| 1996 – 2000 BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (Honors), Okanagan University College – UBC Okanagan, Kelowna, BC Canada |
| 2016 Somewhere in Between the Boundaries, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan City, Taiwan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2014 Upside Down Fire, Initial Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Boom and Bust - 澎呀派, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong, China, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Carry an Object with You, Capture Photography Festival, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Portable Walls, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge BC, Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang (Catalogue) 2012 Portable Walls, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang (Catalogue) 2010 Nomadic Recoils, Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä, Finland, with Roy Hopiavuori 2010 Point of Reference, View Art Gallery, Victoria BC, Canada, with Yuri Arajs 2009 Collections in Faith, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2008 Hope Floats, Alternator Gallery - Window Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada 2008 Open Spaces, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada 2007 Project Flyleaf in the fridge, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada 2006 Project Flyleaf, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 ACTions of mass construction, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2004 (un)common (playing)ground, Kelowna Art Gallery, curated by Linda Sawchn, Kelowna BC, Canada 2004 Life on Exchange, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada, with Jenny Long 2003 Conversations with a brick wall, Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach BC, Canada 2002 Systematic Confusion, Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2002 Pedestrian Hitch-hiker with a Chair, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2002 Art on the Fringes, Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Davida Kidd |
| 2014 Upside Down Fire, Initial Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Boom and Bust 澎呀派, Art Experience Gallery, Hong Kong China, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Carry an Object with You, Kimoto Gallery, Capture Photography Festival, Vancouver BC Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 Portable Walls, Maple Ridge Art Gallery, Maple Ridge BC Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang, Catalogue 2012 Portable Walls, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang, Catalogue 2010 Nomadic Recoils, Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä Finland, with Roy Hopiavuori 2010 Point of Reference, View Art Gallery, Victoria BC Canada, with Yuri Arajs 2004 Life on Exchange, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC Canada, with Jenny Long 2003 Art on the Fringes, Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada, with Davida Kidd |
| Jyväskylä Art Museum Äkkigalleria Esplanade Art Gallery UBC Okanagan St. Paul’s Hospital New Leaf Editions Maple Ridge Art Gallery Private Collections |
| 2015 Dave Bown Projects - 11th Semiannual Competition (Curators: Katherine Pill, Ron Platt, Kelly Shindler) Honorable Mention 2012 Judges Award Winner for Recoil with Ya-chu Kang, Make it Short, NW Film Center, Portland OR, USA 2006 Canada Council Media Arts Travel Grant 2004 Video Production Grant, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada 2000 Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant 2000 Helen Pitt Award, UBC Okanagan (Academic) 2000 UBC Okanagan Traveling Exhibition Award (Academic) 1999 Tuition Scholarship Entrance Award, UBC Okanagan (Academic) 1999 4th Place in the 19th Annual College Photographer’s Forum Contest, San Diego CA, USA 1998 Tuition Scholarship Entrance Award, UBC Okanagan (Academic) 1998 Kelowna & District Arts Council Bursary (Academic) 1998 UBC Okanagan Traveling Exhibition Award (Academic) 1997 Turik Crawford Architects Award (Academic) |
| 2009 Collections in Faith, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada 2008 Hope Floats, Alternator Gallery - Window Gallery, Kelowna BC Canada 2008 Open Spaces, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC Canada 2007 Project Flyleaf in the fridge, The Art Ark Gallery, Kelowna BC Canada 2006 Project Flyleaf, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada 2005 ACTions of mass construction, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada 2004 (un)common (playing)ground, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC Canada 2003 Conversations with a brick wall, Old School House Arts Centre, Qualicum Beach BC Canada 2002 Systematic Confusion, Ballard Lederer Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada Pedestrian Hitchhiker with a Chair, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC Canada |
