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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015  We live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, The College Galleries, Saskatoon, SK
2014  We live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB
2014  We live on the edge of disaster and imagine we are in a musical, The MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2014  The Summoning, Dc3 Art Projects at Popop Galerie, Montreal, QC
2013  Exhibition & residency, Open Space, Victoria, BC
2010  Scenes From A Secret World, Skew Gallery, Calgary, AB
2007  Welcome To My Party, Stride Gallery, Calgary
2005  Wind Chill Masks: The Future of Winter, The Royal Red Gallery, Saskatoon, SK

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014  Oh, Canada, from MASS MoCA, touring to Atlantic Canada and Calgary, AB
2014  Dreamland: Textiles and the Canadian Landscape, Museum London
2014  They Made a Day be a Day Here, School of Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2014  They Made a Day be a Day Here, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2014  Papier14, Montreal, QC
2013  As Perennial as the Grass, Elora Centre for the Arts, Elora ON
2013  They Made a Day be a Day Here, Grande Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, AB
2013  PLAY: Toys + Age= Art, dc3 art projects, Edmonton, AB
2013  Creative Play, OSAC touring exhibition, SK
2012  Oh, Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2012  Textiles in the Canadian Landscape, Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto, ON
2011  Bona Fide: Homemade and Handmade, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB
2011  Mind The Gap! The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2011  Mind the Gap! Saskatchewan tour-Dunlop Art Gallery, Art Gallery of Swift Current, Estevan Art Gallery & Museum Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, The Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, Ottawa Art Gallery
2010  Scenes From A Secret World, (Duo Exhibition), Eastern Edge, St John’s NL
2009  Scenes From a Secret World, (Duo exhibition), Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton NB
2009  Mind the Gap! Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2009  Personally Political: Contemporary Sensation, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2009  SoHo20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2008  Flatlanders; Saskatchewan Artists on the Horizon, The Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon,SK
2007  some stuff we collected, The Other Gallery, Banff Center, Banff, AB
2005  Mechanics of the Mind, Royal Red Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2005  Plane Language, Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
2005  Monsters, Aliens, & Robots, The One Minute Happiness Gallery, Calgary, AB

PERFORMANCES

2012  Tracking the Wolf, Oh, Canada, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, USA
2011  Embrace (site specific screening + performance) Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK
2011  Tracking the Wolf, Annual Symposium of Performance Art, Struts Gallery, Sackville, NB
2011  Tracking the Wolf; opening night of Prairie Scene, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2011  Tracking the Wolf Imagined Spaces, Lost Objects, Edgy Women, Montreal, QB
2011  Tracking the Wolf Imagined Spaces, Lost Objects, FADO Performance Art Center + CineCycle, Toronto, ON
2004  The Bike Ballet Club, Saskatoon Centennial Auditorium (outdoor space), Saskatoon, SK
2004  The Bike Ballet Club, Square Zero Independent Dance Festival, Ottawa, ON
2004  The Bike Ballet Club, Ottawa West Fest, Ottawa, ON
2004  The Bike Ballet Club, (the drive-by series), Montreal, QC

SELECTED SCREENINGS

2014  ReImagined, Core Series, Paved Arts, in collaboration in Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra
2014  Wintershines Festival, Snow Screen by Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK
2013  WNDX: New Prairie Cinema, Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, QC
2012  Square Pegs V: East/West Experimental Video, Modern Fuel/AKA Gallery
2011  The Wired Body, Edmonton, AB
2011  Yellowknife Film Festival, Yellowknife, NT
2010  Scenes From A Secret World, WNDX Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2010  Scenes From A Secret World, Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2010  Scenes From A Secret World, the $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB
2009  O.K. Quoi?! Arts Festival, Sackville, NB
2009  Moving Pictures 3: Origins of Imagination, Sask Film Pool, Regina
2009  crossing the pond (artists emerging here and there),Paved arts
2008  Scenes From A Secret World, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK
2008  Landlocked Film Festival, Iowa City-screening, Three Minute Miracle
2008  Film Pop, Montreal, QC
2008  Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
2008  WNDX Festival of Film and Video Art, Winnipeg, MB
2008  Surrealism on Film, CSIF, Calgary, AB
2008  Flicks International Festival for Young People, Saskatoon, SK
2008  Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MN
2008  Continental Drift Film Festival, St John, NB
2007  Video Valentine,Roxy Theatre, Saskatoon, SK
2007  Media Pack Board Curates, (intervention/performance), Calgary, AB
2006  If You Go Out In the Woods Today, Roxy Theatre, Saskatoon, SK
2006  Michigan Women’s Music Festival- Film Program, Walhalla, MI
2006  She Moves Images Festival,/Herricane Women’s Festival, Saskatoon, SK
2005  The Faucet Media Arts Festival, Sackville, NB
2005  Dallas Video Festival, Dallas. TX
2005  Flail and Flower: Moving Pictures Festival of Dance, Montreal, QC
2005  Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, Calgary, AB
2005  The 13th Annual 100$ Film Festival, Calgary, AB

