CCCA Canadian Art Database

Virtual Collection: Original CCCA

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Art Directors Club of Vancouver

First Name: Art Directors Club of Vancouver

Biography (English): In 1948, a group of commercial artists started The Advertising & Design Club of Canada - then called the Art Directors’ Club of Toronto. Believing in the value of their craft, from the very start the club encouraged excellence and championed the power of creativity. While the club began in Toronto, its scope quickly became national. Its awards program celebrates the best in design and advertising from across Canada, setting the creative bar high. Its members - creatives of all kinds, working in many media - are located across the country. From the very start, as a non-profit and non-political organisation, the ADCC’s sole purpose was to encourage the highest-quality work, regardless of monetary success or politics. It exists to serve the community, through art, design, education, historical preservation, and championing the next generation of thinkers.

Biography (French): En 1948, un groupe d’artistes commerciaux fonde le Advertising & Design Club of Canada, alors appelé Art Director’s Club of Toronto. Croyant en la valeur de leur métier, le club a dès le début encouragé l’excellence et défendu le pouvoir de la créativité. Bien que le club ait débuté à Toronto, sa portée est rapidement devenue nationale. Son programme de prix célèbre les meilleurs du design et de la publicité de partout au Canada, plaçant la barre haute en matière de créativité. Ses membres – des créatifs de tous bords, œuvrant dans de nombreux médias – sont répartis à travers le pays. Dès le début, en tant qu’organisation à but non lucratif et apolitique, le seul objectif de l’ADCC était d’encourager un travail de la plus haute qualité, indépendamment du succès financier ou politique. Il existe pour servir la communauté, à travers l'art, le design, l'éducation, la préservation historique et pour défendre la prochaine génération de penseurs.

Social Media Link: https://www.instagram.com/theadcc

Website Link: https://theadcc.ca/

Birth Year: 1948

Medium: graphic design

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ARTIFACTS (Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee)

First Name: ARTIFACTS

Biography (English): ARTIFACTS, formed in 1983 by Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee, produces feminist collaborative works which combine the concerns of art and theatre; they have fused these traditions into a unique hybridity. Ever cognizant of gender politics and cultural normalization, ARTIFACTS engages in deconstructing various contemporary societal issues by exploring women’s bodies across speculative edges and in liminal spaces. While concentrating on performance, ARTIFACTS has also created video and visual exhibitions. Research-in-process and doing-as-action define their practice. In 2011, Miklos Legrady was invited to join ARTIFACTS as “public eye”, a photographer or “witness” who by documenting the work is drawn into and becomes part of the performance.

Biography (French): ARTIFACTS, créée en 1983 par Pam Patterson et Leena Raudvee, produit des œuvres collaboratives féministes qui combinent les préoccupations de l'art et du théâtre ; elles ont fusionné ces traditions en une hybridité unique. Toujours conscient des politiques de genre et de la normalisation culturelle, ARTIFACTS s’engage dans la déconstruction de diverses questions sociétales contemporaines en explorant le corps des femmes à travers les frontières spéculatives et dans les espaces liminaires. Tout en se concentrant sur la performance, ARTIFACTS a également créé des expositions vidéo et visuelles. La recherche en cours et le « faire-en-action » définissent sa pratique. En 2011, Miklos Legrady a été invité à rejoindre ARTIFACTS en tant que « public eye », photographe ou « témoin » qui, en documentant l'œuvre, est attiré et devient partie intégrante de la performance.

Collaboration: (Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee)

Website Link: http://artifactsperformanceart.ca/

Birth Year: 1983

Medium: performance

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Burton Kramer Design

First Name: Burton Kramer Design

Biography (English): Burton Kramer was a professional Graphic Designer in Toronto, Ontario, from 1957-2001. He is currently active as a practicing Artist.

Biography (French): Burton Kramer was a professional Graphic Designer in Toronto, Ontario, from 1957-2001. He is currently active as a practicing Artist.

Medium: graphic design

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Communication Design Group

First Name: Communication Design Group

Biography (English): Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Biography (French): Halifax, Nova Scotia

Medium: graphic design

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Cozic

First Name: Cozic

Biography (English): At the end of the sixties, by deciding to work under the sole name: COZIC, Monic Brassard and Yvon Cozic wanted their creation to question the artistic ego. The gleaning, the accumulation, the amalgamation of found objects infuse a new semantics, a new meaning to the plastic language. Through its attitude and its practice, Cozic is a precursor, a door opener. Around fifty individual exhibitions, more than two hundred group exhibitions, around twenty works of public art testify to an exceptional creative vitality and its importance for the visual arts. Recipient of numerous awards and scholarships including the prestigious Jean-Paul-Riopelle Career Scholarships 2012, and the Paul-Émile Borduas Prize 2015. Cozic is present in most major Canadian museums, in corporate collections and private collections at Canada and Europe.