| 2006 Fanny Kiefer Show, SHAW TV, Vancouver BC Panel Discussion, Free 103point9 radio broadcast, Toronto ON to Brooklyn New York USA 2004 North by Northwest-CBC Radio One, Interview with Paul Grant 2002 John Doe (Television-Series I), Vancouver BC, Episode 114/10, Jerry Wanek (Production Designer), Contributing Artist 2001 Dark Angel (Television-Series II), Vancouver BC, Episode 10, Jerry Wanek (Production Designer), Cover Book Artist Designer CBC News World, Vancouver BC, Interview with Sudha Krishna, Nov. 2001 2000 CBC City Beat Television, Montreal QC, “Gallerie Verticale”, Anna Simacapoulos, Aug 3, 2000 |
| 2001 – Present Owner, AboveWater, Gallery Technician Fine Art Services, Vancouver BC, Canada 2013 Co-Director, Fangliao Artist Village Residency, Fangliao, Taiwan 2009 Curator, Pacificthorn, Vancouver BC, Canada 2004- 09 Instructor: Mixed Media, Arts Umbrella, Vancouver BC, Canada 2006 Juror, CRES Media Arts Committee for Artist Residency with CFRO Radio, Vancouver BC, Canada 2001 Artistic Director, Arthur Erickson’s Waterfall Building Grand Opening, Vancouver BC, Canada 1997- 00 Board Member, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada |
| SAD MAG, Vancouver BC, “Silent Graffiti, An artist who hides his work in public”, Megan Jenkins, Issue No. 22, 2016, pg. 52 - 56 China Daily News, Tainan Taiwan, “Artists’ Recycle the Day to Day”, Joyce Lin, Mar 17, 2016, pg. B3 Keskisuomalainen, Central Finland, “Äkkigallerian näyttely syntyi roskista”, Riikka Mahlamäki-Kaistinen, Oct 29, 2015, pg. 21 Vancouver Is Awesome, Vancouver BC, “Upside Down Fire at Initial Gallery”, Sunshine Frere, Sep 19, 2014 Worldjournal, Vancouver BC, "Upside Down Fire", Sep 12, 2014 Oriental Daily News, Hong Kong, “Boom and Bust 澎呀派”, Po-ying Tai, Nov 3, 2013, pg. E5 Maple Ridge News, Maple Ridge BC, “Artist Duo creates “Portable Walls”, Feb 13, 2013, pg. 19 & 20 Preview Magazine, Vancouver BC, “Portable Walls: Christian Nicolay & Ya-chu Kang, Mia Johnson, February/ March 2012, pg. 30 SAD MAG, Vancouver BC, “Christian Nicolay, DRAWN festival and the revival of sketch in Vancouver”, Rebecca Slaven, July 2010 Keskisuomalainen, Jyvaskyla Finland, “Hylkyjen uusi elama”, Lotta Roukala, Sept 3, 2010, pg.23 Artist Magazine, Taipei Taiwan, “Creativity between Art, Ethics, and Performance”, Ya-chu Kang, Issue 422, July 2010, pg. 403 Lateral Learning, curated by Paul Butler, commissioned writing Dr. Jeanne Randolph and Mark Clintberg. Vantage Art Projects ("Learning as Gifting: the entrée to community through sharing") pp 69-70, 2010 San Francisco Weekly, San Francisco CA, “The Grindermen”, Silke Tudor, Issue 6/25, 2008 Galleries West, Vancouver BC, “Previews and Profiles”, Portia Priegert, V. 6 N. 1, Spring 2007, pg.34 The Georgia Straight, Vancouver BC, “Space, Place, history in the Neighbourhood”, Robin Laurence, V. 39 N. 1969 Sep 15-22 2005, pg.77 Terminal City, Vancouver BC, “Signal & Noise Festival”, Luke Meat, Issue 5.40.179 Apr 2005, pg. 11 Event, Kelowna BC, “Taking the common…someplace else”, Portia Priegert, May 2004, pg. 10 Woo Magazine, Vancouver BC, “Christian Nicolay”, Eli Bornowsky, Issue 5, V. 23 Feb 2004, pg. 7-10 COLOR Magazine, Vancouver BC, “Performance, Material and the Aesthetic”, Sam McKinlay, Issue 2 Sep 2003, pg. 12-15 Vancouver Lifestyles Magazine, Vancouver BC, “Making Marks”, Christine Hill Riley, Jan 2002 Issue, pg. 18 Showcase, Kelowna BC, “Winning Works”, Neal McKenna, Sep. 20-26, 2001, pg. 1 & 3 Famous Poets Society, Oregon USA, “A Passive Canopy” (original published poem), 2001 Mix Magazine, Toronto ON, “Mouvement Instable”, Nathalie Dussault, V.26 No.2 Fall 2000, pg. 46-48 The Okanagan Sunday, Okanagan Valley BC, “Artist will sit across the Country”, Portia Priegert, Jul 23, 2000, E-C6 The Mirror, Montreal QC, “Avant-garde Laval”, Cozmik Kay, Aug 3-10, 2000, pg. 49 Capital News, Kelowna BC, “Happenings”, Jean Russell, Apr 2000, Showcase, pg. 2 The Phoenix, Kelowna BC, “Fourth Year…”, Chris Mazur, Mar-Apr 2000, pg. B6 OUC Journal, Kelowna BC, “Second Take”, Allan Coyle, Apr/May 1999, pg. 4 The Standard Exhibit, Kelowna BC, “Beware, the Performance Artist Nurtures”, M. Scott Ault, Mar 1999, pg. 5 Photographers Forum, San Diego CA, USA, “Best of College Photography Annual 1999” The Daily Courier, Kelowna BC, “Of Earth and Body”, Turnbull, Oct. 1998, Showtime-C1. |
