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Primera Edición - 1999

Segunda Edición - 2003

Tercera Edición - 2004

Cuarta Edición - 2005

IMPRESO / IMAGEN DIGITAL

Bruce Eves

"The Wall"
"Notes from Camp"
"Couple"

 

:: País, Ciudad: Canadá / Toronto

GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Galerie La Petite Mort (Ottawa). Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York).
ON-LINE REPRESENTATION
Londonart.co.uk (London, UK). ArtLexis (New York). Digital Mutations (Berlin).
Gay Art Gallery (Fort Lauderdale). Guild.com (Madison). James Baird Gallery (St. John’s).

 

EXHIBITIONS (Solo)

  1. DER KZ PROJEKT. Würzburg City Hall & Würzburger Schwulenzentrum (Würzburg,

Bavaria) dates tba. SUNSHINE SKETCHES, Galerie La Petite Mort (Ottawa) dates tba

  1. SKIN: SCENES OF TORTURE AND WRESTLING AND SEX, Pendu Gallery on-line (Brooklyn) ongoing.

2003    BRUCE EVES: MULTIPLES, http://www.gayartgallery.net/gallery54.htm (Fort Lauderdale) 12/1-ongoing. MY IDEA OF FUN: A RETROSPECTIVE OF SELECTED MULTIPLES (1996-2003), Gallery X (Toronto) 7/14-8/8.

  1. MEINE IDEE DES SPASSES, Digital Mutations (Berlin) 1/1-2/24.
  2. http://www.gayartgallery.com (Fort Lauderdale); ongoing.
  3. Lenin Tireworks Media Salon (New York). 10/5-21.
  4. THEORETICAL PEOPLE, A Space Members Wall (Toronto) 7/15-31.
  5. INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM (site-specific installation), Artist's Space (New York);
  6. 4/13-5/30. MY LIFE AS A NERD, The Bar (New York, NY); 3/5-29.
  7. THE SEX PICTURES, Dick's Bar (New York, NY); 7/17-8/27. ANTI-CENSORSHIP WINDOW (with Ron Giii) Pages Bookstore (Toronto); 7/14-8/8. THE BLACK PHOTOS OF SNOW WHITE (Two-person show with Ron Giii) La Hacienda (Toronto); 2/22-3/31.

EXHIBITIONS (Group)
2006    HOLY FUCK III. SAW Gallery (Ottawa); 8/25. FILE – FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LINGUAGEM ELETRÔNICA. Sesi Paulista Cultural Space (Sao Paulo); 8/14-9-3. SELF-PORTRAITS: A SHOW FOR BETHLEHEM. Al Khaf Art Gallery at the Bethlehem International Centre (Palestine) 7/6-30; Cologne in October 2006 (location/dates TBA); Casoria International Museum of Contemporary Art (Naples) 12/16-1/7; Museo Arte Contemporaneo, Santa Fe (Argentina) 12/6-30; Museo Arte Contemporaneo Rosario, Rosario (Argentina) January 2007 (dates TBA). MUESTRA INTERNACIONAL ARTE DIGITAL. Venato Tuerto (Argentina); 7/5-31. IN YOUR FACE. Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) 7/1- . VIII SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL. Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau (Havana); 6/19-. FEARLESS. Gallery X (Toronto); 6/5-30. THAI-LAND NEW MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL: LIVE & RETROSPECTIVE. Alliance Francaise Auditorium (Bangkok); 5/2-4.
2005    NIGHT OF 1000 DRAWINGS. Artists Space (New York); 12/9-10. POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE. Robert Miller Gallery (New York); 10/18-19. THAILAND NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 2005 #2. Bed Supperclub (Bangkok); Dates TBA. FIELD OF VISION: EXTREMES. Institut für Neue Medien (Frankfurt a.M); 10/9-16. IV SALÓN DE ARTE DIGITAL DE MARACAIBO. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela); 6/20-7/3. SKIN DEEP: THE ART AND IMAGE OF THE GAY MALE BODY. I-Space Gallery, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Chicago) 6/10-7/9. ISIS CANADA PRESENTS ARTRAGEOUS 2005. Doverhouse Dance Ballroom, Dovercourt House (Toronto); 4/8. MOONSTRUCK: THE HONG KONG ARTIST’S BIANNALE 2005. Club 64 (Hong Kong); 4/1-30. EVOLUTIONÄRE ZELLEN. Neue Gesellshaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin); 3/4-4-3. ONE-NIGHT STAND: THE SEX SHOW. Viscaya Lounge (New York); 2/14. DIRTY SHOW 6. Tangent Gallery (Detroit); 2/11-14.
2004    FILE 2004: ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL. Sesi Gallery (Sao Paolo); 11/22-12/12. InterFACE: Media Art Exhibition. Raffles LaSalle International Design School (Bangkok); 7/27-30. VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL. Centro Cultural   Pablo de la Torriente Brau (Havana); 6/21-27. THAILAND NEW MEDIA ART FESTIVAL. Srinakarinwirot University (Bangkok); 3/20-28.

