Curriculum Vitae
Gail Bourgeois
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Concordia University
Bachelor of Fine Arts (cum laude), Concordia University
Studies in design and English literature, West Liberty State College, USA
Solo exhibitions
2018 Accommodating the details, Byward Market Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 Gail Bourgeois: Correspondence, from roots to rhizomes to mycelial networks, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Diefenbunker: Canada’a Cold War Museum, Carp, Ontario
2011 Incidental things, RIA Artist Project Room, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Particle Factor, IPO Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Point to Line, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 At Street Level, Ottawa School of Art off-site venue, 275 Bank Street, Ottawa Ontario
2005 Le boulevard, Centre du Vieux Presbytère, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec
2005 Tenir à un fil, Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, (Aylmer) Gatineau, Québec
1997 The Spice-Box of Age, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1990 The Butterfly Effect, Niagara Artists’ Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
1989 Susurration, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec
1988 The Butterfly Effect, Bourget Gallery, Montréal, Québec
1985 Open Studio, 31a Spencer Road, London, England
Two-person exhibitions
2021 messages codées, Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Ontario (solo exhibition of collaborative works with Pira Pirani)
2018 Morse Code Project, Lalande + Doyle Gallery, Shenkman Centre, Ottawa, Ontario (solo exhibition of collaborative works with Pira Pirani)
2016 Stories Nearby / Récits des alentours, Karsh Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario (with Anna Frlan)
2016 Cold War Pieces, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario (with Riaz Mehmood)
1989 one-is-sound-the-other, Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland (with Terry Emrick)
Group exhibitions
2019 La voix des archives, Karine Abelaez curator, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
2019 140 Celebration Exhibition, Ottawa School of Art, Orleans Campus, Orleans, Ontario
2018 Art & Parcel, Annexe Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 Spectrum, Annexe Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2018 Unscripted, Tami Galili curator, Enriched Bread Artists, Ottawa, Ontario
2017 Je m’épanche, donc je suis, Exposition internationale d’estampe numérique miniature 12, Raymond Aubin commissaire, Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 L’Imagier imaginaire, Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Gatineau, Québec
2015 Lines in Nature / La nature des choses, Chelsea Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre, Chelsea, Québec
2015 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2015-2014 Visual Assembly, Ottawa Art Gallery Annex, City Hall Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Documentum I – One Thing Led to Another, RIA Project Room, Ottawa, Ontario
2014 The Summer Kitchen, for Art in Odd Spaces, RIA Offsite Project, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 RED, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa. Ontario
2013 Frederic Remington Art Museum, Susan Ashbrook curator, Ogdensburg, New York
2013 Building Peace, Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 Repérage : Expo-vente Loto-Québec, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, Québec
2013 Le Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Nuit Blanche Ottawa, Drawing the Line Collective, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Recent Additions to the City of Ottawa’s Fine Art Collection, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa
2011 Drawing the Line at Blink, Blink Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 Musicality, Juliana McDonald curator, Enriched Bread Artists Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, May 1-2, 2010
2010 Repérage : Expo-vente Loto-Québec, Galerie Montcalm, Gatineau, Québec
2010 Recycl’Art, Centre d’art contemporain de l’Outaouais, Montpellier, Québec
2009 National Drawing Exhibition, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2009 Tipsy Pudding, Erin Robertson organizer, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
2009 Recent additions to the City of Ottawa’s Fine Art Collection, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa
2009 Hommage à Yvette Debain, Cécile Boucher curator, Centre l’Imagier, Gatineau, Québec
2008 Rencontre avec l’étrange, Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Gatineau, Québec
2007 TEXT, Gary Michael Dault curator, Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts Toronto, Ontario
2007 Poetically Political, Dawn Dale curator, Mud Oven, Ottawa
