HOWARD URSULIAK - BIOGRAPHY

Born: 1960, Edmonton, Alberta

 

Education

M.F.A. in Visual Arts, University of British Columbia, Department of Fine Art,
Studio Program, Vancouver, BC, 1993
Visual Arts Diploma, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC, 1984

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming)

2005
Vestige: Recent Work, The Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON
Vestige: recent work, The Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2002
A Sadness without the Object, The Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON

2001
Property Relations / Market , El Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, curated by Cristina Zelich

1998
A Sadness without the Object, Palacio de Abrantes, Centro de Fotografia
Universidad de Salamanca, curated by Alberto Martin in conjunction with Imago 98, Salmanca, Spain, (catalogue)
Property Relations / Market, The Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1997
A Sadness without the Object, Quartier Ephemere, curated by Caroline Andrieux in conjunction with Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, QC

1992
INTER - FACE (part II), ACCESS ARTIST RUN CENTER, Vancouver, BC
INTER - FACE, Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1988
Territorial: Dispossession, The Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
75 Years of Collecting: The Road to Utopia, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
In the Street. Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2005
Real Pictures, The Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Grant Arnold, Vancouver BC, (catalogue)

2003
Realidad y Representacion, Coleccionar Paisaje Hoy, Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain (cataloque)
Access 10th Anniversary, a documentary-style exhibition celebrating the past decade through artist’s previous and current work, ACCESS Artist Run Center, Vancouver, BC
Boarding Pass, The Monte Clarke Gallery - Toronto, curated by Clint Roenisch
Arco International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
A Proposal for an Exhibition, The Monte Clark Gallery - Toronto, guest curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Toronto, ON (essay)

2002
A Proposal for an Exhibition, The Monte Clark Gallery, guest curated by Claudia Beck and Andrew Gruft, Vancouver, BC (essay)
Photo Works from the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, The Art Gallery of Windsor, curated by Glen Cumming, Windsor, ON
Bringing to Order: Form and Expression in Canadian Photographic Practice, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, curated by Andrea Kunard. Ottawa, ON (touring exhibition)
Artissima, Turin International Art Fair, Turin, Italy
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON
Art Chicago, Chicago International Art Fair, USA
ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain

2001
Between Passion and Logic: Contemporary and Modern Art, part of Vancouver Collects. The Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Daina Augaitis and Grant Arnold, Vancouver, BC
The Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON

2000
Image and Light - History and Influences, Film and Photographic Work Vancouver, The Charles Scott Gallery, curated by Ann Pollock,
Vancouver, BC (catalogue)
Pictures, Positions, Places, The Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Daina Augaitis, Vancouver, BC

1999
EAST International, The Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, UK (catalogue)
Tongues and Ashes, The Kitchener - Waterloo Art Gallery, curated by Clint Roenisch, KitcheneR, ON
After Photography, The Monte Clark Gallery, curated by Roy Arden,
Vancouver, BC (essay)
El Dia de Cada Dia, Canal de Isabel II, curated by Alberto Martin, Madrid, Spain

1998
The High Life, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
A Sense of Place, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Imago 98: Encuentros de fotografia y video, a collaboration between Junta de Castilla y Leon and El Centro de Fotografia de la Universidad, De Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, (catalogue)

1997
The Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC
BONUS, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
BONUS, The Contemporary Art Gallery (touring exhibition with catalogue essay by Roy Arden), Vancouver, BC
Framed, The Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1989
Taking Pictures, Presentation House Gallery, curated by Keith Wallace, North Vancouver, BC (catalogue)

1987
Artropolis - Vox Populi, curated by Todd Davis, Vancouver, BC (catalogue)
A Linear Narration: Post Phallocentrism, Galerie OPTICA, Montreal, PQ
A Linear Narration: Post Phallocantrism, Gallery 44, (a touring exhibition curated by Irene Dual), Toronto, ON

1986
Broken Muse, The Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Helga Pakasaar and Keith Wallace, Vancouver, BC (catalogue)

 

Reviews & Publications

Vestige: The Photographs of Howard Ursuliak, Issue No. 94, Volume 24, Number 2 Pages 76-81, Boarder Crossing Magazine, Winnipeg, MN.

Objetos cotidianos / Ordinary things, Exit - Image and Culture, Madrid, Spain, #11, 2003, pg. 34 – 39.

A Proposal for an Exhibition, review by Lorissa Sengara, CANADIAN ART, Toronto, ON Volume 20, number 1, spring 2003, pg. 104-06.

The Vancouver School: Canadian Bred Photoconceptualism, produced by Sean Embrey, CBC Radio 3, broadcast February 21-28, 2003 (archieved at: www.cbcr3.ca).

Photographic shows work in remembrance of things past, by Peter Goddard, The Toronto Star, February 23, 2003, pg. G5.

El Cero y el Infinito, by Rafael Lopez Ramos, FISURA: Revista de Literatura y Arte New York, New York, Ano 1, No. 3, Febrero 2003, pg. 12.

un local: photographic works by Jane Lee and Gabor Koleszar, publication and text by Howard Ursuliak, “Emerging artists dare to pick up cameras”, review by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, January 2-9, 2003,
pg. 44.

La fotografia de Ursuliak y Bauer, en el Patio de Escuelas, by E.V.S., Tribuna de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, May 11, 2001.

After Photography - Realism in Recent Vancouver Art, by Roy Arden, CANADIAN ART, Toronto, ON, Winter 2000.

Stores and Market, CV Photo, Montreal, QC, no. 52, Fall 2000, pg. 23-30 (portfolio - pictorial and written work).