  1. NIGHT OF 1000 DRAWINGS. Artists Space (New York); 11/8. MAD’03. 2nd Encuentro Internacional de Arte Experimental de Madrid, (various locations); 10/30-11/20. ANIGMA: 1st International Festival OF DIGITAL IMAGING AND ANIMATION. Club Rock City (Novosibirsk); 10/18-19. MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIESLAND. Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); 9/28-10/15. WIE GESTALTEN SIE IHRE GESELLSCHAFT? Historisches Museum Frankfurt; 9/10-11/16. CAMBRIDGE ART GALLERIES OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION. Cambridge Art Gallery; 9/5-10/12. VIOLENCE ON-LINE FESTIVAL: VERSION 0.8. Electronic Language Festival Sao Paolo, 8/14-27; Nonetart Festival – Arte Digital Rosario 2003, 8/15-27; Open Air at Royal Gardens Copenhagen, 8/10-31. DIGITAL VISIONS. University of British Columbia http://www.ontherun-design.com (Vancouver); 5/9-ongoing. 2003 LESBIAN AND GAY PHOTO BIENNIAL: THE KISS. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 5/20-6/28. MULTI@RTS DIGITAL PARTY. Haverhill Arts Centre (Haverhill UK) 4/28. SKIN/STRIP ON-LINE http://www.skinstrip.net plus live feeds: Site Gallery (Sheffield UK) 3/28-5/10 and Deluxe Gallery (London UK) 3/28-30. BOUNCE. Gala Gallery (Brighton UK) 3/28-4/13. VIDEOFORMES - 18th INTERNATIONAL VIDEO AND MULTI-MEDIA FESTIVAL (VIOLENCE ON-LINE FESTIVAL – VERSION 5.0) (Clermont-Ferrand France); 3/19-23. 100 x 100. SoundVision (Portland); 1/24-2/6.
  2. NIGHT OF 1000 DRAWINGS. Artists Space (New York), 12/11. BEAR ICONS AND BEYOND IV. National Hall, Washington Plaza Hotel (Washington D.C.) 11/8-10. EVOLUTIONÄRE ZELLEN. Neue Gesselschaft für Bildende Kunst (Berlin) 11/2-12/1. (curated by Arbeitsgruppe finger). DISEMBODIED.RECON-FIGURED. SoundVision (Portland); 11/1-23. SOLIDARITY ORIGINALS. Casa Amatller (Barcelona); 9/19-10/10. MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIESLAND. Museum Smallingerland (Drachten); 8/29-9/14. SELF-PORTRAITS. Gay Art Gallery (Fort Lauderdale) http://www.gayartgallery.net (ongoing.) WHAT’S THE PLAN THAT LOUISE BOURGEOIS HAS IN MIND? An ongoing e-mail project, Vortice Argentina (Buenos Aires). SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS. Erotic Male Art Gallery (Vermont) http://www.erotic-maleart.com (ongoing.) SELL OR DIE. Art Systems (Toronto); 4/11-13.
  3. BODY LANGUAGE: EXPLICIT/IMPLICIT. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 11/7-12/21. 4TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF SOUND AND VISUAL POETRY. Espacio Giesso (Buenos Aires); 10/26. EURO-ART 2001. Sala Marqués de Comillas (Barcelona); 10/5-8. OPEN JURIED EXHIBITION. Cambridge Art Galleries (Cambridge); 9/8-10/7. MEDIA ART FESTIVAL FRIES-LAND. Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); 9/6-22. FAMILY: IT’S PERSONAL. I Gallery (New York); 6/15-3/31. A LOVE STORY. Mercer Union (Toronto); 2/8-10.
  4. ALTARS AND OTHER SACRED SITES. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 11/1-12/9. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 8. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 9/13-31. ARTEXPO 2000. http://art-channel.net (Hanover); ongoing. WORLD ART ON COLLECTION. Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (The Hague); 11/13-24. EROTIC ART SHOW. Pegasus (New York); 9/9-10/10. WORLD FESTIVAL OF ART ON PAPER. Kranj Commune (Kranj, Slovenia); 9/1-15. 9th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 5/16-6/25. REFLECTIONS OF MYSELF. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/3-20.
  5. STUDIO 211 WEBSITE. http://www.studio-211.com (ongoing). THE ARTGROUP FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ARTISTS WEBSITE. http://www.artgroup-nyc.com (ongoing). EROTIC SHOW. Sacred Body Art (New York); 11/4-28. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 7. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 10/6-31. THE MILLENNIUM ART COLLECTION: 2000 REASONS TO LOVE THE EARTH. The Art Open, Essen; 7/10-8/8. HONING THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/6-30.
  6. http://info-true.com Click on International Association of Lesbian and Gay Children of Holocaust Survivors; click on Memorials (ongoing). UNIVERSAL DIV-ERSITY 6. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 7/14-8/15. PRIDE '98. Vincent Louis Gallery (New York); June16-7/4. BODY PRIMITIVE. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/18-7/18. SEXUALITY/OBJECT: THE BACKROOM. New Century Artists Gallery (New York); 6/3-28. 7th GAY & LESBIAN PHOTO ANNUAL. Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York); 5/12-6/27. OUT ON THE EDGE. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York); 5/6-17.
  7. THE LIGHTBOX. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (New York); 10/18-11/24. UNIVERSAL DIVERSITY 5. LaMama LaGalleria  (New York); 7/24-8/16. GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 7/3-9/2. STRENGTH IN UNITY. 24 Hours For Life (New York); 6/11-8/2. HARTFORD PRIDE. Pumphouse Gallery (Hartford, CN); 6/4-29.
  8. SEXUAL PRIMER. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/6-7/14.
  9. GALLERY ARTISTS. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 12/12-1/9. REVIEWS (EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) Mercer Union (Toronto); 11/9-12/23. PRIDE '95. O'Connor Gallery (Toronto); 6/15-7/7.
  10. SOUVENIRS OF THE REAGAN/BUSH YEARS. Puchong Gallery (New York, NY); 1/20-2/17.
  11. MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL – CONTEMPORARY SELF-PORTRAITS. Rich

