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E R I N F I N L E Y , V i s u a l A r t i s t

S O L O A N D C O L L A B O R A T I V E E X H I B I T I O N S

2012 (Upcoming) New York, NY, Sarah Lawrence, Opera Yoko (w/ Heather Saunders)
2012 (Upcoming) Oxford, Miami University, Portrait of the Artist as a Suicide Bomber
2012 (Upcoming) Kingston, ON, Union Gallery, Queen's University (Solo)
2012 (Upcoming) Pennsylvania, Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Gallery (Catalogue)
2012 (Upcoming) Idaho, USA, Idaho State University, Mama Said
2012 Toronto, ON, John B. Aird Gallery, Drawing 2012 (Juror's First Prize)
2012 Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Emerging Artists Exhibition
2011 Siena, Italy, Siena Art Institute, Drawing Connections (Catalogue)
2011 Toronto, ON, The White House, Bees
2011 Ottawa, ON, Galerie La Petite Mort (with Daryl Vocat)
2011 Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Courvoisier Collective
2011 Buffalo, NY, Hallwalls, New Drawings (Solo)
2011 Toronto, ON, The White House, Your Next Life (Curated by Adam Cowan)

2011 Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University, Matrilineage
2011 Toronto, ON, John B. Aird Gallery, Drawing 2011
(Curated by Sadko Hadzihasanovic and Dale Barrett)
2010 Brooklyn, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Elizabeth A. Sackler Centre for Feminist Art

Making Ourselves Visible ("Duplicates" Event)
2010 Burlington, ON, Honey, Curated by Jacquie Cobb
2010 Buffalo, NY, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre, Faster, Pussycat!

2009 Toronto, ON, Paul Petro Special Projects, Jayne Mansfield’s Dog (Solo)

2009 Toronto, ON, Peak Gallery, Walls Project (Solo)

2009 Toronto, ON, Ontario College of Art and Design, Whodunit Mystery Art
2009 Toronto, ON, Gladstone, Nuit Blanche, SketchPAD (with Andrew Kmiecik)

2008 Chicago, IL, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Art Against AIDS

2007 Toronto, ON, Loop Gallery, Dezzy and the Lusty Moor (Solo)

2007 San Francisco, CA, Femina Potens, Punktraits (with Heather Catalinich)

2007 Toronto, ON, Lennox Contemporary, Heroine (Solo)

2006 North Bay, ON, White Water Gallery, Legend of Nadia Nefariously (Solo)

2006 New York, NY, CBGB, Sex, Death, Rock ‘n’ Bones

2005 Brooklyn, NY, Project Spaceman, Square Foot (Organized by AWOL)

2005 Toronto, ON, MOCCA, Art Scum (Curated by Istvan Kantor)

2005 Toronto, ON, S.P.I.N. Gallery, Les Femmes du Siècle

2005 Toronto, ON, Gallery 1313, Main Space, Legend of Nadia Nefariously (Solo)

2004 Toronto, ON, York Quay Gallery, Same Time / Same Place (Brochure)

2004 Calgary, AB, Nickel Arts Museum, 8 Conversations, MFA Thesis Exhibition

2003 Toronto, ON, Zypr Gallery, Down With Beauty (Solo)
2001 Toronto, ON, Area Gallery, Perverse Sentiment (w/ Julie Voyce, Patrick DeCoste)

*Selection

G R A N T S A N D A W A R D S

2012 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: BAC)
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: Power Plant)
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (Recommender: Mercer Union)
2010 Canada Council for the Arts, Visual Art: Project Grant
2010 Toronto Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2009 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant

2006 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Art: Emerging Artist Grant
2004 University of Calgary, Centre for Fine Arts Research, Graduate Scholarship
2004 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, University of Calgary, Travel Grant

2003 Alberta Foundation for the Arts, University of Calgary, Research Scholarship
2003 McCord Museum /L'Université du Québec à Montréal, Conference Travel
2001 University of Toronto, William Huffman Award

B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2012 Miller, Darren. Exhibition Catalogue. Penelec-Megahan-Bowman Gallery.
2012 Ting, Tiffanie. "Negotiating the Collective: Conceptions of Identity." Harvard University.

2011 Siena Art Institute. (Catalogue). "Drawing Connections: Contemporary Drawing."
2011 J. Tim Raymond. "Cinderella Liberties: Erin Finley at Hallwalls." ArtVoice.
2011 Saunders, Heather. "As Warhol told the Velvet Underground..." Artist in Transit.
2011 ArtVoice. "Art Views: New Drawings at Hallwalls." Image reproduction.
2011 Massier, John. Exhibition Catalogue. Curatorial essay for solo show at Hallwalls.
2011 Xtra! Ottawa's Gay and Lesbian News. "Pride Highlights: Erin Finley and Daryl Vocat".
2009 NOW Magazine. Visual Art: “Must-See Shows.” Vol. 28, No. 26.

