MARLENE CREATES
Born in Montreal, 1952 /
Née à Montréal en 1952.
EDUCATION / ÉTUDES
Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario, Bachelor of Art Education
(Hons.), 1970-74
Memorial
University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, English 4911, Advanced
Creative Writing in Poetry, 2006
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Biology 3610,
Boreal Ecology (audited), 2014
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS
INDIVIDUELLES
Marlene Creates: Places, Paths, and Pauses / Marlene
Creates : Lieux, sentiers, et pauses, a touring
retrospective:
2017 Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Video tour of the
exhibition by Jon Pedersen:
https://vimeo.com/252866964
2018
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Confederation Centre Art Gallery,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
2019 Carleton
University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland.
What
Came to Light at Blast Hole Pond River, Newfoundland
2017
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival.
2023 Museum
London, Rhino Lounge, presented by the Embassy Cultural House
in partnership with Wordsfest, London, Ontario.
To the Blast Hole Pond River
2017 Fogo
Island Gallery, Joe Batt's Arm, Newfoundland.
A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow
2018
Canadian Language Museum, Glendon Gallery, Glendon College,
Toronto
2015 Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival
Tent Gallery,
Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Marlene Creates:
selected works from 30 years, 1982-2012
2013
Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, a Featured Exhibition of the
Scotiabank CONTACT
Photography Festival.
Marlene
Creates: Signs of Our Time
2009
McIntosh
Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
2007
Cambridge
Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
2006
Tom
Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2005
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland
2005
Saint
Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Echoes of Grace
2007
A
Space Gallery, Toronto.
2005
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward
Island
2004
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland, invitational
exhibition for the 20th anniversary of Eastern Edge.
Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994
2003
Paved
Art + New Media, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
2001
University
of New Brunswick Art Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Dwelling and Transience
2001
Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
Orientation
2001
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.
Questions about the Place, Nova Scotia 1998
2000
Acadia
University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Language and Land Use, Alberta 1993
2000
Medicine
Hat Museum and Art Gallery, Alberta.
Places of Presence and other works
1999
Watershed
Media Centre, Bristol, England.
Intersections: Places, General Regulations, and Memories,
Mount Saint Vincent,
Halifax 1998
1998
installed
on the grounds of Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax,
a project of MSVU Art
Gallery for the Mount's 125th anniversary.
Limites municipales, Québec 1997
1997
Vu,
Québec, Québec, for Trois fois Trois Paysages.
The Colour of My Voice, the Colour of the Land,
Newfoundland 1996 and Selected Works
1997
McMichael
Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
Language and Land Use, Newfoundland 1994
1998
Mount
Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1997
Art
Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
1996
Thunder
Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1996
Timmins Museum, Timmins, Ontario
1996
Emma
Ciotti Gallery, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
1995
Collins
Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, for Fotofeis
International
Festival of Photography
1995
Eastern Edge Rogue Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Marlene Creates: Narratives of Place 1988-1994 / Contes
mémographiques 1988-1994
1996
Stewart
Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec.
Persistance de la géographie
1995
La
Chambre blanche, Québec, Québec.
Marlene
Creates: Landworks 1979-1991
1993
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and
tour:
1993 Carleton University Art
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontar
1993
Southern Alberta Art
Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta
1994
Confederation
Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1994
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1995
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Language
and Land Use, Alberta 1993
1993
Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, and tour:
1995
Cherry
Coulee Christian Academy, Bow Island, Alberta
1995
Medicine Hat Community College, Alberta.
Places of Presence: Newfoundland kin and ancestral land,
Newfoundland 1989-1991
1994
Southern
Newfoundland Seamen’s Museum, Grand Bank, Newfoundland
1994
Mary March Regional Museum (renamed Demasduit Regional Museum
in 2022), Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland
1993
Gallery
44, Toronto, Ontario.
Marlene Creates
1993
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, invitational exhibition for the
20th anniversary of SAW Gallery.
