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