UPCOMING EVENTS
February 24, 2012 - June 3, 2012 Beat Nation, Vancouver Art Gallery (curated by Kathleen Ritter and Tania Willard), Vancouver, BC
February 21, 2012 Artist Presentation at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
The Heyokah, 2005, mixed media, 2.5m x 2m
BIOGRAPHY
Rolande Souliere was born in Toronto, Ontario and has lived in the America before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1999. A few years later Souliere pursued her artistic endeavours by becoming art school trained at Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), University of Sydney. Souliere was the director of the student run gallery Newspace from 2001-03 and also a committee member of ARTPORT (a joint initiative of Sydney's artist-run spaces and the Museums and Galleries Foundation of NSW) in 2003-04 . In 2006 and again in 2007 Souliere was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere Traveling Scholarship and a recipient of the Nava Marketing Grant. In 2008 Souliere was a finalist in the Fauvette Lourerio Memorial Traveling Scholarship and had her first international solo exhibition at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. She was also included in an international exhibition curated by Gary Pearson at Artspace, Sydney. Souliere has participated in artist's presentations and studio residencies, both nationally and internationally, including the University of Manitoba, University of British Columbia (Okanagan), University of Newcastle and Artspace, Sydney. Souliere continues to exhibit in her home country with a solo exhibitions at Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, and The New Gallery in Calgary. She also partaked in the 2010 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, (curated by Gerald McMaster) in Toronto, Canada.
Souliere continues to pursue her artistic interests by commencing a doctorate in Visual Arts at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. Her primary research will focus on Indigenous art and its integration into contemporary art practice.
She currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia.
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Born Toronto, Canada,
Anishinaabe, member of Michipicoten First Nation
Australian Citizen
| Education | |
| 2010 | Commenced Doctorate of Visual Arts (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2005-2006 | Masters of Visuals Arts (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2000-2004 | Bachelor of Visual Arts, Honours (Painting), Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2012 | TBA, Sofitel on Collins, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2011 | CrossRoads, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 2010 | I am JUST not that good at following directions, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada |
| 2009 | GPS-(The Good Red Road), Peloton, Sydney, NSW |
| 2008 | Materiality and Otherness, Grunt Gallery (curated by Daina Warren), Vancouver, Canada |
| 2007 | Binessiwags in Da House, Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 |
Connections/Disconnections, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW |
| 2005 | Materiality, Exit gallery, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
| 2004 | Bahn Trang, Space 3, Sydney, NSW |
| 2003 | Transformation of the Abject into Beauty, newspace, Sydney, NSW |
| Group Exhibition | |
| 2011 | 50-500, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 2011 | Mikala Dwyer 'Alphabet for Ghosts' for Alterbeast, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2011 | Finalist, David Harold Tribe Sculpture Prize, Sydney College of the Arts Galleries, Sydney, NSW |
| 2011 | Alterbeast with Mikala Dwyer, Carla Cescon, Tine Havelock Stevens as special guest, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW |
| 2010 | Scotiabank Nuit Blanche (curated by Gerald McMaster), Toronto, Canada |
| 2010 | An Oeuvre both Abundant and Diverse (curated by Brad Buckley), SCA Galleries, Sydney, NSW |
| 2010 | No. 61, (curated by Rhonda Davis and Camila Tellez), S.N.O., Sydney, NSW |
| 2010 | Safari 2010 (curated by Lisa Corsi) Sydney, NSW |
| 2009 | No. 50, S.N.O., Sydney, NSW |
| 2009 | Remote Control, Tortuga Studios Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
| 2009 | Fundraiser, The Narrows, Melbourne, NSW |
| 2008 | Finalist Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship |
| 2008 | Point of Origin (curated by Gary Pearson) Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 | Echelon, Peloton, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 | Smash Hits, Parramatta Studios, Parramatta, NSW |
