| Heather Marie Anderson | |
| Born: | 1974, Halifax, Canada |
| Lives: | Grenoble, France |
| Current Occupation: | Participant Session 14 Ecole du Magasin |
| Recent Occupation: | Art Handler, National Portrait Gallery, London, U.K. |
| Profile: | Enjoys sports and outdoor activities, especially winter sports, soccer and floor hockey with people who play for fun Enjoys cooking (post-vegetarian), music and rock shows, knitting Cat person Played Ukulele for Princess Diana |
| languages written and spoken: | English and French |
| Competencies: | Administration and organization, Critical writing, Exhibition installation |
| Selected Background: | Master of Arts, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2000-2003)
Thesis: Contemporary Canadian Women's Performance Art : Advisor, Dr. Jayne Wark, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Board of Directors, Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada (2002-2003) Curatorial Apprenticeship Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada (2000-2001) JET Program, Assistant Language High School Teacher, Toyota City, Japan (1998-1999) Bachelor of Fine Arts, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (1995-1998) |
| Practice and Project: | Interested in developing curatorial projects that are positioned critically within the field of cultural production and which engage our inescapably politicized relations as individuals within the social sphere.
Specialized research interests include feminist art practices, feminist critique, video and performance art. New Media/No Memory , co-curated with Tania Sures, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada. Exh. cat., essays by Heather Anderson and Tania Sures (2003) Portraits: Unsettled Subjects , co-curated with Chrystal Clements, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada. Exh. cat., co-written with Chrystal Clements (2001) Do Try This At Home , co-curated with Chrystal Clements, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada. Exh. cat., essays by Heather Anderson and Chrystal Clements, forward by Ingrid Jenkner (2001) ad/vice , Mount Library: a collaborative project with the MSVU Chair in Women's Studies, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada. Exhibition publication, Heather Anderson, Jessica Bailey, and Sharon Batt (2001) By The Skin Of Our Teeth, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD Women's Collective, co-organizer (1999) |
| Selected Writing: | " Full Screen: Feminist Video Production at the Centre for Art Tapes ," Intersections: 25 Years of Connecting at the Centre for Art Tapes , eds. Jim McSwain and Michelle Jacques, CFAT, Halifax, Canada (2004) " Happy F.O. to You! ," Arts Atlantic (Winter 2004): 6-9 " Review: Wallworks ," Arts Atlantic (Fall 2003): 57 " Beyond Vision: Brenda Pelkey's 'Haunts' ," Blackflash , vol. 19 no.3: 22-30. " Review: Haunts ; Homemade ; Visibility and Invisibility in the Nuclear Era ," Arts Atlantic (Spring 2002): 32-35 " Book Review: The Radical Women Manifesto and Turbo Chicks , "Atlantis , vol. 27 no.1: 116-118 " Review: Überstyle ," Arts Atlantic , (Fall 2001): 71 |
| Solo and Collaborative Exhibitions: | Granddaughter Excerpts , Eyelevelgallery, Halifax, Canada (2003) Sweet Perversions (Dirty Dishes Collective), Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada. Exh. cat. with essay by Pam Edmonds (2001) Wish , Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada (2000) Scratch Scrape Scour Grind (NSCAD Women's Collective), Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Canada (1999) |
| Affiliations: | Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada http://www.cfat.ns.ca The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Halifax, Canada MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada http://www.eyelevelgallery.ca/ |
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| contact: heama@yahoo.com |