Erica Grimm-Vance : Curriculum Vitae

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Solo Exhibitions

  • 2005 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, Sask., Metaxu
  • 2004 – Kwantlen University College Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.,  The Body Knows – Linda Lando Fine Arts Wisdom Poems
  • 2003 – Lament invited collaboration with composer David Squires, mezzo-soprano Sarah Fryer in memory of those killed in the Bali bombing, presented in Sydney Australia
  • 2002 – Gordon College Gallery, Boston, MA. (Sept) Mapping the Body. Assiniboia Gallery, Regina SK (April) Ascending Arc. Invited Nash lecturer, Campion College, U.of R.
  • 2001 – Gallery Telpaz, Ottawa, Ontario, Depth Maps
  • 1999 – Assiniboia Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Swimming in Existence. Gallery Telpaz, Ottawa, ON, Remembering to Breathe
  • 1998 – Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Liminal States. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, BC, Metaxu: Beauty is the Beginning of Terror
  • 1997 – Lookout Gallery, Regent College, Grace and Gravity
  • 1996 – Assiniboia Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Issues of Being . Assiniboia/Bessbourough Gallery, Saskatoon, SK Icarus
  • 1995 – Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, BC.  Soil Rich as Blood
  • 1994 – Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC.  Recent Work: The Earth is Bread
  • 1993 – Quay Works, Gibson, BC.  Signs of the Sacred: Two Streams
  • 1992 – Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek, BC.  The Earth is Bread
  • 1991 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK. No Angst
  • 1989 – Lookout Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, BC.  Inscapes
  • 1989 – Firehall Theatre, Vancouver, BC.  Dancing On the Edge, collaborative with dancer C.Schroeder
  • 1988 – Bessbourough Gallery, Saskatoon, SK. Raven Prayers. Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK Raven Prayers. Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, SK  Requiem
  • 1986 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK  Recent Works
  • 1985 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK  Our Father Portfolio
  • 1982 – Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK  Graduating Exhibition

Group Juried Exhibitions

  • 2005 – A Broken Beauty: Figuration, Narrative and the Transcendent in North American Art, Laguna Art Museum, CA
  • 2005 – The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, MOBIA, New York City
  • 2005 – RAG 25Years 25 Artists, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond B.C.
  • 2004 – First Annual Drawing Invitational, Linda Lando Fine Arts, Vancouver, B.C.
  • 2003 – Manifest Juried Exhibition 2003
  • 2003 – La Rocha Conference Exhibition, Regent College
  • 2003 – Imago New Heaven/ New Earth Exhibition Regent College, Vancouver, B.C.
  • 2002 – Imago New Heaven /New Earth  Painted City Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
  • 2002 – Manifest Juried Exhibition 2002-2003
  • 2002 – CIVA Traveling Print and Drawing Exhibition
  • 2002 – The Body: Broken/Beauty, traveling exhibition curated by D. Goa and G. Fuglie
  • 2001 – Lookout Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Choose Freedom
  • 2000 – Hand, Spirit, Voice, juried exhibition
  • 1999 – Concordia University Gallery Mequon Il, CIVA Conference Juried Exhibition
  • 1997 – IntraLUX Gallery, Vancouver, BC.  Art Source, Virtual Opening
  • 1997 – Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, BC.  disCOVEry ‘97 The Darker Side
  • 1997 – Gallery 416 Ediface Belgo, Montreal, Quebec
  • 1997 – Crossroads Festival of the Arts
  • 1997 – Regent College, Vancouver, BC.,  12×4 Juried Exhibition
  • 1997 – Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC.  Harvest International1996 – Streff Gallery Marylhurst College, Oregon, USA, Image Vision and Voice
  • 1994 – Lookout Gallery, Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, BC.  IVCF Invitational
  • 1993 – Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver, BC.  Curators Choice
  • 1993 – Organization of SK Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition
  • 1992 – Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK  The Art Bank at Work
  • 1992 – Abbey Arts Centre, Abbotsford, BC.  The Arts and Peace Festival Exhibition
  • 1991 – Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, Body and Soul: Drawing Invitational
  • 1991 – Lookout Gallery, Regent College, UBC, Vancouver, BC.  Pacific Theatre Benefit
  • 1991 – Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver, BC.  Group Show
  • 1991 – Chiaroscuro, Langley, BC
  • 1990 – Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC. Contemporary Drawing in BC
  • 1990 – Patrick Doheny Fine Arts, Vancouver, BC.
  • 1988 – Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Close Ups, Traveling Exhibition
  • 1988 – Graham Centre, Wheaton, Ill., USA, Sacred Arts X
  • 1987 – Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK Art Treasures ‘87
  • 1986 – Neoartism Gallery, Vancouver, BC.  Visual Art, Spiritual Growth
  • 1985 – Holy Spirit Parish, Saskatoon, SK, The Cross and Resurrection
  • 1984 – Chicago, Ill., USA, Form/Reform
  • 1983 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK, Emerging Saskatchewan Artists
  • 1982 – Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK   Sight Unseen N.M.A.G.
  • 1982 – Assiniboia Gallery, Regina, SK
  • 1981 – Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK Print shop: Seven Printmakers from the University of Regina
  • 1981 – N.M.A.G., Regina, SK, Here It Is, an exhibition of women artists
  • 1981 – Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK, Saskatchewan Open Art Competition
  • 1981 – Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK  College and Broad
  • 1980 – N.M.A.G. Traveling Exhibition, Recent Acquisitions, SK Arts Board
  • 1980 – Banff School of Fine Arts, Juried Student Exhibition
  • 1979 – N.M.A.G., Regina, SK Drawing: A Non Media Concern

