Parallel (2009-10)


The Clothes Make the Man (2007-08)


Eric and Eric (2006)


Chicken Pox Scar (2004)


Self Portrait (2009)


Quality Time with the Family (2007)


Lost (2007)


Portrait of the Artist with his Family (2006)


Made Up (2008)

Owen Eric Wood - artist c.v.

www.owenericwood.com
info @ owenericwood.com


Art Works

2009-10 • Parallel (video/photography/drawing/performance)
   2009   • Holobomo (video)
   2009   • Self Portrait (sculpture)
   2008   • Made Up (video)
2007-08 • The Clothes Make the Man (video/performance)
   2007   • Momentum: a video series in four movements (video)
   2007   • Quality Time with the Family (video/installation with performance)
   2007   • Lost (video)
   2006   • Eric and Eric (video projection on sculpture)
   2006   • Portrait of the Artist with his Family (drawing)
   2005   • Two (photography and drawing series)
   2004   • Self Portrait (video)


Prizes

2010 • Vision Art Prize for Parallel, Visionaria International Video Festival,
          Piombino, Italy
        • Best Video Award for Holobomo, Avanca International Meeting of Cinema, TV,
          Video and Multimedia, Avanca, Portugal
        • Jury Mention for Parallel, Japan Media Arts Festival,
          Tokyo, Japan
        • Jury Mention for Holobomo, Videoformes International Manifestation of
          Video Art and Digital Cultures, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2009 • Best Urban Diversity Award for The Clothes Make the Man, Toronto Urban
          Film Festival, Toronto, Canada


Grants

2010 • Travel Grant from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec
          to attend the FILE Electronic Language International Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
          for the presentation of the videos Parallel and Holobomo
2009 • Travel Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts
          to attend the Visionaria International Video Festival (Piombino, Italy)
          to perform and present the video installation Quality Time with the Family


Performances and Group Exhibitions

2010 • FILE Electronic Language Int'l Festival, SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
        • Made in Emerging Planet, COMO, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
        • Vitheque Launch, Society of Arts and Technology, Montreal, Canada
        • New Media, Sex and Culture in the 21st Century, Museum of New Art, Detroit, U.S.A.
        • Japan Media Arts Festival in Istanbul, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
        • One Place Leads to Another, Ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada
2009 • Visionaria International Video Festival, Galleria La Marina, Piombino, Italy
        • Festival International Montreal en Arts, Montreal, Canada
        • ARTARTAR, Articule artist-run centre, Montreal, Canada
2008 • Zig Zag, Gutleut 15 Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 • Actions in Action, VAV Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2006 • SoukMachines, Centre de Creation Artistique Fractal, Montreal Canada
        • Circus, SUBV Gallery, Montreal, Canada
        • The Super Art Market, VAV Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2005 • R/evolution Technopraxis, Studio Benim, Montreal, Canada
        • Exit/Excavation, Art Matters Festival, Montreal, Canada
        • L'Evenement Interuniversitaire de Creation Video, Bain Mathieu, Montreal, Canada


Film, Video and Media Art Festivals

2010 • Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media, Kino Metropol, Stuttgart, Germany
        • Videoformes, Petit Velo, Clermont-Ferrand, France
        • Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
        • Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, Japan
        • LOOP Festival - The Platform for VideoArt, Lounge Club MauMau, Barcelona, Spain
        • INVIDEO, Milan, Italy
        • Festival International du Film sur l'Art, J.A. De Seve Cinema, Montreal, Canada
        • Avanca Film Festival, Avanca, Portugal
        • Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
        • Videoholica International Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
        • Waterpieces International Contemporary and Video Art Festival, Riga, Latvia
        • fLEXiff - First and the Last Experimental International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
        • Osaka Media Arts Forum, CCA ACDC Gallery, Osaka, Japan
        • Festival Internacional Del Cine Pobre Humberto Solas, Havana, Cuba
        • International Videofestival Bochum, Kulturcafe, Bochum, Germany
        • Orebro International Videoart Festival, Orebro, Sweden
        • Montreal Underground Film Festival, Friperie Potetr, Montreal, Canada
        • Queer City Cinema, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada
        • Vues d'en face, Cinematheque de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
        • Inside Out GLBT Film and Video Festival, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
        • Open Cinema Int'l Short & Animation Film Festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
        • Portobello Film Festival, London, U.K.
        • Japan Media Arts Festival in Kyoto, Kyoto Art Center Auditorium, Kyoto, Japan
        • Festival International Montreal en Arts, Montreal, Canada
        • Basement Media Festival, Community Builder’s Co-op, Sommerville, MA, U.S.A.
        • Malmo Sommarscen, Slottstradgarden, Malmo, Sweden
        • Festival Mix di Cinema Gaylesbico & Queer Culture, Teatro Strehler, Milan, Italy
        • Int'l Day of Video Art, Wifredo Lam Contemporary Art Center, Havana, Cuba
        • Art Go Round, Toyama Prefecture, Toyama, Japan
        • Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week, Studio City, Toronto, Canada
        • Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois, Cinematheque Quebecois, Montreal, Canada
        • Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Ellis Auditorium, Kingston, Canada
2009 • Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
        • Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Cinema Parallele, Montreal, Canada
        • European Media Art Festival, Lagerhalle Groίer Saal, Osnabrueck, Germany
        • CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, Cumberland Cinemas, Toronto
        • International Video Art Festival Camaguey, Camaguey, Cuba
        • Mix New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, New York City, U.S.A.
        • Cheries-Cheris GLT Film Festival of Paris, Forum des Halles, Paris, France
        • Festival International du Film sur l'Art, Goethe-Institute, Montreal, Canada
        • Torino International GLBT Film Festival, Ambrosio Cinecafι, Torino, Italy
        • Image+Nation, J.A. de Seve Cinema, Montreal, Canada
        • Toronto Urban Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
        • QueerFilmFest Rostock, Peter-Weiss-Haus, Rostock, Germany
        • Entzaubert Radical Non-Commercial Queer Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
        • Montreal Underground Film Festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
        • Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois, National Film Board, Montreal, Canada
2008 • Canariasmediafest, Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
        • Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
        • Mix Brazil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity, Sao Paulo, Brazil
        • Outsiders Liverpool LGBT Film Festival, FACT Cinema, Liverpool, U.K.
        • Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois, Cinematheque Quebecois, Montreal, Canada
        • Queer City Cinema, Royal Canadian Legion, Regina, Canada
        • Backup Festival, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, Germany
        • Inside Out GLBT Film and Video Festival, Isabel Bader Theatre, Toronto, Canada
        • Nuit Blanche, Ex-Centris, Montreal, Canada
        • Montreal Underground Film Festival, Main Hall, Montreal, Canada