2007 Cochonnailles, Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Gatineau Québec
2006 The Even Grander Opening Show, Patrick Gordon Framing, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Once Removed, Gjennifer Snider curator, Modern Fuel Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
2006 Intimité, summer solstice exhibition, Centre d’exposition l’Imagier, Gatineau Québec
2005 Blink Gallery collective members’ exhibition, Major’s Hill Park, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 Artists Against Occupation, Freda Guttman and Rawi Hage curators, MAI Gallery, Montréal, Québec
2001 Powerhouse: who we are now, McClure Gallery, Westmount, Québec
2001 Forwarded message, for “Rushes”, Penelope Kokkinos curator, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2001 Le Passé au Présent, members’ exhibition, La Centrale, Montréal
1998 Heart-a-fact, for “Women Beyond Borders”, Canadian exhibition, Toronto, Ontario
1997 I am at that awkward age, for “(ce) corps in vulnérable”, Janet Logan curator, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
1996 kitchen installation at 4581, rue Garnier, “Les Occupantes”, Venus Fly Trap Collective, Montréal, Québec
1992 Significant Details/Détails Pertinents, Carol Laing curator, Glendon Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Interference, Gayle Young curator, Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario
1990 entre deux, for “Prise de courants”, members’ exhibition, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec
1988 Effets Personnels, members’ exhibition, Powerhouse Gallery, Montréal, Québec
1985 Love, Sex and Romance, Women’s Work Collective, Brixton Art Gallery, London, England
1985 Series one, Women’s Work Collective, Brixton Art Gallery, London, England
1984 Our Territory, Women’s Work Collective, Brixton Art Gallery, London, England
1973 Members’ group exhibitions at Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Québec
Catalogues and published page works
2018 Documentation video by Pixie Cram of Accommodating the details
2018 Accomodating the details, limited edition, bilingual exhibition catalogue with original cover drawing
2017 Je m’épanche, donc je suis, Exposition internationale d’estampe numérique miniature 12, livret d’exposition, Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle, Ottawa Ontario
2016 Stories Nearby, bi-lingual exhibition catalogue, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2016 Gail Bourgeois: Correspondence, from roots to rhizomes to mycelial networks, bilingual exhibition catalogue, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2015 Lines in Nature / La nature des choses, bilingual exhibition catalogue, La Fab – Chelsea Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre, Chelsea, Québec
2015 Six page portfolio in War/Conflict, n.paradoxa, London, England, vol. 35, 2015, pp. 16-21
2014 To warn other Canadians / Avertir les autres Canadiens, bilingual exhibition catalogue, Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum
2014 A Tangential Exploration, an artist envelope project
2011 Incidental things, bilingual exhibition catalogue, Research in Art Project Room
2008 Particles on the Surface : The Recent Works of Gail Bourgeois, bi-lingual catalogue
2004 gamétophyte mature, page work for Les Centrelles, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
1996 Page work for exhibition catalogue, Les Occupantes, Venus Fly Trap Collective, pp. 16-17
1995 memory is in the body, artwork and original text in Creating Memory, Matriart, vol. 5, n° 3, 1995, pp. 20-23
1991 Artwork and original text, Harbour, vol. 1, n° 2, 1991, pp. 38-41
1988 Critical Paths, Status of Women Committee, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, 1988, pp. 52-53
Video screenings
2014 Tangent 5: Never Forever, RIA Artist Project Room, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 JumpStart screening, Saw Video, Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Resolution 2012, Saw Video, Ottawa, Ontario
Awards and grants
2017 Articipate Endowment Fund, project grant, AOE Arts Council, Orleans, Ontario
2012 JumpStart Video Mentorship, for development of every day matters (The Lines of Prometheus), Saw Video, Ottawa, Ontario
2010 Honorary Fine Arts Diploma, Ottawa School of Art, presented by the 2010 graduating class
2009 Finalist, First White Water Gallery Annual National Juried Drawing Exhibition
2008 Public Art Commission, Bank Street North Rehabilitation Project, bicycle rack design, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2001 Concordia University, archived curatorial project: Powerhouse: who we are now, recent self-portraits by fourteen founding members of Powerhouse Gallery (La Centrale), Montréal, P179. – Gail Bourgeois fonds. – 2001-2002. – 1 cm of textual records, 44 photographs (24 slides, 20 prints).
