Curriculum Vitae

EXHIBITIONS

Escapement, kinetic sculpture, wood & metal 2013, by Heather Keung and Michael Connor

A Space Gallery, Toronto Mar 1-30, 2013

Middle Zone, site specific installation, wood 2011, by Michael Connor & Heather Keung

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), curated by Su-Ying Lee, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Apr 17 to May 22, 2011

Enduring Excellence, photo series 2011

CONTACT Festival of Photography at Le Labo Gallery, curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland, Toronto, Apr 30-May 28, 2011

Bending Over Backwards and Upside Down – Downside Up, video installation 2008

5.3 Paul Wong Projects, Mapping and Marking Commission by the city of Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Public Art, curated by Paul Wong, The Bloedel Conservatory, Vancouver Feb 2010

Art Gallery of Mississauga video wall, City Hall, Mississauga, May 2008

City Centre, video 2006, by Michael Connor & Heather Keung

The Centre Cannot Hold Prospects for Suburbia, curated by Brenda Goldstein, Toronto Free Gallery 2006

09-24-2002, video installation 2003

Let Me Slip Into Something More Comfortable, OCAD Grand Opening, Artsweek festival, curated by Fedora Romita, Great Hall, OCAD, Toronto 2004

RENDEZ-VOUS, Cultural Human Resources for the 21^st Century, curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland Radisson Admiral Toronto Harbourfront, Toronto 2003

Service, video installation 2003

GO WEST, WARC (Women’s Art Resource Centre) Gallery, Toronto

SCREENINGS

LIFTING FOR 30: 30x30 LIFT 30^TH Anniversary Commission, video

Museum of London, Aug 2012, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Jan 2012

Suite Suite Chinatown : Uncles and Auntie, video 2010

San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco Mar 2011
AmerAsia Film Festival, Montreal Mar 2011
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival creative collaboration curated by Aram Sui Wai Collier, Toronto Nov 2010
Winnipeg Film Group, NY Asian American Film Festival, DC APA film Festival

Bending Over Backwards, video 2008

E-fagia screening, curated by Victoria Moufawad-Paul, Toronto Oct 2010
‘Dissonat States’ Rendezvous with Madness Film Festival, curated by Deirdre Logue and Erik Martinson, Toronto Nov 2010
Reeling Dance on Screen: Gravity of DesireExposure Queer Fest, curated by Marsh Murphy, Metro Cinema Society, Edmonton, Feb 2010
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, selection by Vtape, Oberhausen, May 2009
Festival International Du Film Sur L’Art (FIFA), curated by Nicole Gingras, Montreal Mar 2009
NEW TORONTO WORKS: The Double Edged Sword Of My Face, Pleasure Dome curated by Bonny Poon, Iris Fraser & SR Palm Latvian House, Toronto Mar 2009
video in progress and Artist Talk, Kluubb, Artist Cultural Outreach, Hong Kong, Mar 2008

Upside Down – Downside Up, video 2008

The Secret Lives Of Urban Space, San Francisco International Asian American Film Festivalcurated by Chi-Hui Yang, Kabuki Cinema, San Francisco Mar 2009
video in progress and Artist Talk, Kluubb, Artist Cultural Outreach, Hong Kong, Mar 2008

Bullfight, collaboration with Michael Connor video 2008

NEW TORONTO WORKS: The Double Edged Sword Of My Face, Pleasure Dome curated by Bonny Poon, Iris Fraser & SR Palm Latvian House, Toronto Mar 2009
Researcher-in-Residence Talk, Presented by Western Front and Colour school, ECIAD, Vancouver 2008With Handstand, Mr. Chu, Family, and work in progress, video

Obsessions, with poem by Patria Rivera, film 2007

Poetry Projections II commissioned by LIFT, International Festival of Authors Harbourfront Centre, Toronto 2007

Handstand, video 2006

Constrictor, curated by Available Light Screening Collective, Ottawa Art Gallery Arts Court, Ottawa 2006

