewan, Canada
PUBLICATIONS
AND REVIEWS
2010
Pyramid Power, “SLEEPWALKING”, 4 page painting spread, issue 07 spring/summer, Vancouver BC
WOO Magazine, “Poster Issue” issue 4, Summer 2010, Vancouver BC
2009
Room Magazine, “Tender Loving Care” issue 32.3, cover and 5 images, Vancouver BC
2008
Capricious Magazine,“The Animal Issue”, issue 8, Spring 2008, New York, NY USA
Purpose Magazine, “The Childhood Issue” Webmag Photographic, issue 8, Autumn 2008, Paris, France
2006
Arsenal Pulp Press,
cover illustration for spring catalouge , Vancouver BC
2005
Only Magazine "Placed
and Found", by Alan Hindle, December 1, Vol.2 NO.26 Issue 38, Vancouver
BC
Ripe Magazine "The
Green Issue", full page colour image, Summer Issue
TABLET Magazine Cover image, May 2005, issue 99, Seattle WA
Vancouver Magazine,
"Best of the City", Best Tiny Gallery - The Crying Room, pg. 33, Jan/Feb
2005
The Only Magazine,
“The Future of the Crying Room”, interviewed by Curtis Grahauer,
April 1-7, 2005, Vol.2 No.13 Issue #25, page. 11, Van. BC
2003
The Vancouver
Sun “Creativity Unclogged”, by Michael Scott, Saturday, May
17, 2003
Woo Magazine Photographs - 4 images of winter urban landscapes (2 pages) Winter Issue (January/February), Vol.1, No.2, 2003 ,Van. BC
2001 Georgia Straight Weekly, “Air of Innovation is Circulating on Pender”, Christopher
Brayshaw, Review of exhibition at Gallery 83, September, Van. BC
WRITTEN
PUBLICATIONS
2005 Aspect magazine, audio commentary for two videos by Toni Latour, "Smile"
and "Robin Red Breast"
2004 "David Young: Hhead, I Like Canada and Canada Likes
me, and Yellow Diablo VS. 1980
Camero". A catalogue essay for David Yonge's exhibition at YYZ, Toronto
ON.
2004 "PERCHED", postscript on the work of Toni Latour
at Artspeak, Vancouver BC
2003 "Photographs from a fan Boy's Camera", a catalogue
essay on Ryan Quast's
exhibition at the Crying Room; an artist run centre, SWARM Sept. 2003, Van BC
AUCTIONS
2009 Les Gallery Auction, Vancouver BC
2004 Artspeak, fashion show fundraiser, Vancouver, BC
Contemporary Art Gallery, "Why can't I free your doubtful mind and melt
your cold, cold heart"
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design Graduation Auction, Vancouver, BC
Access: Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC
Helen Pitt: Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, BC
2003 The Contemporary Art Gallery 30th Anniversary Auction,
Vancouver, BC
Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design Graduation Auction, Vancouver, BC
2002 Tracey Lawrence Gallery, food bank fund-raiser, Vancouver, BC
2001 Blinding Light!! Auction, Vancouver, BC
COLLECTIONS
2008 Simon Fraser University, Vancouver British Columbia (Can)
2003 The City of Vancouver, (Donald MacPherson & Landon Mackenzie), Vancouver BC (Can)
1995 Bealart, London, Ontario (Can)
SELECTED CLIENTS & PUBLISHED WORK