The New Document, CANADIAN ART, Toronto, ON, volume 17, number 2, summer 2000, Pg. 30.

The Next Big Thing in Fine Art, Western Living, Vancouver, BC, Sept.1999,
pg. 89.

After Photography - Late Light, by Michael Scott, CANADIAN ART, Toronto, ON, volume 16, number 3, fall 1999, pg. 118 (pictorial).

Surveyor - Eye, Second - Hand Stories, by Gillian Burnett, SATURDAY NIGHT Magazine, Toronto, ON, October, 1999, pg. 15 (pictorial).

Discovering Art in Playdoh and Moon Pies, by J.J. Lee, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC September 9-16, 1999, pg. 43.

Tongues and Ashes, by Robert Reid, The Record (Arts & Entertainment), Kitchener, ON, July 17, 1999.

Retratos de la Cotidianidad (El Dia De Cada Dia), by Manuel Falces, El Pais (Babelia), Madrid, Spain, January 9, 1999.

Cruda Realidad (El Dia De Cada Dia), by Mariano Navarro, La Razon (El Cultural), Madrid, Spain, January 3, 1999.

Property Relations / Market - at The Monte Clark Gallery, by Lisa Gabrielle Mark, ART FORUM Magazine, New York, N. Y. November 1998, XXXVII, No. 3, pg. 120-21.

Letter from Vancouver, By Lisa Gabrielle Mark, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, issue #59, Sept - Nov 1998, pg. 37 (pictorial).

Movie-Inspired "Place": Going to the Picture Show, by David Pagel, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, August 28, 1998, pg. F24.

Imago apuesta por la tecnica documental de Ursuliak que personaliza ambientes, desolados, By Asun Solis, Tribuna de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, June 20, 1998.

Imago desvela la nostalgia creative de Ursuliak en la sala de Abrantes by Jose A. Montero, La Gazeta, June 20, 1998.

Property Relations / Market, by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight,
Vancouver, BC, June 18-25, 1998, pg. 82 (pictorial).

BONUS - at The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, by Sylvie Fortin, C Magazine, Toronto, ON. Issue #58, May - August 1998, pg. 26.

Images of Candy and Cheap Decrepitude (BONUS), by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, BC, March 6-13, 1997, pg. 58 (pictorial).

Photographic work represented in Kit and Caboodle Magazine, New York, N.Y., volume 3, summer edition, 1997.

Photographic work represented in Views, a publication of the Toronto Photographer's Workshop, volume 6. No. 4, November, 1989.

Territorial: Dispossession, by Arni Runar Haraldsson, C Magazine, Toronto, ON, Issue 21, March 1989.

A Linear Narration: Post Phallocentrism, by Earl Miller, Parachute Magazine, Montreal, QC. Issue 49, 1987-88.

Broken Muse, by Jane Young, C Magazine, Toronto, ON. Issue 13, June 1987.

 

Projects & Public Presentations

Art and the Sacred, part of the Philosopher’s Café series, ‘The Value of Art”, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, May 8, 2003.

un local, photographic work by Jane Lee and Gabor Koleszar, essay for this exhibition at ARTSPEAK gallery, Vancouver, BC, Dec. 2002.

Sheltered Dreams, an artist’s residency at the Canada Way Education Center in conjunction with Visual Arts Burnaby, Burnaby, BC, Feb – May 2002.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Domestic Space (workshop, April 7th, 2001), sponsored by the Department of Humanities, Institute for the Humanities, Graduate Liberal Studies, and the Dean of Arts at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, BC.

Artist Talk, lecture series at the Vancouver Art Gallery, February 8, 2001, in conjunction with the exhibition Pictures, Positions, Places, Vancouver, BC.

A Sadness without the Object,, CV Photo, Montreal, QC, no. 52, Fall 2000, pg. 23-30 (portfolio - pictorial and written work).

The Enigma of the Object, my English translation of the Spanish text by Jose Luis Brea on the photographic work of Javier Ayarza, 1999.

A Sadness without the Object, catalogue essay and publication design for my exhibition at the University of Salamanca in conjunction with IMAGO: perspectives on fotografia and video, 1998.

 

Professional Recognition

Nomination for a National Magazine Award for the Portfolio "Vestige: The Photographs of Howard Ursuliak", Published in Issue No. 94, Volume, 24, Number 2 of Boarder Crossing Magazine.

Canada Council Visual Arts Award, B Grant in Photography, July 2000

British Columbia Arts Council, Visual Arts Production Grant, April 2000

Canada Council Visual Arts Award, Travel Grants, 1998, 1997

Nominated for the Barbara Sporr Grant in Photography from the Banff Center for The Arts, Banff, AB. 1996.

Canada Council Visual Arts Award, B Grant in Photography, February 1995.

The B.C. Binning Memorial Fellowship, applied to studies in 1991-92, awarded by the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia.

British Columbia Cultural Fund Scholarships, Senior Tuition Award, applied to studies in 1990-91, Junior Tuition Award, applied to studies in 1983-84.

Recipient of the first Howard and Carol Tanenbaum Family Foundation Award, administered through the Toronto Photographer's Workshop for work submitted to their national competition, 1989.

 

Public Collections

Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON
The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, ON
El Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno), Valencia, Spain
Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Private
The Ordonez Falcon Foundation, San Sebastian, Spain

 

Numerous Small Collections

Sydney, Australia
Montreal, QC, Toronto, ON, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Madrid, Spain
New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, USA