1995 Canada Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant (Les Occupantes, Venus Fly Trap Collective)
1995 Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Bourse de promotion et de diffusion (Venus Fly Trap Collective)
1992 Ministère des Affaires culturelles, short-term grant
1992 Ministère des Affaires culturelles, short-term grant with Robert Majzels
1989 Canada Council, project grant
1989 Canada Council, travel grant
1988-86 Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l’Aide à la Recherche (F.C.A.R.), for graduate studies, Québec
1985 Greater London Arts Association, project costs grant for Grounds to Act, London England
Residencies
2021-2018 Ensemble Nomad.e, self-directed nomadic residencies with artist Emily Rose Michaud, Instagram: @ensemble.nomad.e
2018 Centre SAGAMIE, research and creation residency, Alma, Québec (November 2018)
2017 Sculpture studio production residency, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario
2016-2015 Invited through the Intervention Series, exhibition development research, Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014-2013 Invited inaugural artist-in-residence, research and exhibition development, Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, Carp, Ontario
2013 Research residency, Drawing the Line Collective, Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Ontario
Invitations
2015 Reading Out Loud, invited facilitator for an open reading in the context of Alma: the Life and Art of Alma Duncan, Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, July 9, 2015
2015 Papier 15 Art Fair, represented by Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Montréal Québec
2014 Reading Out Loud, invited facilitator for an open reading in the context of Alma: the Life and Art of Alma Duncan, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, November 6, 2014
1998 Invited artist, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1997 Visiting artist, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario
1993 Invited speaker, Visiting Artist Program, Concordia University
1987 Invited speaker, Women in Art Series, York University, Toronto, Ontario
Independent curatorial projects (1998-2004)
2004 Active ground // Le fin fond presents an exhibition conceived for the City Hall Art Gallery of Ottawa and forwards new works by Carla Whiteside and Jeff Thomas linking the interior of the gallery with adjacent public monuments. A collaborative work by Saskatoon artists Louise Barak and Terry Billings extends the exhibition thematic to inter-species communication. January 22-February 29, 2004
2003-2002 Unexpected Encounter, core artists: Micheline Durocher, Christina Horeau, Marie-Christine Simard, Gail Bourgeois; plus one artist from each local community completing the exhibition: WARC, Toronto, Cyndra MacDowall, June 22-July 20; Ace Art, Winnipeg, Helene Dyck, September 13-October 12; AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Monika Napier, October 25-November 29; Richmond Art Gallery, Vancouver, Grace Tsurumaru, January 16-February 20, 2003
2001 Powerhouse: who we are now, recent self-portraits by fourteen original members of Canada’s first and longest running women’s gallery, McClure Gallery, Westmount, Québec, November 30-December 22, 2001, http://archives.concordia.ca/P179
1999 amour-horreur / love-horror, double exhibition bringing forward two generations of Canadian women artists for the 25th anniversary of La Centrale, Montréal.
• Part one (February 26 – April 11) grouped mature artists whose productions address processes of regeneration and engagement with social issues : including new works by Aganetha Dyck and Francine Larivée with experimental films by Joyce Wieland.
• Part two (April 17 – May 30) presented sixteen artists who reclaim the material female body through art pieces in a variety of media, including, sculptures, photos, and videos.
