Felix Kalmenson
b.1987, St. Petersburg, Russia
Education
2011 B.A. of Architecture and Urban Studies, University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
Solo Exhibitions
2018 From the body I spent, Kim? Contemporary Art Center (Riga, Latvia)
Make Breeze (with Rouzbeh Akhbari), Hay Art Cultural Center (Yerevan, Armenia)
2017 как всегда / As Always, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Tides of Sand and Steel (with ADL), Si Shang Art Museum ( Beijing, China)
A House of Skin, Artcite (Windsor, Canada)
2016 The Hum (In collaboration with Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko) As Part of Spaces R&D, The Sculpture Center, (Cleveland, USA)
2015 A Year in Revenue, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2014 HLS-F71, The New Gallery (Calgary, Canada)
I Came Here to Find Myself, Priscilla Queen of the Medina, (Marrakech, Morocco)
Centre for the Interpretation of Water and Light, Centro Negra, Blanca, Spain
2013 Access/Disruption, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin, Germany)
Three Monuments, ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics (Berlin, Germany)
Apertures, Gallery 44 (Toronto, Canada)
Hot Air (Instant Nationalism), Critical Mass Centre for Contemporary Art (Port Hope, Canada)
2012 Intersection, XPACE Cultural Centre (Toronto, Canada)
Growths, Forgetus Collective (Toronto, Canada)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 How to Breathe Forever, Onsite Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
To see and see again, Hamilton Artists Inc. (Hamilton, Canada)
Northern Convergences, McLaren Art Centre (Barrie, Canada)
The Bell at the End of Time, Artist Project as Pejvak, Critical Distance: Billboard on Shaw co- presented in partnership with C Magazine (Toronto, Canada)
Salon of Conviviality, White Room Foundation (Moscow, Russia)
In is place only steel, State Silk Museum (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2018 The Work of Wind: Air, Land, Sea, Blackwood Gallery, (Mississauga, Ontario)
Contact Landing(s), Thames Art Gallery, (Chatham, Ontario)
The Future is Certain, it is the Past That is Unpredictable, Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston (Houston, USA).
2017 Of movement and dwelling, Trinity Square Video (Toronto, Canada)
The Future is Certain; It's the Past Which is Unpredictable, curated by Monika Lipšic, Calvert 22 Foundation (London, UK)
Kronstadt Stories-2. Archive, National Centre for Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg, Russia)
CITIZENSFIVE, Art Arthina (Athens, Greece)
Portals... or Location Scouting in Kaunas, Presented by Spike Art Quarterly (Web-based)
2016 Von Den Stromen Der Stadt, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, (Germany)
Felt Book, Institute for New Feelings, (Los Angeles, USA)
Connectivity Through Cinema Presented by Mono No Aware and Pleasure Dome, Center for Performance Research, (NYC, USA)
No Confidence, Success, As part of Perth International Arts Festival, (Perth, Australia)
False Histories, Buntport Theatre, (Denver, USA)
2015 CÓDEC Festival de Vídeo y Creaciones Sonoras, Casa Talavera, (Mexico DF)
A Line is Not a Line, Part of First Thursday, Art Gallery of Ontario, (Toronto, Ontario)
Swimminal Poolitics, DIS Magazine, Web-based
Stories Told, O’Born Contemporary, (Toronto, Ontario)
New Toronto Works, Pleasuredome, (Toronto, Ontario)
Felt Book, Institute for New Feelings, Web-Based
Anatomy of a Square, Art Now, (Toronto, Ontario)
Under New Management, The New Gallery
Sunday Drive Art Projects, (Warkworth, Canada)
2014 Material and Mechanism, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (Aomori City, Japan)
Video Night, Le Cube (Rabat, Morocco)
Boxes, Zones and Quarters, La Fabrique Culturelle des Anciens Abattoirs (Casablanca, Morocco)
A Wicked Problem, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, USA)
AADK, Centro Párraga (Murcia, Spain)
Hello Darkness: New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome (Toronto, Canada)
Pics or it didn't happen, Pari Nadimi Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2013 Limited Access 4, Aaran Gallery (Tehran, Iran)
Sticky Substance, Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm, Sweden)
Ecstatic Matrices, Non-Fiction Gallery (Savannah, USA)
Under New Management, ODD Gallery Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (Dawson City, Canada)
The Archivists, XPACE Cultural Centre (Toronto, Canada)
2012 Mortal Coils, Shudder Gallery (Vancouver, Canada)
Now Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
Art on Danforth, Forgetus Collective and Butcher Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
Overkilling the Undercurrent, 444 Dufferin (Toronto, Canada)
2011 Videodrome, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto, Canada)
Obscured Transmissions, Nuit Blanche @ National Film Board of Canada Mediatheque (Toronto, Canada)
Take Me With You, Whippersnapper Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
2010 Today is Yesterday's Tomorrow, Gallery 1313 (Toronto, Canada)
The Dream Show, Project 165 (Toronto, Canada)
Escapist Manifesto Show, Sennate Gallery (Toronto, Canada)
A Soft Core Peephole Exhibition, Hart House (Toronto, Canada)
The House That Masons Built, 53 Prince Charles St. (Toronto, Canada)
Screenings
2020 A Passage, Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia, August 24 & 25
