| Andrew Salgado (b.1982 Regina, Canada) Andrew’s emotive, large-scale and gestural oil paintings and visceral, sexually charged videos are an intense exploration of the body, identity, and sexuality through an approach that pre-dominates ‘paint’ as material and metaphor. In 2005 he was the sole painter to represent Canada in the 5th International Francophonie in Niger. His work has since been collected and exhibited internationally, including North America, Great Britain, Europe, and the Middle East. Recent achievements include the inaugural exhibition at Gift, London, the GLAAD Art Awards in New York, and inclusion in film festivals in Bulgaria, Germany, and Switzerland. A solo painting exhibition in Vancouver, Canada (2008) was widely praised, and a solo video exhibition in Oslo, Norway (2010) screened his controversial video-work nightly onto a public street. Recently he was awarded placement in the prestigious East Wing Academy Hang at London’s Somerset House alongside artists Tracey Emin and Gary Hume. In 2010 he was accepted for a residency at ARC Cairo, the distinguished artist-in-residence program at CAMAC, Marnay-Sur-Seine, France, and Compeung Village of Creativity, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Andrew has been invited to head curate an exhibition of emerging artists, entitled I Am Solitary I Am An Army for Surface Gallery, Nottingham in 2010. An edition of his work and theory, entitled Paint Your Black Heart Red, was published in 2009, and an excerpt of his theoretical writings will be published in A Visual Reader, an anthology by The Art Institute of Chicago Press in 2011. He has an undergraduate degree in painting and art theory from the University of British Columbia (2005), and completed a Master Degree from the renowned Chelsea College of Art in London, England (2009). He has worked closely with the art gallery and consulting agency Beers Lambert Contemporary Art, in curatorial and exhibiting capacities. Beers Lambert is located in Berlin, Germany. www.beerslambert.com Andrew currently lives and works between Vancouver, Canada and Berlin, Germany. |
| 2009 Chelsea College of Art and Design, Master of Fine Art. London, England. 2005 University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Fine Art and Film Studies. Vancouver, Canada. |
| 2011 Title TBA, Gift. 10 Vyner Street Gallery, London, England. 2010 Paint Your Black Heart Red, public video exhibition, Atopia Galerei, Oslo, Norway. 2008 Boys’ Night Out: New Paintings, Interurban Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2007 Queens & Cavalry, Framemasters Gallery, Regina, Canada. 2006 Paintings with People, Cumberland Gallery, Legislative Building, Regina, Canada. 2005 what i learned in university, with Jon Loewen – AMS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. 2004 Something Bittersweet, 5th Parallel Gallery, Regina, Canada. 2003 Gods w/ Shoes, Saskpower Gallery on the Roof. Regina, Canada |
| 2010 Shortlisted: Fringe MK Painting Prize. (Results Pending). Milton Keynes, UK. 2010 Corporate Purchase Award: Toronto Artist Project. Toronto, Canada. 2010 UNTAPPED Art Fair: Emerging Artist Award Recipient. Toronto, Canada. 2010 The Courtauld Institute of the Arts: East Wing Nine Academy Hang. London, UK. 2008 Saskatchewan Youth Award. Regina, Canada. 2007 Nominated, Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor's Arts Award. Regina, Canada |
| 2010 Compeung Creative Village. Fully Funded Residency. Chiang Mai, Thailand. 2010 CAMAC Centre for Arts.Residency, Marnay Sur Seine, France. 2010 Creatives in Residence. Lijiang, China. 2010 ARC Artist Residency Cairo. Residency Award recipient. Cairo, Egypt. |