• Separately curated and featured with the second exhibition were five international Web artists, including Natalie Bookchin, Annie Abrahams
1998 an anxious separation : in the everyday, McClure Gallery, Westmount, Québec
1998 Depth of Field, Women’s Art Resource Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Teaching (1987-2015)
2015-2001 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
2002, 2000 Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
2000-1992 Visual Arts Centre, Montréal, Québec
1999-1998 Mentor Program, Concordia University Alumni Association, Montréal, Québec
1999-1998 Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Québec
1987 Teaching Assistantship, Concordia University, Montréal. Québec
Selected artist collectives and collaborations
2021 Creative collaboration with Giuliano Pirani on the exhibition messages codées
2020-2018 Ensemble Nomad.e, self-directed nomadic residencies in partnership with artist Emily Rose Michaud
2018-2017 Artistic production with Giuliano Pirani on the Morse Code Project, supported by a project grant from the Articipate Endowment Fund
2015-2014 Lines in nature / La nature des choses, project initiator, exhibition and publication facilitator in partnership development between the Ottawa School of Art and the Chelsea Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre, Chelsea, Québec
2013-2009 Drawing the Line Collective (DtL), three artists drawing collaboratively
1996-1992 Venus Fly Trap Collective, founding member. Organized an apartment-based exhibition, Les Occupantes; an evening of chamber music; co-coordinated artists’ conferences: UAAC Conference, McGill University, and Studio XX, Montréal; supported with grants from Canada Council and Conseil des arts et des letters du Québec
1994 Invited commentator, Eye Embrace, a folio work by Corrine Corry and Trevor Gould
1993-1992 Research project with writer Robert Majzels, short term research grant, Ministère des Affaires culturelles, Québec, 1992
1992 Other Tongues Collective, fifteen artists working in interdisciplinary research on the social realities of women artists, co-ordinated the publication of a questionnaire sent to women artists around the world
1985 Grounds to Act, collaborative project with London based dancer Françoise Sergy, including dance, drawing constructions, text, music, sound and slides; supported with a project grant, Greater London Arts Association, London England, 1985; piece performed in thirty venues throughout Great Britain
1985-1984 Women’s Work Collective, Brixton Art Gallery, London, England, invited collective member participating in three exhibitions: Our Territory (November 1984), Series One (September 1985) and Love, Sex and Romance (October 1985), archival project, Brixton Calling Project (28 October-21 December, 2011) London, England
1984 Ron Haselden In Collaboration with 17 Montreal Artists, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
Board memberships and community engagement
2021-1994 Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV / CARFAC)
2018-2016 ArtWise Council, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2014-2006 The Ottawa School of Art, Fine Arts Diploma Program Coordinator: advisor to more than sixty new and returning students, recruiting new students and developing programming, engaging and advocating for 19 instructors. Serving on various education and selection committees. Initiated and developed a mentorship program in fine and contemporary crafts (2006-2011) Ottawa, Ontario (www.artottawa.ca)
2006-2005 BLINK Gallery, founding and board member, Header House, Major’s Hill Park, Ottawa, Ontario
2004-1993 University Art Association of Canada (UAAC)
2001 SAW Gallery, Board of Trustees, Ottawa, Ontario
1999-1997 Women’s Art Resource Centre, Board of Directors, national representative, Toronto, Ontario
1998-1973 La Centrale (Powerhouse Gallery), founding member; President of the Board of Directors 1987-1988; Board of Directors 1998, 1992, 1986-1988; Programming Committee 1989-1991; Conference (Concordia University) and exhibition (Galerie Powerhouse) coordinator for Mary Kelly’s Interim Part I: Corpus 1988; reading series Soirées littéraires 1988-1989; Québécoises au Canada policy report on the situation of women artists wanting to exhibit outside Québec 1992; Powerhouse Gallery active member of the newly formed gallery participating in a members’ exhibition and co-writing the gallery’s first grant (Local Initiatives Project grant) 1973, establishing Canada’s first and longest running women’s co-operative gallery. Honorary Committee Member, 2014, for the 40th anniversary of La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