2009 Bravo. Shag television programme. Interview by Nicolas Kazamia.

2009 Eye Weekly. "Toronto Notes: The T.O. Do List".
2007 Davidson, Duncan. “Arts and Culture.” San Francisco Guardian.

2007 Balzer, David. “Eye Candy: Erin Finley at Loop Gallery.” Eye Weekly.

2007 Goddard, Peter. “At the Galleries.” The Toronto Star.

2007 Dick, Terence. “Review of Dezzy and the Lusty Moor”. Akimblog.

2006 “Window on the Arts.” CBC Radio One.

2006 The Toronto Star. “At the Galleries.” Image reproduction.

2005 Goddard, Peter. “Glam punk rocker Nadia Nefariously, a legend in one

artist’s mind, bares all for art.” The Toronto Star.

2005 Vaughan, R.M., The Big Picture 44: R. M. Vaughan Ink (Blog).

2005 Lathwell, Catherine. “Nadia Nefariously at Gallery 1313.” Flack.

2005 The Toronto Sun. “Arts and Entertainment.” Image reproduction.

2004 Clintberg, Mark. “Hot art to talk about.” FFWD Magazine.

2000 McKay, Sally. “Alice in Totally Fucked-Up Land.” Lola. Issue No. 6.

2000 Eye Weekly. “Galleries.” Image reproduction. Issue No. 52.

C O L L O Q U I A

2009 Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Feeling Photography Conference

Paper Presentation - "Miley Cyrus, Polaroid Lolita: Public emotionality,

coming of age, and the convenience of the camera-phone"

2008 New York, NY, US, Nola Studios / York University
Performing Feminist Motherhood: Feminist Outlaws

Paper Presentation - "Bikini Monster & the '79 Chevy: Cacophonic chronicles of

one nefarious punk mutha" (Or, "All About My Mother")

2008 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University
Image & Imagery IV

Paper Presentation - "Scandal and Gossip! The lascivious tale of

John Singer Sargent’s overwrought brush, a sexy painting of

Madam X, and Rita Hayworth’s striptease in Gilda"

2008 Toronto, ON, York University
Frontiers in History Symposium

Paper Presentation - "Oops! She Did It Again: Nexus points between

ancient female archetypes and MTV"

2007 Ottawa, ON, University of Ottawa
Art Made Tongue-Tied By Authority

Paper Presentation - "Alice in Chains: A brief history of intersections
between feminist art, pornography, iconoclasm, and censorship"

2006 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University
Image & Imagery III

Paper Presentation - "Blood Porn & 9/11: Anti-trompe-l'œil violence in
Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, Robert Rodriguez’s

Sin City, and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films"

2006 Buffalo, NY, US, University at Buffalo / State University of New York
Gender Across Borders II

Paper Presentation - "Vaseline Venus: The odalisque as locus for

the beautiful and the abject"

2005 San Diego, CA, US, 35th Annual Popular Cultural Association Conference

Paper Presentation - "The Name’s ‘Buffy’, Baby! How television’s ‘girl-power’

action heroes influence the identity of the suburban female teen"

2004 St. Catharines, ON, Brock University
Image & Imagery II

Paper Presentation - "Sirens of Gotham: Making meaning of crosscurrents

between feminism and the femmes fatales of film and television in the Sixties

2004 Vancouver, BC, University of British Columbia
Mediations: Negotiating Cultural Landscapes

Paper Presentation - "With love, from Lilith to Lolita: Contextualizing the

metamorphoses of the femme fatale in film and art"

2003 Montréal, PQ, McCord Museum / Université du Québec a Montréal
1960s: Style & Substance

Paper Presentation - "These boots are gonna walk all over you: A feminist

analysis of the femmes fatales of Sixties cinema"

*Some presentation titles have been shortened

S E L E C T E D P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T Y

2012 Artist Lecturer, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, ON
2011 MoMA Coursework in Modern Art, Dept. of Museum Education, New York, NY
2011 Volunteer, Feminist Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
2010 Drawing Assistant, Allyson Mitchell's exhibition, "One Girl's Journey to the Well of
Forbidden Knowledge", Young Gallery @ Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2009 Studio Assistant, Hylozoic Soil Project, Philip Beesley Architect Inc., Toronto, ON
2009 Essayist, Heather Saunders’ Que Sera Sera at Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

2008 Editor, Gallery 1313 Quarterly Newsletter, Toronto, ON

2008 Member, Board of Directors, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON

2007 Artist Resident, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

2006 Artist Resident, Cre8ery Artist-Run Centre, Winnipeg, MB

2005-7 Member, TRUCK Artist-Run Centre, Calgary, AB

2004 Artist Lecturer, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, AB

2004 Artist Lecturer, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

2004 Administrative Assistant, Canadian Conference of the Arts, ACAD, Calgary, AB

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