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MATILDA ASLIZADEH
Education
MFA University of California, San Diego,
BFA University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Selected Exhibitions
2021 Arrangements, Art Gallery at Evergreen, Coquitlam, BC
2020 Moly and Kassandra, Solo Exhibition, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2019 Moly and Kassandra, Solo Exhibition, AC Institute, New York, NY
2018 Believe, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Moly and Kassandra, Solo Exhibition, Pari Nadimi Art Gallery, Toronto, ON – Featured Exhibition, Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival
Labor Improbus, Art Souterrain, Montréal, QC
2017 Resort, Solo Exhibition, Foreman Art Gallery, Sherbrooke, QC
SHE-I-LA: Women, Art, and Production, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2016 Intersections: Contemporary Artist Films, Audain Art Museum, Whistler, BC
Resort, Solo Exhibition, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, ON
2015 Trophy, Solo Exhibition, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2014 Matilda Aslizadeh and Gwenessa Lam: Edge State, SKOL Centre des Arts Actuels, Montréal, QC
2013 Labyrinth, Art Souterrain, Montréal, QC
2012 Waiting For, Centre A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver BC
Still Life, Solo Exhibition, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON – Featured Exhibition, Scotiabank
Contact Photography Festival
The Indivisible, Foreman Art Gallery, Sherbrooke, QC
2011 Phantom Smile, Solo Exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Diabolique, The Military Museums, Calgary, AB
2010 Portrait/Landscape, Solo Exhibition, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON
Forest Lane, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto ON
The Stalking of Absence, BTAP/ Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Game Show, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
Diabolique, Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, QC /Oakville Galleries, Oakville, ON /
Kenderdine Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
2009 Hero of Our Time, Solo Exhibition, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina SK
2008 Hero of Our Time, Solo Exhibition, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, ON
2006 Too Much Freedom: L.A. Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Viper Festival for Film Video and New Media: International Competition, Basel
2005 Office, Solo Exhibition, SKOL Centre des Arts Actuels, Montréal, QC
Office, Solo Exhibition, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Golden Horse Film Festival: Digital Shorts Competition, Taipei
2003 Sunday, Solo Exhibition, Artspeak, Vancouver, BC
Out of Sight: The Image Beyond the Index, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2002 TV or Not TV: L.A. Freewaves Festival. Los Angeles, CA
Grants, Residencies, and Service
2021 PLOT, Art Mamas six-month residency, Access Gallery, Vancouver BC
2020 Research and Creation (for collective Art Mamas), Canada Council of the Arts
2020 Project Assistance to Media Artists, BC Arts Council
2020 Explore and Create -Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2019 Arts Abroad Grant, Canada Council of the Arts
2019 Three-month residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn New York.
2014 Grant to Film and Video Artists, Canada Council of the Arts
2013-16 VIVO Board of Directors
2013 Thematic Residency - Dock(ing); or, New Economies of Exchange (a collaboration between The Banff Centre, the University of Alberta, and the Liverpool Biennial)
2011 Project Assistance to Media Artists, BC Arts Council
Selected Artist Presentations/ Lectures
2020 Panel Discussion, Vancouver Art Gallery Art Connects Series, Vancouver BC
2020 Visiting Artist Presentation (via zoom), Langara College Department of Fine Arts, Vancouver BC
2020 Visiting Artist Presentation, Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB
2019 Presentation and screening: International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Presentation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
2018 Presentation and screening, Department of Art History and Visual Art, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
2018 Co-Chair of New Media Caucus Sponsored Panel: Alternative Beginnings: Towards an-Other history of immersive arts and technologies, CAA 2018, Los Angeles
