Pari Nadimi Gallery: Artists: Jennifer Stillwell

Jennifer Stillwell

Selected Works
Biography

b. 1972, Winnipeg, Canada
Education: 2000; MFA (with distinction) – The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA); 1995; BFA (with distinction) – University of Manitoba, School of Art (Winnipeg, Canada)
Residencies: 2007; Quartier Éphémère – Artist-in-residence (Montreal, Canada); 2004; Kunst and Complex – international guest artist (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); 2001; Banff Centre for the Arts – Slo-Mo Thematic Residency guest artist (Banff, Canada); Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts – Artist-in-residence for YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, Canada)
Scholarships and Awards: 2007; Visual Arts Project Grant – Canada Council for the Arts; Major Arts Grant – Manitoba Arts Council; 2006; Sobey Art Award Semifinalist – Sobey Art Foundation; Visual Arts Grant A – Manitoba Arts Council; Individual Artist Grant – Winnipeg Arts Council; 2005; Visual Arts Grant A – Manitoba Arts Council Individual Artist Grant – Winnipeg Arts Council; 2002; Sobey Art Award Semifinalist – Sobey Art Foundation; Visual Arts Grant B – Manitoba Arts Council; 2001; Future Generations Millennium Prize Nominee – Canada Council for the Arts; 2000; Inter-Arts Creation Grant – Canada Council for the Arts; James Nelson Raymond Graduate Fellowship – School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1999; Reader’s Digest/Lila Acheson Wallace Scholarship – University of Manitoba; SAIC International 2nd Year Graduate Scholarship – School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1998; Reader’s Digest/Lila Acheson Wallace Scholarship – University of Manitoba; 1997; Visual Arts Grant B – Manitoba Arts Council; 1995; Visual Arts Grant C – Manitoba Arts Council; Gissur Eliasson Memorial Scholarship – University of Manitoba
Solo Exhibitions: 2008; TBA – Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada) – Installation; 2007; Particle Shifts – Darling Foundry, Quartier Éphémère (Montreal, Canada) – Installation; 2006; Jennifer Stillwell – Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada) – Video Installation/Sculpture; 2005; Bounty – Triple Candie (New York, NY, USA) – Installation/Sculpture; 2004; Paint Rows – Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada) – Performance Installation; Supplies – Ace Art Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada) – Installation; Bale – YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, Canada) – Performance Installation
Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings: 2009; Les Jardins du Précambrien of the Fondation Derouin – invited artist (Val-David, Quebec, Canada); 2008; Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine – invited artist (Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada); Subconscious City – Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada); Dream House – Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada); 2007; The Wall – Art Gallery of Windsor (Windsor, Ontario, Canada); Scratching the Surface: The Post-Prairie Landscape – Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada); Artbus – various locations (Madrid, Spain); ARCO International Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery, (Madrid, Spain); Found – University of Lethbridge Gallery (Lethbridge, Canada); Scratching the Surface: The Post-Prairie Landscape – Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada) (Upcoming); 2006; ARTISSIMA International Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Turin, Italy); 2005; Berlin/Toronto Exchange – Loop-Raum Für Aktuelle Kunst (Berlin, Germany); Soft Passages – Oakville Galleries (Toronto, Canada); Toronto International Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada); ARTISSIMA International Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Turin, Italy); From<To – MCAD Gallery (Minneapolis, USA); 2004; Live in the Centre – Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada); Berlin Constructions – Art Toronto Special Curatorial Project (Toronto, Canada); From<To – Plug In ICA (Winnipeg, Canada); 2004; Recent Chicago Film and Video – Strasbourg Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (France); Sweet Things for the Observer – De Player (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); Battle of the Dimensions – Kunst & Complex (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); 2003; made@home – Aspex Gallery (Portsmouth, UK); The Bold and the Beautiful – Worm Media Arts (Rotterdam, the Netherlands); Weathervane – Ace Art Inc. (Winnipeg, Canada); 2002; Home Show – Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada); The Jennifer Show – Oakville Galleries (Toronto, Canada); Direct to Documentation – 7a*11d Performance Art Festival (Toronto, Canada); 2000; Passart: Passage – Festival Site (Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada); Canadian Media Exhibition – Monte Video (Amsterdam, the Netherlands); Uncut, Special Edition – Institute of Contemporary Art (London, England); 1999; SAIC Exhibition – Gallery 2 (Chicago, USA); Windsor’s International Film and Video Festival: Media City 5 – Artsite (Windsor, Canada); 1998; Video Tracking Tour – EM Media (Calgary, AB), N.U.T.V. (Calgary, AB), FAVA (Edmonton, AB),; Video Verite (Saskatoon, SK), Dunlop Art Gallery (Regina, SK); The Prince Edward Island Experiment – (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada); 1997; Disappearance of the Real – Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge, Canada); 3rd Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique – Champ Libre (Montreal, Canada); 1996; Video Art Plastique – Centre d’art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (France); If the Shoe Fits – Plug In Gallery (Winnipeg, Canada); 1995; ReVisions: International Film & Video Festival – The Cinematheque (Winnipeg, Canada)
Commissions: 2007; Winnipeg Arts Council – Waterfront Drive, Public Art, Permanent Sculpture (Winnipeg, Canada); Winnipeg Art Gallery – Home Show, museum exhibition commission (Winnipeg, Canada)
Selected Reviews, Catalogs and Essays: 2009; Catalog: Jennifer Stillwell, Plug In ICA Editions (Winnipeg) (Upcoming); Feature Interview: Grate Expectations, Canadian Art Magazine Online, January 15th, by Leah Sandals (Toronto); Review: The Everyday Artist, Uptown Magazine, January 29th, by Whitney Light (Winnipeg); Review: Slurpees, Beer and Installation art, The Uniter, Issue 16, January 15th, by Noni Brynjolson (Winnipeg); Review: Jennifer Stillwell at Plug In ICA, Winnipeg Free Press, January 10th, by Stacey Abramson (Winnipeg); 2008; Interview: Jennifer Stillwell, Domesticating the Prairies, Border Crossings Magazine, Fall Issue No. 107, by Robert Enright (Winnipeg); Art Preview Feature: 7-Eleventh heaven, Winnipeg Free Press, December 11th Issue, by Alison Mayes (Winnipeg); Catalog: Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, edited by Josée Wingen (Trois-Rivières, Quebec); Catalog: Scratching the Surface, Plug In Editions, edited by Steven Matijcio (Winnipeg); Catalog: Subconscious City, Winnipeg Art Gallery, edited by Shawna Demspey and Lorri Millan (Winnipeg); Preview: High-concept Domesticity, Azure Magazine online, March 27th, by Catherine Osborne (Toronto); Video: Jennifer Stillwell, CBC Artspots, produced by Rhonda Bruchanski (Toronto); Review: Subconscious City, Winnipeg Free Press, February 21st by Stacey Abramson (Winnipeg); Review: What Beauty Lies Beneath, Uptown Magazine, February 14th by Whitney Light (Winnipeg); 2007; Feature: Art Against the Grain, Uptown Magazine, October 10th by Stacey Abramson (Winnipeg); Preview: Canada First Impressions, Galleries West Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 2 (Calgary); Review: Se Fondre dans le Décor, Le DeVoir, April 12th Issue by Natalie Guimond (Montreal); Catalog: Found, University of Lethbridge edited by Josephine Mills (Lethbridge, Alberta); Review: Risa Hatayama and Jennifer Stillwell @ the Darling Foundry, Big Red & Shiny: An Art Journal, Issue 62 by Chris Hand (Boston, USA); Feature: On the Waterfront, The Uniter, Issue 23: March 22nd by Kenton Smith (Winnipeg); Feature: Winner on the Waterfront, Winnipeg Free Press, Feb. 22nd Issue by Morely Walker (Winnipeg); 2006; Feature: Recent Canadian Neoconceptualists, C Magazine, Autumn Issue, by Earl Miller (Toronto); Review: Jennifer Stillwell, New York, Sculpture Magazine, June Issue, by Jonathan Goodman (Washington DC, USA); Review: Stuff Happens, NOW Magazine; April 27 to May 3 Issue, by David Jager (Toronto); Preview: The Extraordinary Ordinary, Mass Art Guide; April Issue, by Emily Hamilton (Toronto); Preview: Toronto, Canadian Art Magazine; Spring Issue, Fast Forward (Toronto); 2005; Booklet: Soft Passages 25th Anniversary, Oakville Galleries, edited by Shannon Anderson (Toronto); Featured Exhibition: The Listings, New York Times, December 9th by Ken Johnson (New York, USA); 2004; Catalog: Live in the Centre, Winnipeg Art Gallery, edited by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan (Winnipeg); Interview: On Collaboration, Open Issues Magazine, by Steven Kucharski (The Netherlands); 2003; Visual Arts Feature: Generation Next, Globe and Mail, by Sarah Milroy (Toronto); Review: Supplies, Winnipeg Free Press, by Amy Karlinsky (Winnipeg); Preview: Supplies, Uptown Magazine, by Kelly Martino (Winnipeg); Essay: Patiently Shocking the Real, Critical Distance, Ace Art Inc. by Doug Lewis (Winnipeg); Preview: Manitoba, Canadian Art Magazine; Spring Issue Fast Forward (Toronto); 2002; Artist Page: Jennifer Stillwell, Mix Magazine: Endurance Issue (Toronto); Artist Pages: Jennifer Stillwell, Inversions Journal: Humor Issue, MAWA Inc. (Winnipeg); Review: Home Show, Winnipeg Free Press, by Amy Karlinsky (Winnipeg); Life & Arts Feature: Homewreckers, Winnipeg Free Press, by Morley Walker (Winnipeg); Catalog: Home Show, Winnipeg Art Gallery, edited by James Patten (Winnipeg); Essay: Bale, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Vol. 2 Issue 4, by Jenifer Papararo (Toronto); 2001; Essay and Artist Pages: Bale, Chicago Art Journal: Spring Issue: Ritual, University of Chicago, by Rebecca Reynolds (Chicago, USA)