Brenda Kim Christiansen
Email - brendakimchrisitansen@gmail.com
Website - brendakim.com
Education
MFA Painting, University of Alberta, 2008
BFA Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, 2004
Diploma, Fine Art Program, Grant MacEwan College, 2002
Selected Exhibitions
2013
group
The Travellers: Facing North, Visual Arts Alberta Gallery, Edmonton AB
2012
solo
solo
group
The Premise of Nature, Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton AB
Twice Removed, Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery, Stony Plain AB
The Travellers: Facing North, Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, Yellowknife, NT
2011
group
group
group
group
Artificial, Art Gallery of St. Albert, St. Albert, AB
Code, University of AlbertaMuseums Gallery, Timms Centre, Edmonton AB
Recharged, Harcourt Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Vernissage, Evanescence Gallery and Art Studio, High River, AB
2010
group
group
group
2009
solo
group
group
2008
group
group
group
solo
solo
juried
2007
trio
juried
Staff Infection, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
Artist as Teacher, Teacher as Artist, TD Education Centre Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta,
Edmonton, AB
Earthscapes, Artshab Studio Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Emma Lake: Encounters, Lando Gallery, Edmonton AB
Edmonton Contemporary Artists Society 17th Annual Ex., Peter Robertson Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Diversity, VAAA Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Edmonton Contemporary Artists Society 16th Annual Exhibition, Common Sense, Edmonton, AB
Twenty:20, Harcourt House, Edmonton, AB
Worse Things Have Happened to Better People, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
Inaugural Exhibition, Lando Gallery, Edmonton AB
Resonant Landscape, Graduate Thesis Show, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta,
Edmonton AB
Re-drawing the Line, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
Roots, Profiles Public Art Gallery, St. Albert, AB
Visual Thinking, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
2006
group
juried
Fast Forward, FAB Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Diversity III, VAAA Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Exhibitions, cont.’d
2005
juried
solo
2004
solo
solo
juried
group
group
Here and Now: Current Drawings, Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, AB
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Neptune Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Presence, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
Presence II, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
NSCAD Emerging Artists, Argyle Fine Arts, Halifax, NS
Graduation Exhibition 2004, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
Annual SSFA Exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
2003
group
group
2002
group
group
Annual SSFA Exhibition, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
Figure Painting Workshop, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
To the Walls, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS.
Underground Underglass, Graduate Show, Grant MacEwan College, Edmonton, AB
Permanent Collections
University of Alberta
Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton AB
City of St. Albert AB
Awards and Grants
2009 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant
2007 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant
2007 - Mary Louise Imrie Graduate Student Award
2007 - GSA Professional Development Grant
2006 - Alberta Graduate Student Scholarship
2006 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant
2006 - Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship
2006 - Alberta Advanced Education Graduate Student Scholarship
2005 - University of Alberta Master’s Scholarship
2003 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant
Related Teaching and Work Experience
2008, current - Lead Artist, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts
2010 -2012 - Contract Instructor, Continuing Education, Grant MacEwan University
2006 – 2011, 2013 - Contract Instructor, University of Alberta, Department of Art & Design
2010 - Mentor/Facilitator, VASA, Visual Arts Studio Association, Critique workshops, St. Albert, Alberta
2007 - 2010 - Art Educator, Art Gallery of Alberta
2008 - Assistant Artist, ESAS, Edmonton Student Art Society, Summer Landscape workshop
2004 - 2005 – Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax NS: Education, outreach and
membership coordinator
Professional Activities
2009, 2011 - Emma Lake Artists Workshop, Saskatchewan – participant
2011, current - Board of Directors, Visual Arts Alberta Association
2008 - 2010 - Board of Directors, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
2006 - 2008 - Board of Directors, Visual Arts Alberta Association
2004 - 2005 - Board of Directors, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Presentations
2010 – Unwrap the Research Conference, City-Region Studies Centre. Visual representation:
"Traces," an exhibition of paintings reflecting the changing face of the landscape within
the community of Ft. McMurray
2010 – Visiting Artist, Keyano College, Ft. McMurray, Alberta
2010 – Oil and the Arts, classroom presenter, University of Alberta
Reviews
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Avenue Magazine, January 2010
Edmonton Journal, November 27, 2009
SEE Magazine, Edmonton, February 21, 2008. Polaroids in a strange land by Mandy Espezel and Jill Stanton.
Review of MFA thesis exhibition.
VUE Weekly, Edmonton, February 14, 2008. Christiansen’s scarred landscapes comfort by Agnieszka Matejko.
Review of MFA thesis exhibition.
Edmonton Journal, Arts Section, February 8, 2008. Expanding the Vocabulary of landscape by Gilbert Bouchard.
Review of MFA thesis exhibition.
Saint City News, St. Albert AB, August 3, 2007. Getting back to their roots. Review of Roots exhibition at Profiles
Gallery.
Edmonton Journal, June 9, 2006. Cutting-edge art flows from students’ research by Gilbert Bouchard, review of
the Fast Forward exhibition at FAB Gallery.
The Chronicle Herald, Halifax NS. March 13, 2004. A Garden of Delights, article on select NSCAD graduates
exhibiting at Argyle Gallery.
Published Works
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Alberta Construction Magazine, Spring 2010. Painting reproduced on cover and inside.
Redrawing the Line. Exhibition catalogue for the 2007 show at the AGA gallery included reproductions of work
and excerpt from artist’s statement.
EnRoute, Air Canada’s in-flight magazine, August, 2004. Works chosen to accompany award-winning poetry for
the feature article, CBC Literary Awards.
20th Century Prints. Works from Permanent Collection. Authored the section, Glossary of Print Techniques.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2004
Brenda Kim Christiansen, MFA
Email - brendakimchrisitansen@gmail.com
Website - brendakim.com