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Jess Perlitz Artist Statement literally) large megaphones, flaming army helmets and confusing rainbows. Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, M.F.A. 2009 Clown School w. John Turner, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada 2008 Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, B.A. 2000 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS 2009 Performing Land Arts: The Philadelphia Experiment Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2008 Everything Must Go Curated by Rachel Higgins, Century Plaza, Birmingham, AL Semi Juried show, curated by Elizabeth Grady, The Icebox at Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA 2007 Every Artist is a Person The Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA Emerge Canadian Sculpture Centre Juried Show, Toronto, Ontario 2006 Making Room Curated by Heather Nicols, 224 Wallace, Toronto, Ontario Voppi, Soppi, Yoppu VCU Visual Arts Gallery, Richmond, Virginia 2005 The Interval Bench LVBIA permanent outdoor installation, Toronto, Ontario Blissful Oblivion Outfront Radio Program, CBC Radio One 2003-2006 No Company t-shirt project An ongoing project run as an international mail-order shirt business 2002-08 Upwards Art co-founder and co-director of a non-profit arts collective, bringing art programming into Toronto’s public long-term care facilities. Toronto, Canada 2002 Overkill Kultur Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2001 Nostalgia Metropolitan Building, Long Island City, NY 2000 Outside Here UBS Gallery, Red Hook, NY BIBLIOGRAPHY Hamill, Meg “Death Notices”, Factory School Press 2007, Book cover image “Public Space and the Arts”, Spacing Magazine, Winter 2006, Pg 31 Walters, Helen “200% Cotton”, Harper Collins Publishers 2004, Pg 96 Gordon, Mary “Artist Puts Your Heart On Her Sleeves”, Toronto Star, May 10 2003 Le Phalanstere “Overkill: a New Diplomacy”, London, England: Booth-Clibborn Editions 2002, Pg 32 Bard Publications, “Word and Image” 2000 AWARDS Nominee - Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant 2009 Tyler School of Art Graduate Assistantship, 2008-2009 Imagining America: Scholars in Public Life, P.A.G.E. (Publicly Active Graduate Education) Fellow, 2007 & 2008 Canadian Sculpture Centre, the Emerging Sculptor Show Artcast Award, 2007 Social Development Canada, New Horizons Program Grant, 2006 Toronto Arts Council, Community Arts Program Project Grants, 2003, 2004, 2005 Ontario Arts Council, Artist in the Community Production Grants, 2004, 2006 RESIDENCIES and PROGRAMS TSKW (the Studios of Key West) AIR Studio Residency, Key West, Florida August 2009 Temple University ROME Art and Culture Seminar: Philosophy and Aesthetics, Rome, Italy June 2009 VCU Summer Studio Program, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 2006 |
 A Rainbow Every Other Day 2008 poster, fabric, bucket, body 8 ˝” x 11” poster, 3’ x 2’ x 7’ rainbow
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