Selected professional activities
2019 Le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, May 30, 2019
2019 Invited presenter, Salon 91, Research in Art’s Salon Series, Ottawa, Ontario, May 22 and June 6, 2019
2018 Le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, November 8, 2018
2018 Artist talk, Accommodating the details, Ottawa School of Art, Byward Market Campus, Ottawa, Ontario, February 15, 2018
2018 Jury member, Le Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l’Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario
2017 Stories Nearby exhibition walkthrough with Anna Frlan, Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, January 15, 2017
2017 Jury member, Public Art Programming, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2017 Jury member, City of Ottawa Cultural Funding Program, Ontario
2016 Presentation with artist Emily Rose Michaud, In Conversation, for Gail Bourgeois: Correspondence, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, September 15, 2016
2016 Ottawa Art Gallery, Sales and Rental Gallery
2016 Ottawater #12, on-line literary magazine www.ottawater.com
2015-2002 Instructors’ Exhibition, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario
2015 Members’s Exhibition, La Fab, Chelsea, Quebec
2014 Twelve artist-led exhibition tours of To warn other Canadians, Diefenbunker, Carp, Ontario
2014 Jury member, Chelsea Arts, Culture and Heritage Centre, Chelsea, Québec
2014 Jury member, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2014-2013 Ottawa Art Gallery, Sales and Rental Gallery
2013 Roundtable participant, “Traditional hierarchy of the arts … how it is changing?” Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
2013 Public art jury member, CCOC, Ottawa, Ontario
2013 le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, May 30, 2013
2012 le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, June 7, 2012
2012 Session facilitator, (re)vision your gallery -part II, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, April 14, 2012
2012 Jury member, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2012 Jury member, Ottawa School of Art, Ontario
2011 Participant in Vocabulaire, an exhibition by Michèle Provost, Espacémi, UQO, Gatineau, Québec
2011-2010 Ottawa Art Gallery, Sales and Rental Gallery
2010 C4 Gallery (Contemporary, Conceptual, Compartmental, Community Gallery), Ottawa, Ontario
2010-2008 Ottawater #6, #5, #4, on-line literary magazine www.ottawater.com
2008 Jury member, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2008-2003 MainWorks Open Studios, cooperative board member, New Edinburgh News, Ottawa, Ontario, November 2008, p 22
2007 Jury member, City of Ottawa, Ontario
2007 Splash!, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, Ottawa, Ontario, June 7, 2007
2007-2006 Initiator, contemporary art practices discussion group and studio exchange, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Fundraiser for Médecins Sans Frontières, Art Against War, Cube Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2005 Participant, A New Visual Arts Policy for Ottawa, policy consultations, City of Ottawa, Ontario, February 9, 2005
2006 Members’ exhibition, Blink Big, Blink Gallery, 200 Crichton Street, Ottawa, Ontario
2006 Vanishage, Cube Gallery benefit for Blink Gallery theft, Ottawa, Ontario, June 11, 2006
2006 Invited presenter, Salon 3, Petra Halkes’ Salon Series, Ottawa, Ontario, June 9, 2006
2006 Simplexité, Ottawa Art Gallery annual art auction, Ottawa, Ontario, May 11, 2006
2004 MAWA Spring Art Auction, Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, April 25, 2004
2004 Jury member, Foyer Gallery new members selection, Ottawa, Ontario
2004 Jury member, Le Bureau des regroupements des artistes visuels de l’Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario
2003 AceArt X3, AceArt art auction, Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 6, 2003
2003 Jury member, Canadian Mental Health Association, West Block, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ontario
2002 Mentoring artist Marika Jemma,14,000 Days, an interactive performance, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, October 10, 2002
2002 Roundtable facilitator, A Dinner Party for Jane Doe, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, March 14, 2002
2002 AceArt X3, AceArt art auction, Winnipeg, Manitoba, December 7, 2002
2001 Co-organizer of an evening of discussion between artists and public, Powerhouse: who we are now, McClure Gallery, Montréal, Québec
