JOE KELLY

2815, 41A Avenue SE Phone: 403-244-1121

Calgary, AB T2B 2M1 Email: tomcod@shaw.ca | Website: www.joekelly.ca

SOLO SHOWS (video/film installations):

2004 Ultrasound; Neutral Ground, Regina, SK [video]

2002 Ultrasound; The New Gallery, Calgary, AB [video]
Panorama; Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI [film]

2001 Panorama; curated as part of the “Images Festival”, Art System Gallery, Toronto, ON [film]
Sanitary Sanctuary Statuary; Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary, AB [film]

2000 Panorama; curated as part of “Artweek”, Truck Gallery, Calgary, AB [film]

1999 Bawdy Parts; Truck Gallery – Parkade, Calgary, AB [super 8 film]

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS (video/film installations):

2006 Suite for M. Mucosa; curated as part of “Time & Space”, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, AB [video installation]

Aeroscope & Tyrachoscope; curated as part of “The Mechanics of an Image”, The New Gallery,

Calgary, AB [pre-cinema apparatus]

Aeroscope; Technicians Show, Gallery 371, Alberta College of Art and Design

[pre-cinema apparatus]

2005 Lensman; Artcity Headquarters, Calgary, AB [film]

Autoscope; curated as part of the “Calgary Animated Objects Festival”, Truck Gallery +15 Window [pre-cinema apparatus]

2004 Protovision; Trapdoor Gallery, Inaugural Group Show Lethbridge [video]

Duckorama; curated group show, Sugar Estate, Calgary, AB [film]

2003 Chronoscope; curated as part of “Obsolete Object”, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB

[pre-cinema apparatus]

2000 Un-titled; curated as part of “Let it Burn”, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB [mail art]

1997 Zero; curated as part of “Traditions Transformed: Calgary – The Urban Landscape”, The Triangle Gallery, Calgary, AB [film]

SELECTED SCREENINGS:

2006 Chronic; Independent Exposure, Microcinema's Touring International Screening Program

San Francisco, California and Houston, Texas.

2005 Chronic; Alberta Scene, Ottawa, ON

Chronic; Antimatter Film and Video Festival, Victoria BC

2004 Chronic; Images Festival, Toronto , ON

Icebreaker; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

2003 Chronic; $100 Film Festival, Calgary , AB

2001 Zero & Osteomamba; International Animation Festival, Hiroshima, Japan

La Dolce Velveeta; Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Vancouver, BC

Hey, Little Chicken; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

Cat Study; Alberta Insight – The Annual Media Arts Alliance Conference, Red Deer, AB

2000 Cat Study; $100 Film Festival, Calgary , AB

Cat Study; curated as part of “Connections To Collections”, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, AB

1999 La Dolce Velveeta & Vacation Film # Two; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

Zero; Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
Zero; Fantoche Animation Festival, Baden, Switzerland
Zero; International Velvet, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Zero; Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB

Zero; “Prairie Tales: an Alberta Film & Video Tour”, Metro Cinema, Edmonton, AB
Zero; Media City 5, Windsor, ON
Vacation Film # One; “These are the Films I Know”, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, AB

Vacation Film # Two; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

1998 Zero; Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Zero; Atlantic Film Festival, Halifax, NS
Zero; Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia

Zero; Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival, Victoria, BC
Zero; The Black Maria International Film & Video Festival (tour), Newark, New Jersey
Zero & Floont & Osteomamba; Images Festival, Toronto, ON

Floont; Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, ON

Vacation Film # One; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB
Zero & Osteomamba; $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB
Osteomamba; Short Circuit International Film Festival, Victoria, BC

1994 WA; Mediatech, Toronto, ON

RESIDENCY:

2005 Banff Centre, Optic Nerve Thematic Residency, (September – December)

2002 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers’ artist in residence (January – June)

AWARDS:

2003 Film & Video Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts

2001 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

Hey, Little Chicken; Best of Alberta Award, $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

1999 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

FAP (Film Assistance Program) Grant, National Film Board of Canada

1998 Zero; Nominated for Best Animation, AMPIA Awards, Alberta

Zero; Directors Choice Award, The Black Maria International Film & Video Festival, Newark, NJ

1998 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts

Film & Video Project Grant, Alberta Foundation for the Arts

1997 Zero; Runner up for Best Animation, $100 Film Festival, Calgary, AB

Osteomamba; Bronze Shortie for Animation, Short Circuit International Film & Video Festival, Victoria, BC

SELECTED PERFORMANCE:

2001 C. Mervin Dorsey; Mountain Standard Time Performance Festival, Calgary, AB

[Film performance with Alberta storyteller C. Mervin Dorsey]

SELECTED ARTIST TALKS:

2006 ART Now, University of Lethbridge, AB

2006 Art and Design Now, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

2005 Liberal Studies, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

2004 ART Now, University of Lethbridge, AB

2003 The Harris Show, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

2002 Liberal Studies, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, AB

2000 Art Department, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, AB

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Bourke, Katherine. “Subversive submersibles.” FFWD (Calgary, AB) 10 Oct. 2002: 26.

“Trains rolls into art gallery.” Guardian (Charlottetown, PEI) 11 Jan. 2002.

“Trains on the brain.” The Buzz (Charlottetown, PEI) Jan. 2002: 15.

“Fast Forward: A cross-Canada guide to the season’s best exhibitions and events in the visual arts.” Canadian Art 18.4 (Winter 2001): 22.

Robertson, Patricia. “Joe Kelly’s Panorama Is Trained on Media.” The Calgary Straight 14 Sep. 2000: 5.

Connery, Lin. “The Next Wave: Calgary’s Rising Young Artists.” Calgary Herald 4 Sep. 2000: AG1.

Zywotkiewicz, Richard. “Invasion of the low-budget best.” FFWD (Calgary, AB) 18 Nov. 1999: 33.

“Three films to be screened at gallery May 19.” The Lethbridge Herald 18 May 1999.

Everett-Green, Robert. “High-concept filmmaking on a low budget.” The Globe and Mail 24 Apr.

1998: D3.

FILM DISRIBUTERS:

CFMDC, Toronto, Ontario.

Microcinema International, San Francisco, California.