| 2007 | Square Dance, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 | Intermediaries, MOP Projects, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 | Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (Finalist), Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| 2006 | Helen Lempriere Traveling Art Scholarship (Finalisst), Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| Awards/Grants/studio Residencies/Presentations | |
| 2012 | Simon Fraser University, Artist Presentation, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2011 | University of Manitoba, Artist Presentation, Winnipeg, Canada |
| 2011 | Artist-in-Residence, The Sofitel on Colllins, Melbourne, VIC |
| 2011 | Finalist David Harold Sculpture Award, SCA Galleries, Sydney, NSW |
| 2009 | Finalist Urbanest/BatesSmart Public Art Project, Sydney, NSW |
| 2008 | Australia National University, Artist Presentation, Canberra, NSW |
| 2008 | University of Newcastle, Artist Presentation, Newcastle, NSW |
| 2008 | Studio Residency, Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| 2008 | University of British Columbia (Okanagan), International Visiting Artist, British Columbia, Canada |
| 2007 | National Association for the Visual Arts, Marketing Grant, NSW |
| 2007 | Studio Residency, Firstdraft, Sydney, NSW |
| 2007 | Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| 2006 | Post Graduate Research Support Scheme Grant, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
| 2006 | Finalist, Helen Lempriere Travelling Art Scholarship, Artspace, Sydney, NSW |
| 2006 | Michipicoten First Nation Incentive Grant, Wawa, Ontario, Canada |
| 2006 | Shortlist, Ripe, Art & Australia/ANZ Private Bank Contemporary Art Award |
| 2005 | Michipicoten First Nation Post Graduate Student Support Scholarship, Wawa, Canada |
| 2004 | Michipicoten First Nation Student Support Scholarship, Wawa, Canada |
| 2000-2003 | Michipicoten First Nation Student Support Scholarship, Wawa, Canada |
| Writings on the Artist: | |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Fortescue, David Harold Tribe Sculpture Prize, The Daily Telegraph, June 6, 2011 |
| 2010 | Nancy Tousley, Artist Doubles her Direction, The Calgary Herald, July 24, 2010 |
| 2010 | David Garneau, Rolande Souliere's Sign Language, catalogue essay, The New Gallery |
| 2009 | Gary Pearson, ‘Point of Origin: a curatorial essay in seven parts’, Column 3, Artspace Visual Arts Centre Ltd. 2009, p. 15-24. |
| 2009 |
Suzanne Boccalatte and Meredith Jones, Trunk Volume 1: Hair, Sydney: Boccalatte Pty Ltd, 2009, p. 153-155. |
| 2008 |
Skeena Reece, ‘Rolande Souliere’, brunt grunt gallery in print, Issue 4, September 2008, p. 28-31 18. |
| 2008 | Video Interview: ‘Materiality’; Interview with Rolande Souliere http://www.grunt.ca/the-kitchen.html |
| 2008 |
‘Preview’, Canadian Art, Winter 2007, v 24, no. 4, p. 20. |
| 2008 | ‘Art Attack’, Harpers Bazaar, March 2008, p. 385. |
| 2008 | Kevin Griffin, ‘Exhibition opens a door to another world’, The Vancouver Sun, March 13-19, 2008, p. D18. |
| 2008 | ‘Art Exhibition -Rolande Souliere’, Michipicoten First Nation News, March 2008, p. 15. |
| 2008 | ‘Vancouver’, Preview, February/March 2008, p. 41. |
| 2008 | Vancouver< em> 2010 Cultural Olympiad 2008 Program guide, Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, 2008, p. 107. |
| 2008 | Vancouver Cultural Olympiad, ‘Rolande Souliere Materiality and Otherness’, FRONT Contemporary Art and Ideas, January/February, p. 6. |
| 2007 | Tony D’Fabrici, ‘Intermediaries’, catalogue essay, MOP Projects. Sydney, 2007, p.3. |
| 2007 | ‘Rolande Souliere- Another Artisan of MFN, Michipicoten First Nation News, April, p. 2. |
| 2006 |
Le Flaneur, ‘Rolande Souliere: G&A Studios’, Australian Art Blog, June 4, http://blogon.saatchi-gallery.co.uk |
| 2005 | Rick Garrick, ‘Anishinabe Artist Down Under’, Anishinabek News, April, p. 18. |
| Related Experience | |
| 2010 | Foundation Concepts Sessional Academic, Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2009 | Studio Coordinator, Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2008 | Database Administrator University of Sydney Galleries, University of Sydney |
| 2008 | Studio Coordinator, Painting, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2003-2004 | ARTPORT, Artists Run Initiatives Committee member |
| 2003 | Representative, Board of Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney |
| 2003-2001 | Director, newspace, 680 Darling Street, Sydney, NSW |
Included in Private Collections in Australia and Canada