Tanya Read e-mail: tanyaread@yahoo.ca web: www.mrnobody.org

Education

1995 Ontario College of Art, Fifth Year Certificate

92-93 Ontario College of Art, Florence Program, Florence, Italy

88-93 Ontario College of Art, AOCA Diploma

82-87 Etobicoke School of the Arts, OSSGD

Exhibitions

2015 Animation with Love 5, Carbon Arc Cinema, Halifax, NS (July)

2014 VS (solo), Pix Film Gallery, Toronto (Nov.)

TAIS showcase (screening), Toronto, ON (July)

Field Trip Project, The Maritime Museum of BC, Victoria, BC (June – Sept.)

Field Trip Project, Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON (Feb. – Apr.)

2013 Onagawa AIR Program, Onagawa, Japan (Oct.)

Kaze to Tsuchi Art Festival, Aizu Misato, Japan (Sept.)

Filmo Corto Festival, Lima, Peru (Aug.)

Onagawa Colour and Light Festival, Onagawa, Japan (Aug.)

TAIS Anijam, Toronto (May)

Halifax Independent Filmmakers Festival, Halifax, NS (Apr.)

2012 Fieldtrip Project, Japan (Aug. – Jan. 2014)

Backyard, Toronto (Aug)

Toronto Berlin 1982 – 2012, Zweigstelle Gallery, Berlin, Germany (June – Aug.)

Toronto Animated Image Society Showcase, Toronto (June)

2011 Giant Head of Nobody, (solo) Silver Platter Contemporary Art Projects,

Toronto (Nov. – May, 2012)

Adventures in Animationland, TAIS/8-fest Residency, Toronto (Oct. – Jan., 2012)

Paradise Lost, Fly Gallery, Toronto (July-Aug.)

The Wilding #4, ‘The Regurgitator’, published comic, (May)

Profile Building, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville NB (Mar.)

2010 Fly Gallery, (solo) Toronto (June)

Anti Hero, Trinity Square Video residency, Toronto (Feb.)

Sequential Desire, Thames Art Gallery, Chatham-Kent (Feb.)

2009 Sequential Desire, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, (Nov.)

The Becoming, Tanya Read, Scott Carruthers, Board of Directors Gallery, Toronto (Nov.)

Conquest, (solo) York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Sept.)

Sequential Desire, Gallery Lambton, Sarnia (June)

Frame to Frame, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Mar.)

The 8 Fest, Trash Palace, Toronto (Jan.)

2008 10 Years of Being Nobody (solo), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art, Toronto (Sept.)

Sequential Desire, Kennedy Gallery, North Bay (June)

Bagaroo, The 8 Fest, Trash Palace, Toronto (Feb.)

2007 Harbourfront Kids Festival, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (Nov.)

Objects of Affection, Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherines (Oct. –Dec.)

Will 100 Artists Draw a 1950 Ford from Memory, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (fall)

Disaster #2, Alley Jaunt, Toronto (Aug.)

Flirting with Disaster, Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art, Toronto (June)

My Square Foot, Koffler Gallery, Toronto (May – July)

Disaster #1 (solo), Convenience Gallery, Toronto (Feb. – Mar.)

2006 Making Room, group exhibition, Toronto (Dec.)

The Essential Nobody (solo), screening at Camera Bar, Toronto (Oct.)

Alley Jaunt, Toronto (Aug.)

Diyan Achjadi and Tanya Read, Forest City Gallery, London, ON (June)

Artist Pick Up, Organized by remo [record, expression and medium-organization],

Osaka, Japan (May)

V-LOUNGE Opening Series - Canadian Videoart Channel vol. 3, Videoart Center Tokyo / Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan (March)

Exhibitions continued

2005 World Video Lounge, Remo Gallery, Osaka, Japan (Nov.)

Nexus (solo), Natural Light Window, Toronto, ON (Sept.)

+Video Awards (group exhibition), Plus Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (July)

‘In the Hole’ (solo), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art, Toronto (May)

PPOP!, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, (Feb.)

2004 TAAFI art fair, (KM contemporary art), Toronto, ON (Sept.)

Window Installation (solo), Fly Gallery, Toronto, ON (Aug.)

Nobody Was Here (solo), Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB (June)

Poster, public art project, Seoul, South Korea (April)

2003 Transcending Nobody (solo), Katharine Mulherin Contemporary Art, Toronto (Dec.)

Splice This Film Festival, Toronto (June)

Modified 8, (Images Festival) York Quay Gallery, Toronto (April)

Fools, Florence St. Studio, Toronto (April)

Useless, Hamilton Artist’s Inc., Hamilton, ON (March)

Media City, Artcite Gallery, Windsor, ON (Feb.)