Distribution

2009 • Parallel and Holobomo are accepted by Videographe
2008 • Made Up and The Clothes Make the Man are accepted by Videographe
2007 • Self Portrait, Quality Time with the Family and Lost are accepted by Videographe


Press Coverage

• Canadian Trailblazers: Blurring the Lines, OUTLOOKS Magazine (06/2010)
• Fat is fabulous, fab Magazine (14-27/04/2010)
• Gender Bender interview, CFRC Radio (26/02/2010)
• QueerCorps interview, CKUT Radio (16/02/2009)


Conferences and Artist Talks

2009 • Back Off! Dissident Representations in Art and Social Movements
           The CEDA, Montreal, Canada
2008 • Hochschule fόr Gestaltung Offenbach
           Offenbach am Main, Germany
2008 • Soiree Videographe
           Videographe Production, Montreal, Canada
2005 • Artivistic: The Interplay Between Art, Information and Activism
           Eva B., Montreal, Canada
2005 • Humanities MFA Program of Concordia University
           Studio Benim, Montreal, Canada


Catalogues

2008 • Behind the Object: The role of action in contemporary sculptural practice


Artist Residencies

2010 • One Place Leads to Another, Ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada


Education

2003-2007 • Bachelor of Fine Arts – Studio Arts – Concordia University, Montreal
1996-2000 • Bachelor of Applied Arts – Journalism – Ryerson University, Toronto


Additional Academic Experience

   2009   • Web site administrator for the Academy of Art Video Art, Concordia University
   2008   • Pre-selection jury member for Academy of Art Video Art, Concordia University
   2007   • Editor of thesis on drama therapy for Master's student Leslie Bronstein
2006-07 • Teaching assistant, intermediate-level sculpture course, Concordia University
2006-07 • Member of the Intermedia Cyber Arts Club, Concordia University
2004-05 • Member of the Association of Student Sculptors, Concordia University
2004-05 • Organizer of six group exhibitions for university students, Studio Benim


Additional Professional Experience

2010 • Sculpture assistant for artist Jerome Havre
        • Consultant for video artist Shereen Soliman
2009 • Member of artist-run centre Articule
        • Web site programmer for artist Eric Bond
        • Sculpture assistant for artist Marie-Chantal Scholl
        • Writing Assistant for artist Andreanne Abbondanza-Bergeron
2008 • Web site designer and programmer for photographer Vincent Chine
        • Performer in Ali El-Darsa's video Channel
        • Producer of commissioned video for Videographe's online distribution platform Vitheque
        • Model for Trevor Gould's sculpture/installation I am an Ape-man
2007 • Performer in Ali El-Darsa's video The Saturday of Every Weekend
        • Volunteer for Artivistic conference
2006 • Camera Operator Trevor Wood's short film Terry and Berry
        • English copy editor for virtual art gallery Web site secteur54.com
        • Contributor to Karen D'Amico's contemporary art zine Tangent
        • Illustrator for Golf Magazine of Les Editions Gesca, La Presse
        • Technical support for David Karavechus' sculpture/installation Home Automation