A River, an Island, a
City: the Persistence of Geography, Montreal 1992 /
1992
Sun
Life Building, Montreal, Quebec.
The
Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories,
Labrador 1988
1991
Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario
1991
Vik Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, for The Works Festival
1991
Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick
1990
Ufundi
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1990
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, British Columbia
1989
14th
Labrador Creative Arts Festival, Happy Valley-Goose Bay,
Labrador
1989
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland
1989
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Distance Between Two Points is Measured in Memories
1987
Gallery
101, Ottawa, Ontario.
Landworks 1979-1985
1987
Northern
Life Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Fort Smith, NWT.
Marlene Creates (Art Gallery of Ontario, Extension
Services)
1986
White
Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
1984
Artcite,
Windsor, Ontario
1983
National
Exhibition Centre, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1982
Confederation
College, Kenora, Ontario.
Landworks: Baffin Island 1985
1986
Labrador
Institute of Northern Studies, Happy Valley-Goose Bay,
Labrador.
Landworks: Newfoundland 1982
1986
Arts
and Culture Centres, Newfoundland, provincial tour.
Places, Paths, Memories
1986
Stewart
Hall Art Gallery, Pointe Claire, Quebec.
Des lieux, des sentiers, des souvenirs
1985
Vu,
Québec, Québec.
A Pothole and a Petroglyph, Vancouver Island 1984
1985
Avenue
Bookshop, Ottawa, Ontario.
Paper, Stones and Water
1984-88
Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography touring exhibition:
The
Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
National
Film Board of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Centre
d’exposition de St-Hyacinthe, Québec
Temiskaming
Art Gallery, Haileybury, Ontario
Photo
Union Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario
W.B.
Lewis Library, Deep River, Ontario
Bibliothèque
de Brossard, Brossard, Québec
Musée
Minéralogique et d’Histoire Minière, Asbestos, Québec
Edmonton
Public Library, Edmonton, Alberta.
Paper and Place
1983
Dunlop
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1983
Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, Alberta.
Pierres et Papier
1983
L’Imagier
centre d’exposition, Aylmer, Québec.
On Site
1982
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Paper, Stones and Water: Ireland 1981
1981
Algonquin
College Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Paper, Stones and Water
1981
Art
and Research Exchange, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1981
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
1981
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
1980
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Two Stories to Every Side
1979
Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton, New Brunswick
1978
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
LIVE-ART EVENTS / PERFORMANCES
A
Devil's Blanket
2021 composed by Duane Andrews based on Marlene
Creates's A Newfoundland Treasury of Terms for Ice and
Snow,
premiere
performance by the Harbourlight Quartet (Nancy Case-Oates,
violin; Mado Christie, piano;
Amy Collyer-Holmes, cello; Kate Read, viola), First Light Centre for Performance & Creativity, St. John's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBS9p1fN-Ik
(start at 35:35–54:36).
2022 Sound Symposium XX, performed by the Harbourlight Quartet, D.F. Cook Recital Hall, Memorial University, St. John's.
2024
Single launch, performed by the Harbourlight Quartet,
Bannerman Brewery, St. John's.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lbZ24VcsJNvPtloPGBkrFRkx_DwOn7Q9/view?usp=drive_link
The Boreal Poetry Garden, in situ performances:
2024 for Grade 4 students from Beachy Cove Elementary for the Year of the Arts with collaborators Katie Baggs, singer-songwriter on guitar and ukulele;
Christine Carter, clarinet and moose horn; Jack Eastwood, shadow puppets of local mammals; Florian Hoefner, accordion and
percussion; Don McKay, nature poetry and moose horn; Louise
Moyes, contemporary dance; and Laura Temple, natural history.
2022&2023 Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Department of English, Nature Writing,
graduate Creative Writing course.
2019 Rambles
and Mammals: Feet Following Paws and Hooves with
collaborators Rita Anderson, cognitive science about local
wildlife; Jack Eastwood, creative writing
and shadow puppets; and Don McKay, poetry and moose horn.
