MARK PRENT : CURRICULUM VITAE
1947 Born in Lodz, Poland
1948 Immigrated to Canada
1970 BFA, Sir George Williams University; Montreal, Quebec
Address: 35 Bank St.
St. Albans, VT 05478 U.S.A.
Tel: (802) 524-5814 Fax: (802) 524-7191
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Action Art Actuel; Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada
2001 PURE; Taos, New Mexico U.S.A.
2000 Pink Eye; St. Albans, Vermont U.S.A.
1993 Centre d'Exposition Circa; Montreal, Canada
Galerie de la Tour; Basel, Switzerland
1991 Glendon Gallery; Toronto, Canada
Galerie Experanza; Montreal, Canada
1990 The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Canada
Galerie Esperanza; Montreal, Canada
1987 Powerplant Gallery; Toronto, Canada (catalogue)
Chaffee Gallery: Rutland, Vermont U.S.A.
Saw Gallery; Ottawa, Canada
1986 Galerie Esperanza; Montreal, Canada
The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Canada
1985 Forest City Gallery; London, Ontario; Canada
1984 The Isaccs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
Galerie Fucito; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1983 Galerie Matane; Matane, Quebec (Canada)
1982 Salle Tremble; Alma, Quebec (Canada) brochure
1981 The Isaacs Gallery, Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1979 Musee d'art contemporain; Montreal, Quebec (Canada) catalogue
Saw Gallery; Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)
Art Space; Peterborough, Ontario (Canada)
1978 Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, (Holland) catalogue
Sir George Williams Art Gallery; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1976 Kunsthalle Nuremberg; Nuremberg, (Germany) catalog
1975 Akademie der Kunste; Berlin, (Germany) catalog
1974 York University; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1971 Sir George Williams Art Gallery; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 "Re-Con-Figuration" Stewart Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec (Can.)
2001 Galerie Bernard; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
2000 Espace D. Rene Harrison; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1999 "De la Monstruosite" Galerie Espace D Rene
Harrison, Galerie Harison Art
International; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
"L'etat des Chose Photographique" Galerie Espace
D Rene Harrison;
Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1992 "Miniatuur-Museum" Reflex Modern Art Gallery; Amsterdam (Holland)
"Small Villages-Isaacs Retrospective" Art Gallery
of Hamilton;
Hamilton, Ontario (Canada)
1989 "Artluminium"; a joint initiative of Alcan
and Lavalin. Contemporary art
featuring the use of aluminum. Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1986-87 "The Human Touch"; Le Botanique. Centre
Culturelle Bruxelles (Belgium)
touring Liege, Knokke and Paris (France)
"Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque"; Alternative
Museum
New York, New York (U.S.A.)
1985 "East-West Visual Arts Encounter"; Bombay (India)
1983 Art Bank Exhitit; Galerie UQAM. Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
1982 "Art Against Repression"; Artspace. Peterborough, Ontario (Canada)
"The First International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition";
The University
of Hawaii Art Gallery. Honolulu, Hawaii; travelling through
U.S. and Japan.
1981 "Prince, Prent, Whiten"; The Agnes Etherington
Art Centre.
Kingston, Ontario (Canada)
University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, Hawaii (U.S.A.)
"Panic Internationale"; Maison de la Culture Rennes. Rennes (France)
1980 "Quebec Sculpture 1970-80"; Chicoutimi, Quebec
and
Musee d'art contemporain, Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
"Sculpture 1980" ; Maryland Institute College
of Art.
Baltimore, Maryland (U.S.A.)
"11th International Sculpture Conference";
Dupont Centre (Cochran
Annex) Washington, D.C. (U.S.A.)
1979 "The Birmingham Festival of the Arts"; Birmingham, Alabama (U.S.A.)
"Festival of the Performing and Visual Arts";
Wilfrid Laurier, University
Waterloo, Ontario (Canada)
1978 "Canadian Contemporary Sculpture"; Centre
Saidye Bronfman
Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
Ontario College of Art; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
"Performance"; Harbourfront Art Gallery. Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
The Isaacs Gallery; Toronto, Ontario (Canada)
1975 "Nine Out of Ten: A Survey of Contemporary
Canadian Art"
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,
Ontario;
The Gallery, Stratford, Ontario (Canada)
1974 "The Isaac Gallery at the Owens Art Gallery";
Mount Allison University
Sackville, New Brunswick (Canada)
Gallery Rebecca Cooper; Washington D.C. (U.S.A.)
1973 "Eighth Biennale de Paris"; Musee national
d'art moderne,
Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris (France)
1972 "Realism: Emulsion and Omission"; Agnes
Etherington Art Centre
Queen's University, Kingston Ontario and Art Gallery of the
University of
Guelph Ontario (Canada)
1971 "Royal Canadian Academy Travelling Exhibition"
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Quebec and Confederation
Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown P.E.I. (Canada)
1970 "Winnipeg Biennial" Winnipeg Art Gallery; Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
"Survey '70" Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Quebec (Canada)
DOCUMENTARY FILMS ON MARK PRENT
1997 "Prent's Universe"
Twenty-five minutes. 16mm color documentary
directed by Martial Ethier; Montreal, Quebec
1980 "Mark Prent: Overmood"
One-half hour. 16mm color documenttary; directed by Brian McNeil
Montreal, Quebec
1976 "If Brains Were Dynamite, You Wouldn't Have Enough
To Blow Your Nose"
One-half-hour.16-mm color documentary ; directed by Tom Burstyn
Briston Productions and St. Cloud Films: Montreal, Quebec
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Royal Canadian Academy (RCA)
International Sculpture Center
COLLABORATIONS AND PERFORMANCES
1996 "Pupae" solo Butoh Performance; Montreal, Quebec
1992 "Winds from the Future" Butoh Performance
Series, with Tetsuro
Fukuhara. Sculptural costume with fiber-optics by Mark Prent.
