Artist Resume
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | American Empress: Credit for the Empire's Troubled Royalty, North York Central Library, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2004 | Light as a Feather, Heavy Like Lead, Trane Studio, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1999 | queens., 52 Inc., Toronto, Ontario |
GROUP Exhibitions
| 2010 | Caribfest, Barrie, Ontario |
| 2009 | CRUX 7th Annual Juried Exhibit, Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia |
| 2008 | Movement '08 – A Contemporary Art Happening,
the Production House, Etobicoke, Ontario Urbanity Humanity, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche '08, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Hands On, Latin-Afro Fest, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2007 | One-Day Art Affair, the Production House, Etobicoke,
Ontario Scotiabank Nuit Blanche '07, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Square Foot 2007, Awol Gallery, Toronto, Ontario group of six | sistahz+, rock/paper/sistahz festival, Harlem Restaurant, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2006 | Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2005 | Poetry is Not a Luxury, Mayworks Festival, This Ain't
the Rosedale Library Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Ten: A Group Exhibition, Trane Studio, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1996 | Image Dis: Emerging Black Women Artists, Galerie SAW Video, Ottawa, Ontario |
| 1994 | Telling Lives: Women and HIV, ArtSpace, Peterborough, Ontario |
| 1993 | Remapping Desire, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1992 | Gathering: The Memorial Project, A Space Gallery, Toronto,
Ontario Feathers of the Phoenix, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1991 | Healing Images, Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Ontario Irreverent Visions, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1990 | Black Women and Image, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario |
SCREENINGS
| 2009 | Cachín Cachán Cachunga!, The Street, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2005 | Ed Video Media Arts Centre, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario Boiling Frog's Screaming Media, Toronto, Ontario Optic Nerve Film & Video Festival, Peterborough, Ontario |
| 2003 | Independent Media Arts Alliance Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan Images Festival, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario |
| 2001 | Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Ontario |
Public Collections
| Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, San Juan PR |
TEACHING & EVENT PRODUCTION
| 2009 | Course Instructor: "DON'T GET GOOD AT WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO BE DOING: MorenaMedia's 10-Week Business Development Intensive for Self-Employed Artists," Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto |
| 2008 | Event Producer: "Wanda Ewing's 'Dos & Don'ts: An Artist Talk on Popular Culture, Beauty & the Black Female Image," Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto |
| 2003 | Event Producer: Sisters in Cinema: A History of African-American Women Feature Film Directors, Metro Central YMCA and the National Film Board, Toronto |
| 1996 | Organizing Committee: Griots Speak: Black Writers Conference, Ottawa |
| 1995 | Event Producer: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Metro Central YMCA, Toronto |
Selected Bibliography
| Exhibition Catalogues: |
| CRUX Seventh Annual Juried Exhibit, produced by Trinity Presbyterian Church. Norfolk: Mayer Fine Art Gallery, 2009, 12 pgs. |
| Image Dis: A Group Exhibition created by P. Afua Marcus with guest writer Alison Duke. Featuring: Karen Miranda Augustine, Nicole Peña, Stella Fakiyesi and P. Afua Marcus. Ottawa: Galerie SAW Video, 1996, 12 pgs. |
| Citations: |
 Williams,
Carla. "African-American and African Diaspora Art" in
Claude J. Summers (Ed.), The
Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. San Francisco: Cleis
Press, 2004, 13. |
| Sethi, Meera. "The Mainstreaming of Dissent: Women Artists of Colour and Canadian Arts Institutions." Resources for Feminist Research (Winter 2002), 86. |
| Cornell, Drucilla (Ed.). Feminism and Pornography. New York: Oxford UP, 2000, 300. |
| Millersdaughter, Katherine. "A Coincidence of Lipstick and Self-Revelation" in Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker (Eds.) Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls. New York: Routledge, 1997, 119. |
| "The Art of Reflection." The Art Book: Issues, News & Reviews, vol. 4, issue 3 (June 1997), 29–44. |
 Meskimmon,
Marsha. "The Body Politic: Sexual Violence" in The
Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth
Century. New York: Columbia UP, 1996, 180–182. |
| Gottlieb, Amy."Artist-Run Culture," MIX: Magazine of Artist-Run Culture (Fall 1996). |
| Chater, Nancy. "Someone Hume Happens to Be...." FUSE: Art, Media & Politics (Spring 1991), 12. |
Interviews & Reviews: |
| Ossandon, Desirée (D. Cole). "Shameless Women: Karen Miranda Augustine: Ritualistic Pop Artist." Shameless Blog. 17 September 2009. |
| Davis, Nicholas. "Artist revisits how women portrayed: Karen Miranda Augustine tells Nicholas Davis she makes her subjects 'strong and sensual.'" The Toronto Sun 8 November 2004: 22. |
| Felesky, Leigh. "Defining & Redefining Women: A Three-Part Look at Canadian Women's Magazines." Ryerson Review of Journalism (Summer 1997), 23, 35–39. |
| Beavis, Lynn. "Telling Lives: Women and HIV." Matriart: A Visual Arts Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2&3 (1996), 8–13. |