SUMMER LIGHT CITY, curated by Alissa Firth-Eagland, Presented in co-operation with the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Findland 2006
DEFINITELY INDEPENDENT, curated by Nicole Gingras, Presented by the Canada Council for the Arts Transmediale, Berlin 2006
Festival international du film sur l'art, curated by Nicole Gingras Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal 2006

Hanging, video 2006

Constrictor, curated by Available Light Screening Collective, Ottawa Art Gallery Arts Court, Ottawa
ACHTUNG BABY! Curated by Johanna Householder and Nina Czegledy, Tranzit ateliery, Bratislava, Slovakia, Casa Tranzit Haz, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary 2006

City Centre, collaboration with Michael Connor video 2006

Bedroom Community, My Mississauga Festival (outdoor public screening series)curated by Su-Ying Lee, Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2008
Lecture on Being Canadian, Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA), Guelph 2008
Still Camera Video Festival, curated by Jon McCurly, Toronto 2006

Performance Festival, performance collaboration with Johanna Householder 2006

TAAFI (Toronto Alternative Arts Fair International) GALA, Drake Hotel, Toronto 2006

Bantam AAA Art Team Marble Tournament, performance collaboration with Aubrey Reeves 2006

Scotiabank NUIT BLANCHE, curated by Jessica Rose and Patrina Ng, Toronto 2006

Losing to Winning, Video 2005

Real Reels Video Fest: Yellow Reels, Brown Reals

Presented by the Centre 2110 and QPIRG Concordia: Asian Heritage Month, Montreal

Trinity Square Video Artist Spotlight, TSV Gallery, Artist talk and screening, Toronto 2005

Bantam AAA Art Team Marble Tournament, performance collaboration with Aubrey Reeves 2005

Alley Jaunt, local art in local garages, Toronto 2005

Bantam AAA Art Team Code of Conduct, performance collaboration with Aubrey Reeves 2005

Manifestoes: Declarations For Examination, presented by Necessary Angel Theatre Company and the University of Toronto Humanities Centre,The Drake Hotel Underground, Toronto

Mom’s Advice, video 2004

Ladyfest, curated by Brenda Goldstein, Toronto 2004
Trinity Square Video Themed Commission Programme: Eat, Cinecycle, Toronto 2004

Grandma (09-24-2002 series) video 2003

Trinity Square Video Themed Commission Programme: Eat Artists' Talk & Screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto 2004

Mr.& Mrs. Chu (People & Place Series) video 2003

TSV: Eat Artists' Talk & Screening, Trinity Square Video, Toronto 2004
CONTACT, 7th Annual Toronto Photography Festival, curated by Jenn Norton Gallery 1313, Toronto
OCAD INTM Thesis show, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Self Portrait (Smile), video 2001

Trinity Square Video Artist Spotlight, TSV Gallery- Artist talk and screening, Toronto 2005
WARC 20TH Anniversary, workshop curated by Lisa Steele, WARC Gallery, Toronto 2004
Shaken and Stirred, OCAD Transit Gallery, Toronto 2002

CURATED PROGRAMS

Lost Secrets of the Royal

co-curated by Heather Keung & Ben Donoghue

Commission by Cindy Mochizuki, Louise Noguchi, soJin Chun, and Daichi Saito

A Space Gallery and Blackwood Gallery in partnership with LIFT & Reel Asian Nov 9- Dec 11, 2011

RMB City

co-curated with Siya Chen

Work by Cao Fei, at A Space Gallery in partnership with Reel Asian Nov 5 – Dec 11, 2010

Green Things & Mystery Soap

Curated by Heather Keung

Work by Oliver Husain, at Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton NB, Apr 1-31, 2011

“It Will All Be Different”

Co-curated by Heather Keung & Jean Paul Kelly

Work by Ming Wong and Jin-Me Yoon, Nov 12 – Dec 12, 2009 at Trinity Square Video in partnership with Reel Asian

Fn Fs

Curated by Heather Keung

Selection of feminist video from by Asian Women. Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film Durham, Ontario

Empty Orchestra (trilogy): Exhibition
Co-curated by Heather Keung& Maiko Tanaka

Justina M. Barnicke Gallery in partnership with Reel Asian & Gendai Gallery,

Video Commission with live performance at the Rivoli, & REMIX at Gendai Gallery, Toronto 2008, 2009 co-curated with Maiko Tanaka and Serena Lee.

