DIANNE BOS

 

Born:            Hamilton, Ontario, 1956

Residence: Calgary, Alberta and Languedoc-Roussillion, France

 

Education

1978  BFA, Honours, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, 1974-78

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2013  TBC, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, AB

2012  TBC, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON

2011   Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON

2011   Dianne Bos: Reading Room, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON

2009  Dianne Bos: Wonder Rooms, Newzones, Calgary, AB

2009  Light Echo: Dianne Bos and Doug Welch, The McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON

2009  Light Older Than Wine: New images From Italy, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2008  Souvenir de Voyage, NewWorks, NewZones Gallery, Calgary, AB

2007  Garden Shed Galactica, Outdoor installation, Museum London, ON

2007  Lumen, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2006  Verre et Mer, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2006            Tournesol, Skew Gallery, Calgary, AB

2006            Apparitions, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005  Temps Retrouvé, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC

2005  Sound & Light, Whyte Museum, Banff, AB

2004            Casements: Versailles and other Interiors, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC

2004  Galactic Carousel, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB

2003  New Photographs & Soundworks, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

2002  Camere Illuminati, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON

2002  Son et Lumiere, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2002            Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, BC

2002            University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON

2002  It's about time, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2001  Dianne Bos- A survey, Durham Public Art Gallery, Durham, ON

2001            Brightness Falls. New Work, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

2001            Expedition, New Work, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

1999  Galaxies and Other Bright Matters, Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

1999  The Depth of Fields, The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON

1997  ...Girl's Dreams of Castles, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON

1997  Pin Spots, The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON

1996  Through a Pinhole/Darkly, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON      

1996            Panoramic Views from the Valley Town, The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas ON

1995   Commission for Simcoe Place, Front Lobby, large photo installation in collaboration with Ian Paterson, Permanent installation, Toronto, ON

1993  In the Province of Memory, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2013  See Attached, Truck, Calgary, AB

2012 Memory Images, Alberta Society of Artists, Blckfalds Public Library, Blackfalds, Captain John Palliser School, Calgary, Claresholm Public Library, Claresholm, and Strathmore Municipal Library, Strathmore, AB

2012  The End of the World, Centro Civic Can Baste Barcelona, Spain, El Otunio fotografico, Orense, Spain, and Centre Culturel André Malraux de Bourget, Le Bouget, France

2012  The West, Glenbow Museum, Edmonton, AB

2012  The Gamble of Perfect Symmetry: Double or Nothing, FCP Gallery, First Canada Place, Toronto, ON

2012   Peripheries, Edward Day Gallery, Toronto, ON

2011   FOTOGRAFIA STENOPEICA, Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Senigallia, Italy

2011   Perception, Newzones Gallery, Calgary, AB

2010   Lucky 13, Annual Christmas Group Show and Art Auction, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2009  12^th Annual Christmas Group Show, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2009  Place, NewZones, Calgary, AB

2008            Photography 101:press the buttons, Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown. PEI

2008  Wayne Gretzky Rocks, NewZones, Calgary, AB

2008  Out There, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, AB

2008  Through the Looking Glass, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

2007  Image and Apparatus, London Museum, London, Ontario

2007/06 Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory, Confederation Centre Art Gallery,Charlottetown, PEI

2007/06 Time and Space, Shown first at Helen Christou Gallery, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta curated by Josephine Mills. Traveling to: Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, September 7 – November 11, 2007 The Rooms, Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, March 28 – June 8, 2008, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville NB, September 2008

2005   Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, Walter Phillips Gallery, Edmonton Art Gallery & Art Gallery of Ottawa, AB

2005  Alberta Scene, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON

2005  French Landscapes, Art Gallery of Edmonton, Edmonton, AB

2004  Faculty Exhibition, Nickle Arts Gallery, Univ. of Calgary, AB

2004            Expanding, Group exhibition, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2004  That Obscure Object of Desire, A Group Exhibition of Visions of Delight, Fascination and Desire, Cambridge Galleries, ON

2004  Box, Wynick Tuck Gallery, TO

2003  Time and Again, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON

2003  In the Light of, 6 Contemporary Artists Explore the Legacy of William Fox Talbot Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery

2003  Scene Through a Pinhole, PhotoSpace Gallery, Calgary, AB

2002            Visionariamedia Festival, First International Pinhole Exhibition in Italy, Siena, Italy

2002            Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener, Waterloo, ON

2002  6^th Annual Photogathering, Old Electricity Building, Aleppo, Syria

2001  Wheeler Hut Expedition, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta, traveled to:

The Works, Visual Arts Festival, Edmonton & Illingsworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

