GOLBOO AMANI
gamani80@gmail.com
gamani80@gmail.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017 Blackwood Gallery, U of T Mississauga
2017 Unsettling Settlers Game Night, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
2016 Unsettling Settlers Game Night, Gamma Space, Toronto.
2016 Unsettling Settlers Game Night, Articule, Montreal.
2016 It's (Still) Privileged Art (2016), Urban Space Gallery, Toronto, Curated by Leaf Jerlefia.
2016 Smokers Choice, Galleria Mall, Toronto. Curated by Aisle 4
2016 Performing Pedagogies, Queens University, Kingston.
2015 Legs, Too, FADO Performance Art Centre, Artscape Sandbox, Toronto.
2015 Artist-run Newsstand by Jess Dobkin, Chester Station, Toronto.
2015 20/20 Vision Hindsight, Workers Art & Heritage Centre, Hamilton.
2015 LABOUR; Link & Pin, Performance Art Series, RATS9 Gallery, Montreal. Curated by Adriana Disman.
2014 Encuentro, Hemispheric Institute & Concordia University, Montreal
2014 MVS Graduating Exhibition, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto.
2014 Rhubarb Festival, Toronto. Curated by Laura Nanni
2013 Red Green Blue ≠ White, Blackwood Gallery U of T, Mississauga. Curated by Johnson Ngo
2013 SweatyBones, The Beaver, Toronto. Curated by Heidi Nagtegaal
2013 Sight. Specific. FADO Emerging Artist Series, XPACE, Toronto. Curated by Francisco Fernando Granados
2013 Happy Birthday Yoko Ono, Video FAG, Toronto. Curated by Andil Gosine
2013 Long Winter, The Great Hall, Toronto. Curated by Mick Brambilla
2012 Thoughts on Text: A Hammock Residency Project, Presented by MagScene with OCW Magazine,Project Space, Access Gallery, Fillip Magazine, and Hammock Residency, Access Gallery,Vancouver. Curated by Heidi Nagtegaal
2012 Big on Bloor Festival, White House Studio Project, Toronto
2012 Transmuted International Performance Festival, Ex Teressa, Mexico City. Curated by Pancho Lopez
2012 Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012 TO| DF, White House Studio Project, Toronto.
2012 Happenings, University of Toronto, Toronto.
2012 Katorseng Tumbok: Kinabag ngunit Deluxe, Kanto Space Projects, Makati, Philippines. Curated
by Patrick Cruz
2011 Drag Show, LIVE Biennial, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver. Curated by Patrick & Francis Cruz
2011 I (Heart) Canada & Canada (Heart) Me, SWARM Festival, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver.
Curated by Francisco Fernando Granados
2010 Backyard Music Festival, Hammock Residency. Vancouver. Curated by Heidi Nagtegaal
2010 Emily Carr University Graduation Exhibition, Vancouver. Curated by Liz Magor
2010 Winter Salon, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2010 Free Candy, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2010 Body Bodice, Emily Carr University, Vancouver
2009 Analogue: Panchromatic Pleasures, Emily Carr University, Vancouver B.C.
CURITORIAL
2017 7a*md8 International Festival of Performance Art & New Media, Toronto
2016 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto
2013 Sidewalk Screening, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto
2011 Under Covers, ArtBank, Vancouver B.C.
2011 Vancouver: A Pretty Shitty City, ArtBank, Vancouver B.C.
2010 Emily Carr University External Photo Grad Show, Lido Gallery, Vancouver B.C.
EDUCATION
2014 Master of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2010 Bachelor of Fine Art, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design
2005 Ontario College of Art and Design
TEACHING/INSTITUTIONAL
2014 Photography Technologist, Sheridan College
2013 Course Instructor, VI130 Visual Strategies, University of Toronto
2013 Teaching Assistant, VPSB77, Introduction to Performance, Tanya Mars, University of Toronto
Scarborough
2013 Dark Room Assistant, Dept. Visual Studies, University of Toronto
2012 Teaching Assistant, VIS120 Visual Concepts, Prof. Lisa Steele, University of Toronto
2012 Dark Room Assistant, Dept. Visual Studies, University of Toronto
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2017 Visual Arts Projects Canada Council for the Arts
2016 Visual Artists Grant Toronto Arts Council
2015 Visual Artist Grant Ontario Arts Council
2013 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2012 University of Toronto Fellowship
2009 Christopher Foundation Scholarship
RESIDENCIES
2016 The Lie of the Land, Research Residency, South Asian Arts Centre, Toronto
2011 Hammock Free School, Hammock Residency Artist in Residency, Vancouver
CATALOGS
2014 Abraham, Julia. Your Turn: Alternative Pedagogies in Public Space, Catalog, University of Toronto Art Centre.
2013 Ngo, Johnson. Red, Green, Blue≠ White, Catalog, Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery.
2013 Granados, Francisco Fernando. Sight.Specific., Catalog, FADO.
PUBLICATIONS
2016 The Scool of Bartered Knowledge, Syphon 3.2 (Spring 2016) on “Art & Pedagogy". Moder Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston.
2013 Emergency Index Vol. 3: An Annual Document of Performance Practice. Ugly Duckling Press. NY NY.
2011 Dong, Chun Hua Catherine & Rzepka,Ek, We Give a Shit Because We Care (Vol. 1 of An
Encyclopedic Introduction to the Fulfilling Science of Excrement). Unit/Pitt & Publication
Studio Vancouver ( 2011): 14-16.
2010 Amani, Golboo. “Silent Hunter.” Front Magazine, Western Front Society.
Winter, 2010/11,3 &10.
REVIEWS
2016 It’s Like Scrabble in India. http://www.canadalandshow.com/podcast/like-scrabble-india/
2016 Challenging the Colonial Narrative. https://video.vice.com/en_ca/video/challenging-the-colonial- narrative-why-this-artist-is-hacking-settlers-of-catan/583d92ac71e2be995a3b2453? Latest_from_VICE=1
2016 The Artist-run Newsstand, C Magzine Issue 131.
2013 Jagger, David. Performance Plus, http://www.nowtoronto.com, Mar.14-21, Vol. 32 No. 28
Now Magazine.
2011 Cottinham, Anne. The Opening: Francisco Fernando Granados, http://vancouverisawesome.com, Aug. 25.
2011 Klassen, Lois. Poetry Battles - The Drag, http://livebiennale.blogspot.com, Sept. 23.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITES
2017 Game Night - XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto
2017 Advisory Committee - Humber College
2016 Advisory Committee - Humber College
2016 Artist talk – Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group Concordia University, Montreal
2016 Curatorial Committee - 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art
2015 Curatorial Committee - 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art
2014 Programming Committee - Board of Directors Whippersnapper Gallery
2013 Artist talk – OCAD November
2013 Artist talk - OCAD March
2013 Performance Artist - Kiljoy’s Kastle Lesbian Feminist Haunted House by Allyson Mitchell
2013 Project assistant - Sharleen Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell
2013 Internship - Abilities Art Festival (now Tangled Arts)
2013 Artists talk - Sight Specific, FADO Emerging Artist Series, XPACE Toronto
2012 Artist talk - Transmuted International Performance Festival Ex Teressa Mexico City
2012 Artist talk - ADM Mexico City
2011 Artist talk - I (Heart) Canada & Canada (Heart) Me, 221A Vancouver
2010 Performance Artist - LIVE Procession of Performing Circles by Glenn Lewis.
2009 Artist Assistant - Kristina Lee Podesva, Vancouver
2009 Alternative Programming Facilitator - WOO Newspaper, Emily Carr University