            mond International Airport (Richmond VA) organized by the Richmond Council on the 
Arts; 10/15-12/18. QUEER BODIES. Evergreen Galleries, Evergreen State College  (Olympia WA); 4/3-30.

  1. ALL GROWN UP. CUNY Graduate Center Library (New York); 10/4-11/1. AIDS:

FEAR, RAGE, HOPE. Traveling exhibition, various locations in San Diego; 9/27-10/20.

  1. POSITIVE ACTIONS. The Clocktower (New York); 11/29-1/20. STYLES AND

AESTHETICS. La Mama LaGalleria (New York); 11/15-12/2. QUEER: OUT IN ART. Wessel/O'Connor Ltd. (New York); 9/5-29. GAY ALL THE WAY 2. The Tunnel (New York); 3/18.

  1. GAY ALL THE WAY. The Tunnel (New York); 11/19.
  2. NEW WAVE ON FILM/TAPE. The Funnel (Toronto) 12/6.
  3. De Appel (Amsterdam)
  4. Center for Experimental Art and Communication (CEAC, Toronto).
  5. CEAC (Toronto)
  6. Gallery Z (Toronto). University of Alberta Law Centre, curated by the Edmonton Art Gallery.
  7. GREAT CANADIAN ART SHOW. Edmonton Art Gallery; CHRISTMAS SHOW. Isaacs Gallery (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto); Gallery 76 (Toronto).

PERFORMANCE WORKS (site-specific)

  1. Out on the Edge Festival. Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (New York).
  2. Studio 16/e (Turin); Museo di Arte Moderna, Bologna (with Arturo Schwartz);

Students' Cultural Centre (Zagreb); Podroom (Zagreb); Ghen (Lecce); Alternative Space (Detroit).