2001  Why Pinhole, Visual Arts Centre, Rochester, New York, USA

2000  Fresh, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

2000  Out There Here: An International Pinhole Exhibition, Provincetown, MA, USA

2000  Time, Wynick Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

2000  First Contact, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON

2000  2000 LUX, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON

1999  10 Countries, Pennings Gallery, Eindhoven, Netherlands

1999  Passion for Wings, (commissioned work) National Aviation Museum, ON,

1999  Pinhole International 2, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

1998  Speed: Visions of an Accelerated Age, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, ON

1998  Pinhole International, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON

1998  Camera Ready, Harbourfront Center, Toronto, ON

1998  Women with Cameras, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, ON

1997  Deluxe Assortment, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, ON

1997  "you can't say more than you can see..." The Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, ON 

1996  High Winds on the Skyway, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

1994   Linda Genereaux Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Toronto, ON

1993    Up, Up and Away: Stairwell Project #8, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON

1993  The Apartment Show part of seven artists collective 'The  Bureau', Toronto, ON

1989  Atque Ars: Art from Mount Allison University 1854-1989, Owens Art Gallery, NB

1986-89 The Pinhole Camera, The Photographer's Gallery, Saskatchewan. Traveled to Ring House Gallery, Saskatoon; Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba;  Whyte Museum, Banff, Alberta; Dunlop Gallery, Regina, Sask.; Moose Jaw National Exhibition Centre, Moose Jaw, Sask.; Estevan National Exhibition Centre, Saskatchewan  

                                                        

Art Fairs

 

2011 San Francisco Fine Art Fair (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2010 TIAF Toronto International Art Fair (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2010 Bridge NY Art Fair (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2009 AAFNY Affordable Art Fair NY (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2008 Los Angeles Art Fair (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2007 Art Miami (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

2007 AAFNY (Jennifer Kostuik Gallery)

 

Grants, Awards & Special Projects

 

2012  Canada Council Project Grant

2008  Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant

2007  Canada Council Project Grant

2006  Barbara Spohr Photography Award

2005  Best Photography in Avenue Magazine, National Magazine Awards

2004  Dario Argento Photography Scholarship, Banff Centre for the Arts

2002/03          Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant

2001/02          Canada Council, Mid Career Grant               

2001            Intrawest, Blue Mountain Commision

2001  Banff Centre for the Arts, New Works Residency- winter, Slo Mo - Fall

2000  National Magazine Award, Silver Award- Homes & Gardens- (Azure Magazine)

2000  Ontario Arts Council, Mid Career Grant

2000  Canada Council, Travel Grant

2000  Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Expedition

1997/98/99              OAC Materials assistance grant

1995  Ontario Arts Council, Special projects grant

 

Selected Collections

 

         Glenbow Museum, Edmonton, AB

The Kamloops Art Gallery, British Columbia

         New Mexico History Museum, New Mexico, USA

         Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Senigallia, Italy

National Aviation Museum, Ottawa

         Art Bank, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario

Air Canada

         The Art Gallery of Hamilton

         Lovas Stanley Paul Ray Berndtson Inc

         MacDonald Stewart Art Centre

         Simcoe Place Co-Owners, Cadillac Fairview, Toronto

         St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

         Wood Gundy Private Client Investments     

         Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta

         Intrawest Blue Mountain, Ontario (Commission)

         Pinhole Resource, New Mexico, USA

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario

 

Selected Bibliography

 