| 2010 Lead-Curator, I Am Solitary I Am An Army exhibition. Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK. 2010 Juror and assistant curator. War & The Body exhibition for City University. London, England. 2010 Curatorial/consultation advisor with Beers Lambert Contemporary Art. www.beerslambert.com 2010 Tutor for 2010 Postgraduate Diploma students. Chelsea College of Art, London, England. 2009: Seminar leader for 2010 Master students. Chelsea College of Art, London England. 2009 Chelsea College of Art 2009 MFA Final Exhibition curator. London, England. 2009 Painting portraits for Children. Children’s Workshop S.Fraser University. Vancouver, Canada. 2008 Curator and gallery director. Interurban Gallery. Vancouver Canada. 2008 Ocanku Duta Amani. On-reserve Aboriginal research project. Qu’Appelle Valley, Canada. 2005 UBC TREK. Coordinator, designer, and liaison for inner-city mural. Vancouver, Canada. 2005 Sole Canadian painter selected from nation-wide pool to represent Canadian painting in 5th 2005 Francophonie Games. Niamey, Africa. http://pch.gc.ca/progs/ai-ia/fi-if/jdlf_e.cfm. 2005 Exhibition Committee Curator. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 2005 Created on-site learning modules for Indigenous persons’ artisans. Panama City, Panama. 2004 Arts Society Contributor. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada. |
| 2011 Title TBA, Location TBA. Rome, Italy. 2010 Art For Life, Vancouver, Canada. 2010 I Am Solitary I Am An Army, Curator and exhibitor. Surface Gallery, Nottingham. 2010 Emergence, Vancouver, Canada. 2010 UNTAPPED Art Fair Toronto, Emerging Artist Award Recipient, Toronto, Canada. 2010 Cortauld’s East Wing IX Academy Hang, Somerset House, London. 2010 Gstaad Film Festival, Gstaad, Switzerland. 2009 10 VYNER, London, UK 2009 Tate the Biscuit, Shoreditch, London, UK 2009 Art for Life Auction, Vancouver, Canada 2009 GLAAD Art Auction, New York, New York 2009 Affordable Art Fair – Recent Graduates, Affordable Art Fair, London, England 2009 Chelsea Will Show You A Brighter Future, MA Final Exhibition. London, England 2009 CHAOS, CHAOS G.A.S. Berlin, Mitte, Berlin, Germany 2009 Refutation OV, Pepper St Ontiod, London, England. 2009 Videoholica International Video Festival,Varied Locations, Varna, Bulgaria 2009 Public Platform Inclusion, Gallery Turn-Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2009 Askew, Fortescue Avenue Gallery, London, England 2009 Condensation, Bodhi Gallery, London, England 2009 Chelsea MAFA Interim Exhibition – Chelsea College of Art, London, England 2009 NYAXE, NYAXE Gallery, Palo Alto, California 2008 The Dead – Mountpleasant UBC Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2007 New Portraits, Kohon Designs Inc. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 2006 Paintings with People, Cumberland Art Gallery, Regina, Canada 2005 The 5th Games of the International Francophonie, Niamey, Niger, Africa 2005 UBC BFA Graduation Exhibition – Tinseltown, Vancouver, Canada 2004 One Lonely Night – AMS Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2004 We the City – Bishop’s Court Gallery, Regina, Canada 2004 NonFiction – Hut M18, Vancouver, Canada. |
| Peter Witham-Gallagher. London, UK. Melek El Nimer. Beirut, Lebanon. Niko and Geli Starbatty. Munich, Germany, and London, UK. Louis Lazzarra, Los Angeles, California. Roth Niven, Vancouver, Canada. Drs. Jacquie and Morris Schumiatcher. Glass installation for private collection. Regina, Canada. |
| 2011 “Theorizing Masculinity and Sexuality: Marginalization, Narcissism, and the Sexual Body.” 2011 Published in A Visual Reader. 2011. Chicago Institute of the Arts. Chicago, USA. 2010 “Explicit Paint in Art History.” Lecture. International Journal of Arts & Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, USA. Presented at Bad Hofgastein, Austria. 2010 Courtauld Institute’s East Wing IX Academy Hang. Exhibition publication. London, UK. 2010 “Designing a Concept...” Lecture. Int’ Conference on Technology & Society. Berlin, Germany. 2009 Paint Your Black Heart Red. Published in collaboration with Beers Lambert. Available online at www.andrewsalgado.com/pybhr.htm 2008 “Prose and Contemporary Art.” Lecture, University of Regina for English Dean Lynn Wells. 2005 “Plender’s Masterpiece” Online: Saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/olivia_plender_articles.htm 2004 Multidisciplinary Research Conference, peer-reviewed presentations on “Postmodern Condition” and “Death of the Museum Space”. University of British Columbia, Canada. |
| 2010 The Validation of Art: Internet Platforms on Process of Contemporary Artists. Sara Forsythe. 2009 Skewedmagazine.com/SkewedMagazine/past_issues_files/skewed%20%2004.pdf 2008 Xtra West, www.xtra.ca/public/Vancouver/Portrait_of_the_artist_as_a_bloody_man-5454.aspx 2008 Beyond Robson www.beyondrobson.com/arts/2008/09/swarm_08_featuring_andrew_salgado |