Curriculum Vitae

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Artist, Writer: Karen Miranda Augustine
Exhibitions
Screenings
Public Collections
Selected Bibliography
Grants & Awards
Panels & Artist Talks
Arts Publishing
Teaching & Consulting
Professional Credits
Related Activities
Education
Biography


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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 AMERICAN EMPRESS: Credit for the Empire's Troubled Royalty, North York Central Library, Toronto
2004 Light as a Feather, Heavy Like Lead, Trane Studio, Toronto
1999 queens., 52 Inc., Toronto


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 UPCOMING: Manifesto: Festival of Community & Culture, Toronto
2009 CRUX, Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia. Juried by William Hennessey, Solomon Isekeije, and Ken Daley.
2008 Movement '08 – A Contemporary Art Happening, the Production House, Etobicoke, Ontario. Curated by Stephen Fakiyesi.
Urbanity Humanity, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche '08, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
Hands On, Latin-Afro Fest, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Curated by Sandra Brewster and Amelia Jimenez.
2007 One-Day Art Affair, the Production House, Etobicoke, Ontario. Curated by Stephen Fakiyesi.
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche '07, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
Square Foot 2007, Awol Gallery, Toronto
2006 Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
2005 Poetry is Not a Luxury, Mayworks Festival, This Ain't the Rosedale Library Gallery, Toronto
Ten: A Group Exhibition, Trane Studio, Toronto. Curated by the SEEN Collective.
1996 Image Dis: Emerging Black Women Artists, Galerie SAW Video, Ottawa, Ontario. Curated by P. Afua Marcus.
1994 Telling Lives: Women and HIV, ArtSpace, Peterborough, Ontario. Curated by Lynn Beavis.
1993 Remapping Desire, A Space Gallery, Toronto
1992 Gathering: The Memorial Project, A Space Gallery, Toronto
Feathers of the Phoenix, A Space Gallery, Toronto. Curated by Haruko Okano.
1991 Healing Images, Ontario College of Art, Toronto. Curated by a bunch of feminists.
Irreverent Visions, A Space Gallery, Toronto. Curated by the Lesbian Art Committee.
1990 Black Women and Image, A Space Gallery, Toronto. Curated by Hazel Da Breo.

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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

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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:
The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual ArtsThe Art of Reflection 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:
Red LightChanging IdentitiesAin'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:
Mattera, Joanne. "Marketing Mondays: A Week's Worth of Useful Reading." Joanne Mattera Art Blog. January 11th, 2010.
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.

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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

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SELECTED PANELS, ARTIST TALKS & BROADCASTS
2001 SexTV, CityTV, Toronto
1999 "Funding Cuts & the State of the Arts," FUSE magazine, the Rivoli, Toronto
1998 "Women DJ," PhemPhat's 2nd Annual Women in Urban Music Seminar, Harris Institute for the Arts, Toronto
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
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
"Forbidden Subjects: Lesbian Artists," Gallerie: Women Artists' Monographs, Beyond the Boundaries Conference, Women's Caucus for Art, Seattle, Washington

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ARTS PUBLISHING
2009–present Artist Business Blog Publisher, The Artist's Business Digest
2008–present Art Blog Publisher, POSSESSION: All that is sacred in contemporary art
2000/1999 Editor, MIX: independent art & culture magazine
1997/92- Founding Editor, At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent
1994/93 Editorial Board, FUSE: Art, Media, Politics magazine


TEACHING & CONSULTING
2009–present 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 & Holistic Practitioners," Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto
2005–present Artist Business Consultant, MorenaMedia

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PROFESSIONAL CREDITS
2009 Juror: Ontario Arts Council (Access & Career Development)
Committee Member: Toronto Small Press Book Fair
2008/05- Board of Directors: Charles Street Video
2007 Juror: Riverdale Art Walk
2005 Juror: Ontario Arts Council (Works in Progress)
2004 Juror: Toronto Arts Council (Grants to Writers)
2004/03 Board of Directors: Scream Literary Festival
1996 Juror: Ontario Arts Council (Grants to Literary Organizations)
Organizing Committee: Griots Speak: Black Writers' Conference, Ottawa

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RELATED ACTIVITIES
2008 Event Organizer, "Wanda Ewing's 'Dos & Don'ts: An Artist Talk on Popular Culture, Beauty & the Black Female Image," Women & Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
2004 Spoken-Word Recording. "Sapphire" on Shannon Harris Presents the New World Reveal-a-Solution (Chicago, IL: Urbanicity Recordings)
2004/'92- Radio Host, BASS (Black Afrikan Sistuhs of Soul), CKLN 88.1 FM
2003 Event Organizer, Sisters in Cinema: A History of African-American Women Feature Film Directors, featuring Yvonne Welbon, Metro Central YMCA & the National Film Board
1995 Event Organizer, A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde, Metro Central YMCA

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EDUCATION
2008 MA, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, York University, Toronto
Specialization: Visual Arts, Women's Studies, Humanities
Thesis: "Paradise Jacked: Primitivism, Disidentification & Feminist Cultural Practice"
Project: "paradise jacked: snapshots of the cultural underground"


BIOGRAPHY
Born/Live/Work: Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
Lineal Descent: Commonwealth of Dominica (WI), Kalinago Indian (Carib)