Parallel (2009)


The Clothes Make the Man (2007-08)


Eric and Eric (2006)


Chicken Pox Scar (2004)


Self Portrait (2009)


Quality Time with the Family (2007)


Lost (2007)


Portrait of the Artist with his Family (2005)


Made Up (2008)

Owen Eric Wood - artist c.v.

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SELECTED ART WORKS

• Parallel (video/performance, 2009-2010)
• Holobomo (video, 2009)
• Self Portrait (sculpture, 2009)
• Made Up (video, 2008)
• The Clothes Make the Man (video/performance, 2007-2008)
• Momentum: a video series in four movements (video, 2007)
• Quality Time with the Family (video/installation with performance 2007)
• Lost (video, 2007)
• Eric and Eric (video projection on sculpture, 2006)
• Portrait of the Artist with his Family (drawing, 2006)
• Two (photography and drawing series, 2005)
• Self Portrait (video, 2004)


AWARDS AND GRANTS

• Holobomo receives a jury mention at Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2010)
• Parallel is selected among the Jury Recommended works for the Japan Media Arts Festival (2009)
• The Clothes Make the Man wins the Toronto Urban Film Festival Award for Best Urban Diversity (2009)
• Quality Time with the Family receives a Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant to support its exhibition at the Visionaria Film Festival in Italy (2009)


SELECTED FESTIVALS AND EXHIBITIONS
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• Videoformes International Manifestation of Video Art and Digital Cultures (2010)
  Petit Velo, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• Japan Media Arts Festival (2010)
  National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
• Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (2010)
  Kino Metropol, Stuttgart, Germany
• FILE Media Art Electronic Language International Festival Exhibition (2010)
  SESI Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Media Forum, Moscow International Film Festival (2010)
  Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
• Festival International du Film sur l'Art (2010 and 2009)
  J.A. De Seve Cinema/Goethe-Institute, Montreal, Canada
• LOOP Festival - The Platform for VideoArt (2010)
  Lounge Club MauMau, Barcelona, Spain
• Festival Internacional Del Cine Pobre Humberto Solas (2010)
  Havana, Cuba
• International Videofestival Bochum (2010)
  Kulturcafe, Bochum, Germany
• Orebro International Videoart Festival (2010)
  Orebro, Sweden
• Montreal Underground Film Festival (2010, 2009 and 2008)
  Friperie Potetr, Montreal, Canada
• Art Go Round (2010)
  Toyama Prefecture, Toyama, Japan
• Queer City Cinema (2010 and 2008)
  Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada
• Vues d'en face (2010)
  Cinematheque de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
• Rendez-Vous du Cinema Quebecois (2010, 2009 and 2008)
  Cinematheque Quebecois, Montreal, Canada
• Inside Out Toronto GLBT Film and Video Festival (2010 and 2008)
  Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
• Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival (2009 and 2008)
  Filmladen Kassel e.V. arthouse cinema, Kassel, Germany
• Festival du Nouveau Cinema (2009)
  Cinema Parallele, Montreal, Canada
• European Media Art Festival (2009)
  Lagerhalle Großer Saal, Osnabrueck, Germany
• Visionaria International Video Festival (2009)
  Galleria La Marina, Piombino, Italy
• International Video Art Festival Camaguey (2009)
  Camaguey, Cuba
• Mix 22 New York Queer Experimental Film Festival (2009)
  New York City, U.S.A.
• Cheries-Cheris GLT Film Festival of Paris (2009)
  Forum des Halles, Paris, France
• CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival (2009)
  Cumberland Cinemas, Toronto, Canada
• Torino International GLBT Film Festival (2009)
  Ambrosio Cinecafé, Torino, Italy
• Toronto Urban Film Festival (2009)
  Toronto, Canada
• Canariasmediafest (2008)
  Gran Canaria Espacio Digital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
• Mix Brazil Cinema and Video Festival of Sexual Diversity (2008)
  Mix Brazil Cultural Association, Sao Paulo, Brazil


DISTRIBUTION

• Parallel and Holobomo are accepted for distribution by Videographe (2009)
• Made Up and The Clothes Make the Man are accepted for distribution by Videographe (2008)
• Self Portrait, Quality Time with the Family and Lost are accepted for distribution by Videographe (2007)


CATALOGUES

• Behind the Object: The role of action in contemporary sculptural practice (2008)


ARTIST RESIDENCIES

• One Place Leads to Another, Ateliers Jean-Brillant, Montreal, Canada (March 2010)


CONFERENCES AND ARTIST TALKS

• Back Off! Dissident Representations in Art and Social Movements
  The CEDA, Montreal, Canada (2009)
• Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach
  Offenbach am Main, Germany (2008)
• Soiree Videographe
  Videographe Production, Montreal, Canada (2008)
• Artivistic: The Interplay Between Art, Information and Activism
  Eva B., Montreal, Canada (2005)
• Humanities MFA Program, Concordia University
  Studio Benim, Montreal, Canada (2005)


EDUCATION

• B.F.A. Studio Art, 2003-2007
  Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
• B.A.A. Journalism, 1996-2000
  Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada


COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Assisted in the construction of a sculpture for artist Jerome Havre (2010)
• Member of artist-run centre Articule (2009)
• Web site programmer for artist Eric Bond (2009)
• Assisted in the construction of a sculpture for artist Marie-Chantal Scholl (2009)
• Web site administrator for the Academy of Art Video Art, Concordia University (2009)
• Web site designer and programmer for photographer Vincent Chine (2008-09)
• Produced commissioned video for Videographe's online distribution system Vitheque (2008)
• Writing assistance for sculptor Andreanne Abbondanza-Bergeron (2008-09)
• Performed in Ali El-Darsa's video Channel (2008)
• Served on pre-selection jury for the Academy of Art Video Art awards, Concordia University (2008)
• Modelled for Trevor Gould's sculpture installation I am an Ape-man (2008)
• Organized the successful nomination of video teacher Nelson Henricks for a teaching award (2008)
• Performed in Ali El-Darsa's video The Saturday of Every Weekend (2007)
• Volunteered at the Artivistic conference (2007)
• Teaching assistant in intermediate-level sculpture course at Concordia University (2007)
• Edited Leslie Bronstein's Masters thesis on drama therapy (2007)
• Member of the Intermedia Cyber Arts Club, Concordia University (2007)
• 8-mm camera operator for Trevor Wood's short film Terry and Barry (2006)
• English copy editor for virtual art gallery Web site secteur54.com (2006)
• Contributor to Karen D'Amico's contemporary art zine Tangent (2006)
• Illustrator for Golf Magazine of Les Editions Gesca, La Presse (2006)
• Assisted set up of Laura Jeanne Lefave's video installation Four Corners (2005)
• Technical support for David Karavechus' sculpture installation Home Automation (2005)
• Appeared in Bardia Saadi-Nejad's video Two or Three Things I Know About Love (2005)
• Member of the Association of Student Sculptors at Concordia University (2005)
• Event organizer of six multi-disciplinary group art exhibitions, which together provided a venue for the artwork of more than 100 art students in various disciplines (2004-05)