Adrienne Crossman
b. 1988 | adriennecrossman[at]gmail.com
EDUCATION
2018 MFA Visual Art, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2012 BFA Integrated Media, Minor Digital and Media Studies, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Heaven is a Place on Earth, solo exhibition, Patel Projects, Toronto, ON
2018 Show up for the Messiness of How You Feel So You Can Better Create What You Need with Jane Trash, U-Hall Gallery, Truck Contemporary Art Space, Calgary, AB. Curated by Dana Buzzee
2018 in plain sight, solo exhibition, SoCA Gallery, The Armouries, Windsor, ON
2018 °º¤ø,¸MeMe PoOl / DrEaM PoOl°º¤ø,¸ with Kaley Flowers, 8eleven, Toronto, ON
2016 Fear of a Queer Planet, solo exhibition, White House Studio Project, Toronto, ON
2012 Neither Here Nor There with Ursula Handleigh, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2012 There’s Something in the Woodwork with Ursula Handleigh, SPARK, Syracuse, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Well Now WTF?, http://wellnow.wtf/,curated by Faith Holland, Lorna Mills, and Wade Wallerstein
2019 Solstice Typo, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
2019 Barbed Magazine: Issue 8 Launch Party, Outer Limits Lounge, Detroit, MI
2019 Long Winter in Paris, Le Station, Gare des Mines, Paris, France
2019 Flags, Supercrawl, James St North, Hamilton, ON
2019 Above the Belt, Below the Bush, the old Lefebvre's building, North Bay, ON curated by Minor Hockey Curatorial
2019 Power Play: Hockey in Canadian Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, ON. Curated by Jaclyn Meloche
2018 Nuit Chromatic, Usine C, Montréal, QC
2018 Too Much Crush, Glad Day bookshop, Toronto, ON. Curated by Jacquline Chia
2018 ...move or be moved by some 'thing' rather than oneself, Critical Distance Centre for Curators, Toronto, ON. Curated by Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau and Maude Johnson
2018 A Gently Worn Impression, LEFT Contemporary, Windsor, ON. Curated by Luke Maddaford
2018 Lavender Menace, White House Studio Project, Toronto, ON. Curated by Maddie Alexander
2018 Decadence, Pari Nadimi, Toronto, ON. Curated by Tak Pham
2017 Bad Geometry, Project Gallery Studios, Toronto, ON
2017 SHOW.17, Idea Exchange, Cambridge, ON. Curated by Iga Janik
2017 recurrence, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON. Curated by Maandeeq Mohamed
2017 Chromatic Festival, Studio L'Éloi, Montréal, QC. Curated by Hugo Dufour
2017 I’d rather be a cyborg than a god/dess, idratherbeacyborgthanagoddess.com, Toronto, ON
2017 ReWired: Art x Bissell, iSchool, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2017 Glitch, The Pharmacy, Carlisle, UK. Curated by Jamie F Simpson
2017 Toronto is for Everyone, Honest Ed’s, Toronto, ON. Curated by Carolyn Tripp
2016 Utopia is No Place, Utopia is a Process, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, VT. Curated by Jacqueline Mabey
2015 Carnival of Sorts, G Gallery, Toronto, ON. With Jennifer Chan and Lorna Mills, Curated By Jacqueline Mabey
2015 There Should Be Gardens, InterAccess, Toronto, ON. Curated By Amber Christensen
2015 Pale Blue, Milk Glass, Toronto, ON. Curated by Jimmy Cahill
2015 Are We There Yet?, Propeller Gallery, Toronto, ON. Curated by Nathan Heuvingh
2015 sidewalkscreening.gif , Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON. Curated by Mohammad Razaei
2014 A Secret Garden, OCAD U Student Gallery, Toronto, ON. Curated by Lido Pimienta
2014 Homer's Odyssey: A Simpson's Art Show, Videofag, Toronto, ON. Curated by Lindsay Cahill
2014 #queerdeathdrive - AGO First Thursday, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON. Curated by Jordan Tannahill and William Ellis (videofag)
2014 Error Message, Tsvetnoy Central Market, Moscow, Russia. Moscow Biennale for Young Art, curated by Elvira Zhagun and Dasha Birukova
2014 SYS.TE/M FAIL.U+RE, 2186 Dundas, Toronto, ON. Curated by Shauna Jean Doherty
2013 The Wrong New Digital Art Biennale, exotic forbidden torrents pavilion, Sao Paolo, Brazil / thewrong.org. Curated by Peter Rahul
2013 In The Image Of, CLGA Archives, Toronto, ON. Curated by William Craddock
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 (forthcoming: October) (un)happy objects, Artcite, Windsor, ON
2018 Once Removed, 1067 Drouillard, Windsor, ON
2017 Home*, R \ F Gallery, Toronto, ON
2015 100percentreal, Xpace Cultural Centre, thewrong.org, Toronto ON