  1. London Art Gallery (Ontario); Franklin Furnace (New York); Pier 52 (New York); Joseph Beuys' Free International University at Documenta VI (Kassel); Palazzo Diamante (Ferrara); Arte Fiera (Bologna); Remont Gallery (Warsaw); Karoly Gallery (Lublin); DeAppel (Amsterdam); Gallerie Monnae (Brussels).
  2. CEAC (Toronto).
  3. Gallery 76 (Toronto).

RECORDINGS/BOOK DESIGN

  1. CRUISING THE MOVIES by Boyd McDonald, Gay Presses of New York.
  2. RAW/WAR, 45 rpm, Crash & Burn Records (Toronto).

 

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/AWARDS

  1. Photography Roundtable, Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation (New York), 6/2. Studio 211 Artist in Residency Program (Denver), 3/15-6/15.
  2. Over All Design Award for Christopher Street magazine (Gay and Lesbian Press Association).
  3. Travel grant for European tour (Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa).
  4. Project grant (Ontario Arts Council, Toronto).
  5. Project grant (Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa).

ARTICLES/CATALOGUES/REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS

 AN INTERVIEW WITH BRUCE EVES. http://weblogart.blogspot.com. Mining the Media Archive. Essays on Art, Technology, and Cultural Resistance by Dot Tuer. (YYZ Books, Toronto). CLIP ART by Phatarawadee Phataranawik, The Nation on-line; 04/28. GRAPHICS EXCHANGE magazine: special Visual Arts Issue. March/April.

2005    ART AND SEX, A Live Interview hosted by Coman Poon. The University of Toronto Radio station (CIUT, 86.5 FM); 7/16. ART APPRECIATION 2005: LOG ON AND PRINT OUT AFFORDABLE ART THAT’S GOOD by Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle WA) 1/11.

2004    IDEA #7 (Indian Documentary of Electronic Arts) a CD Gazette (New Delhi) dates TBA. VI SALON Y COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL. Centro Cultural   Pablo de la Torriente Brau (Havana) THE SECRETS OF PERFECTION #17: Peculiarities of Contemporary Erotica. An on-line art journal by Jurate Macnoriute. BRUCE EVES: MULTIPLES, An Essay by Jonathan Heller. http://www.gayart-gallery.net/gallery54.htm (Fort Lauderdale) 12/1-ongoing. SEX CITY: A Live Interview hosted by Louise Bak and Coman Poon concerning gay immigration and same-sex marriage. The University of Toronto Radio station (CIUT, 86.5 FM); 9/13. Q NORTHEAST MAGAZINE (Utica) cover story, interview and portfolio; September issue. DIGITAL VISIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH AND ESSAY ABOUT BRUCE EVES by Tony Hu, University of British Columbia, Department of Art History and Theory. http://www.on therundesign.com 5/9-ongoing