| 2018 The Art Academy AKI / Artez, Enschede Holland (Forthcoming) 2016 National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin County, Taiwan 2016 UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada 2014 Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada 2013 Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada 2012 Museum of Medical Humanities, Taipei, Taiwan 2012 Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Ya-chu Kang 2012 Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada 2010 Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan 2008 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond BC, Canada 2008 UBC-Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada 2006 Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada 2006 Rutland Middle School, Art Starts Workshop, Kelowna BC, Canada 2006 Panel Discussion, Free 103point9 radiobroadcast, New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) Deep Wireless Festival, Toronto ON, Canada 2005 McRoberts Secondary, Richmond BC, Canada 2005 Langara College, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada 2004 UBC Okanagan, Kelowna BC, Canada |
| 2017 House Games Triennial, Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä Finland 2017 Abstract: Design Showcase, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2016 Summer Mix II, Kimoto Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2015 Convergence, National Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand, with Ya-chu Kang 2015 Yuejin Lantern Festival, Yuejingang Riverside, Yanshui District, Tainan, Taiwan, with Ya-chu Kang 2015 The Great Scenery, Absolute Space for the Arts, Tainan City, Taiwan 2013 Origin within Nations, Air Force Heritage House, Pingtung, Taiwan (Catalogue) 2013 Duppini LIKE: The Old Post Office and modern means of communication, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2013 The Dying Eye, Community Art Space, Hangzhou, China, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2012 The Dying Eye, Museum of Medical Humanities, Taipei, Taiwan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2012 Taipei Original Festival, Songshan Culture and Creative Park, Taipei, Taiwan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang & S.H.E. 2012 Schmiede Art Festival, Hallein, Austria, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2012 SWARM, Good Luck Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2012 Excuse Me, How Rude?!, Gallery Fukai, Vancouver BC, Canada 2012 The Material Glitch, Quinary Art Projects, Vancouver BC, Canada 2012 Patchbox, Elsewhere Factory, Rome, Italy (Catalogue) 2012 Valcellina Award International Contemporary Textile/Fiber, Manlago, Italy, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang (Catalogue) 2011 UNIT/PITT series Ill Repute Project, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2011 Wind Heaped Up, CAMP Talganie Museum, Okinawa, Japan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2011 Drawing Connections, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy 2011 House Games, Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä, Finland, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2011 The Ocean in Us, United Nations Safe Planet Exhibition, The Roundhouse, Vancouver BC, Canada 2010 A.I.R. Group Show, Taipei Artists Village,TAV, Taipei, Taiwan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2010 The Group Show, Masik Studios, Vancouver BC, Canada 2010 Artwalk Vancouver 2010, 2-32 Water Street, Vancouver BC, Canada 2009 Once Upon a Pond....pond hockey and global warming, Esplanade Art Gallery, curated by Linda Sawchyn, Medicine Hat AB, Canada (Catalogue) 2009 Stone Soup, Grace Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, 3 person collaboration with Lisa Birke and Eben Bender 2008 Made in the West, Traveling Exhibition, Art House Gallery, Calgary AB, Canada, The Works – Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton AB (Catalogue) 2008 Cheaper than a one night stand 8, Old Storyeum Building, Vancouver BC, Canada 2008 Unite for Art, Arthouse Gallery, with UNICEF, Vancouver BC, Canada 2006 Regeneration, Arthouse Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 Return to Sender, 69 Pender Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2004 Soft Emergencies, Viking Union Gallery, Bellingham WA, USA 2003 Artropolis 2003, Juried, CBC-TV Studios, Vancouver BC, Canada 2002 O2txt: celebrating the visual word, Juried, Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH, USA 2001 Helen Pitt Triennial Exhibition, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada (Catalogue) 2000 Unstable Motion, Juried, Gallerie Verticale, curated by Marcel Saint-Pierre, Laval QC, Canada (Catalogue) 2000 Emerging, Juried, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada, with Diana Thornycroft 1997 Land Biography: Pa(y)ssages of the Okanagan, Juried, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada |
| DISCOGRAPHY 2015 Syllablesshooter, JonnyHawaii Studios Audiobeans, Vienna Austria, collaboration with Thomas Havlik 2011 Atlantis, Satan’s Din Recording, Sugar Hill GA, USA, collaboration with The Rita 2009 The Rita Skate, RRR Records, Lowell MA, USA, collaboration with The Rita 2003 Songs of War Ships, FAK Records, Edmonton AB, Canada, collaboration with First Aid Kit 2002 Godamage, Neo P Records, Edmonton AB, Canada |
