Bio

Terry Billings’ public artworks, gallery installations and single channel works examine the relationship of nature and culture and investigate boundaries between public forms of understanding and subjective experience. She has exhibited in North America, Europe and India. She currently lives in Saskatoon, where she teaches at the University of Saskatchewan.

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RECENT RESIDENCIES
2018  Ayatana Biophony Residency, Chelsea, QC.
2017 The Hole Residency, RM of Vanscoy, SK.
2016 Landscapes and Silence Artist Residency, Kochi, India.
2015 Arts in the Park Artist Residency, Rockglen, SK.
2009-11 Artist Residency, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK.

RECENT SOLO / 2 PERSON / SITE SPECIFIC EXHIBITIONS
2016 Listen, site specific public work, Helen Schuler Nature Centre, Lethbridge, AB
2015 Compound Theory 2a, Paved Art and New Media – Toon’s Kitchen, Saskatoon, SK
2014 Haunt (Revisited), Nuit Blanche, Saskatoon, SK
2011 Flash, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK
2010 Blink, site specific installation at City Hall Building, North Battleford, Sk
2007-10 Tender, in aneco: new public art, Francis Morrison Library Window, curated by Ellen Moffat, Saskatoon, SK.

SELECTED  3 / 4 PERSON and GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016-17 Landscapes and Silence, Curated by Wayne Baerwaldt, Kashi Townhouse Gallery, a collateral project of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India. (Group)
2014 Hybridize: An Exhibition from the Saskatchewan Arts Board’s Permanent Collection, Co-operator’s Centre, Agribition, Regina, SK. (Group)
2013 The Name of Things, curated by Troy Gronsdahl, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
2012 Reflections: Greece in Canada-Canada in Greece, curated by Stephanie Sampson, Canadian Institute, Athens, Greece (Group)
2011 Sprawl, curated by David LaRiviere, Paved, Saskatoon, SK and SKOL, Montreal, QC. 2006-7 Forest for the Trees, curated by the intersperse curatorial collective, Lonsdale Gallery,Toronto, ON, Circolo Culturale Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy (Group)

SELECTED RELATED PROJECTS
2018 Mentor, Carfac Mentorship Program, Saskatoon, SK.
2015 Mentor, Artists by Artists Program, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
Nesting public program with Dee Gibson, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
2013 Sounds Like Audio Festival Selection Committee, AKA gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
2011 Transmitting Light, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK, exhibition and workshop facilitator.
2012 “Sounds Like…” Audio Art Festival, Paved, Saskatoon, SK, Audio Performance.
Bright Ideas Site-Specific Slide Presentations, North Battleford, Organizer and Editor.
2011 Big Things Sculpture Symposium, North Battleford, SK, Panelist.
2010 SKOL, Montreal QC, Artist Talk
From Idea to Moving Image, Frances Morrison Library, Saskatoon SK, Artist Talk.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2016 Landscapes and Silence, Part 1, ed. Wayne Baerwaldt. Landscapes and Silence Group, Kochi India.
2013 The Name of Things, (PDF Format) Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
Minibloc: A Sound Art Residency and Performance Project, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, SK.
2011 Sprawl, Paved, Saskatoon, SK and SKOL, Montreal, QC. 2007 aneco: new public art, City of Saskatoon, SK.
MPB Curates 2007, mediapackboard.org, Calgary, AB.
2004 Spectre, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK.
Active Ground //Le fin fond, City Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON.
Walking and Being, Video Pool, Winnipeg, MB.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1989-2019 Studio Sessional Lecturer, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK

RECENT MEDIA WORKS
2018 Kochi Dawn Chorus, Dec. 2016, (2 ambient asynchronous stereo audio loops) EXHIBITION: Leftovers: University of Saskatchewan Staff and Sessional Exhibition, Gordon Snelgrove Art Gallery, Saskatoon.

2016 Dawn Chorus, (2 asynchronous stereo audio loops installed the top and bottom of a stairwell using exciter transducers) EXHIBITION: Landscapes and Silence, Kashi Art Gallery: Townhouse, Kochi, India.

2015 Overheard Overhead, (stereo audio, 25:22 minutes) EXHIBITION: Ronin: University of Saskatchewan Staff and Sessional Exhibition, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, SK (2015)

2014 Compound Theory 2a, (Digital Video, Colour, Stereo, 2:29 Minutes ) EXHIBITION: Compound Theory 2a, Paved Art and New Media – Toon’s Kitchen, Saskatoon, SK (2015) SCREENINGS: Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Open City Cinema, Winnipeg MB, Videos de femmes dans le parc, Groupe Intervention Video, Montreal and Gatineau, QC, Under the Bridge, Saskatoon, SK. (2015)

2013 Unvanishing, (5:39 minute Colour Video Projection accompanies a live performance Jennifer Butler’s Seedlings) SCREENING: Surround Sound, Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra Contemporary Series, Paved Art and New Media, Saskatoon, SK (2013)

2011 Flash, (2 9-minute Colour Video Projections on a shaped screen, 11:30 Minutes, Stereo Audio) EXHIBITION: Flash, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK (2011)

The Artists at Work, (Digital Video, Colour, Stereo, 11:35 Minutes) EXHIBITION: Momentum, Chapel Gallery, North Battleford, SK (2011)

2010 Haunt (Digital Video Projection, Colour, Stereo, 15:46 Minute Loop) EXHIBITION: Sprawl, curated by David LaRiviere, Paved Art and New Media, Saskatoon, SK and Centre Des Arts Actuals Skol, Montreal QC (2010)

Chaos and Murder, (Digital Video, Black and White, No Audio, 5:11 Minutes) EXHIBITIONS: Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon (2010)

Blink, site specific 3 part colour video projection at City Hall Building, North Battleford, SK (2010)

2007-10 Tender (5 iterations of a Site-specific 2-part rear projection) EXHIBITION:
aneco public art, Frances Morrison Library, curated by Ellen Moffat, Saskatoon, SK