2009  Nancy Tousley, Calgary’s top 12 art exhibitions of 2008, Calgary Herald, January 4

2008  Nancy Tousley, Magic Shot Through a Pinhole, Calgary Herald, March 1

2008  Charles Storch, Artopolis, Chicago Tribune, April 26

2008  Janet Naclia, Photo Phenoms, Avenue Magazine, May

2008  Betty Ann Jordan, Canadian House and Home profile, August

2007   Christopher Willard, Alberta Exposure, Calgary Herald, Feb. 3

2007  Jaquie Moore, Exposure, Swerve Magazine, Feb. 2

2006  Jennifer McVeigh, Through the Pinhole, The Calgary Herald, March 25

2006  David Jager, Contact, Now Magazine, May 11-17

2006  Contact: Toronto Month of Photography, feature, May

2006  Enroute Magazine, Contact Photography Festival Feature, Spring

2005            PhotoLife- profile, Wes Lafortune, April

2005  Home Maison Home, Avenue Magazine, September feature

2005  Western Living Magazine – profile, January

2004  Julia Dault, National Post, March 11

2004  Wes Lafortune, Riding the Cosmic Merry-go-round, FastForward Weekly, Jan. 22

2004  Nancy Tousley, Critics Pick, Calgary Herald, Jan. 15

2004  Shawn Van Sluys,Unique Techniques,  Galleries West, Spring

2004  Affairs of Note, Vernissage, The Magazine of the National Gallery, Spring

2004  Calgary: Dianne Bos at Truck, CIRCA Magazine Issue108, Ireland

2002  "Dianne Bos: Seeing the Light", Photo Ed Magazine, Spring

2001  Signs of the Spirit: The Donovan Collection at St. Michael's College

2001  Sandra Vida,"Go Tell it on the Mountain", Border Crossings, Issue No. 79

2001  Kim Hume, Shotgun Reviews, LOLA 9, Summer Issue

2001  Dobbie, Shauna. "Photographer's Garden", Ontario Gardener, Spring

2000            Stevanovic, Gordana. Light Sketches, Dianne Bos: the world through a pinhole, Hamilton Magazine, Winter

2000  Photo Life, Spring

2000            Armstrong, John, "Vacation in Black and White: On the Travels oF Dianne Bos", cover story, C            

2000   International Contemporary Art, Spring 2000

2000  Stewart, Doug. The Pinhole Point of View, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2000

2000  Regina Haggo,  "If Lux Could Thrill", The Hamilton Spectator, January 29, 2000           

2000  Eric Renner, The Pinhole Journal, spring and summer issue, New Mexico, USA

1999            Penaloza, Si Si, "Pinhole Pusher Dianne Bos, The Bomb at Photo Blast" Cover Story,  NOW Magazine, May 15

1998  Adams, Susan. " High art in low tech." Forbes Magazine.  November 2

1998  Beatty, Dawn White.  "Women with Cameras." Burlington Art Centre.

1998  Bentley Mays, John.  "The art of the little black box." The Globe and  Mail, May 1998

1998  Hanna, Deirdre.  "Bos's Boss Pinhole."  Now Magazine.  May 1998

1998            Hawthorne, Karen. "Gallery Exhibits Art Photography Without a Lens." The Village Post.

1997            Brackett, Donald.  "Dianne Bos and Rene Pierre Allain."  Toronto Life.  November

1997  London, Barbara and John Upton.  Photography (sixth edition).  Harper Collins College Publishers: New York

1997  Nielsen, Ingrid.  "Pinhole photography requires pinpoint control and  patience." The Record.  Kitchener, June

1995  "Pinhole City Scapes: Dianne Bos Photographs." The Box: The Official Peter Gabriel  Newsletter. 3.2. April

1993    Holubizky, Ihor.  "Dianne Bos: In the Province of Memory."  Art Gallery of Hamilton.  January-March

1986         Thorburn, Dan "The Pinhole Camera: Dianne Bos, Manfred Buchheit, Robert Bucher." Backflash. Vol. 4 No, 1, Spring, 4-8.

 

Television Profiles

 

2005  Spirit of the Art: The Donovan Collection at St. Michael’s College, OMNI TV

2001  Through the Lens: Profile- Fashion Television Network, Fall

2001  O Zone, TFO.  January 4, 2001, 8pm

2000  Studio 2, TVO. 'Pinhole International', Air time: Summer 1999 - Winter 2000                

2000            Gardeners Journal: 'A Photographers Garden' HGTV Winter 2000 (USA & Canada)

1999            @Discovery, The Art and Science of Pinhole Photography, Summer 1999.

Recent Photographic Work in Commercial Print

 

2007  Time and Space, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, ISBN # 0-919555-31-4

2007  Image and Apparatus, Museum London, ISBN #978-1-897215-14-2

2007  Dark Matter: The Great War and Fading Memory, A. Hunter, Confederation Centre of the Arts

2006  The Macleod Trail Expedition, Swerve Magazine, 2.9.06

2006  Private Public Space, Swerve Magazine, 1.20.06

2006  All the Time in the World, Wine Access Magazine, Winter

2005  Life of Water; As Seen by 100 Canadian Photographers,  Photo Sensitive

2005  Carte Blanche, Made in Canada, Magenta Foundation ISBN #0-9739739-0-0

2004  Maison Sweet Maison, Avenue Magazine, September

2004  Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering An Historic Technique, 3^rd Edition. Eric Renner, Focal Press, Boston, London.