Selected Publications / Reviews

  • 2005 – A Broken Beauty, ed. Theodore L. Prescott, forward by Bruce Herman, Eerdmans
  • 2005 – The Next Generation: Contemporary Expressions of Faith, MOBIA, NY
  • 2005 – Civa Silver, Eerdmans
  • 2005 – RAG 25/25 Richmond Art Gallery 1980- 2005
  • 2002 – The Vancouver Sun, Mar.29, Douglas Todd, Artist’s Quest: To try to grasp the ineffable with human hands
  • 2002 – The Prairie Messenger, Mar. 25, Frank Flegal, Nash lecture links art and the Gospel
  • 2002 – Topic, Shirley Stockdill, The Art of Erica Grimm-Vance: Spirituality in Wax and Steel
  • 2002 – The Leader Post, Mar 16, Gary Anderson, “Ascending Arc typical of Artist’s body of work”
  • 2000 – Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, vol. 31 feature article by Tim Bascom, cover art, 6 plates
  • 2000 – The Altering Eye, Susan McCaslin, Borealis Press, Cover Art
  • 2000 – Flying Wounded, Susan McCaslin, University of Florida Press, Cover Art
  • 1999 – Canadian Art,  Fast Forward Review
  • 1999 – Mattoid 54 – Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies, Victoria, Australia, Examining and Experiencing Masculinity
  • 1999 – Gender and the Sacred Self in John Donne, Elizabeth M.A. Hodgson,University of Delaware Press, Cover Art
  • 1999 – Voices in the Wilderness, Stories by Chris Fischer, Hagios Press, Saskatoon, SK, Cover Art
  • 1998 – The Voice, Donna Mattila,  Beauty and Angst at the CVAG
  • 1998 – The Record, Paula Wild,  TAG at CVAG
  • 1998 – The Record, Arts and Entertainment,  TAG, you’re it
  • 1997 – Masculine: Migrations, Daniel Coleman, University of Toronto Press, Cover Art
  • 1992 – Modern Liturgy Magazine
  • 1991 – Prism Magazine, Cover Art
  • 1990 – Modern Liturgy Magazine
  • 1985 – Cable Regina, televised documentary, The Art of Erica Grimm-Vance; From Chaos to Cosmos
  • 1985 – Grain Magazine, Featured artist

Teaching

  • Present – Assistant Professor, Trinity Western University (since 1989)
  • 2002 – Glen Workshop Faculty, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 2001 – Glen Workshop Faculty, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • 1992 – Contemporary Artists Lecture Series at Mackenzie Art Gallery
  • 1991 – Artist in Residence at Luther College
  • 1987-94 – Instructor UBC Continuing Education Program
  • 1986 – Instructor University of Regina Extension Department