Memorial University of
Newfoundland, Department of English, Here and Away: A Non-fiction Workshop on Writing
About Place.
2018 Meandering
with the Blast Hole Pond River with collaborators
Katie Baggs, original songs about water; Denise Hennebury,
environmental interpretation of the river
ecosystem; Don McKay, a new river poem; Anna Swanson, poems
about
wild swimming; and Liz Zetlin, films about
water.
2017 Fire
| Light with
collaborators Kjell Andersson, accordion; Carissa Brown, the
ecology of fire and light in the boreal forest;
Don McKay, poetry and acting principal
moose horn; and Aaron McKim, fire juggling, swallowing, and
throwing.
2016 Breezes,
Breath,
and Bellows with Christine Carter, clarinet and moose
horn; Florian Hoefner, accordion; and Don McKay, poetry and
moose horn.
St.
Bonaventure's College, St. John's, Grade 12 English class.
2015 Earth as planet; earth as soil
with poet Don McKay, mycologist Faye Murrin, and botanist
Peter Scott,
in conjunction with the UN International
Year of Soils.
2014 Sound Symposium XVII, Boreal Breaths and Steps with
Nicola
Hawkins, dance; Don McKay, poetry; and Louise Moyes, dance.
Festival of New Dance, Boreal
Breaths and Steps part 2 with Susanna Hood, dance,
and Scott Thomson, trombone.
‘Open Mic’ event at The
Boreal Poetry Garden in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians
for Change.
2013 Musicians
in
Concert with The Boreal Poetry Garden with Rob Power,
percussion; Rozalind MacPhail, flute; & Ilia Nicoll,
viola.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of English, Writing With Pictures.
‘Open
Mic’ event at The Boreal
Poetry Garden in conjunction with 100 Thousand Poets and Musicians
for Change.
2012 The
Garden, The Field, The Boreal & Its Understory with
conservation biologist Luise Hermanutz and guest poet Liz
Zetlin.
Birds and Beasts and Other
Creatures with cognitive and behavioral ecologist
Bill Montevecchi and guest poet Monica Kidd.
Tuff Love: Ancient Volcanic Rock
on the Northeast Avalon with geologist Paul Dean and
guest poet Don McKay.
Royal
Canadian Academy of Arts, Annual General Assembly.
Memorial University Department of Education, Environmental Education Across
the Curriculum.
2011 The UN International Year of Forests
2011 and Canada’s first National Tree Day, with guest poets
Mary Dalton, Tom Dawe,
Danielle Devereaux, and
Don McKay.
2010 The Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland
& Labrador.
2009 Eastern Edge Gallery, fund-raising
event.
2008 The League of Canadian Poets, Poetry
Festival and Conference.
2008 Sound Symposium XIV.
INTERNET PROJECT / PROJET
INTERNET
2010 A Virtual Walk of The Boreal Poetry Garden, in collaboration with Elizabeth Zetlin and Jed Baker.
http://marlenecreates.ca/virtualwalk/
VIDEO SCREENINGS / PROJECTIONS
2021
Bewegter Wind:
Change?!, 10th
International Moving Wind Art Festival, Windkunst und
Landschaft und interkultureller
Kommunikation / Wind Art and Landscape and
Intercultural Communication, North Hesse, Germany.
Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto.
Bonavista
Biennale, Salt Fish Plant, Catalina, Newfoundland.
2016 Wessex Society of
Newfoundland, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial
University, St. John’s.
Canadian High Commission, Canada House, London, England.
Schumacher College, Dartington Hall Estate, Totnes, Devon, England, Language, Landscape & the Sublime symposium.
Somerset House,
London, England, Walking
Women symposium.
Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, video exhibition Water, Korean Nature Artists Association-YATOO, Republic of Korea.
rare Charitable Research Reserve, ECO Centre, Cambridge, Ontario.