GRANTS & AWARDS

2013  Sobey Art Award Long List- Prairies & the North
2013  Sask Arts Board Project Grant
2012  Sobey Art Award Long List- Prairies & the North
2012  Canada Council Project Grant
2012  Canada Council Travel Grant
2011  Sask Arts Board Project Grant
2011  Locale Art Award
2011  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Project grant
2010  Canada Council Travel Grant
2009  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Project Grant
2008  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Travel Grant
2008  Saskatchewan Film Pool, Distribution Grant
2008  Paved Art + New Media, Production Grant
2007  Saskatchewan Film Pool, Production Grant
2007  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Artists Grant
2006  Saskatchewan Film Pool, Production Assistance Grant
2006  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Project Grant
2005  Saskatchewan Arts Board, Individual Project Grant
2005  Paved Art + New Media, Production Grant
2003  The 11th Annual $100 Film Festival, Best Super 8 film
2001  Bars & Tones Scholarship, Emmedia

COLLECTIONS

Saskatchewan Arts Board Permanent Collection
Works held in private collections in Canada, USA, Europe

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012 Markonish, Denise, (Editor) Oh, Canada, Contemporary Art From North North America
The MIT Press, p.142-145
2012 Canadian Art Magazine, Cover, Spring
2012 McKay, Stephanie, “Local artist’s work in major exhibition Atkins’ lands Canadian Art cover”,Star Phoenix, March 27
2012 Taylor, Leah, “Oh, Canada, Amalie Atkins”
BlackFlash Magazine, Volume 29 Issue 3, Fall issue p. 10-13
2012 Saul, Gerald “Carefully carefree, Amalie Atkins’ cloth-tale films
Splice Magazine, Winter issue, p. 11-12
2012 R.M. Vaughan, Post Industrial Anxiety, made one stitch at a time”
Globe and Mail, June 8, 2012
2012 Rosenberg, Karen,Border Crossing Identity Crisis, ‘Oh, Canada’ review”
New York Times, August 30
2012 Milroy, Sarah, “Mass Moca’s Oh, Canada Offers American Take On Canadian Art World”
Canadian Art, Fall issue
2012 Genda, Dagara, “Member Feature” July 6
http://akagallery.org/amalie-atkins/
2012 Nelson, Crystal Am, “From North Adams: Oh, Canada
www.artpractical.com
2012 Campbell, Ian, Embrace, a review
http://cineflyersask.wordpress.com/ January 26, 2012
2011 Visual Arts News, Cover, Vol. 33 No 2, Fall issue
2011 Kenins, Laura, “Celebrating DIY Culture”, Visual Arts News, Vol. 33 No 2, Fall issue p. 18-19
2011 Kelly, Gemey Bona Fide Handmade & Homemade
Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB; ; exhibition catalogue
2011 Tousignant, Isa, Interview, Local Magazine, issue 02 spring/summer 2011 p 36-37
2010 Sandals, Leah, “Hipster Fairytales”, National Post Jul. 17, 2010
2010 Legris, Sylvia, “The Secret Fabulist Worlds of Amalie Atkins”
Eastern Edge exhibition brochure
2009 Cachia, Amanda; Nye, Jeff; Mind the Gap!
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, SK; exhibition catalogue
2009 Grain Magazine, Cover, V36 N3, Spring
2009 Grain Magazine, Cover, V36, N2, fall/early winter/mid-winter
2008 Budney, Jen; Ring, Dan; Flatlanders: Saskatchewan Artists on the Horizon
Mendel Art Gallery, exhibition catalogue
2007 Black, Anthea, “Super-8-style prairie hoedown: Amalie Atkins’s Welcome to My Party is a real barn-burner”, Fast Forward Weekly

RESIDENCIES /ARTIST TALKS

2014  Artist talk, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK
2013  Guest speaker, Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande Prairie, AB
2013  Guest speaker, Women’s and Gender Studies on Contemporary Feminist Thought, U of S, Saskatoon, SK
2011  Panel discussion, “Imaginary Place, Lost Objects” Fofa Gallery, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
2010  Artist talk, Eastern Edge Gallery, Saint John’s, NF
2010  Artist talk, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
2009  Artist talk, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton NB
2007  Imaginary Places Residency, Banff Centre
2004  Panel Discussion, “The Future of Super 8”, CSIF, Calgary, AB
2003  Big Rock Candy Mountain Residency, Banff Center

EDUCATION

2001 Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB
Bachelor of Fine Arts, with distinction

MEMBERSHIPS

Paved Art + New Media, Producing Membership, Saskatoon, SK
Saskatchewan Film Pool, Producing Membership, Regina, SK
AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
CARFAC Saskatchewan
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK