exposure 2020 portfolio Reviewers

Unseen is a platform for contemporary photography that presents the latest developments in the field of photography and amplifies the careers of boundary-pushing artists. As one of the curators for Unseen Amsterdam, Unseen’s annual art fair and festival, Amelie is responsible for the speakers programme, exhibitions, and on-site projects, as well as for various other projects throughout the year. She enjoys researching and developing exhibition concepts that incorporate different media, materials and textures; concentrating on themes such as sustainability and inclusivity. Furthermore, Amelie represents Unseen across the globe by attending different photography fairs and festivals, participating in juries and reviewing artist portfolios.

Caroline Loewen is a Calgary-based curator, currently working at the Lougheed House, a historic house museum. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of St. Andrews, as well as a BA in Archaeology and a BA in Art History from the University of Calgary. Her curatorial practice focuses on exploring ideas around cultural geography, place-making, memory, and cultural/natural landscapes.

Christine initially attended Red Deer College for two years before moving to Calgary to finish her BFA majoring in Sculpture and Printmaking from the University of Calgary in 1997. Christine began working in commercial galleries as a recipient of an internship program through the DFAIT, eventually managing the day to day operations of The Weiss Gallery from 2007 until 2012 when she took over partnership with James McIntyre and the gallery legally changed its name to Christine Klassen Gallery. Christine has worked diligently to establish the gallery as a keystone gallery of Calgary's art and design district and has been an active contributor to the Calgary arts community for over 10 years; Co-chair for the Calgary ArtWalk Festival Society (2008 to present) and Secretary for the Exposure Photography Festival (2011 to 2018).

Costas Costoulas is a photographic printer and photography advocate in Calgary. In 2009, Costoulas co-founded Resolve Photo in Calgary, Alberta. He spends most of his time printing photography, photography based visual art, and illustrations at the studio. Costoulas is proud to highlight emerging and established artists in the gallery at the studio space. Dedicated to photographers, Costoulas aims to print work that enhances the vision of the artist.

For 40 years Richards has used a 4×5 camera combined with the traditional silver gelatin printing process. His interests as artist, avid hiker, photographer, and mountain culture aficionado have coalesced to form an engaging body of work. His photographs have been the subject of over 60 solo exhibitions, and another 75 group exhibitions at public and commercial galleries as well as museums throughout the world. Craig Richards has been a guest instructor teaching photographic workshops in Canada, the United States, Mexico, Europe and Africa. He has given lectures and presentations of his photographs around the world. Richards was the Curator of Photography at the Whyte Museum of Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta.

Dave is a Co-Founder and Creative Producer for United Photo Industries, a New York Based non – profit that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of Photography. Along with his partners, Laura Roumanos and Sam Barzilay, UPI has created Photoville, The Fence, and numerous public exhibitions for The United Nations, Instagram, Four Freedoms Park, NY Department of Parks, etc. He is also an Actor, Producer and Production Tour Manager. As an Associate Member of the Wooster Group Theater Company he performed Off-Broadway and Broadway along with television and film work. In Production, he has produced and toured everything from Bruce Springsteen, Eminem, Rolling Stones, The Tribeca Film Festival, World Science Festival, Vagina Monologues, Matthew Barney, charities of The Red Cross and Tunnel 2 Towers. In his spare time he also produces numerous commercial shoots, short films, and theatrical events.

Denis Gadbois received his MFA (Design) from Cranbrook Academy of Arts in Michigan. He has been an active academic in two faculties, the former Faculty of Environmental Design and the Department of Art at the University of Calgary for over 30 years. He has received many awards in the field of photography and design. His photography work presents everything all around him at once, in vivid color, in light - up, down, left, right, all-around - an inspiring 360° perspective constructed liked a world atlas and unfurled before you. Each work is comprised of 2-100 individually captured photographs, combined to create what essentially becomes a seamless mosaic beyond a viewer’s entire field of vision. The it is examined with his designer eyes, balancing relationships between the environment and the viewer perspective. He is an active member of the Alberta Society of Artist and The International VR Professional Association (IVRPA).

Dona Schwartz is a photographic artist whose work explores everyday life and culture. Her work examines definitions of family and the nature of domesticity, cultural continuity and change, and transitional moments in life. In addition to her work as an artist, she is a scholar and educator. She earned a PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in visual communication and ethnographic research. She has published two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009. On the Nest, also published by Kehrer, was released in December 2015. Schwartz’s award-winning photographs have been internationally exhibited and published. Schwartz’s work is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée de l’Elysée, the George Eastman Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, and the Kinsey Institute. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Schwartz is a Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Calgary, and she is President and Board Chair of the annual Exposure Photography Festival. Schwartz is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto.

George Webber has been photographing the people, landscape and architecture of the Canadian west for over 40 years. He was inducted into The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1999. George has twice been the recipient of the National Magazine Gold Award for Photojournalism. His books include Requiem, A World Within, People of The Blood, Last Call, In This Place, Prairie Gothic, Badlands and Alberta Book. Webber’s work can be found in numerous Canadian and European museum collections. In the Spring of 2019, he received the Outstanding Calgary Artist Award. The documentary Lost Horizons: The Photography of George Webber chronicles his career. View George’s work at www.georgewebber.ca

Ginger Carlson is the Executive Director of TRUCK. Previously, she was the Director of Untitled Art Society (2013 - 2016) and the Visual Arts Curator for the Sled Island Music and Arts Festival in Calgary (2015 - 2017). She sits on the Board of Directors for the Artist-Run Centres and Collectives Conference, M:ST Performative Art Festival and is the acting Vice-President of the Alberta Association of Artist-run Centres. She has written essays and reviews for BlackFlash Magazine, Canadian Art, Luma Film and Media Art Quarterly, and SNAPline. In 2016, she received the Canadian Art Foundation Writing Prize.

Greg Gerla is a commercial and fine art photographer working from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He also holds an instructor position within the Design/Photography Department of the Alberta University of the Arts. His work evokes a strong mood with attention to craft and style. He’s represented by several stock agencies and his work has been published world-wide. Greg has had several exhibitions of his fine art work locally, and abroad. He has served on the National Board of CAPIC (Canadian Association of Professional Image Creators) from 2002-2016. He served as president of the Prairie Chapter of CAPIC from 2004-2007. Greg also served on the board for the Exposure Photography Festival from 2010- 2018. Greg gets around. He has photographed his journeys from Moscow to Los Angeles. He’s continually inspired by what’s outside his door, or across the continent.

Linda Craddock has an MFA in Photography and has taught photography on and off for many years. In her personal work she leans on the side of mixed-media photography and ultimately, painting. She graduated from ACAD and earned a BFA in drawing/ photography from the University of Calgary. The Art Gallery of Alberta and the Contemporary Museum of Photography in Ottawa have collected her work. Public exhibitions include the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Art Gallery of Alberta, Glenbow Museum, Visual Arts Alberta Gallery and One on One Gallery, Medicine Hat College. She taught photography at the University of Calgary as a sessional and with ContEd, for Red Deer College Summer Series and the Calgary Board of Education as Photographer in Residence. She is represented by Bugera Matheson Gallery in Edmonton. For Exposure, Linda speaks to the creative side of photography on behalf of the Alberta Society of Artists, a not for profit charity that encourages art education and professionalism in the arts.

Mark is a graduate from the Ontario College of Art & Design. In 2011 he left Young & Rubicam as the Creative Director for Western Canada and started AdMaki Creative with his wife. Mark has made the rounds at agencies in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. In his 30 years in the advertising design industry, Mark has gained valuable experience and won numerous national and international awards in a variety of sectors for clients such as Whistler/Blackcomb, McDonald’s, Subway, Toyota, General Foods, EdTel Mobility, Mark’s Work Wearhouse, EPCOR, Vancouver Canucks, America West Airlines, Ford Motor Company and APEGA. Mark also teaches advertising at the Alberta College of Art + Design.

Mary- Beth Laviolette is independent art curator and writer specializing in Alberta visual art and fine craft. She has five major publications to her credit: 75 Years of Art: Alberta College of Art & Design, 1926-2001; An Alberta Art Chronicle: 1970-2000; Alberta Art & Artists: An Overview (co-author); A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers & Native Plants of the West and Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975. In the last five years, she has curated exhibitions for Glenbow Museum (Calgary), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery, Okotoks Art Gallery, Galt Museum (Lethbridge) and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies (Banff). Her most recent project in collaboration with Entro Communications involved the curation of artists and artwork for a new multipurpose community centre in Calgary housing single women in need: YW Hub Facility. Mary-Beth is currently working on a book about post-1970 Alberta photography, analog and digital titled Photophelia. The publisher is University of Calgary Press.

Mitch Kern is a commercial, editorial and fine art photographer with thirty plus years of industry experience working for national magazines, ad agencies, wire services and art galleries. He has a master’s in photography from Penn State University, a bachelor’s in visual art from the University of Maryland and is an associate professor in the Alberta University of the Arts School of Communication Design.

Dr. Philip Harris is programme leader for BA (Hons) Photography at the University of Derby. For over 60 years the University of Derby has been teaching photography and developing the practices of image makers and critical thinkers. Harris was awarded a PhD by Birmingham City University, 2012, for his thesis Photographing Landscape: A Theory of the Experience of Making, where he developed a methodology drawing upon Martin Heidegger’s theories of technology and art to theorise the experiences of making within the genre and landscape and the representation of environment. His current practice and research explores themes of environment, identity and politics via the (mis)use of analogue cinematic media. Harris was a co-organiser of the FORMAT19 Photography Festival Conference held at the University of Derby in March 2019.

Nancy Tousley was art critic of the Calgary Herald for more than 20 years and has been a contributing editor of Canadian Art since 1986. She has organized exhibitions and written numerous catalogue essays for public art galleries across Canada. In 2002 she was recognized for outstanding achievement in arts journalism by the Canadian Museums Association and in 2011 received a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts for her contributions to contemporary Canadian art. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

Ryan Doherty is a curator, writer and administrator. He is currently Chief Curator of Contemporary Calgary helping to advance a vision for the gallery as one of Canada’s leading centres for contemporary art. He received his MA from the Centre for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York (2007) and his undergraduate degree at the University of Lethbridge in 1997. He worked at the U of L Art Gallery curating exhibitions from their extensive collections and at Southern Alberta Art Gallery as both Director and Curator through 2018. His curatorial practice has explored the construction of meaning in the information age, social practice & community engagement, and notions of maintenance, adaptability and institutional reflection.

Sanja Lukac is an artist and curator who exclusively works with traditional analogue processes, utilizing paper, plate, polaroid and film negatives in her contemporary photography practice. She is one of the Authors of THE STIMULANT, an Environmental Developer catalyzed to lessen the toxic effect of the Traditional Darkroom on the Environment and the Photographers Health. She is also one of the founders and the Executive Director of SEITIES a traditional photography publication + gallery that is dedicated to international artists who work with traditional methods of production in contemporary photography. Sanja Lukac is invested in the Calgary Arts community as one of the Board Members of The Exposure Photography Festival and as the Visual and Media Arts Associates for Arts Commons. Arts Commons mission is “to bring the arts to life” which is why for the past 26 years Arts Commons has created space to support local emerging visual artists in our performing arts facility. Since 2006 Arts Commons has been growing our investment in Calgary’s visual arts community, Sanja curates the Lightbox Studio, the Ledge Gallery, the Window galleries and facilitates community programming in +15 Galleries, as well as programming Media Arts in the +15 Soundscape and the Broadcast Lab. Since 1992, over 1056 artist exhibitions have been supported at Arts Commons.

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Sarah Allen is Assistant Curator, International Art at Tate Modern where she curates exhibitions and displays and researches acquisitions for the International Collection. She is co-curator and project lead for the upcoming Zanele Muholi exhibition in April 2020. She has also recently curated Nan Goldin (2019), Irving Penn (2019) and David Goldblatt (2019). Previous major exhibitions she has worked on have included The Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art (2018). She has a specialist focus on photobooks and is curator of the Martin Parr Photobook Collection for Tate. Outside of her role at Tate she writes catalogue texts and curates exhibitions, recent exhibitions have included Max Pinckers at Belfast Exposed Gallery (2019).

Scott McLeod is the founding director of Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art in Toronto, where he currently serves as the co-programmer (with Gerald McMaster) of the Urban Field Speakers Series and the editor of Prefix Photo magazine. In the past twenty years, he has curated more than sixty-five exhibitions and has authored more than sixty catalogue essays and other texts for publishers including Casino Luxembourg, the Warwick Arts Centre, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery and YYZ Books. He has lectured in numerous public institutions, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and has served as a juror and nominator for an array of international awards and grants, including the Prix Pictet, the National Magazine Awards, the Kenneth R. Wilson Awards, the Scotiabank Photography Award and the OAAG Awards, among others. His recent and upcoming projects include the curating of solo exhibitions by Taysir Batniji, Amar Kanwar and Trevor Paglen and the publishing of an artist's book by Michael Snow. A member of AICA Canada and IKT International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art, he lives and works in Toronto. During the Exposure Photography Festival, he will be seeking exhibitions, publications, lectures and other projects that would make a meaningful contribution to the mission of Prefix ICA.

Tamar Zenith is Director of Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art in Calgary, Canada. Graduating with a B. Comm from McGill University in 1992, together with Zenith’s mother, Helen Zenith they transformed Helen's studio into a gallery 27 years ago. They built a world class facility in 1997 in Calgary on 11th Avenue. Zenith has diligently promoted Newzones artists both in Canada and abroad and established the gallery as one of Canada’s leading commercial art galleries. Tamar is proud of the role Newzones and its artists have played in the city of Calgary and the work they have done together to diffuse the image of “the Wild West” into a “West” that’s elegant, cosmopolitan, and vibrant. Tamar remains committed to the enhancement of Canadian Art, and is proud of the gallery’s role in making Canadian Art a contributor in the international art-market. Zenith has been featured in many publications: The Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Western Living, Azure, National Post, Avenue, Canadian Art, Galleries West, and Border Crossing, etc. Most notably, Zenith was included in “Raising Your Business: A Canadian Woman’s Guide to Entrepreneurship,” a book about female entrepreneurs by author Joanne Thomas Yaccato. Zenith has sat on the board of Aids Calgary and been a member of the Chancellor's Club (U of C), the President’s Club (ACAD) and YEO. Zenith is also the recipient of the inaugural Alumni Achievement Award from WIC, named a Fashion Calgary Ambassador and also named Avenue's “Best Dressed”! To further support the visual arts Helen and Tamar Zenith created the “Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art Fund” in honour of their 20th year in business(2012), which funds the Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art Graduating Scholarship at the Alberta University of the Arts. This scholarship is awarded annually.

Viviane Mehr is the Founder/Owner of VIVIANEART, a contemporary commercial art gallery in Calgary with a mission to support emerging and mid-career Canadian artists. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Alberta University of the Arts (previously ACAD) in 2010 and opened her gallery in 2013. Previously, Viviane had a near twenty-year career as a professional Social Worker. This background has proven very beneficial as Viviane has worked to establish herself as a gallerist on the local, Canadian and International art scenes. She considers relationship building at the very core of her success. This, paired with her commitment to invest in what she believes in, has kept her afloat in a very challenging market. Viviane served on the Board of Directors for MOCA Calgary (now part of Contemporary Calgary) until she opened her gallery in fall of 2013.

Yves Trépanier is the founder and co-owner with Kevin Baer of TrépanierBaer, a gallery specializing in the exhibition and sale of Canadian and international contemporary art. It is considered to be one of Canada’s leading commercial contemporary art galleries. In addition to representing well-known mid-career and senior artists the gallery maintains an active and successful program for the presentation of younger, emerging Canadian artists’ work. Since its founding in 1992, the gallery has launched many careers and staged first exhibitions of works by now critically acclaimed artists. In 2012 Yves Trépanier co-founded Art to Public, a private consultancy specializing in services in the area of public art. Art to Public has managed major public art projects and commissions for private collectors, corporations and civic entities for over twenty years. From 2012 to 2017, he sat on the Board of Contemporary Calgary whose mandate is to establish a new public modern and contemporary art gallery in the Centennial Planetarium. In March of 2008 he was appointed to the Board of the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board, a Federal appointment where he served until 2011. He currently serves on the Acquisitions Committee of the Art Gallery of Windsor.