2003  Sheri-d  Wilson, Between Lovers, (cover art), Arsenal Pulp Press

2003  Power to the People, Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener ISBN 0-9730384-1-1

2002  The Artful Garden,Landscape Architecture Magazine, December, photo essay.

2002  "John Snow House", Avenue Magazine, September

2002  Son et Lumiere, Kamloops Art Gallery, ISBN 1-895497-52-3

2002  Camere Illuminati, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, ISBN 0-9693823-3-2

2002  Senza Obiettivo: International Exhibition of Pinhole Photography, Protagon Editori Toscani, Santa Maria Della Scala, Italy

2001  High Kitsch, Landscape Architecture Magazine, November, photo essay

2001  Ontario Gardener, Photographers Garden Contrast, Spring            

2000  Hamilton Magazine, profile on my work, November

2000  Azure. Avant Gardens, International Garden Festival

2000  Hamilton Magazine, profile on my work, November

2000  Bank One, Annual Report, Houston, Texas

Photographs and article on Artists Gardens, Spring

1999  'The Translator' A Novel, Ward Just, Mariner Books, cover image

1998            Swanstock, Fine Art Photography, First Edition, An Image Bank Company, Tucson, Arizona. Six images.

1998  Jamie Oakes, Shadows in Dreams, CD cover and liner images

1998            Shitsunai, (Japanese Design Magazine), Spring 1997 to Winter 1998

1998  In a Canadian Garden: 4 seasons photographic essay.

1997  Pappus, Royal Botanical Gardens Magazine,

1997            Shitsunai, (Japanese Design Magazine), Winter 1997,

1997            International Festival of Gardens 'Chaumont sur Loire', France,.

1997  Toronto Life Gardens, Spring 1997, Green Talk, International Festival of Gardens 'Chaumont sur Loire', France.

1996     Geffen Records, Counting Crows, recovering satellites, CD image

1994-95  Fringe Records and K.K. Records, Belgium. D.H.I., CD Band Photographs, Europe release.

        

Photography Related Experience

 

Curatorial Work

2009  A Field Guide to Observing Art, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON, September 2009

2003  In the Light of: Six contemporary artists  explore the legacy of William Henry Fox Talbot. Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, September

2001  Lux Nova: A Low Tech Explosion, York Quay Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, 

2000  Toy (Camera) Stories: Club Lucky, Toronto, May

2000-01 Coordinator/Instructor of Toy Camera and Pinhole workshops, Contact, OCAD

1998-99 Pinhole International 1& 2  - Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, May

1999            Coordinator of the International Pinhole Symposium as part of Contact 99

 

Numerous lectures and workshops on pinhole photography including such venues as:

Montecastello di Vibio, Italy

Harbourfront Centre, Banff Centre for the Arts,Ontario College of Art and Design, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, The Burlington Art Centre, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, University of Toronto, University of Lethbrige, Lonsdale Gallery, Universty of Manitoba,

MAWA Winnipeg, Dundas Valley School of Art.

Speaker and workshop leader for the Photo Educators Conference, Toronto, 1999, 2000, 2001

Writer and photographer for Shitsunai, (Japanese Design Magazine), Spring 1997 to Winter 1998. 

4 season photographic essay: In a Canadian Garden.

Avant Gardens, AZURE magazine, Nov/Dec 2000, photo essay.

High Kitsch, Landscape Architecture Magazine, November 2001, photo essay.

 

 

Writing and Photography

Carousels, Visions Pinhole Magazine, May 2012, essay

Writer and photographer for Shitsunai, (Japanese Design Magazine), Spring 1997 to Winter 1998.  4 season photographic essay : "In a Canadian Garden".

Avant Gardens, AZURE magazine, Nov/Dec 2000,  photo essay. (National Magazine Award winner)

High Kitsch, Landscape Architecture Magazine, November 2001, photo essay.

The Garden as Art, Landscape Architecture Magazine, December 2002, photo essay.

 

Music, Video and Film Experience

Writer, arranger, singer, keyboardist

Member of groups; TBA, Perfect World, Di, Bri & I.

Numerous live performances nationally and internationally since 1981.

Several vinyl, cassette, CD and video releases in Canada, USA, UK and Europe.

Video Culture Award, Best New Music Video, "Have a Good Look" 1984.

Most Promising Female Vocalist, 1986 Casby Award Winner.

Assisted in the performing, writing and filming of three Perfect World videos and one half hour film. 1984-89.

Host and co-writer of TV pilot "Picture This". New Arts  program for Channel 47, 1988.

Wheeler Hut Expedition 2000, video sound track.  Produced by the Banff Centre for the Arts and Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies.

Son et Lumiere, 2002, CD of sounds accompanying the catalogue of the same name.

Numerous TV & radio interviews and collaboration on several independent film scores.

 

Represented by:

 

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto, ON

Newzones Gallery, Calgary, AB

Collins, Lefebvre, Stoneberger, Montreal, QC

Davis Waldron, Atlanta, GA

Websites:

www.diannebos.com

www.ccca.ca/artists/artist_info.html

www.kostuikgallery.com

www.wynicktuckgallery.ca

www.newzones.com