Ian Skedd

Lives and works in Canada




EDUCATION

2009 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
MA Fine Art
2001 Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Diploma in Visual Arts


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Gallery Fukai, Waiting for the Fog to Clear, Vancouver, British Columbia
2009 Western Front Exhibitions, Sign Singing: Love Will Tear Us Apart, Joy Division,
1979, Deaf Choir, 2009, Vancouver, British Columbia
2006 Artspeak, DJ Booth/Listening Booth: two works, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003 Contemporary Art Gallery, Wood Slat Screen, Vancouver, British Columbia
2001 Trylowski Gallery, Four Proposals for Living Units, curated by Patrik Andersson,
Vancouver, British Columbia


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Blackwood Gallery, Title TBA, Mississauga, Ontario
2012 Triangle Space Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London,
Xamples, Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship Exhibition, London, UK
2009 Back Gallery Project Space, Until We Have a Helicopter, curated by Wes
Cameron and Matt Robertson, Vancouver, British Columbia
2008 Charles H. Scott Gallery, The Sound I’m Looking For, Vancouver, British Columbia
2006 Galerie Werner Whitman, Model Spaces, Montreal, Quebec
2003 Atelier Gallery, Drawing on Architecture, curated by Patrik Andersson,
Vancouver, British Columbia
2002 Charles H. Scott Gallery, Specific Objects, curated by Kathy Slade,
Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 Antechamber, Location of Space, Regina, Saskatchewan


PUBLISHED WRITINGS

2010 Interview with Josh Olsen, Zero1 Magazine, http://www.zero1magazine.com/
November, 2010
2009 Bradfield, Marsha. “Chelsea College of Art and Design, MA Exhibition, 2009.”
http://criticalpracticechelsea.org. Sept. 2009
Lee, Liza.“Back Gallery Projects presents an Until We Have a Helicopter
Project.” Artist Run, ArtConverge. Oct., 2009
http://artistrun.org/2009/10/23/back-gallery-project/
Karianne, “Video Silence.” The Machine for…predicting the accuracy of future
predictions, June 9, 2009 http://kblank.com/dev/wordpress/
Slater, Luke. “Lugs Will Tear Us Apart.” Drowned in Sound,
http://drowned insound.com/news/4137124?ticker
Varty, Alexander. “Signers Sing Joy Division Hit.” The Georgia Straight, May 28-
June 4, 2009, Issue 2162, p. 47


2006 Conner, Shawn. “Finally, architecture you can dance to.” The Georgia Straight,
February 23-March 2, 2006, Issue 1992, p. 49
2004 Todd, Jeremy. “A conversation with John Anderson”, Helen Pitt Gallery ARC
Publication, April 15, 2004, p.3
2003 Hill, Mary Francis. “Artscetera”, Westender, January 16-22, 2003, p. 18
Hill, Mary Francis. “CAG artists explore the spaces within-and out”, Westender,
January 23-29, 2003, p. 20
Brayshaw, Christopher. “Of Glowing Trees and Gaping Holes”, The Georgia
Straight, February 6-13, 2003, p. 70
2002 Andersson, Patrik, Judith Steedman, “Four Proposals for Living Units”. Inside
Magazines, p.10, 167-71. 2002
Laurence, Robin. “Specific Objects”, The Georgia Straight, November 21-28, 2002 p. 7


CATALOGUES

2006 Scene of Translations, Marianne Nicholson, Ian Skedd, essays by Lindsay Brown
and Wayde Compton, Artspeak, 2006
Translating the Everyday, Brownie, Rob, Annabel Vaughn, Post Script 19,
Artspeak exhibition publication, April 2006
2004 Specific Objects, essay by Kathy Slade, Charles H. Scott Gallery, May 2004


RELATED EXPERIENCE

2011 Guest Curator: Gallery Fukai, Christopher Kowal and Scott Massey, Underneath the
Surface: Cycles of the Sun and Scenes of Morbid Fascinations, Vancouver, British
Columbia
2011 Sessional Instructor Emily Carr University of Art + Design
2010 Sessional Instructor Emily Carr University of Art + Design
2006/ Vice President of the Board of Directors at the Or Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2008
2006 Visiting Lecturer 2nd and 3rd Year Sculpture Classes, Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design, Vancouver, British Columbia
2004 Visiting Lecturer 2nd, 3rd and 4th Year Sculpture Classes, Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design, Vancouver, British Columbia
2003 Visiting Lecturer 3rd and 4th Year Sculpture Classes, Emily Carr Institute of Art and
Design, Vancouver, British Columbia


AWARDS

2010 BC Arts Council Project Assistance for Visual Artists, Vancouver BC
2008 Arts Partners in Creative Development, Vancouver BC
2008 Cecil Lewis Sculpture Scholarship, UK