Home Gallery Artists Painting Drawing & Prints Photography Sculpture Digital Media Fibre Art Other Media Historic Canadian Artists Additional Canadian Artists International Artists Exhibitions Media/Press It's All About Art   Videos   Podcasts   Blogs Services Art Rental Shipping & Taxes Contact Us Mailing List	Davida Kidd  Bio  ·     ·  Exhibitions:   Base Imprints  ·  ...on the other side of the stage Davida Kidd was awarded the prestigious Grand Prix (for traditional and non-traditional printmaking) at the International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland on September 19th, 2003. "The content of my art practice, for years, has addressed themes of domination: the psyche by the dream or ideal, the conscience by guilt, the personality by passion. Individuals often appear to be trapped or misguided by their own choices. Working in the general realm of manipulated photography, I like to blend the line between illusion and reality, cultivating the ambiguous line at which my subjects become invented creatures. We are, after all, human projectors. How we perceive what we see in front of us can change before our eyes. As much as the intrinsic documentary quality and "truth" factor of the photograph has been challenged, it still lends a kind of rational surface, which I enjoy manipulating in order to pull the viewer into my ambiguous narratives." [Photo by Grace Tsurmaru] Printable Version of Artist Statement and Bio. Click on the thumbnails below to view a larger image. The Navigator 40 x 38 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Sissy 40 x 80 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Plastic Eye Miracle 40 x 53 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper 2001 Inside My Pillowcase 36 x 94.5 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper 2003 Jane's Revenge 32 x 35 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper The Pool 40 x 49 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Storm Chaser 40 x 62 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper My Panoramic View 38 x 58 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Exquisite Drifting 38.5 x 52 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Hollow Cast 40 x 56 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Plug-In 40 x 46 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Deep Freeze 40 x 43 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Web Cutter 40 x 30 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Naked Picture 44 x 94.5 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Fire Walker ll 30 x 52 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper 2002 All in a Day Like Spring 35 x 53 Inches  mixed media on board Iron World 30 x 49 Inches  photograph on archival metallic paper Please email the gallery to view more works by Davida Kidd. Education 1995           British Columbia Institute of Technology: film course (16mm production and editing) 1988           University of Alberta : MVA Print-media, 1984 BFA  Photography, Print-media 1978-80       University of Alberta Faculty of Music:  Bachelor Music Program : Composition 1977-78       Grant MacEwan Community College, Edmonton- Music Program Jazz Composition 1974-76       Alberta College of Art, Calgary - Fine Arts (Painting, Printmaking) 1972,1974     Banff School of Fine Arts - Summer Sessions - Painting Solo Exhibitions 2006   Solo Exhibition National Museum, Krakow, Poland 2004   Solo exhibition PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg 2003    Base Imprints Solo Exhibition, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC 2000    Solo Exhibition  PLATFORM Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts, Winnipeg 1993   Solo Exhibition-Out of Senseless Nothing Falls... Open Studio Gallery, 520 - King Street West, Toronto, Ontario Solo Exhibition -Exquisite Drifting Extension Gallery, Print and Drawing Council of Canada,503-80 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario Solo Exhibition, Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gallery, Vancouver B.C. curated by Rosalyn Porter      1990   Solo Exhibition - Malaspina Printmakers Society Gal lery, 1555 Duranleau, Vancouver B.C Two, Three and Four Artist Exhibitions 2002       “Double Exposure” 2 Person Exhibition , Davida Kidd and Jane Greer, 1225 Park Avenue, New York 1998         Plastic Eye Miracle Davida Kidd & Gary Ouimet, Struts Gallery, Sackville New Brunswick 1994         Four Print Artists Okanagan Artists Alternative,Kelowna B.C. Wendy Christiansen, Tim Nash, Brenda Petays,Davida Kidd,          1992         Women and Surrealism: Contemporary Art Practice in B.C. Marie Kennedy, Davida Kidd, Lori-    Ann Latremouille and Performance-poet Sheri-D Wilson, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey B.C. Juried Exhibitions 2004 DNA Art & Science: The Double Helix Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa Florida Thailand New Media Art Festival 2004,  Srinakarinwirot University, Bangkok Canariasmediafest, Centro Cultural Ciudad Alta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 13th Tallinn Print Triennial, In Exhile Roterman Art Centre Tallinn, Estonia VI SALON INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE DIGITAL, Havana Cuba 2003 Canada Prints Now Guang Dong Art Museum China (invited) Lines of Site 2003: Confluent Visual Cultures, Boston University, Boston MA International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland Violence Online Festival, A New Media art project curated by Agricola de Cologne, media artist and New Media curator, Cologne, Germany               2002 Canada Prints Now Liu Hai Su Museum, Shanghai, China (invited) 2001 La Biennale Internationale d’estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres, Quebec Third Engraving Biennial of Ile-de-France, Versailles, France “Prints From Canada’s Pacific Province”  INVITED Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland International Works on Paper Invitational, University of Hawaii OUTSIDER  Art Exhibition , The Puck Building, Soho, New York 2000 INTERGRAFIA World Award Winners Gallery, Katowice, Poland The Print and the Process, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, Missouri “Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms & Materialites” Prague, Czech Republic 1999 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition U.of Hawaii at Hilo 