2015 External Space Video Series, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2014 Synthetic Landscapes for Drake TV, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Transcending Binaries, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2013 The Aesthetics of Failure, Videofag, Toronto, ON
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2017 Regent Park Film Festival, EmacipAction screening, Daniels Spectrum Toronto, ON. Curated by soJin Chun
2017 Images Festival Spotlight Screening: Deirdre Logue, Innis Town Hall, Toronto, ON
2016 Drake TV: Spring 2016, The Drake Hotel Toronto, ON. Curated by Vanessa B. Rieger and Peter Rahul
2015 APN – Hyperlink 2.0, 233 Spadina Toronto, ON
2015 Wait (part of WADE IN), Mjóddin, Reykjavík, Iceland. Curated by Eva Isleifsdottir
2014 That Teenage Feeling (part of WADE IN), Videofag, Toronto, ON. Curated by Zach Pearl
2014 Afterhours: DTV GIF Art Takeover, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON. Curated by Rea McNamara
2014 WADE IN Screening, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. Johns, NL. Curated by Zach Pearl
2012 The Wandering Mercuries Film Festival, Badlands, Rochester, NY
2011 Dead (g)end(er) Launch, Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catharines, ON
2010 IMAGE + NATION Film Festival, Montréal, QC
2010 Inside Out Film Festival, Hogtown Homos Series, Toronto, ON
2010 Ladyfest - Feminist Film and Video Festival, Harthouse, Toronto, ON
PROJECTIONS / VISUALS
2017 Long Winter Year 5 Vol. 2, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2016 SMASH: Instant Classic, Gardiner Museum Toronto, ON. Curated by Justin Broadbent
2016 Maker Shaker, Craft Ontario, Toronto, ON
2016 OKAY Collective: Dispatch 01 Release, Electric Perfume Toronto, ON
2016 GAL Crush: Fundraiser for Girl’s Art League, The Garrison Toronto, ON
2015 Alvvays European Tour - Milan, Italy/Stockholm, Sweden/Amsterdam, Netherlands/London, UK
2015 Long Winter Year 3 Vol. 3, Toronto, ON
2014 Alvvays Live at the Opera House, Toronto, ON
2014 LIDO PIMIENTA for X AVANT IX, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON. Original Projections in collaboration with Peter Rahul
2014 BYOB – Power Ball, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON. Curated by Aamna Muzaffar
2014 Feast in the East 39, 3rd Year Anniversary, Jam Factory, Toronto, ON. Collaboration with Brianna Lowe and Lauren Pelc-McArthur
RESIDENCIES & MENTORSHIP
2018 Images Festival: Now What? Mentorship Program, Toronto, ON
2016 The Roundtable Residency, Toronto, ON
2016 Studio Beat: Digital Residency, studio-beat.com
2016 Emerging Artist Research Residency, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2016 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON
2013 La Baraque, Montreal, QC
2012 SPARK Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
SELECTED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
2021 ArtistTalk (virtual), School of the Arts, McMaster University,Hamilton, ON
2020 Working with Media Art in the Gallery, Workshop Facilitator, InterAccess, Toronto, ON
2019 Working with Media Art in the Gallery, Workshop Facilitator, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2019 Working with Media Art in the Gallery, Workshop Facilitator, Arts Council Windsor and Region, Windsor, ON
2019 Artist Talk, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor ON
2018 Artist Talk with Kaley Flowers, Moderated by Daniella Sanader, 8eleven, Toronto, ON
2017 ‘Fear of a Queer Planet', Artist talk, Symposium IV: Transformative Future Making: Objects, Places, Scenes, and Space, Uncertain Futures Conference, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2017 Home* Exhibition Panel Discussion, R \ F Gallery, Toronto, ON
2017 Art Intersections Meetup, Artist Talk, Gamma Space Studio, Toronto, ON. Organized by Akimbo, OCAD U and Charles Street Video
2016 Artist Talk, Artcite, Windsor, ON
2015 Curatorial Tour of 100percentreal, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2015 GIF Making Workshop, InterAccess, Toronto, ON
2015 Making Space for Media Art Panel with Zach Pearl, InterAccess, Toronto, ON
2014 Intro to Glitch Video Workshop, InterAccess, Toronto, ON
2014 InterAccess Mecha Kutcha (glitch art), The Drake Hote, Toronto, ON
2012 How to Datamosh Workshop and Artist Talk, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2019 - Present Assistant Professor, Studio Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2019 - Present Co-founder and Editor, off centre publication, weareoffcentre.com