2001 Co-organizer of members’ exhibition and evening of discussion, Passé au Présent, La Centrale/Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec
1999 Session moderator for the symposium, Public Art as Social Intervention, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
1999 Motus ! Encan silencieux de Plein sud, Longueuil, Québec, November 10, 1999
1998 Événement bénéfice, Optica, Montréal, Québec, December 1998
1997 Artist’s talk, (ce) corps in vulnérable, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
1993 Performance reading with Robert Majzels, Cross(ing) Tutonaguy with Urban Wanderers, Bistro 4, Montréal, Québec
1993 Cross(ing) Tutonaguy: a dialogue in words and images, presented with Robert Majzels, English Department, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec
1990 Performance with Don Druick, The Diana Piano an installation by Lorraine Oades, Bourget Gallery, Montréal, Québec
1990 Commissioned book cover design, Études françaises, Sherry Simon, research team chair, Concordia University, Montréal. Québec
1989-1988 Permanent Review Committee on the Status of Women, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
Selected conference papers (1987-2002)
2002 Artists curating are like musicians conducting, curator’s talk, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and AKA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2002 Further reflections on slowing down, Concordia University
2001 Some reflections on slowing down, 2001 Annual Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, UQAM, Montréal, Québec
1999 building-in the everyday…imaginative acts, 1999 Annual Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, OCAD, Toronto, Ontario
1999 building-in the everyday…, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University
1999 Generations and Feminisms, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1999 Clues in the Crumbling Wall, Congress 1999, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Canadian Women’s Studies Association, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec
1998 Designing for Free-Fall Continuant, 1998 Annual Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
1998 Coming and Going and Never Far Away, College Art Association, Women’s Caucus for Art session title: Crossing Borders-Mapping Boundaries, Toronto, invited session presenter with published conference paper
1997 Can you imagine?, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women, (CRIAW) Fredericton, New Brunswick
1996 Venus Fly Trap: cross-pollination in the collective process, 1996 Annual Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, McGill University, Montréal, chair and session presenter
1993 Visiting Artists Programme, Concordia University, invited artist representing artist-run-centre La Centrale in dialogue with Brenda Wallace, private gallery owner, Montréal
1993 Cross(ing) Tutonaguy, 1993 Annual Conference, Universities Art Association of Canada, Windsor, Ontario, joint presenter
1993 Cross(ing) Tutonaguy: a dialogue in words and images, Université de Montréal, with Robert Majzels
1987 Feminism and Art: a conference, Toronto, represented Galerie Powerhouse on the panel “Women’s Art Organizations”; and facilitated a workshop, “Feminist Cultural Organizing Principles”, Toronto, Ontario
1987 Investigating the personal as political, Women in Art Series, York University, Toronto, invited speaker
Selected published writings (1985-2008)
Cynthia O’Brien: Loss, exhibition essay, City of Ottawa Gallery, February 2008
Medical Imprints / Empreintes médicales, Espace, n° 70, Winter 2004/05, pp. 35-37
The Contour of a Moving Point, essay for Les Centrelles, La Centrale, Montréal, 2004, pp. 19-25
Active ground // Le fin fond, curatorial essay, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, 2004
Use/Value, exhibition review, Fusion, vol. 27, n° 3, Autumn 2003, pp. 22-23
Micheline Durocher, exhibition statement, Gallery 44, Toronto, May, 2003
Marika Jemma at SAW Gallery: a critical response, commissioned by SAW Gallery, October 2002
Silence as a Vigil, Gail Bourgeois, Carole Brouillette, Barbara McGill-Balfour, Suzanne Paquet, in Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000, ed. Hilary Robinson, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, England, 2001, pp.123-124
Acts of Making and Embodied Margins, n.paradoxa, London, England, vol. 6, 2000, pp. 53-59
amour-horreur / love-horror, Textura, La Centrale, Autumn 2000, pp. 77-87
Defining Experiences: feminist exhibitions in the 1990s, n.paradoxa, London, England, p.9
Carla Whiteside: In situ Installation, exhibition essay, Art Gallery of Sudbury, Winter 1999, 4 pages