Boreal Ecology,
Biology 3610, Memorial University, St. John's.
2015 Women Directors'
International Film Festival, New Delhi, India.
Finger Lakes Environmental
Fim Festival, Ithaca College, NY.
Northeast
Modern
Language
Association Annual Convention, Special Event sponsored by
Cultural & Media Studies and
Interdisciplinary Humanities, Royal York Hotel, Toronto.
Resource Centre for the Arts, LSPU Hall, St.
John’s at the book launch for Brickle, Nish, and Knobbly: A Newfoundland
Treasury of Terms for Ice and Snow, Boulder
Publications.
University of Cambridge, Green Knowledge' biennial
conference of the Association
for the Study of Literature and
Environment–UK & Ireland (ASLE–UKI), Cambridge, England.
Voices from the Waters International
Traveling Film Festival, Bangalore, India.
University of Strathclyde, Canadian Literature Reading Group,
English Department, School of Humanities and
Social Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland.
University of St
Mark & St John, English and Creative Writing program,
Plymouth, England.
2014 Boreal Ecology,
Biology 3610, Memorial University, St. John’s.
WADE IN, part of Eastern Edge
Gallery's 30th anniversary events, 30/30 Vision.
St. John’s International Women’s Film
Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
ViDEOTExT Festival, Bramberg,
Austria.
Society for Existential and
Phenomenological Theory and Culture at Congress 2014 of the
Humanities and Social Sciences,
Brock
University, St. Catharine’s, Ontario.
2011 Ok.Quoi?! Contemporary
Arts Festival, Video
Drive-In, Sackville, New Brunswick.
2010 Planet in Focus
International Environmental Film & Video Festival, “Green
Market”, Toronto.
2010 St. John’s International
Women’s Film Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
2010 The Voice: VISIBLE VERSE
Videopoetry Festival, Vancouver, BC.
2007
St. John’s International Women’s Film
Festival, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS / EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
The Art of Nature,
permanent collection exhibition
2024 National Gallery of Canada,
Ottawa.
Watershed
2024 Paul Petro Contemprary Art,
Toronto.
Gather: In
Celebration of Year of the Arts
2024 The Rooms Provincial Art
Gallery, St. John's.
Home Again, BAE and BFA Alumni Exhibition
2024 Union Gallery, Queen's
University, Kingston, Ontario.
Directors
Collect: 100 Years
2024 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
A Community of Trees
2024 Embassy Cultural House, London, Ontario,
online exhibition.
https://www.embassyculturalhouse.ca/a-community-of-trees.html
Enigma
2023 Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen
Sound, Ontario.
How Do I Look? Ways of Understanding Art
2023 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery,
St. John's, Newfoundland.
Art in the
Open
2023 Charlottetown, PEI
Editions
Part Two
2023 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto.
A
Few of Our Favourite Things: Selections from the Permanent
Collection
2023 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
What
Is Left
2022 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto, a Featured Exhibition in the Scotiabank
Photography Festival.
Home
2022 Partners for the Arts, Come
Home 2022 exhibition, Murray's Garden Centre,
Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.
Water-Wise, River Breath:
Reframing design's role with water
2022 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Bonavista Biennale:
The Tonic of Wildness
2021 Lester-Garland House, Trinity,
Newfoundland.
Some Versions of Landscape
2021 Paul
Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Tara
Bryan — A Celebration
2021 Christina Parker Gallery, St.
John's.
Canaries in a Coal
Mine
2020 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto.
Next Year’s Country
2020 Remai
Modern,
Saskatoon.
Thought, outside
2020 Western Front, Vancouver.
Governor General's
Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2019
2019 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Future
Possible: Art of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1949 to
Present
2019 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St.
John's.
another Landscape show
2019 Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton.
Àdisòkàmagan / Nous
connaître un peu nous-mêmes / We'll all become stories: A
Survey of Art in the Ottawa-Gatineau Region
2018 The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa.
Meditation
2018 Paul Petro Contemporary Art,
Toronto.
in medias
res / into the middle of things
2018 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Photography in Canada, 1960–2000
/ La photographie au Canada, 1960–2000
2017 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and
touring:
2018 The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St.
John’s.