2002 Nobot (solo), BUSgallery, Toronto (Nov.)

Risa Campaign vol. 10, collaborative performance with Risa Sato, Toronto (April)

Battle Royale, Art System, Toronto (Jan.)

2001 Anniversary Show, A_Level Gallery, Toronto (Dec.)

T.V. Dinner with Landscape, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto (Oct.-Nov.)

2001 Nobody's Business (solo), BUSgallery, Toronto (March)

2000 Long Table Jihad, A_Level Gallery, Toronto (December)

Transmedia 2000, L.E.D. billboard exhibition, Toronto (September)

The Nation of Nobody (solo), Fly Gallery, Toronto (July)

Search, Open Studio, Toronto (June)

Over and Out, BUSgallery, Toronto (January)

1999 "She Said Boom" bookstore (solo), Toronto (October)

“Splice This” Film Festival, Ted’s Wrecking Yard, Toronto (June)

Instamatic, BUSgallery, Toronto (May)

1998 Nobody's Mantra (solo), Tableau Vivant Gallery, Toronto (December)

Canadian Shield, Toronto (October)

Impure, Karaoke, Toronto (October)

Rapid Eye Movement, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ont. (June-August)

Professional Experience

2014 Juror, OAC media arts grant, mid career, established artists, Toronto

2013 - 2015 Board Member, The 8 Fest, Toronto

2012 Programming Committee, The 8 Fest, Toronto

1999 - 2011 Co-director, Fly Gallery (storefront window exhibition space), Toronto

2010 Neighbourhood Diaries, teacher, Weston-Mount Denis Boys and Girls Club, Toronto

2007 – 2008 Guest Lecturer, professional practice course, OCAD

1994-1998 Co-founder/member Impure Collective

Awards/Grants

2014 Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance (Women’s Art Resource Centre recommender)

2013 Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant

2009 Ontario Arts Council exhibition assistance (Burlington Arts Centre recommender)

2008 Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant, mid career category

2006 Canada Council Travel Grant (media arts)

2005 OAC exhibition assistance (Burlington Arts Centre recommender)

2003 Ontario Arts Council Visual Arts Grant, emerging artist category

2002 Canada Council Visual Arts Grant, emerging artist category

1999 OAC exhibition assistance grant (YYZ recommender)

1998 Toronto Arts Council Special Project Grant (Impure collective)

Bibliography

Lind, Laura, ‘Mr. Nobody’s Home’, National Post, Feb. 24, 2007

Balzer, David, Eye Candy, Eye Weekly, Feb. 22, 2007

Otake, Kaori, Artist Pick Up: Contemporary Canadian Video Collection, Canadian Art, Fall 2006

McKay, Sally, ‘Fly on Queen St.’, uTOpia, towards a new Toronto, Coach House Press, 2005

Carousel, issue # 17, illustrations, March 2005

Dault, Gary Michael, ‘There’s Something About Mr. Nobody’, Globe and Mail, Dec. 31, 2004

Don’t Touch Me Independent Comics, Vol. 1 No. 11, Summer 2004Naclia, Janet, ‘Mr. Nobody meets his Juggernaut’, The Calgary Herald, June 12, 2004

McKay, Sally, ‘Nobody Was Here’, exhibition essay, May 2004

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Osborne, Catherine, ‘Who knows art? Nooooo-body’, National Post, Dec. 27, 2003

Goddard, Peter, ‘Image Overkill and What to do About it’, Toronto Star, Apr. 10, 2003

Deal, John, ‘David Poolman & Tanya Read, Useless’, View Magazine, Mar. 6, 2003

Lee, David, ‘Useless’, Exhibition essay, Hamilton Artists Inc., Feb., 2003

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Visual Voice, CIUT, radio interview, Nov. 14, 2002

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Lola, issue #4, back cover illustration, summer 1999

About Town, CIUT, radio interview, Dec. 21, 1998

MacKay, Gillian, "Gallery Going", Tanya Read at Tableau Vivant, Dec. 19, 1998

Dault, Gary Michael, "Gallery Going", Karaoke (Impure), Globe and Mail, Oct. 24, 1998

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Mix Magazine, Artist-run Portfolio, Summer 1998