Coming and Going and Never Far Away, Matriart, vol. 7, n° 3, Spring 1998, pp. 20-25
Les Occupantes, exhibition catalogue, Venus Fly Trap Collective, 1996, pp. 16-17
memory is in the body, Matriart, original text and artwork, vol. 5, n° 3, 1995, pp. 20-23
Essay on the work of Edward Poitras, Harbour, vol. 1, n° 3, 1991, pp. 56-58
I have a frog in my throat, Harbour, original text and artwork, vol. 1, n° 2, 1991, pp. 38-41
New Music America, 1990, Musicworks, n° 50, 1991, pp. 49-53
The Partition Sisters, C Magazine, n° 25, March 1990, pp. 70-72
Counter . Counterpoint . Point, Harbour, n° 1, September 1990, pp. 21-25
No Place Like Home, C Magazine, n° 23, September 1989, pp. 75-76
Speaking along the Borderlands, Gail Bourgeois and Sheena Gourlay, Locations: Feminism, Art, Racism, Region, Parallelogramme, vol. 14, n° 4, Spring 1989, pp. 26-31
Il n’y a pas de vacance…, catalogue essay, Working Artist Exhibition, A Space Gallery, Toronto, 1989, pp. 9-11
Critical Paths, Status of Women Committee, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University, 1988, pp. 52-53
Feminism of Canadian Universities, Canadian Association of University Teachers Bulletin, invited curator for visual essay pages, vol. 35, n° 3, March 1988
Feminism and Art: a conference, FUSE, n° 48, Winter 1987/88, p. 31
Who is Rooming in Whose House?, catalogue essay, Maison de Chambres/The Rooming House Show, Montréal, 1987, pp. 12-24
Women’s Work: two years in the life of a women artists’ group, catalogue essay, Rye Express, London, England, 1985
Recent Work: 4 Women at the Brixton Art Gallery, Spare Rib, London, England, Issue 153, April 1985
Media interviews
Arbelaez, Karina, La voix des archives, La Centrale, Montréal, Québec, April 25, 2019 (artist)
Voia, Liana, Lines in nature / La nature des choses, La Fab, Chelsea, Québec. May 23, 2015 (artist and project manager)
Caplan, Mitchell, Click here, CHUO, Ottawa, May 14, 2014, Diefenbunker (artist)
Francom, Michaella, Apt 613, CHUO, Ottawa, Ontario, May 7, 2014, Art in Odd Spaces (artist)
Voia, Liana, Human Rights Research Centre, University of Ottawa, October 23, 2013 (artist)
Bourgoin, Jean-Maxime, Ruby TFO TV, January 24, 2013 (artist)
Lamontagne, Marilou, Radio-Canada, Ottawa, January 11, 2013 (artist)
Dufault, Jean-Feancois, Regarts, TV Rogers, Ottawa, January 11, 2013 (artist)
Frangione, Kristina, ARTICULTURE, City of Ottawa, December 2009, p.5 (artist)
Caplan, Mitchell, Click here, CHUO, Ottawa, November 19, 2008, Particle Factor (artist)
Fagan, Laurie, In Town and Out, CBC Radio One, Ottawa, April 26, 2008 (OSA Mentorship Program)
Sayej, Nadja, for Once Removed, Modern Fuel Gallery, 2006 (artist)
Dare, Patrick, Thieves clean out co-operative gallery, The Ottawa Citizen, May 31, 2006 (artist)
Beaumont, Stephanie, Noon Live Eye, The New RO Television, Ottawa, January 21, 2004 (curator)
Boucher, Roxanne, Manitoba ce soir, Radio-Canada, Winnipeg, September 18, 2002 (curator)
Pomerance, Shelley, All in the Week-end, CBC, Montréal, December 15, 2001 (artist)
Caplan, Mitchell, Click here, CHUO, Ottawa, April 18, 2001, Forwarded message (artist)
The XX-Files, CKUT, Montréal, 1999, amour-horreur / love-horror (curator)
Express Centre-ville, TCV, Montréal, 1999, amour-horreur / love-horror (curator)
Pulsart, CIBL, Montréal, 1997, (ce) corps in vulnérable (artist)
Radio Arts Report, CBC, Toronto, 1992, Significant Details/Détails Pertinent (artist)
Matrix, Radio Centreville, Montréal, 1987, Feminism and Art (conference session chair)
By All Means, CIUT Radio, Toronto, 1987, Feminism and Art (conference session chair)
Media coverage
Abma, Sandra, In Town and Out, CBC radio, January 14, 2017
Abma, Sandra, The List, CBC News: Ottawa at 6:00, January 13, 2017, 46:56
Laurenstin, Barbara en entrevue avec Véronique Couillard, Entre nous estivale – L’exposition Gail Bourgeois : Correspondence, tv Rogers, le 2 août 2016.
Canadian Art Must See, How deep is your Rhizome?. http://canadianart.ca/must-sees/must-sees-week-july-14-20-2016/
Miliken, Stephanie, The Art of Surveillance, Unpack magazine, 2016, https://iwchamilton.ca/unpack/theartofsurveillance/
Simpson, Jeffery, Ottawa Citizen, June 24, 2016. http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/ottawa-art-gallery-opens-host-of-summer-shows
Parsons, Crystal, What to expect from the Ottawa Art Gallery’s Summer Shows, Apt 613, June 27, 2016
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Public collections
Ottawa Art Gallery, 2020, 2018
The Diefenbunker: Canada’s Cold War Museum, 2014, 2013
City of Ottawa Art Collection, 2012, 2011, 2008
Collection Loto-Québec, 2010
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