Out of the Bush Garden:
Contemporary Artists from Central-Eastern Canada, Imago
Mundi Canada,
2017 Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di
Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo Stefano, Venice, Italy
2018 Onsite Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto.
So Lightly Here
2017 Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Belonging to a Place: An
Exhibition by Fogo Island Arts
2017 Scrap Metal Gallery, Toronto.
Bonavista Biennale: Art
Encounters on the Edge
2017 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects,
Duntara, and the Salt Fish Plant, Catalina, Bonavista
Peninsula, Newfoundland.
The Tremendous
Elusive: Emily Carr and the Canadian Imaginary
2016 Canada House Gallery, London, England.
Landing
2015 Art Gallery of Peterborough,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Nature Present in
conjunction with the Future
of Nature? conference and festival
2015 Rotary Arts Centre, City Hall, Corner
Brook, Newfoundland.
Incidence Report
2015 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova
Scotia.
A Mark of Effort,
participatory art project and exhibition
2015 University for the Creative Arts,
Farnham, Surrey, UK
The
Art of Walking
2014 The Museum in the Park, Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England, UK.
Land Reform(ed) / Le paysage (re)visité
2014 Âjagemô Gallery (Canada Council
for the Arts exhibition space), Ottawa, Ontario.
Changing
Tides: Contemporary Art of Newfoundland and Labrador
2014 McMichael Canadian Art
Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario.
Vernal Pool: A participatory art project about place
+ precipitation
by Karen Abel with Jessica Marion Barr, part of Grow Op: Exploring Landscape +
Place
2014 Gladstone Hotel,
Toronto.
Artists’ Walks
2014 Art Gallery of
Peterborough, Ontario.
The Walking
Encyclopaedia
2014 AirSpace Gallery,
Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK.
History Becomes
You
2013 Paul Petro
Contemporary Art, Toronto.
Lost Horizon: Landscape by Other Means
2013 Saint Mary's
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Heart of the Moment: Selections from the
Permanent Collection
2013 Ottawa Art Gallery,
Ottawa.
Spotlight on 40
Years: Artworks from the Canada Council Art Bank
2012 Canada Council Art
Bank, Ottawa, Ontario.
engram (a memory trace)
2011
MacKenzie Art Gallery,
Regina, Saskatchewan.
25
for 25: A celebration of the Provincial Art Bank Program’s
25 years of collecting
2011
Provincial
Seamen’s Museum, Grand Bank, Newfoundland
2012 Mary March
Provincial Museum (renamed Demasduit Regional Museum in 2022),
Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland
2012
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The Living City: Inclusive,
Sustainable, Creative
2010
Canada Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China.
Provincial Arts and Letters
Exhibition
2010
The Rooms
Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Reflections on
Water
2009
Centre for Contemporary Art and the
Natural World, Haldon Forest Park,
Exeter, Devon, UK
Time After Timeline Members Exhibition
for the 25th anniversary of
Eastern Edge
2009 Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Evidence: The Ottawa City
Project
2008
Ottawa
Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Trace Elements: Selections from The Rooms Provincial Art
Gallery
2008
Rideau
Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
Community Art Exhibition
2008
A1C Gallery, St. John's,
Newfoundland.
A Century of Women and Work
2007
Toronto
City Hall, Toronto, Ontario
2007
Workers
Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2007
Sheraton
Centre, Toronto
2007
St.
Clair Centre for the Arts, Windsor, Ontario
2007
Westin
Harbour Castle Hotel, Toronto
2007
Metro
Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
2008
Royal
York, Toronto
2008
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2009
British Columbia
Government Employees Union conference, Vancouver.
REcollections
2007
The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
A Walk in the Park
2007
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sur la route / On the road
2006
Musée
régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec.