| 2018 AREHolland, Artist Residencies Enschede, Enschede Holland (Forthcoming) 2015 Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä, Finland, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2010 Taipei Artist Village (TAV), Taipei, Taiwan, collaboration with Ya-chu Kang 2010 Äkkigalleria, Jyväskylä, Finland 2006 New Adventures in Sound Art, Deep Wireless Festival, CBC Radio One co-produced by OutFront & Charles Street Video, Toronto ON, Canada 2004 Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada |
| 2017 International Short Film Festival, First Selection, Juried, Kalmthout Belgium 2017 Kunst Film Festival #3, Berlin Germany 2017 THE „OKIEM MŁODYCH” FESTIVAL, Juried, Świdnica, Poland 2017 17th Media Art Biennale, WRO BIENNALE 2017: DRAFT SYSTEMS, Juried, Wroclaw, Poland 2015 7th Cairo Video Festival, Juried, Cairo, Egypt, with Ya-chu Kang 2014 VAEFF, Video Art and Experimental Film Festival, Juried, Tribeca Cinemas, New York City NY, USA, with Ya-chu Kang 2014 Wayfinding Film Festival, Juried, Traveling festival screening at Force Field Festival, Philadelphia PA & Wassaic Project, Wassaic NY, USA 2013 SESIFF: The 5th Seoul International Extreme-Short Image and Film Festival, Juried, Seoul, Korea, with Ya-chu Kang 2012 ANEMIC: Independent Film and New Media Festival, Prague, Czech Republic 2012 Portland International Film Festival, Portland OR, USA, with Ya-chu Kang 2012 Make it Short, Juried, NW Film Center, Portland OR, USA, Judges Award Winner for Recoil with Ya-chu Kang 2012 Shift, Headbones Gallery, Vernon BC, Canada 2010 Art’s Birthday: Retro Future, Juried, Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg MB, Canada 2010 Project 5, Bloedel Conservatory, selected for Paul Wong’s “5”, Vancouver BC, Canada 2009 VIDEOHOLICA, International Video Art Festival, 2nd Edition/ Peking Duck or Video in time of crisis, Juried, Varna, Bulgaria 2008 HI MOM FILM Festival #10, Juried, Chapel Hill, Carrboro NC, USA 2008 Soundwave>Series ((3)), Juried, ME’D1.ATE Network, San Francisco CA, USA, with Sam McKinlay 2007 International Short Film Festival, Juried, Fundacion Octaedro, Quito-Ecuador, South America 2006 NEXTFest, Next Generation Arts Festival, Juried, Edmonton AB, Canada 2006 HI MOM FILM Festival #9, Juried, Chapel Hill, Carrboro NC, USA 2006 Signal & Noise 2006, Juried, Video In Studios, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 Temporal Transmissions, Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John’s NF, Canada 2005 Neighbourhood, Centre A Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 HI MOM FILM Festival #8, Juried, Chapel Hill, Carrboro NC, USA 2005 Temporal Transmissions, Juried, Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada 2005 Duotone Arts Festival 2005, Kelowna BC, Canada 2004 Bien jouer, love, Underground, Calgary AB, Canada 2001 Asleep at the Wheel, Trinity Square Video, Toronto ON, Canada, with Stephen Foster, Gary Pearson, & Brian Gotro |
| 2012 Recipes for Walls, Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Ya-chu Kang 2010 Clamour and Toll, Candahar Bar Project, Playwrights Theatre Centre, curated by Eli Bornowsky, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Ya-chu Kang 2008 Atlantis, Vancouver Fashion Week, the Chapel, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Pacificthorn 2008 Birdman, Old San Juan Square, Puerto Rico 2007 Dracula vs. Jesus (Vote 2008 series), Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy 2006 BLIM does FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada 2006 Canadiana & All Places In Between, Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada, collaboration with Lisa Birke 2005 Amplify, Chief Dan George Centre, Vancouver BC, Canada 2005 AMPTANK, Klondike Route Claim #6, Dawson City YK, Canada 2005 Signal & Noise 2005, Juried, Video In Studios, Vancouver BC, Canada 2004 Raw & Cooked, The Western Front, Vancouver BC, Canada, with Eli Bornowsky & The Rita 2002 The Rita is in the Hospital, Miss T’s Cabaret, Vancouver BC, Canada, with The Rita 2001 Lucille Balls, The Last Chance Saloon, Wayne AB, Canada, with Neil Peters 2001 York Hotel: Grande Prairie, The York Hotel, Grande Prairie AB, Canada, with Neil Peters & Brian Gotro 2000 Hitch-hiker with a chair, Hitch-hiked across Canada (BC – QC) with a wooden Chair, Gallery Exchange with Alternator Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada, and Gallerie Verticale, Laval QC, Canada, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts 1999 Solo, Kastpo Castle, Kalymnos, Greece 1999 Question Christian, Voinkirche-St. Stephens Cathedral, Vienna, Austria 1999 Growl, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada, with Nobuo Kubota |