Lightning Doodle co-curated by Heather Keung and Karin Haze

Work by Pika Pika (Japan), Live Interactive animation at Spin Gallery, 2006

AWARDS & HONOURS

2011 Canada Council for the Arts Audience and Market Development travel assistance (Rotterdam & Berlin)

2009-2010 Ontario Arts Council: Access Career Development

2009 Canada Council for the Arts Audience and Market Development travel assistance (San Francisco)

2007 Canada Council for the Arts Audience and Market Development travel assistance (Hong Kong)

2006 Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant to Media Arts Professionals (Hong Kong & Jeonju)

2004 Trinity Square Video: Themed Commission Artist Residency

2004 Carmen Lamanna Scholarship

2004 Dorothy Hoover Award

1999 Peel Scholarship: Education through Visual Arts

1999 Jason Verge Visual Arts Award

1999 Senior Scholarship Award

1999 Senior Arts Award

PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS

2011 Extensions presented by Gendai Gallery, at the Japan Foundation
2011 Canadian Art: Reel Artist Film Festival, Speaker on Nam June Paik: Open Your Eyes documentary

2010 Inside Out Legacy Video Project Guest Speaker

Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy and Cultural Exchange: Diaspora Leaders panelist

Asian Diaspora Conference, Asian Institute University of Toronto

2007 Politics of Representation / Representations of Politics A Space Gallery Symposium

Feminist Self-Representation: From Shaving Blindfolded to Shangri-la: The works of Patty Chang

Curated Programme: Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival Special Screenin

Moderator, Dim Sum Festival, Harbourfront Centre: Eve and the Fire Horse , director Julia Kwan

2006 Artist Talk, University of Toronto Visual Studies Department

2004 Artist Talk and screening: Cawthra Park Secondary School

BOARDS, COMMITTEES & JURIES

2010 – 2012 Media Arts Network Ontario (MANO-RAMO) Board Secretary

2010 Ontario Arts Council K.M. Hunter Artists Award in Film and Video selection panel

2009-c Media Arts Network Ontario Board

2009-c Toronto Arts Council: Media Arts Committee

2009 Toronto Arts Council: Nominating Committee

2009 Canada Council for the Arts: Shanghai Expo Jury

2008-2009 Trinity Square Video (TSV) Board of Directors: Chair

2005-2008 Trinity Square Video (TSV) Board of Directors: Treasurer, Committees: Executive, Personnel, Fundraising

2007 Toronto Urban Film Festival Jury
2007 20^th Images Festival Canadian Selections Committee

2007 Ontario Arts Council Media Arts Jury Member

2004 Planet in Focus Environmental Festival: Communications Committee

2004 Trinity Square Video Members Screening Committee

2004 Images Festival jury member: S is for Student

2003-2004 OCAD Faculty of Art Dean search committee

2003 OCAD Student Union External Gallery Space start-up committee

2003 OCAD Faculty of Art: Integrated Media Faculty search committee
2002-2003 OCAD Governing Council: Student Representative (elect)

2002-2003 OCAD Student Exhibitions committee: Curatorial Representative

2002-2003 OCAD Policy & Planning Committee

2002-2003 OCAD Academic Appointments Committee

2002-2003 OCAD Nominating Committee

2002-2003 OCAD Presidential Search Committee: Art Representative

2001-2003 Workers Arts and Heritage Centre Board: Canadian Federation of Students Representative

2001-2002 OCAD Student Union: External Director (elect)

2001-2002 OCAD Active: Facilitator