Biography (French): À la fin des années soixante, en décidant de travailler sous le seul nom : COZIC, Monic Brassard et Yvon Cozic ont voulu que leur création questionne l’ego-artistique. Le glanage, le cumul, l’amalgame d’objets trouvés infusent une nouvelle sémantique, un sens inédit au language plastique. Par son attitude et sa pratique, Cozic est un précurseur, un ouvreur de portes. Une cinquantaine d’expositions individuelles, plus de deux cents expositions de groupe, une vingtaine d’œuvres d’art public témoignent d’une exceptionnelle vitalité créatrice et de son importance pour les arts visuels. Récipiendaire de nombreux prix et bourses dont les prestigieuses Bourses de carrière Jean-Paul-Riopelle 2012, et le prix Paul-Émile Borduas 2015. Cozic est présent dans la plupart des grands musées canadiens, dans les collections d’entreprises et les collections privées au Canada et en Europe.

Collaboration: (Monic Brassard and Yvon Cozic)

Website Link: https://www.cozic.ca/

Birth Year: c. 1970

Medium: installation performance sculpture

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Doowah Design Inc.

First Name: Doowah Design Inc.

Biography (French): Winnipeg, Manitoba

Website Link: https://doowahdesign.com/

Medium: graphic design

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Evergon

First Name: Evergon

Biography (English): Evergon is a Canadian artist, teacher and activist. Throughout his career, his work has explored photography and its related forms, including photo-collage, instant photography (discontinued Polaroid), colour photocopying, and holography. Throughout his prestigious career, he has been recognized for his leading experimentation in the field of photography. A significant forerunner in North American contemporary art/gay communities, Evergon’s subject matter has been the source of major exhibitions since the mid-1970’s. In 1988, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography organized a major retrospective of his work, Evergon 1971-1987, which exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada and toured nationally and internationally. His dedication to and influence on generations of students is exhibited by his eminent teaching record. He retired in 2015 after being Associate Professor of Photography at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec since 1999. His work is included in public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the National Gallery of Canada, and the Canada Council Art Bank, the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Art Institute of Chicago, the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, the Polaroid International Collection, Frankfurt, Germany, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England. He is represented in Canada by Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa.

Biography (French): Evergon est un artiste, enseignant et activiste canadien. Tout au long de sa carrière, son travail a exploré la photographie et ses formes associées, notamment le photocollage, la photographie instantanée (Polaroid abandonné), la photocopie couleur et l'holographie. Tout au long de sa prestigieuse carrière, il a été reconnu pour ses expérimentations de premier plan dans le domaine de la photographie. Précurseur important de l’art contemporain et des communautés gays nord-américaines, les sujets d’Evergon ont fait l’objet d’expositions majeures depuis le milieu des années 1970. En 1988, le Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine organise une grande rétrospective de son œuvre, Evergon 1971-1987, qui est exposée au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et qui fait l'objet d'une tournée nationale et internationale. Son dévouement et son influence sur des générations d'étudiants sont démontrés par son éminent dossier d'enseignement. Il a pris sa retraite en 2015 après avoir été professeur agrégé de photographie à l'Université Concordia à Montréal, Québec depuis 1999. Son travail fait partie de collections publiques, notamment celles du Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, du Musée des beaux-arts du Canada et de la Banque d'œuvres d'art du Conseil des Arts du Canada, de l'Edmonton Art Gallery, de l'Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, du Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, l'Art Institute of Chicago, l'International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, la Polaroid International Collection, Francfort, Allemagne, le Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Suisse, le National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, Angleterre. Il est représenté au Canada par la Galerie St. Laurent + Hill, Ottawa.

Social Media Link: https://www.instagram.com/justevergon/

Website Link: https://evergon.org/

Birth Year: 1946

Medium: collage photography

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Graphic Design Associates

First Name: Graphic Design Associates

Biography (English): Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Biography (French): Halifax, Nova Scotia

Medium: graphic design

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HP

First Name: HP

Biography (English): HP was a collaboration between Hank Bull and Patrick Ready. Beginning in 1975 HP produced a weekly radio show, [The HP Radio Show], which ran on Vancouver Co-operative Radio for 8 years. Devoted to the idea that radio could be activated as an art medium, the two hosts developed an idiosyncratic style and a quick following. A forum for new inventions, telephone music and various types of listener participation, the show made heavy use of sound effects, experiments with tape recorders and scripted serials with names like The Cavemen, Tales from the Days of Sail, and Captain Bonnard and Captain Lafarge and Carolyne in Space. Many of the artists who came to the Western Front in Vancouver would be incorporated into the show. By 1978, in a prime-time Sunday evening slot, the title was changed to the HP Dinner Show, "scientifically designed to help you prepare, eat and digest, your dinner". Hank Bull has lived in Vancouver and worked at the Western Front since 1973. He became involved in radio and television in 1975. He has been active as an organizer of international artists' projects using electronic networks and continues various pursuits as a 'TOTALmedia' artist. Patrick Ready is a Vancouver-based writer, inventor and radio artist. His collaborative radio plays, were first produced in 1973 and have since been performed in galleries in Toronto and Vancouver. In 1989, he invented the 'water radio,' as artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre.