New Acquisitions
2006
Art
Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.
Imprints
2005
Canadian
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario.
Weathervane
2005
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
2005
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
2006
Museum
London, London, Ontario
2006
La Galerie d’art de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM),
Montréal, Québec.
Selections from the Permanent Collection, opening
exhibition
2005
The
Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
2005
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Three Rivers: wild waters, sacred places
2004
Yukon
Arts Centre Public Art Gallery, Whitehorse, Yukon, and tour:
2005
Robert
McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
2005
Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria,
British Columbia
2006
Kelowna
Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2006
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
Exhibit A: Photography from Atlantic Canada
2004
Saint
Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and tour:
2005
Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland
2005
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario.
Future Cities
2004
Art
Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario.
The Limestone Barrens Project
2004
Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College Art Gallery, Corner Brook,
Newfoundland, and tour:
2004
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
2005
Model
Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
2005
The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
First View: Recent Acquisitions
2003
Carleton
University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Revealing the Subject
2003
Oakville
Galleries, Oakville, Ontario, and tour:
2003
WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Ontario
2004
Art
Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario
2004
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario
2004
MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario.
The Bigger Picture: Portraits from Ottawa
2003
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
View Finders: Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting
2003
MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Dualities: Contemporary works from the Permanent Collection
Artists in the Arctic
2003
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Tide Line: Contemporary art from the Atlantic Provinces,
part of the Atlantic Scene Festival
2003
City
Hall Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Atlantic Art, part of the Atlantic Scene Festival
2003
National
Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
A Little Bit of Funk: Recent Western and Contemporary
Acquisitions
2003
Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
2003
St.
John’s City Hall, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
North & South: tradition, invention and intervention in
Labrador
2002
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
An Invested Nature
2002
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
River City
2001
The
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta.
A Hard Place: Observations on Geology in the Permanent
Collection
2001
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
Artists in a Floating World: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art
Exhibition
2000
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
2001
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2001
London Regional Gallery, London, Ontario.
From the Eastern Edge
2000
I-Land
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Year 01
2000
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Zone 6B: Art in the Environment
2000
The
City of Hamilton and the Royal Botanical Gardens, through the
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario.
“Taking Inspiration from Marlene Creates, Canadian
Photographer”: Exploring ‘Place’
within School
2000
I-Land
Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Cultural Cross Currents: ConTexts
2000
MacKenzie
Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
In Camera
2000
Tom
Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario.
Four on the Floor
2000
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Light Proof
2000
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John’s,
Newfoundland.
Love
2000
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Marlene Creates: Questions about the Place, Nova Scotia
1998 &
Richard Holden: Local
Histories
1999
Eastern
Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Land Marks
1999
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
Images of Us
1999
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Landshapes: Records of Actions, part of SIGHT/SITE:
Visualizing Earth at the Millennium
1999
Southeast
Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, and tour:
2000
The
von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
2000
The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach,
Virginia.
Ville imaginaire, ville identitaire
1998
Salle
Multi de Méduse, Québec, Québec, for colloque organized by
l'Université Laval and Vu.
Landscape and Place; Narrative and Photography
1998
Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
La Face / The Face – In Search of the Emblematic
1998
Dazibao,
Montreal, Quebec.
Métronome
1998
La
Chambre blanche, Québec, Québec.
Les
lieux communs: Culture populaire et art contemporain
1997
Musée
régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
1998
CIAC
– Centre international d'art contemporain, Montréal, Québec.
Contemporary Charts
1997
Devon
House Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
500 Years Later: Contemporary Photography in Newfoundland
& Labrador,
St. John's Photography
Co-Op
1997
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Theatrum Mundi: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition
1997
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
1998
Dalhousie
University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1998
Art Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's,
Newfoundland
1999
Canadian
Embassy, Washington, D.C.
1999
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan.
Survey Results Show...