Tokyo, Japan
1991 "Tetsuro Fukuhara and BODHI SATTVA with Mark Prent
and Sue Real"
Dance performance tour by Japanese Butoh troupe choreographed
around Mark Pent's and Sue Real's original sculptural installation
and
costumes. Supported by the Canada Council Touring Office
and the
Japan-Canada Fund. Boreal Multimedia, L'annunciation,
Quebec;
National Gallery, Ottawa; Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal;
Glendon
Gallery, Toronto; Harbourfront, Toronto; Nippissing University,
North
Bay, Ontario; Artcite, Inc., Windsor, Ontario; Concordia University,
Montreal; Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, and The Triplex
Center for Performing Arts, New York City, New York
1987 "Le Festin Chez La Comtesse Fritouille"
Figure for the original production staged by Suzanne Lantagne
and her
company at Espace Libre in Montreal, Quebec
GRANTS & AWARDS
1996 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1993 Art Matters Inc.
Canada Council Project Cost Grant
1992 Canada Council Project Cost Grant, Japan-Canada Fund
1991 Canada Council Senior Arts Award, Japan-Canada Fund
1990 Canada Council Project Cost Grant, Japan-Canada Fund
1988 Art Matters Inc.
1987 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
Art Matters Inc.
1985 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Fellowship
Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1984 Canada Council Short-Term Grant
1983 Canada Council Short-Term Grant
1981 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1980 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1979 Canada Council Senior Arts Award
1978 Victor M. Lynch-Staunton Award
Canada Council Arts Award
1977 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1975 Canada Council Arts Award
Guest of The Deutsches Akademischer Austauschdienst
(DAAD) Artist in Berlin Program
1973 Canada Council Arts Award
1972 Canada Council Arts Award
1971 Canada Council Arts Award
APPEARANCES AS A PRESENTER IN MAJOR CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS:
1996 16th International Sculpture Conference Tech Shop; Providence, RI
Centre des arts visuels; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Santa Barbara Sculpture Symposium; Santa Barbara, CA
Bishops University; Lennoxville, Quebec CANADA
Centre des arts visuels; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
1994 15th International Sculpture Conference Tech Shop; San Francisco, CA
1993 International Sculpture Center Workshop; Oakland, CA
1992 International Sculpture Center Workshop; Montreal, Quebec
14th International Sculpture Conference & Workshop ; Philadelphia PA
.Panelist on "Exploration: Merging Disciplines"
with Edward Albee, Mineko
Grimmer and Moderator Ted Potter
.Panelist on "Making Art in the Recession"
with Oliver Tiura, Bruce Beasley and
Dan Dykes
.Technical Workshop on mold-making using live-models
.International Sculpture Center Tech Workshop; San Antonio, TX
1990 13th International Sculpture Conference; Washington,
DC
.Panelist on "The Artist's Perspective on Government Funding
and Censorship of the
Visual Arts"
1988 Ohio Association of Art Educators' Annual Conference;
Akron, Ohio
.Keynote Speaker and Workshop Presenter
1986 "All Arizona Sculpture Symposium"; University of Arizona at Tucson
1985 "East Meets West/Visual Arts Encounter": Bombay, INDIA
1982 Guest Artist -in-Residence at the Emily Carr College of Art; Vancouver BC
1981 Sculpture Symposium; The University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, Hawaii
1980 "Panic Universell", Maison de la Culture Rennes; Rennes, France
11th International Sculpture Conference; Washington, DC
. panelist re: Figurative Sculpture with Luis Jimenez, William
King and Manuel Neri
1979 Artist -in-Residence at Concordia University; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
1978 10th International Sculpture Conference; Toronto, Ontario
CANADA
.panelist on "Figurative Realism" with Edward Kienholz,
Duane Hansen and Ivan Karp
1974 "The Isaacs Defense Conference"; York University; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
PARTIAL SUMMARY OF LECTURE APPEARANCES:
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
University of Arizona, Tucson
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
University of Ottawa; Ontario CANADA
CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal, Quebec CANADA
York University; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Alberta College of Art; Calgary, Alberta CANADA
Concordia University; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Halifax NS CANADA
Emily Carr College of Art and Design; Vancouver, BC CANADA
Vancouver Society of Art, BC CANADA
University of Calgary; Alberta CANADA
University of Windsor; Ontario CANADA
ARTSPACE; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Off-Center Center; Calgary, Alberta CANADA
Dawson College; Montreal, Quebec CANADA
Brock University; St. Catherines, Ontario CANADA
Queen's University; Toronto, Ontario CANADA
Cambrian College; Sudbury, Ontario CANADA
Wilfrid Laurier University; Kitchner, Ontario CANADA
Beale College; London, Ontario CANADA
Trent University; Peterborough, Ontario CANADA
Johnson State College; Johnson, Vermont
Fanshaw College; London , Ontario CANADA