  1. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: BEAR ICONS AND BEYOND IV. A report by curator Les Wright. Verisimilitude [Cultural Quarterly for] Engaging Masculinities. Winter Issue. BODIES IN WORK: Another First Thursday, Another Gallery Hop by Richard Speer, Willamette Week On-line (Portland) 11/13. REVIEW: DIS-EMBODIED.RECONFIGURED by Chas Bowie, Portland Mercury (Portland) 11/7-13 issue. “THE STUDIO”, an Interview by the Editors, StylusArt (Barcelona) August issue. FREE SPEAK by Mark Brodsky: “Voice Strangled”, Xtra (Toronto) 6/27-7/10 issue. “The Controversy That Remains: Gay Art”, an interview by Geoffrey Young, The Voice (Kitchener) May/June issue. SEX CITY: A Live Interview hosted by Louise Bak and Coman Poon for the University of Toronto Radio station (CIUT, 86.5 FM); 2/27. AIDS Council of South Australia (work used for brochures and advertisements)
  2. RETURN TO ARTISTS SPACE: 25 YEARS edited by Claudia Gould and Valerie Smith. BECOMING VISIBLE: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF LESBIAN AND GAY LIFE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICA by Molly McGarry and Fred Wasserman; Penguin/Putnam, New York.
  3. REVIEWS (EXPERIMENTAL: ART AND IDEAS) catalogue with an essay by curator Tom Follard. MEN'S STYLE (commissioned photograph to illustrate "Risky Business" by David Thomas) 5/6/issue.
  4. INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM (photograph of installation used to illustrate "Acts of Memory" by Simon Watney) OUT magazine (New York), 9/issue.
  5. "Art With Ideas", interview/review of INTERROGATION: AIDS FORUM and MY LIFE AS A NERD by David Hirsh, New York Native, 5/24 issue. WPIX, "A New York Minute".
  6. "The Chill Factor" (News story by Lloyd Wong) PARALLELOGRAMME magazine, (Toronto) Winter issue. "Obscenity Chill, Artists in a Post-Butler Era" by Elaine Carol, Fuse magazine (Toronto), Winter issue. "The Body As Target", interview/review of THE SEX PICTURES by David Hirsh, New York Native, 8/2 issue. QUEER BODIES catalogue with forward by curator Huey Lentz. FUSE magazine, Toronto (a commissioned portfolio) Summer issue. "Choices", interviewed by David Hirsh, New York Native, 3/12 issue. "Restaurant Obscenity Raid Bodes Ill For Artists Creating Sexual Imagery" (news story by Glenn Cooly) NOW magazine (Toronto), 3/2 issue. "Police Warn Restaurant Photos May Be Obscene" (news story) Globe and Mail, Toronto, 2/28.
  7. “PERFORMANCE IN/AU CANADA, 1970-1994” by Alain-Martin Richard and Clive Robertson (Coach House Press/Editions Intervention; Toronto, Montreal). REPORTS FROM THE FRONT (a portfolio of recent work), Christopher Street magazine (New York), Issue 164. "Exhibit Shows Many Types of Victims" (review of AIDS: FEAR, RAGE, HOPE) by Chris Jenkins, Los Angeles Times, 9/21.
  8. "New York Adventure", review of STYLES AND AESTHETICS by David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/3 issue. "Tribal Art", (photograph accompanying interview with William O'Connor about the exhibition QUEER: OUT IN ART, by David Hirsh) New York Native, 9/24 issue. "An Original Chaos", review of GAY ALL THE WAY 2 by David Hirsh, New York Native, 4/16 issue.
  9. "The Warmth and the Heat", review of GAY ALL THE WAY by David Hirsh) New York Native, 12/4 issue.
  10. "The CEAC Was Banned in Canada", (historical overview by Dot Tuer) C magazine (Toronto), 9/issue.
  11. An interview with the publisher of FUORI! (Bologna), published in The Body Politic (Toronto)
  12. An interview with Coco Rico, published in TOIKE (University of Toronto).

CURATORIAL/PEER REVIEW

  1. Curator: Universal Diversity 7; Soto Clemente Velez Cultural Center (New York)

1995             Brooklyn Arts Council peer-review panelist.

  1. Co-founder and curator (1979-88) of International Gay History Archive, now a part of the Research Collections, Rare Book & Manuscripts division of the New York Public Library.
  2. Historical consultant: “Before Stonewall”, a film by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, & Greta Schiller and “The Celluloid Closet” by Vito Russo (Harper & Row).
  3. Curator: Bound Bent and Determined: A Look At Sado-Masochism; CEAC (Toronto).

ARTS-RELATED EMPLOYMENT
1997-98 Photo Editor, In Theater Magazine (weekly), New York. 1981-96 Art Director of Publications for That New Magazine Inc., publisher of New York Native (weekly), Christopher Street magazine (monthly), TheaterWeek magazine (weekly), New York. 1981-84 Night Art Director for The Village Voice (weekly), New York. 1976-78 Assistant Programming Director, Centre for Experimental Art and Communication (Toronto).

COLLECTIONS
Public: Franklin Furnace Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, (New York); Fries Museum (Leeuwarden); New York Public Library, Rare Books & Manuscript division; York University, (Toronto); Nashoba Institute (Fitchburg); Canadian Gay Archive, (Toronto); Edmonton Art Gallery; AIDS Committee of Cape Breton, The Tom of Finland Foundation (Los Angeles); Archivo Vortice Argentina de Documentación de Arte Alternativo (Buenos Aires); CaixaForum Mediateca (Barcelona); Modern Props (Los Angeles); Appleton Museum of Art (Ocala); and Casoria International Museum of Contemporary Art (Naples); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Zulia (Maracaibo, Venezuela). Private: Berlin, Denver, La Jolla, New York, Seattle, Toronto.

EDUCATION            1970-74 Ontario College of Art, graduated with honors (AOCA).