CURRICULUM VITAE
Alissa Firth-Eagland. Canadian curator and writer.
Johan Lundh. Swedish curator and writer.
Items marked * pertain only to Alissa Firth-Eagland. Items marked ° pertain only to Johan Lundh. Unmarked
items pertain to both Firth-Eagland and Lundh.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2010: Nordic Culture Point, Mobility Funding*
Nordic Culture Point, Mobility Funding °
2009: Canadian Art Writing Prize (Runner Up) *
Nordic Culture Point, Mobility Funding °
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Curators *
Konstnärsnämndens Assistant Grant (with Anton Vidokle) °
Canada Council for the Arts, Independent Critics and Curators Grant *
2007: Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Curators *
2006: Chalmers Art Fellowship for Curatorial Research *
Canada Council for the Arts, Independent Critics and Curators Grant *
Canada Council for the Arts, Travel Grant to Curators *
Konstfack’s Director’s Grant °
CURATORIAL RESIDENCIES
2010: Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen, NO)
Deutsche Börse Residency Program, Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt am Main, DE)
2009: Nordic Artists’ Centre Dalsåsen (Dale, NO) °
Sølyst AiR Center (Jyderup, DK)
La Fonderie Darling (Montréal, CA) *
Platform AiR Centre (Vaasa, FI) °
2008: Baltic Art Centre (Visby, SE) °
2006: Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (Helsinki, FI) *
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2010: Secret Publicity–Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver, works in public space and publication
Learning from Vancouver, Bik Van der Pol and Urban Subjects , group exhibition, Western Front (Vancouver, CA)
08/09: Contemporary Conversations, international speaker series, Western Front (Vancouver, CA) °
The Fillip Review Panel, international art criticism panel, Fillip space (Vancouver, CA) °
2008: The Set-Up: Vanessa Kwan and Eric Metcalfe, group exhibition, Helen Pitt Gallery (Vancouver, CA)
Between Us–A Toronto/Vancouver Exchange, group project, YYZ Artists’ Outlet (Toronto, CA) and
Western Front (Vancouver, CA)
The F Word, group exhibition co-curated with Candice Hopkins, Western Front (Vancouver, CA) *
Herd Instinct 360°, performance project, Western Front (Vancouver, CA) °
I’ll Be Your Mirror, group exhibition, Galleri Konstfack (Stockholm, SE) °
2007: Self-Directed Residency, collaborative exibition project, The Centre for Culture and Leisure No 1 (Toronto, CA)
Kingdom Come, group exhibition, Images Festival of Independent Film and Video (Toronto, CA) *
2006: Recent Canadian Video Shorts, group exhibition, MUU Gallery (Helsinki, FI) *
Almanac, curated multiple, The Banff Centre (Banff, CA) *
Sound Madness 1 & 2, group exhibition, The Banff Centre (Banff, CA) *
2005: Feats, might, performance series, Fado Performance Inc and the Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art (Toronto, CA) *
Index: Six Perspectives on an Archive, group exhibition, Index Foundation and Kulturhuset (Stockholm, SE) °
Protecting freedom until there is no freedom left, printed matter project, YYZ Artist’s Outlet (Toronto, CA) *
SELECTED WRITING
2010: Interview with Gareth Long, Canadian Art, Spring Issue *
Interview with Will Kwan, Yishu–Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, Winter Issue
Art of Conversation–Interview with Monika Szewczyk, Hjärnstorm 101 (in Swedish) °
2009: Sven Lütticken’s Idols of the Market, Konstperspektiv (in Swedish) °
Letter to the Editor, Fukt magazine 7 1/2
Re: The Dialogical (with Irene Loughlin), The Fillip Review 10 °
The F Word, exhibition catalogue co-edited with Candice Hopkins, Western Front *
The Art of Disappearance–Interview with Krist Gruijthuijsen, C Magazine 101 °
Konsten att arkivera försvinnanden, Konstperspektiv (in Swedish) °
2008: Narratives of Capture: The Video of Gareth Long, exhibition catalogue, Oakville Galleries *
From Beijing to Paris to San Francisco–Interview with Hou Hanru, C Magazine 99 °
Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, C Magazine 96 °
Collective Conscious, The Fillip Review 7 °
2007: Fia Backström kommer hem med sina experiment, Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) °
2006: Just Enough–Interview with Vasif Kortun, Site Magazine 16-17 (in Swedish and English) °
Casting Kin: Desiree Holman’s Animations, YYZ Artist’s Outlet Magazine *
Trojkan som flippade, Paletten 265 (in Swedish) °
Gränstvist hotar biennal, Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) °
Utdrag ur kladdböckerna, Paletten 262–263 (in Swedish) °
Unplugging Performative Video Art, Canadian Theatre Review, Summer 2006 *
Negotiating Serendipitous Specifics: Sound Madness 2, Canadian Theatre Review, Spring 2006 *
2005: Einar Hylander–Att gå in i en tavla, Konstperspektiv (in Swedish) °
Under huden på mannen–Intervju med Leif Lindell, Konstperspektiv (in Swedish) °
2004: Intervju med Katarina Bonnevier, Konstperspektiv (in Swedish) °
Utdrag ur kladdböckerna, Geist 6 (in Swedish) °
2003: Apotheoses of Everything: Brown and Borins, Pleasure Dome *
EDUCATION
06/08: MFA, Konstfack University College (Stockholm, SE) °
05/06: Konstfack’s Curatorial Training Program, CuratorLab (Stockholm, SE) °
05/06: Curatorial Work Study, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre (Banff, CA) *
02/05: BFA, Konstfack University College (Stockholm, SE) °
99/03: BFA with Honors, Ontario College of Art & Design (Toronto, CA) *