Biography (French): HP est le fruit d'une collaboration entre Hank Bull et Patrick Ready. À partir de 1975, HP a produit une émission de radio hebdomadaire, [The HP Radio Show], diffusée sur la Vancouver Co-operative Radio pendant 8 ans. Dévoués à l'idée que la radio pouvait être activée en tant que médium artistique, les deux animateurs ont développé un style idiosyncratique et une popularité rapide. Forum de nouvelles inventions, de musique téléphonique et de divers types de participation des auditeurs, l'émission faisait largement appel aux effets sonores, aux expériences avec des magnétophones et aux séries scénarisées avec des noms comme The Cavemen, Tales from the Days of Sail, et Capitaine Bonnard et Capitaine Lafarge et Carolyne dans l'espace. De nombreux artistes venus au Western Front à Vancouver seraient intégrés à l'exposition. En 1978, lors d'un créneau du dimanche soir aux heures de grande écoute, le titre a été changé pour devenir le HP Dinner Show, "scientifiquement conçu pour vous aider à préparer, manger et digérer votre dîner". Hank Bull vit à Vancouver et travaille au Western Front depuis 1973. Il s'est impliqué dans la radio et la télévision en 1975. Il a été actif en tant qu'organisateur de projets d'artistes internationaux utilisant les réseaux électroniques et continue diverses activités en tant qu'artiste 'TOTALmedia'. Patrick Ready est un écrivain, inventeur et artiste radiophonique basé à Vancouver. Ses pièces radiophoniques collaboratives ont été produites pour la première fois en 1973 et ont depuis été jouées dans des galeries de Toronto et de Vancouver. En 1989, il invente la « radio aquatique » en tant qu'artiste en résidence au Banff Centre.

Collaboration: Hank Bull & Patrick Ready

Medium: audio performance

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Kiakshuk

First Name: Kiakshuk

Biography (English): Kiakshuk was a Inuk graphic artist based in ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait [Cape Dorset] and was part of the early days of the drawing and printmaking program in ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait. In addition to being a versatile artist, he was also a well-known and respected storyteller and elder. Kiakshuk quickly became an important participant in the development of the ᑭᙵᐃᑦ / Kinngait graphic arts scene. As a printer, his preferred medium was engraving due to the direct nature of the process. He was highly respected for his ability to translate oral histories and tales of the hunt, animals, families and spirits into graphic media. Kiakshuk’s art was a mainstay of the Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection from 1960-1967. Kiakshuk’s work has been exhibited worldwide and his works are part of permanent collections across North America at institutions such as the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, QC, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, ON, the Prince of Wales Heritage Centre in Yellowknife, NT, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, NY, USA, and many more.

Biography (French): Qiaksuk Qiaksuk inuulilauqtuminiq 1886-ngutillugu kanannaqpasingani sinaangani Qikiqtaaluup, Nunavummi. 70-miniiliriiqsuni titiqtugaqattapallialilauqsimajuq titiqtugaliuqattapallialiqsuni. 1961-ngutillugu James Houston pigiaqtitsilausimammat titiqtugaliurnirmik titiqtugaqtinut titiqtugarvittaaqqaumi, (uutturaqattapallialilauqsimajuq 1957-mi kisiani arraagutamaaqsiutiit saqqilauqsimajut 1959-ngutillugu), ammalu Qiaksuk taatsuminga pijariatujummarimmik kamaqattalilauqsimajuq. Ukkusitsalirinirmik quviagijaqaraluaqsuni titiqtugaliurnirmillu, titiqtugaliurinirmut aulanirmik niruaqtaqallarilauqtuq. Qiaksuk ujjirijausimammijuq amisuaqtingikkaluaqsuni sanannguaqattaqsimanirmik titiqtuganginnullu. Qaujimajautsiaqsuni unikkaaqtuaqti nunalinni upigijautsialauqtuq tukisinaqtitsigunnarninganut piusiusimjunik uqausikkut, unikkaaqaqpatsuni angunasunnirnik, nirjutinik, ilagiinniik, angakkunik tarninillu, titiqtugaliarillunigit. Inuujunniilauqsimajuq 1966-mi.

Website Link: https://www.inuitartfoundation.org/profiles/artist/Kiakshuk-

Community Detail: recoGnj3Hf0wf9phl

Birth Year: 1886

Medium: printmaking

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