| "At the Crossroads." Broken Pencil. 1996. |
| Nicholson, Judith. "At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent." Afterimage (June 1995), 27. |
| Christakos, Margaret and Amy Gottlieb. "Telling Lives: Women and HIV." Parallèlogramme: Contemporary Art, vol. 20, no. 3 (Winter 1994/95), 67. |
| "Multiplying Desires." FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94), 30. |
| Eamon, Christopher. "Gathering: The Memorial Project." FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1993), 40–41. |
| Hanna, Deirdre. "Gathering: The Memorial Project," NOW magazine (November 5–12, 1992). |
| Judge, Martha. "Healing Images." FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 15, no.1&2 (Fall 1991), 42–43. |
| Elamin, Ahmed. "Brave, Disturbing Show." Share 17 March 1991: 17. |
| Hume, Christopher. "Reflections on Black History and Artists." The Toronto Star 15 February 1991: D1, D14. |
| Judge, Martha. "Purple Haze: Irreverent Visions." FUSE: Art, Media & Politics (Summer 1990), 45–47. |
Anthologies: |
| Ain'thology: Literature and Art from This Ain't the Rosedale Library. Ed. James Gunn, OCAD, Toronto, 2007. |
 Red
Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts. Ed. Anna Camilleri.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005. |
 Changing
Identities: Reading and Writing Ourselves. Eds. Stan Fogel
and Lynne Thoman. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2002. |
| Plural Desires. Ed. Sharon Lewis et. al. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1995. |
| RESIST! Essays Against a Homophobic Culture. Eds. Mona Oikawa et. al. Toronto: Women's Press, 1994. |
| Getting Wet. Eds. Carol
Allain et. al. Toronto: Women's Press, 1992. |
| Piece of My Heart. Ed. Makeda Silvera. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1991. |
| Loving in Fear. Queer Press Collective. Toronto: Queer Press, 1991. |
| Selected Publications: |
| 3rdfloor: a portable artspace, no. 3 (Fall 2005), 18. |
| Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, vol. 23, no.2 (Summer 2004), 124–126. |
| Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 79 (Winter 2003), 25–43. |
| Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, vol. 21, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2001), 78. |
| Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 49 (Summer 1995), 16–18. |
| FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 3 (Spring 1994), 44–45. |
| FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94), 41–42; and, 45–46. |
| XTRA!, no. 233 (October 1st, 1993), 25. |
| Gallerie Women Artists' Monographs, no. 10 (1992). 61–65. |
| Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 32 (Spring 1991), 44–47. |
Blogs: |
| Third Stitch. Musings on race, gender and queer identities. September 24th, 2009. |
| LeMinh, Angelica. "North York Central — D/1 — September 16, '09." metro_textual. 20 September 2009. |
| B., Nakeya. "Because Using Three Names Make You Official." ATE Traks. 16 June 2009. |
GRANTS & AWARDS
| 2009 | Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Third Place, CRUX |
| 2008 | Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance |
| 2002 | Ontario Arts Council, Works-in-Progress |
| 2001/00 | Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve |
| 1996/94 | Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance |
| 1994 | Toronto Arts Council, Grants to Writers |
| 1994/93 | Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve |
| 1992 | Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve |
SELECTED PANELS / ARTIST TALKS / BROADCASTS
| 2001 | SexTV, CityTV, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1999 | "Funding Cuts & the State of the Arts," FUSE magazine, the Rivoli, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1998 | "Women DJ," PhemPhat's 2nd Annual Women in Urban Music Seminar, Harris Institute for the Arts, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1996 | "At the Crossroads magazine," Women's Television
Network & Breakthrough Films, Toronto & Vancouver "Supporting Arts and Culture," Reclaiming the Sisterhood: 1996 Black Women's Conference, York University, Toronto, Ontario |
| 1994 | "Say What? The Politics of Magazine Publishing," Writing Thru Race: Conference of First Nations Writers & Writers of Colour, Writers Union of Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia |
| 1993 | "The Politics of Desire: Censorship, Pornography & Freedom
of Expression," Upfront: The Community Speaks, Harbourfront
Centre, Toronto, Ontario "Forbidden Subjects: Lesbian Artists," Gallerie: Women Artists' Monographs, Beyond the Boundaries Conference, Women's Caucus for Art, Seattle, Washington |
PROFESSIONAL CREDITS
| 2009 | Ontario Arts Council (Access & Career Development), Juror Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Committee Member |
| 2009/08 | Beaver Hall Gallery, Gallery Committee |
| 2008/05- | Charles Street Video, Board of Directors |
| 2007 | Riverdale Art Walk, Juror |
| 2005 | Ontario Arts Council (Works in Progress), Juror |
| 2004 | Toronto Arts Council (Grants to Writers), Juror |
| 2004/03 | Scream Literary Festival, Board of Directors |
| 2004/'92- | CKLN 88.1 FM Radio, Radio Host |
| 1997/92- | At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent, Founding Editor |
| 1996 | Ontario Arts Council (Grants to Literary Organizations), Juror |
| 1994/93 | FUSE: Art, Media, Politics magazine, Editorial Board |
EDUCATION
| 2008 | MA, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, York University,
Toronto Areas of Specialization: Visual Arts, Women's Studies, Humanities Thesis: "Paradise Jacked: Primitivism, Disidentification & Feminist Cultural Practice" |