4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Kochi, Japan 12th Norwegian International Print Triennial, Fredrikstad, Norway (Invited) 12th International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen, Germany Lines of Sight: Ideas, Forms & Materialities Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London England, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan 12th German International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Frechen Germany 5th Sapporo International Print Biennale 1998 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art,  Prague Czech Republic XV International Bienal de Ibiza ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Ibiza, Spain Triennial of 100 Cities: International Print Triennial Society, Kracow, Poland1997 Second International Print Triennial Colour in Graphic Art, Torun, Poland (invited) 4th Bienal Internacional de Grabado Caixa Ourense, Orense, Spain 22nd International Exhibition of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenija (invited) Vision 2000 Triennal of Original Coloured Graphics, Grenchen, Switzerland (Invited) International Print Triennial 1997, Kracow, Nueremburg Germany, Museum of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro Brazil Master Class: SIGHTLINES Printmaking and Image Culture, University of Alberta The 8th International Print and Drawing Exhibition Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China Prints of the World 12th National Culture Festival In Kagawa Japan Collections         Banff Centre For The Arts Permanent Collections, Banff, Alberta                 International Foundation Lyudmila Jivkava - Bulgaria         Canada Council Art Bank         Sapporo Grand Hotel, Sapporo, Japan         Museum of International Contemporary Graphic Art, Fredrikstad, Norway         Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.         Ukrainian Independant Centre for Contemporary Art - Ukraine         The Art Union Collection of Contemporary Graphic Art - Frechen, GDR         Keiyukai Sapporo Hospital Medical Corporation         National Centre for the Performing Arts: Centre for Photography as an Art Form,         Bombay,  India         Museum of Contemporary Graphic Art, Bitola, Republic of Macedonia         University of Alberta Permanent Collections         Collection of the Galerija Grafiicki Kolectiv, Beograd, Yugoslavia         Tama University Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan         Space Group of Korea: Arts Architecture & Environment, Permanent Collection         University of Hawaii Permanent Collection, Hilo Hawaii         Royal Canadian Mint, Ottawa Canada         Liu Hai Su Art Museum Shanghai China         Guang Dong Art Museum,    Guang Zhou,China         Smallville Productions Bibliography Distaff Eyes Reflect Surreal World ,The Vancouver Sun, Sept.12, 1992, p. D 9 , Ann Rosenberg. $1.49 day no bargain for Artropolis wares, The Vancouver Sun, Week Watch, October 23,1993, Lloyd Dykk, p. C1-C GRAPHEION: European Review of Modern Prints, Book and Paper Art, 1st Issue 1998, Central Europe Gallery and Publishing House, Czech Republic, p. 33, Ondrej Michalek Plastic Eye Miracle Argosy Newspaper, New Brunswick, Robert Bay, Oct 22, 1998 5 Canadian Print Artists and the Labyrinth, Catalogue, INTER-KONTAKT-GRAPHIK 98, Visions and Interpretations of the Eternal Myth in Contemporary Printmaking 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art Prague, p. 184-85, Walter Jule  (curator of the collection) “Davida Kidd : Personality of the Day”  GRAPHEION European Review of Modern Prints, Book and Paper Art  1st Issue 2000, Central Europe Gallery and Publishing House, p. 10-16, Dr. Rory Wallace L'art du trait Arts Visuels, Le Devoir, August 3, 2001, D7/8,  Marie Claude Mirandette Canada Prints Now at the Liu Hai Su Art Museum Shanghai Weekly, Dec. 19, 2002 p. C6     "Creating Canadian Prints Using Toys from China", Han Cho Shanghai Weekly, Dec. 19,2002. "Surveying Strange Not Silly Kid Stuff" Davida Kidd at the Ballard Lederer Gallery, Georgia Straight April 24th,2003; Robin Laurence, p.57 Poland News-Political, Business and Breaking Information, Sept 19 2003 CBC News in Brief, Arts Report, October 16 2003 Davida Kidd CANADA, Interview and article, Text & Cover Magazine, Warsaw Poland Awards 2003 - Grand Prix, International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland 2002 - Vancouver Artists Development Award (to learn Final Cut Pro Software) $5000 2001 - British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Project Grant $5000 1999 - Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition, University of Hawaii: Purchase Award 1996 - Hasselblad Austrian Supercircuit, Linz, Austria: Silver Medal: International Federation of Photographic Art 1995 - British Columbia Arts Council Visual Arts Project Grant $5000 1994 - International Print Triennial Macedonia: Gold Medal, City of Bitola 1994 - The 8th Space International Miniature Print Exhibition, Seoul, Korea - Grand Prize 1993 - 10th International Triennial of Graphic Art Frechen, Deutsland: Prize of Honour 1992 - Norwegian International Print Triennale Silver Medal 1991, 1993 - Sapporo International Print Biennale Sponsors' Awards 1987 - University Women's Club of Edmonton Graduate Scholarship, Canadian Federation of University Women 1986 - Alberta Heritage Scholarship Fund Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction for Academic Excellence  $20,000.00 1985 - Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship  $10,000.00 Teaching 1996-2002      University College of the Fraser Valley, Abbottsford, BC Department of Visual Arts: Studio Instructor Print Media -  50% ongoing position 2001-03         University College of the Fraser Valley Chair - Institutional Ethics Committeee 1995-96         Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design Sessional Instructor Media Division: Crossover Photography, Senior Studio: Advanced Printmedia 1994-95         Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC One year full time sabbatical replacement - Department of Fine Arts, Foundation Printmaking, Drawing, 2-Dimensional Studies, Committees: Guest Artist 1989-90, 92-93  University of British Columbia, Department of Fine Arts Full time Sabbatical Leave Replacement, Printmedia, Drawing, Foundation Studies Printable Version of Artist Statement and Bio. 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