CV

Exhibitions + Festivals

2010

  • Twitter/Art + Social Media, Group show. Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  • A Book About Death, Group show. The Tabernacle, MOMA Wales, Machylleth, Wales, UK
  • Lulu Suite Permanent Installation with Faith Moosang, Richmond Olympic Oval, Richmond, BC

2008

  • Electrofringe Festival, Electronline - Alexandria NSW, Australia

2007

  • Translations/Traductions – online @ La Chambre Blanche (QC)
  • FILE, Electronic Language Art Festival, Sao Paulo & Rio, Brasil
  • Art’s Birthday, Western Front, BC
  • Shift, Small Axe - online, A Caribbean Platform for Criticism

2006

  • The Ark Project, Group Show, Touchstone Museum, Nelson, BC. Catalogue
  • FILE, Electronic Language Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil
  • Mahwrin-Skel, Robotics Exhibition, Western Front, BC

2005

  • Upgrade, Group Show, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, NY

2004

  • FILE, Electronic Language Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2003

  • Resident. Works on Paper, Group Show. CCA7 Gallery, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
  • Sphere. Group Show. Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC Catalogue
  • Final requests. Solo Show. Modern Fuel Artist-Run Center, Kingston, ON. Catalogue

2002

  • Immedia 2002: The Senses, Digital Arts Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • In -Aperçu, Group show, Centre d’Ile Arts, Geneva, Switzerland
  • FILE, Electronic Language Art Festival, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2001

  • Les HTMlles | Maid In Cyberspace, Le festival de cyberart du Studio XX, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, QC.

2000

  • Genealogies, Miscegenation , Missed Generations, William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut. Catalogue

Artist-in-Residence / Visiting Artist

  • Memorial University of Nfld, Guest Artist at Department of Fine Arts, Cornerbrook Campus, October 2008
  • Mahrwin-Skel: Group residency on robots at the Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Fall 2005-Spring2006
  • La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, QC, Spring2005
  • Studio XX, Montreal, QC - virtual residency with StudioXX, Feb-April, 2005
  • Caribbean Contemporary Arts (CCA), Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Fall 2003

Commissions

Publications et al [Reviews| Interviews | Talks...]

  • Artist's Talk, Kwantlen University College, December 2009
  • Gauthier, Joanne, Review of "Excerpts from an Archive" nt2 Nouvelles Technologies Nouvelles Textualités, UQAM, September 09, 2009
  • Artist's Talk, Kwantlen University College, November 2008
  • Elene Tremblay, L'image ramifiée - le photographique du web, book featuring artists projects and essays, published by Editions Vu, Quebec City, launched February 2008.
  • Klobucar, Andrew, essay on “FlightPath: A bird in the google”, a web project by Deanne Achong featured in BlackFlash magazine, Fall 2005.
  • Talk with David Clark + Jocelyn Robert, Rouge/La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, April 2005
  • CKUT Radio, Montreal — interviewed by Valerie Walker, May 2005
  • Cozier, Christopher - selected “Shift” for Small Axe Works (online), a Carribbean journal of criticism
  • Laiwan, essay for “Sphere”, exhibition catalogue book produced by Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, 2004
  • Upgrade, presentation at the Western Front for Upgrade, curated by Kate Armstrong, October2004
  • Bell, Lynne, essay for "MAWA: Culture of Community", ABC Books, 2004
  • Artists’ Talk, Caribbean Contemporary Arts, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, December 2003
  • Visiting Artist, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC, October 2003
  • Artists’ Talk, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, October 2003
  • Guest Artist, Art + Technology Lecture Series, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design , Vancouver, April 2003
  • Darrah, Ben, Review of “Final Requests”, Kingston-Whig Standard, March 15, 2003
  • Visiting Artist Presentation, Camosun College, January 2003
  • Race in Digital Space, A conference held at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Presented “Shift”, a website project exploring slavery and the digital archive, October 2002
  • Konart,Tomasz, Selected web project Excerpts from An Archive as a participant of the 2nd ed. of Planetary Vigil of Net art. www.chairetmetal.com, a site exploring digital culture, 2002
  • Neural Online | www.neural.it . “Excerpts from An Archive” reviewed, March 12, 2002
  • Jan 2001, For “Maid in Cyberspace/Les HTMLles festival” radio interview at CBC Radio, Montreal, — interviewed by Meredith Dellandrea + CKUT Radio, Montreal, — interviewed by A. Cotic & V. Walker
  • Karmel, T., The Chronicle, Review of Genealogies, Miscegenation , Missed Generations, March 2000
  • Bell, Lynne, Engaging the Digital: Methods, Materials and Meanings, Universities Art Association Conference, Toronto, ON, November 2000
  • —The Future of the Page Conference, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, 2000

Awards

  • Canada Council Media Arts Travel Grant, 2005
  • Canada Council International Residency Grant, 2003
  • British Columbia Cultural Grant, 2001, 2002
  • Canada Council Media Arts Travel Grant, 2002
  • Canada Council Production Grant, 2001
  • Canada Council Travel Grant, 2000

Other Activities

Board Member
  • Other Sights, Vancouver, BC 2006 - present
  • Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, BC, 1999 - 2003
  • Access Arist Run Centre - Founding Member
Writing by Deanne Achong
  • Catalogue Essay for The Blair Bush Project, video installation by Faith Moosang & Christopher Runne at Alternator, Kelowna, August, 2008
  • Gallery text, press-release for Proper Research, an exhibition by Randall Steeves at the Kwantlen Art Gallery, Fall 2006
  • Catalogue essay for The Egg Throwing Apparatus, an installation by Alison MacTaggart, ACCESS, Fall 2002
  • Valuing the Overlooked, Catalogue essay for A Sadness Without the Object, an exhibition by Howard Ursuliak at the Centre de photographie, Universidad de Salmanca, Spain
  • Catalogue essay for deliverance, an installation by Fiona Bowie, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Fall 1998
  • Catalogue essay for fluid space, a video installation by Antonia Hirsch, ACCESS, Fall 1997

Education

  • MFA, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
  • BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS
  • Diploma, Western Front Multimedia Program, Vancouver, BC

Languages

  • English and French