2018 - 2019 Sessional Instructor, ART 1TI3: Making Art and Understanding Technology and Images, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON
2018 Research Associate, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2016 - 2018 Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2016 - 2017 Research Assistant, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON
2013 - 2016 Programming Coordinator, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
2016 Performer, Wendy’s Revenge by Walter Scott, Artscape Gibraltar Point Toronto, ON
2015 Ad Campaign Artist, Equitable Bank - Emerging Digital Artists Award, Toronto, ON
2014 Video Editor for Drake TV, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2014 Performer, Attila Richard Lukacs in Hollywood, LUFF, Toronto, ON. Directed by Jordan Tannahill
2012 - 2014 Class Assistant, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2010 - 2012 Production Assistant, Exploding Motor Car Studios, Toronto, ON
2012 Technical Assistant, Vtape, Toronto, ON
2012 Performance Assistant, Daniel Barrow’s Telling Stories, The Drake Hotel, Toronto, ON
2010 - 2011 Equipment Coordinator, Charles Street Video, Toronto, ON
2010 Video Editor, Independent Media Arts Conference, Toronto, ON
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2021- Present Member of Programming Committee, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2020 Juror, Ignition, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2019 - 2020 Board Co-chair, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2020 Juror, Equitable Bank, Emerging Digital Artists Award, Toronto, ON
2020 Juror, City Enrichment Fund, Hamilton, ON
2019 Juror, Cannon Selections Jury, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, ON
2018 Programming Committee Chair and BoardMember, Artcite, Windsor, ON
2018 Facilitator, Crit Night Vol. II, Arts Council Windsor & Region, Windsor, ON
2018 Facilitator, Cirt Night Vol. I, SoCA Gallery, Windsor, ON
2017 Juror, 11th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase, Toronto, ON
2017 Facilitator, Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Hackforge, Windsor, ON
2016 Juror, OCAD Career Launcher, Toronto, ON
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2019 Ontario Arts Council Emerging Visual Artists Creation ProjectsGrant - $5000
2019 Canada Arts Council, Arts Across Canada: Travel Grant, Calgary, AB - $1250
2017 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Windsor MFA in Visual Arts - $15,000
2016 Master’s Entrance Scholarship, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON - $1000
2015 Toronto Arts Council Emerging Visual Artist Grant, Toronto, ON - $5000
2015 Grant Recipient on behalf of Xpace: Toronto Arts Council Project Grant for Curatorial project 100percentreal
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Adi Berardini, ‘Adrienne Crossman:Fake Childhood, No Future,’ article, Femme Art Review.
2020Tyler Matheson, ‘Any other name would smell as sweet,’ thesis paper, Universityof Waterloo.
2019 ‘Exist,’ Barbed Magazine, issue 08: Beyond Measure: A Performance Art Survey in Metro Detroit and Windsor.
2018 Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau and Maude Johnson, '… move or be moved by some thing rather than oneself.' exhibition catalogue, Critical Distance.
2018 Rountable Residency 2013-2018, catalogue and artist publication.
2018 Daniella Sanader, ‘NO FUTURE,’ exhibition text and publication for °º¤ø,¸MeMe PoOl / DrEaM PoOl°º¤ø,¸ 8eleven.
2018 'in plain sight: Adrienne Crossman,' No More Potlucks issue 49: code.
2017 Philippe Pamela Dungao ‘coming home* to queerness,’ exhibition review for Home*, Peripheral Review.
2017 Jacqueline Mabey, ‘Not Mine Alone, Nor Mine to Own: Some Reflections on the Young Girl’, The Journal of Feminist Scholarship.
2017 Mohamed, Maandeeq, ‘recurrence,’ exhibition essay, Xpace Cultural Centre.
2015 Amber Christensen, ‘Ecologies,’ exhibition essay for There Should be Gardens, InterAccess.
2014 Tatiana Manina, editor. ‘Strategic Projects / Error Message.’ A Time For Dreams: 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Moscow: Moscow Museum of Modern Art and National Centre for Contemporary Arts. 138-139
2014 Shauna Jean Doherty, ‘SYS.TE/M FAIL.U+RE.’ exhibition essay, 2186 Dundas Gallery, 2014.
2013 Alicia Nauta, ‘Neither Here Nor There,’ exhibition essay, Xpace Cultural Centre. Re-published in VOLUME 4.