Etienne Zack

Born: 1976 Montreal, Quebec

Currently resides in Montreal, Quebec

Education:

1998-2000: Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver, BC Diploma of Fine Arts, Painting

1996-1997: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec Studio Program, Painting

1993-1995: CEGEP Saint-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec Fine Arts

Selected Exhibitions:

2010 (forthcoming):

Etienne Zack, Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec (solo retrospective)

Etienne Zack "New Paintings", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

2008:

"Rien ne se perd, rien ne se cree, tout se transforme", The Quebec Triennial, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC

"Etienne Zack: Occulture", Art 45, Montreal, QC

2007:

"Authorshop", Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

2006:

"Paint", Vancouver Art Gallery, (group) TINA B, The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

"According to this", Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (solo)

Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England (group)

Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

2005:

"In a certain place", Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA (group)

RBC Canadian Painting Competition: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario (group)

Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia (group)

Bau-Xi Gallery, Vancouver, BC (group)

AP4-Art, Geneva, Switzerland (group)

Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

"No Place as Home: New Art from Vancouver" (group) - Curator: Seamus Kealy - Projektrraum Victor bucher, Vienna, Austria - AP-4 Art, Geneva, Switzerland - Leipzig, Germany

"Living It", Center A, Vancouver, BC (group), Curator: Sally Lee

2004:

Galeria Marina Miranda, Madrid, Spain (solo)

East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, Norfolk, England (group), selectors: Neo Rauch, Gerd Harry Lybke MACO (Artcore), Mexico City, Mexico

"Futuribles"/Las Americas/ARCO, Madrid, Spain, Curator: Bruce Grenville

INFEST, "Disasteroids", Video In, Vancouver, BC (group)

2003:

Art Basel, (Artcore), Miami Beach, USA Artcore, Toronto, Ontario (group)

FIAC, (Artcore), Paris, France Disasteroids, Video In, Vancouver, BC (group)

Brussels Art Fair, (Artcore), Brussels, Belgium

2002:

Art Basel (Artcore), Miami Beach, USA

Turin Art Fair, (Artcore), Turin, Italy

Art Cologne, (Artcore), Cologne, Germany

"Generation Montreal Generation", Montreal, Quebec (group)

"Superpositions", Annexe III, Galerie Trois Points, Montreal (solo)

"Failure", Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, BC (group), curator: Seamus Kealy

"Objective House", 536 East 21st, Vancouver, BC (group)

"Awry", Artcore, Toronto, ON (solo)

"Nothing Really Happens, Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

2001:

"tropes", Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (solo)

Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC, (group)

2000:

Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (group)

"X-Pollination", Palace Session, Vancouver, BC, (group), Curator: Kelly Deck

"Passage 1999-2000", Centre d'Exposition de Rouyn-Noranda, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec (group), Curator: Jean Dumont

"Location of Space", Antechanber Gallery, Regina, SK (group), Curator: Abigail Scholar

Grad Show 2000, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC (group)

Sticker project, Public Art, Monreal, QC (group)

1999:

Third Avenue Gallery, Vancouver, BC (group)

"Object - Abstraction in Painting", Concourse Gallery, ECIAD, Vancouver, BC (group)

1997:

"Espace Dep Art", Belgo Building, Montreal, QC (group)

1996:

"Jeunes Peintres de Quebec", Galerie Van Gogh, Montreal, QC (group)

Scholarships/Grants/Awards:

2005: Winner of RBC Canadian Painting Competition

2004: Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant

2003: Canada Council for the Arts, Creation/Production Grant "C"

2002: Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant

1999: Brissenden Scholarship

1999: Mary Catherine Gordon Memorial Scholarship

Bibliography:

2006: "In Review - Etienne Zack, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver", by Sean Alward, Canadian Art, Fall 2006, p. 139

2006: "View from Vancouver - Art and Lifestyle in Holywood North Peripheral Visions", by Christopher Mooney, Modern Painters, July-August 2006, p. 100-101

2006: "Etienne Zack - Junk and the Realm of Ideas", by Dylan Cree, Galleries West, Fall/Winter, 2006, p. 56-59

2006: "A cheerfully subversive artist", by Clint Burnham, The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, May 20, 2006, p. F3

2006: "Etienne Zack" by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Volume 40, Number 2003, May 11-18, p. 55

2005: "Artists Exhibit Fresh Talent", Fall Arts Season Preview, Visual Arts, by Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, Volume 39, Number 1969, September 15-22

2005: "Etienne Zack, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver", Rewind, Canadian Art Fall 2005, p. 154-155

2005: "Etienne Zack Image Crusher", by Lee Henderson, Border Crossings, p. 71-79, Issue No. 95

2005: "Etienne Zack", by Dion Kliner, Flash Art, p. 124, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 243, July-September

2004: "Mixed Paint: Survey of Contemporary Painters", p. 98, Vol. XXXVII, No. 239, November/December

2004: Catalogue Essay by Keith Wallace, for East International

2004: "Overwhelming the Image", Catalogue Essay by Euginio Castro, Galeria Marina-Miranda

2003: "Resisting Symbolism", by Seamus Kealy, Artichoke, Spring, p. 15-16

2003: "Les Arts et les Autres, by Isabelle Longnus, TV 5, (Nothing Really Happens)

2003: Katia Tretiakova, L'Express du Pacifique, Vol. V, no. 2, p. 12 (Nothing Really Happens)

Collections:

Fasken Martineau Du Moulin, Vancouve, British Columbia

Granite Club, Toronto, Ontario

Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

National Bank, Montreal, Quebec

National Gallery of Canada, Ottaw, Ontario

Royal Bank Collection

Toronto Dominion Bank

Heenan Blaikie

Canaccord Capital