2017 Presentation and screening, School of Interactive Arts and Technology SFU, Surrey BC
2017 Presentation, Foreman Art Gallery, Sherbrooke, QC
2017 art/mamas Panel Discussion, Fazakas Gallery, Vancouver BC
2017 Presentation, Audain Art Museum, Whistler BC
2012 Presentation, Centre A, Vancouver, BC
2011 Presentation, Emily Carr University, cosponsored by SFU Gallery, Vancouver BC
2010 Presentation, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC
2009 Presentation, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, QC
2005 Presentation, SKOL Centre des Arts Actuels, Montréal, QC
2005 Presentation, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Public Art Project
2014 Armenian Genocide Memorial. Mountain View Cemetery, Vancouver, BC
Publications
Aceves-Sepulveda, Gabriela and Aslizadeh, Matilda. “Alternative Beginnings: Towards Other Histories of Immersive Arts and Technologies.” Media-N 14 (1):1-10
Exhibition Catalogues/Brochures
Aceves-Sepulveda, Gabriela. Caught in the wrong narrative: The seductive promise in Matilda Aslizadeh’s Resort,
Sherbrooke: Foreman Art Gallery, 2017
Arnold, Grant. NEXT Matilda Aslizadeh: Moly and Kassandra Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 2020
Averns, Dick. "In Deference to a New Diabolique." In Diabolique, Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2009
Brayshaw, Christopher. Out of Sight: The Image Beyond the Index, Surrey: Surrey Art Gallery, 2000
Brown, Lorna, and Klobucar, Andrew. GUI Sunday: Matilda Aslizadeh /Andrew Klobucar, Vancouver:
Artspeak, 2003
Cachia, Amanda. "Map of Blood." In Diabolique, Regina: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2009
Cutler, Randy Lee. "A Phantom Trace." In Phantom Smile, Burnaby: SFU Gallery, 2011
Jeffries, Bill. "Sharing DNA Without Breeding: The Roll of the Dice in Phantom Smile." In Phantom Smile,
Burnaby: SFU Gallery, 2011
Mowry, Crystal. The Paradise of Others, Kitchener: Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 2016
Merali, Shaheen. The Stalking of Absence (vis-a-vis Iran), Tokyo: Tokyo/BTAP Gallery, 2010
Roy, Marina. Walls and Towers: Works by Gwenessa Lam and Matilda Aslizadeh, Montreal: SKOL Centre des
Arts Actuels, 2014
Media
Sheryl Mackay, North by Northwest, Interview, CBC Radio Vancouver, BC, Apr 27, 2014.
Mark Mushet, Exhibitionists, CBC arts, Art Mamas, Video, May 10, 2019
Selected Press (by date)
Lebrun, Amélie. “Eschyle rencontre le molybdène.” La Source, Vol 21, No 15. Sept. 1-22, 2020
http://thelasource.com/fr/2020/08/31/eschyle-rencontre-le-molybdene/
Wadsley, Helena. “Matilda Aslizadeh: Video installation welds economy and culture in its critique of neoliberalism.”
Galleries West, Aug. 10, 2020. https://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/matilda-aslizadeh/
Mander-Wionzek, Allison. “Molybdenum, Kassandra and Forecasting in Times of Uncertainty.” Capture Photography
Festival, Jul. 20, 2020. https://capturephotofest.com/texts/interview-with-matilda-aslizadeh/
Martinez-Zalce Sánchez, Graciela “Inside and Outside Paradise? Interview with Matilda Aslizadeh.” Voices of Mexico, Spring 2019, Issue 107
Mushet, Mark. “Art Mamas.” Galleries West, Jan 26, 2019. http://www.gallerieswest.ca/magazine/stories/art-mamas/
Edinger, Carrie Ida. “Member Spotlight: Matilda Aslizadeh.” New Media Caucus, Dec. 2, 2018.
http://www.newmediacaucus.org/member-spotlight-matilda-aslizadeh/
Palassio, Christina. “High Art.” Block, Spring-Summer 2018, Issue 16: p 31-37
Busby, Laura. “Warm up at Whistler’s Audain Art Museum.” VITA, Dec. 20., 2016.
http://www.vitadaily.ca/lifestyle/warm-up-at-whistler-s-audain-art-museum-1.4549922
Saghdejian, Karin. “An Interview with Designer of Genocide Monument in Vancouver.” The Armenian Weekly,
May 7, 2014. https://armenianweekly.com/2014/05/07/interview-designer-genocide-monument-vancouver/
Dumont, Marina. “Trophy: The Inverted Carousel.” Art Toronto, Apr. 2014. http://www.artoronto.ca/?p=28416
Laurence, Robin. “Waiting amid windy rooms and mirror images in Waiting For.” Georgia Straight, Feb. 1, 2012.
Dault, Gary Michael. "Matilda Aslizadeh at Pari Nadimi Gallery." The Globe and Mail Visual Art Review,
Nov. 21, 2009.
“Matilda Aslizadeh: Child Soldiers Born and Made.” See-It, Canadian Art, May 29, 2008.
https://canadianart.ca/features/matilda-aslizadeh/
Brayshaw, Christopher. “On Office.” ETC Montreal, Summer 2006.
Corden, Elaine. "Spending eternity at the office." Westender, Feb. 17-23, 2005.
Tousignant, Isa. “A day at the Office.” Hour, Oct. 20, 2005.