staceywatson@hotmail.com she/her
Education
Master of Fine Arts University of Calgary, Royal College of Art London exchange,
Specialization Printmaking, 2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts University of Calgary, Specialization Photography, 1999
Teaching Appointments
Alberta University of the Arts Instructor in Continuing Education (2009- ongoing)
University of Lethbridge (2008- 2010) Instructor of Photography, BFA program
Untitled Art Society Darkroom Photography Instructor (2011-12)
Havering College, Essex, United Kingdom (2006) Instructor of Photography
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Field Work Etchings, Alberta Printmakers Artist Proof Gallery
2013 The Long Exchange, Paris-cope project for Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC All Along, collaboration with Hye-Seung Jung, Pith Gallery Calgary
2009 Fortuna, Trianon Gallery, Lethbridge
The Filthy Water Grotto ( in collaboration with Justin Patterson), Art Gallery of
Calgary
2003 No sooner did they appear, Spur Gallery, Calgary.
2002 The Flooded Cellar, project space, Truck Gallery, Calgary
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Walter Phillips Gallery/Art Gallery of Alberta with collaborator Justin Patterson
Luma Film and Media Art Quarterly Launch: screening of Object Vocation
2014 Voted Most Likely, C2 Gallery, curated by Kim Dorland
2013 Wreck City (in the We are Hysterical h ouse curated by Jennifer Crighton) 2012 Safe Lights, S atellite Gallery Untitled Art Society, Calgary
2011 If Lightning Falls in Low Places, Projective City, Paris, France
2008 Alberta Contemporary Photography 2008, Triangle Gallery Calgary, curated by
MN Hutchinson and Arthur Nishimura (photographs and video)
Darkling Eclipse at Kunstverein das weisse haus Vienna, Austria, curated by Susannah Welsley and Meredith Carruthers
May Day at the Arbour Lake Sghool, curated by the Summerwood Warren,Calgary IDEAL Towers, IDEAL space Calgary, curated by Scott Rogers
2007 Through the Looking Glass Building 1000 London UK (EBB video)
ArtCity Calgary, Kind of Sort of Yours but Actually Mostly Mine, curated by Wednesday Lupypciw (video screening of Icecave), Glenbow Museum
Get Lost at Locust Projects for Art Basel Miami, USA, curated by Mark Clintberg
2006 Videonale 11, Kulturpfeiffer, Berlin (1/3 Gate Video loop)
Videomakers Showcase, Salt Gallery, Cornwall, UK (video)
The Center Cannot Hold, Gallery Toronto Free, Toronto, Canada (video, photographs
and sculptural installation) (as part of the Arbour Lake Sghool collective)
2005 Sincerity Overdrive, Stride Gallery, Calgary. (sculpture and video) Drawing Projects, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London UK (etching)
Search the Catalogue, (curated by Mark Clintberg) Edmonton Public Library,
Edmonton. (drawing)
2004 Herland, video screening of Boy Putting on a Sweater, Plaza Cinema, Calgary
8 Conversations... Masters of Fine Arts Graduating Students Exhibition, Nickle Arts Museum. (installation- photographs, sculpture, etchings, video) AGC Flicks, Art Gallery of Calgary. (8mm films)
New York Tea Party c ollaborative performance with Amanda Couch, Brooklyn,USA
2003 Regarding Residue/Corner Falls, The Little Gallery. (sculptural installation)
Interconnections, Gallery San Chun. (etchings)
2000 Our Beautiful, Ridiculous Plans, Gallery San Chun, Calgary. (etchings)
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduating Students Exhibition, Nickle Arts Museum
Recent Collabration
2019 photographic collaboration with Marigold Santos for her solo exhibition
Surface Tether, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
Curatorial Projects
2009-2015 curatorship for Pith Gallery, Calgary
2006 The Figure in Wales, Campbells Art Gallery. Artists include Sue Williams, Philip
Nicol, Toby Ursell.
2005 Drawing Projects, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London UK. Artists include: Jerwood
Drawing Prize Winner 2005 Amanda Couch, Giulietta Coates.
New Magic Painting, Campbell’s Art Gallery, London, UK. Artists include: Allyson Glenn, Harry Steen, Liam O’Connor.
Review
Adams, Sarah, “Akimblog Reviews”, Alberta Contemporary Photography, Akimbo, http://www.akimbo.ca/akimblog/?id=166, January 23, 2008
Galleries West, http://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/stacey-watson-field-work-0/, 2017 Galleries West,http://www.gallerieswest.ca/news/“for-the-time-being-2017-alberta-biennial-of-contempo rary-ar/, 2017
Luma Quarterly, http://lumaquarterly.com/issues/volume-three/new-issue-page/the-10th-alberta-biennial/, 2017
Residencies
September-November 2015 Alberta Printmakers, Artist in Residence
Grants Awarded
Calgary 2012 Art Production Grant, 2012
Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant- Video Art Production, 2008
Commissions
Fog Northwest, photographic feature wall at Calgary Diagnostic Center, Creekside, through Robert Pashuk Architecture 2015
Commercial Representation
2014 Pomp and Circumstance, Calgary
2012 Projective City, Avignon, France
Publication and Writings
2012 Jacinthe Loranger article for Eastern Edge Gallery
2011 Jacinthe Loranger- article for I am the One Orgasmatron, Artist Proof Gallery
2004 Poof of Smoke MFA Graduate Thesis University of Calgary Press