Hank Bull, Bio
b. 1949 in Moh’kins’tsis/Calgary, AB, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1976 - A Space, Toronto, “HP at A Space”, with Patrick Ready
1981 - Modern Art Galerie, Vienna, “South North”, with Kate Craig
1981 - Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, “South North”, with Kate Craig
1989 - Oboro, Montreal, “The Wind”, video installation
1989 - Gallery T.O.O., Vancouver, “Lumen Cinerium”, video installation
2012 - Wakayama Museum, Tokyo, “Open Sea”, paintings and video
2012 - The Apartment, Vancouver, with Glenn Lewis
2015 - Confederation Centre Art gallery, Charlottetown, “Connexion”
- Galerie de l’UQAM, Montreal, “Connexion”
2016 - St Mary’s Univesity Art Gallery, Halifax, “Connexion”
- School of Art Gallery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, “Connexion”
2017 - Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby BC, “Connexion”
- Franc Gallery, Vancouver
2019 - Franc Gallery, Vancouver
2023 - Gallery 881, Vancouver, “Standing Forms”
2024 - ADDITION, Vancouver, “LANDscape: Storm Bay Paintings”
- WAAP, Wil Aballe Art Projects, Vancouver, “LANDscape”
- Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1979 - Moderne Art Galerie, Vienna, Austria, “Audio Scene ‘79”
1983 - The October Show, Vancouver, curated by Daina Augaitis
Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, “Electra”
1983 - Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, “OKanada”
1984 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canadian Video, “Sax Island”
1985 - Biennale of Peace, Hamburg, “The Last Words of Gertrude Stein”
1986 - Venice Biennale, “Planetary Network,” telecommunications project
1987 - Dokumenta 8, Kassel, “Snowball Project,” with Eric Metcalfe et al.
1989 - Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria, “Radio Painting”
1991 - Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Canadian Video, “Sax Island”
1992 - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, “Radio Rethink”
1993 - Media Galleria, Turku, Finland
1994 - Leipzig Medienbiennale, Germany
1996 - Yokohama Citizen’s Gallery, Japan
1999 - Littoral, Lancashire, England, exhibition on Kurt Schwitters, “MerzMuseum”
2006 - Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, traveling, curated by Evelyne Jouanno
2013 - Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown, “Autumn Colours, after Zhao Mengfu”
2017 - Griffin Projects, North Vancouver, artist as collector
2021 - Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver, “Suspended Time”
2022 - Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, “Theatre of Painting”
2023 - MKG127, Toronto, “Supply Chain Issues”
PERFORMANCE
1974 - Hollywood, “The DeccaDance”, musical director, mail art and performance festival
Peanut for Mayor, Vancouver, musical director
1978 - Musée des beaux arts de Montréal, International Festival of Performance Art, “Vis-à-Vis”
1983 - Europe Tour, with Kate Craig, Martin Bartlett et al, Canada Shadows
1984 - Europe Tour, with Eric Metcalfe, performance
1985 - Europe Tour, with Craig, Bartlett et al, Canada Shadows
1988 - Japan Tour, with Kate Craig
1995 - Tokyo Art Conference, “Passage of Death” telematic performance
1996 - Tokyo International Dance Festival, “Distanz”, telematic performance
2005 - Interakcje 7, Piotrkow-Trybunalski, Poland festival of performance art
2015 - LIVE Performance Biennale, Vancouver, shadow play
2018 - 7a*11d Performance Festival, Toronto, shadow play, keynote residency
- Festivals & Symposia
1986 - Berlin Film Festival, premiere INFERMENTAL VI, Vancouver edition.
- Strategies for Survival, international artists’ conference, Vancouver
1987 - Biennale des Arts Visuels de l’Est du Québec, Matane
1991 - Images Festival, Toronto
1994 - Free Idea Zone, symposium, San Francisco,
- Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, Australia, keynote speaker
- Littoral, symposium, Manchester, “New Zones for Artist-Initiated Activity”
1998 - C’est Tous les Jours Robert, Périgueux, France, symposium on Robert Filliou
2001 - Para/Site, Hong Kong, “Space Traffic,” symposium on artists’ initiatives
2007 - Sâkêwêwak, Regina, “Transpose,” symposium, Candice Hopkins, Narendra Pachkhede
2009 - Nam June Paik Art Centre, Seoul, Korea, symposium
2012 - Reel Asian Film Festival, Toronto, “Autumn Colours after Zhao Mengfu”
2013 - Festival international de filmes sur art, Montreal, “Autumn Colours after Zhao Mengfu”
2013 - Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, “Acoustic Networks”
2014 - Zentrum fur Kunstlerpublikationen, Weserburg, Bremen, “Radio as Art,” keynote speaker
CURATING
1981 - Western Front, exhibitions (’81-’83), music (’84-86), telemedia (’81-’93), publishing (’85-’88)
1986 - INFERMENTAL VI, international magazine on videotape, Vancouver edition
- Strategies for Survival, international artists’ conference, Vancouver
1988 - William S. Burroughs, exhibitions and readings in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal
1991 - Tari Ito and Haruo Higuma, Canadian tour by Japanese performance artists
1993 - Building with Water, international symposium on art and ecology
1996 - Shanghai Fax, international fax exhibition, Hua Shan College of Art, Shanghai
1998 - Jiangnan, Modern and Contemporary Art from South of the Yangzi River, Vancouver
1999 - 2010 Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, co-founder, director
CANADA COUNCIL GRANTS
1978 - Arts Awards Project Grant, “HP Radio Show” with Patrick Ready
1980 - Arts Awards “B” Grant, production, “World Tour” with Kate Craig
1987 - Arts Awards Travel Grant, “MacBooty at dokumenta” with Eric Metcalfe
1987 - Arts Awards “B” Grant, production, “Research on Hearing”
1990 - Media Arts Production Grant, “Duster”, with Rebecca Belmore, Corry Wyngaarden et al
1994 - Media Arts “A” Grant research and production in Japan, Philippines, Taiwan and China.
1997 - Media Arts Production Grant,“Autumn Colours”, with travel to China
2005 - Interarts Travel Grant, Festival Interacje, Poland
2012 - Visual Arts Travel Grant, “Open Sea”, Wakayama Museum, Japan
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
MoMA, New York
Ludwig Museum, Köln
OCAT, Shanghai