Conferences

  • 2003 – Word and Image Conference, Sydney Australia, keynote address, workshop leader, Premier of Lament visual/audio collaboration with David Squires
  • 2003 – CIVA Conference Gordon College, Boston, speaker
  • 2001 – CIVA Conference, Dallas, Texas, workshop organizer
  • 1999 – CIVA Conference Mequon Wisconsin
  • 1997 – CIVA Conference Montreal, critiques, panel
  • 1991 – CIVA Conference Minneapolis
  • 1995 – With Heart and Mind Conference Regina Saskatoon

Papers

  • The Nash Memorial Lecture, Imaging the Sacred: The Fruitful Alliance Between Gospel and Art, or Outsider art in an Age of Irony, Campion College at the U of R., the 24th lecture, 2002
  • Surrey Art Gallery Invited Speaker, Art, Embodiment and Materiality, 2005
  • Kwantlen University College Art Talks, Embodiment, Materials and the Post-Ironic Search for Meaning, 2004
  • The Schoenel Invited lecturer Seattle Pacific University, Art and Transcendence, 2003
  • Invited ICS Invited Lecturer, Toronto Beauty and Affliction: Reflections on Art and Embodiment. 2003
  • Keynote Address Wesleyan Institute, Sydney, Australia, Beauty and Affliction: Reflections on Art, the Incarnation and Embodiment, 2003
  • Gordon College Invited Lecturer, Wehham, MA, Listening and the Way of Unknowing, 2002
  • The Glenn Conference St. John College, Santa Fe New Mexico, Vocation: The Hard Work of Listening, 2001
  • Heart and Mind Conference, The Role of the Aesthetic and Postmodern in Post-Secondary Education, 1995

Positions

  • 1998 – 2003 – CIVA – Board Member, Secretary
  • 2000 – CARFAC – Board Member
  • 1999 – JKC – Board Member

Commissions

  • 2003 – 04 – Catwoman, Warner Brothers, commissioned 3 paintings and a sketchbook of 50 drawings in consultation with director Pitof
  • 1997 – University of British Columbia, Biomechanics Laboratory
  • 1991 – Luther College, Regina, Saskatchewan
  • 1994 – The Our Father Portfolio, Commemorating John Paul II visit to Canada
  • 1983 – Fackelbararnas Centrum, Holsby Brunn, Sweden

Awards

  • 2005 – SSHRC TWU Internal Award
  • 2002 – Distinguished Alumnus Award, Professional Accomplishments, University of Regina
  • 2002 – First Prize Imago Juried Art Competition
  • 1997 – First Award of Merit, Seymour Art Gallery
  • 1996 – Second Prize, Streff Gallery, Marylhurst College
  • 1987 – B Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • 1983 – Travel Award, Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • 1982 – Riddel Award, awarded to top Fine Arts graduate
  • 1981 – Proficiency Award, University of Regina
  • 1980 – Purchase Award, Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • 1980 – Travel Grant, Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • 1980 – Professional Art Dealers Association of Canada Award
  • 1979 – Proficiency Award, University of Regina
  • 1977 – Entrance Scholarship, University of Regina, Department of Fine Arts
  • 1977 – Art Award, Campbell Collegiate

Collections

  • The Canada Council Art Bank
  • The Estevan National Exhibition Centre
  • Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC
  • City of Regina Art Collection
  • Saskatchewan Tel
  • Saskatchewan Provincial Art Collection
  • The Saskatchewan Arts Board
  • The Vatican Collection, Vatican City, Italy
  • Fackelbararnas Centrum, Holsby Brunn, Sweden
  • Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • The Graham Centre, Wheaton, Ill.
  • Luther College, Regina
  • Holy Child Parish, Regina
  • Campion College, University of Regina
  • Regina Separate School Board
  • Centre for Ecumenism, Saskatoon
  • First Baptist, Vancouver
  • Regent College, UBC, Vancouver
  • The Salvation Army, Vancouver
  • Trinity Western University, Langely, B.C.