2020 A Passage, Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, April 18 - 21, 2020
2018 Sum of the Parts, 221A, Pollyanna Library, Vancouver, May 16, 2018
Cold Cuts Video Festival, SOVA Gallery, Dawson City, Canada, March 30-April 1, 2018
2017 Shorts 2: Rare Minerals, AND Festival, Peak District, UK, September 22, 2017
Images Festival, Toronto, Canada, April 23, 2017
Governing the Effects of Retrograde Part 1, Things That Can Happen, Hong Kong
False Histories, Buntport Theatre, Denver, USA, January 15, 2017
2016 Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, November 17 & 20, 2016
On The Currents Of Distant Worlds, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, July 12, 2016
Ozo Kino Sale Presented with Rupert Vilnius, Lithuania, June 3, 2016
Connectivity Through Cinema Presented by Mono No Aware and Pleasure Dome, Center for Performance Research, NYC, USA, March 27, 2016
Felt Book Screening, Institute for New Feelings, EMMEDIA , Calgary, Canada, February 11, 2016
2015 New Toronto Works, Pleasuredome, Toronto, September 26, 2015
2014 Hello Darkness: New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, October 18, 2014
Video Night, Le Cube, Rabat, July 1, 2014
Selected Bibliography
2018 Art Daybook: "Atlas" Holds Up time, Houston Chronicle, June 6
Interview: ‘Sometimes when I wake up, I don’t remember where I am’, Aterritory, March 19
2017 In the galleries: Tau Lewis at 8-11 Gallery and Felix Kalmenson at Pari Nadimi, Toronto Star, February 9
Felix Kalmenson, As Always at Pari Nadimi, Arttoronto.ca, February
How One Toronto Artist is Critiquing Putin's Reign, Canadian Art, March 23
2015 Romantic Pastoralism, Art Fag City, August 21
Speaking Across Histories, Magenta Magazine, Spring
Felix Kalmenson at Pari Nadimi, Akimbo, March 3
Felix Kalmenson: A Year in Revenue at Pari Nadimi, Artoronto.ca, February
2014 Review: Raising the Alarm, Fast Forward Weekly, January 16th by Cadence Mandybura (Calgary, Canada)
Interview: Art Beat, CKUA Radio Network, February 9-15th by Megan Clark (Calgary, Canada)
Agenda: Canadian Art Magazine, Winter Issue (Calgary, Canada)
2013 Review: Identification Papers at Critical Mass, Akimbo, July 9 by Gil Mcelroy (Toronto, Canada)
Feature: Hart House Review (Toronto, Canada)
Feature: Weijia Quarterly, Issue 1 (Toronto, Canada)
2012 Feature: Felix Kalmenson, OTM Zine, November 28th by Andrew Weir (Toronto, Canada)
At an Ossington Gallery, A Condo Critique, Torontoist, November 1st by Jodie Shupac (Toronto, Canada)
Feature: Felix Kalmenson: Intersection, The Wardens Today, November 1st (Toronto, Canada)
2011 Review: Urban shrines: Statements in the cast-off and derelict, Toronto Star, July 18th by Murray Whyte (Toronto, Canada)
Residencies
2017 ACSL, Yerevan, Armenia
Jupiter Woods, London, UK
2016 National Centre for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia,
R&D, Spaces, Cleveland, USA
Rupert Residency Program, Vilnius, Lithuania
2014 Aomori Contemporary Art Centre Artist-in-Residence (Aomori City, Japan)
Centro Negra Artist-in-Residence (Blanca, Spain)
Boxes, Zones and Quarters International Artist Gathering Artist-in-Residence (Casablanca/Marrakesh/Rabat, Morocco)
2013 ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, Artist in Residence (Berlin, Germany)
The Dragon Academy, Artist-in-Residence (Toronto, Canada)
2012 Gibraltar Point Centre for the Arts, New Traditions Thematic Residency Artist-in-Residence (Toronto, Canada)
Don Blanche Artist Residency, Artist-in-Residence (Shelburne, Canada)
Scholarships & Awards
2017 Trinity Square Video Award, 30th Images Festival
Mid-Career Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2016 Emerging Artist Grant, Ontario Arts Council
International Residency Program, Canada Council for the Arts
2015 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, Ontario Arts Council
Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Travel Grant, Canada Arts Council
2013 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
National and International Residency Grant, Ontario Arts Council
2012 Emerging Artist Grant, Toronto Arts Council
Selected Professional Experience
2017 Mapping Li-qui-di-ty, Goldsmith University of London, July 25 (London, UK)
2016 Waterline, I: Project Space, August 22 (Beijing, China)
2015 Unsettling Colonial Modernity, University of Alberta, April 25, (Edmonton, Alberta)
Sunday Scene, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, March 15, (Toronto, Ontario)
2014 Founding Member/Board Member, 8 Eleven Projects (Toronto, Canada)
Politics in Practice Artist Talk, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, (Aomori, Japan)
Boxes, Zones and Quarter Artist Talk, Casablanca American School, June 20, (Casablanca)
2013 Panel Discussion, New Modes of Image-Making, Presented by Laid Bare Curations and other Concerns, Beaver Hall Gallery, May 18th (Toronto, Canada)
Panel Discussion, Artist-Run Residencies, Whippersnapper Gallery, March 26th (Toronto, Canada)
2012 New Modes of Image-Making Panel Discussion, Presented by Laid Bare Curations and otherConcerns, Beaver Hall Gallery, May 18, (Toronto, Ontario)
Panel Discussion, New Discourses for a Tired Century: A Debate Series, DoUC, Gladstone Hotel, November 19th (Toronto, Canada)
Board Member, Water Walk Sky Artist Residency and Exhibition Space (Toronto, Canada)
2011 Panel Discussion, Take Me With You: The Art of the Lost and Found, Whippersnapper Gallery, July 30th (Toronto, Canada)