National
Gallery of Canada touring exhibition:
1997
Oakville
Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
1997
The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1998
Rodman
Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario
1998
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Contours
1997
Olga
Korper Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
Manœuvres: Regional Representation in the Canada Council
Art Bank
1997
The
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Selected Photographs from the City of Ottawa Collection
1997
Karsh-Masson
Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
The
Labrador Interpretation Centre, North West River, Labrador
1997
inaugural exhibition opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Rethinking the Rural in Contemporary Newfoundland Art
1997
Art
Gallery of Newfoundland & Labrador, St. John's,
Newfoundland.
St. John's Photography Co-Op
1996
Resource
Centre for the Arts, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Looking Back IV: 1991-1995
1996
Southern
Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta.
Swinging the Lead
1996
The Old Leadworks, Bristol, England, for Bristol
96, International Festival of the Sea.
Container 96 – Art Across Oceans
1996
Copenhagen,
Denmark, for Copenhagen 96, Cultural Capital of Europe.
Signatures: Newfoundland Women Artists and Writers
1996
Eastern Edge Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland.
Afterimages: Representing The Absent Body
1996
School
of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Halifax.
The Edge of Town, Second International
Distinguished Artists Symposium and Exhibition
1995
Joseloff
Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut.
Storyland:
Narrative Vision and Social Space
1995
Walter
Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta.
Displaced Histories / Histoires déplacées
1995
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa,
Ontario.
Calanais
1995
An
Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland, and tour:
1995
Galerie du
Faouëdic, Hôtel de Ville, Lorient, Brittany, France, for Festival
Interceltique
de Lorient
1996
Talbot
Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
1996
Barrack Street Museum, Dundee, Scotland
1997
Maclaurin
Art Gallery, Ayr, Scotland
1997
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
1997
Ironworks Gallery, Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge,
Scotland.
Land and Sea: Eight Artists from Newfoundland
1995
Art Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s
(formerly Art Gallery of Memorial University)
1995
The
Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1995
The
Glebe House and Gallery, Churchill, County Donegal, Ireland
1995
Monaghan
County Museum Gallery, Monaghan, Ireland
1996
Model
Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland
1996
Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, Ireland
1996
The Boole Library, University College, Cork, Ireland.
Anti-Slogans
1995
Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England.
Landscapes
and Portraits from City Collections
1994
Karsh-Masson Gallery, Ottawa City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
The
Vocation of Storytelling: rooted in community
1994
Struts Centre, Sackville, New Brunswick.
Home Is Where The Art Is
1994
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and tour:
1994
Galerie
B-312 Émergence, Montréal, Québec
1994
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
1995
Forest
City Gallery, London, Ontario
1996
Definitely
Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
1996
Alternator Gallery, Kelowna, BC.
Anecdotes
and Enigmas: the Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition
1994
Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, and tour:
1995
Art
Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland
1995
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
1996
Hart
House Art Gallery, University of Toronto, Ontario.
Margins
of Memory
1993
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.
Earth,
Air and Water
1993
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Earthscape
1993
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Telling
Tales
1993
White Water Gallery, North Bay, Ontario.
Possible
Maps
1993
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Michel Campeau et/and Marlene Creates: Photo-sequences
1993
Eastern
Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
New Found Photographers
1993
James Baird Gallery, St. John’s and Toronto.
Pièces d'identités
1993
La Centrale, Montréal, Québec.
In
Tandem: works by Marlene Creates, Har Prakash Khalsa, and
Arlene Stamp
in collaboration with
others
1992
KAAI, Kingston, Ontario.
Impact:
Public Installations by Artists of Atlantic Canada /
Installations
publiques par des artistes du Canada
1992
Moncton,
New Brunswick, through Galerie d’art de l’Université de
Moncton.
Fire
1992
Eastern
Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Environment
1992
The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Rephotographing
the Land
1992
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
No Fishing
1991
Resource Centre for the Arts, St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Location
and Displacement
1991
SAW
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Wrapture
1990
Ufundi Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Some
Photographic Elements
1989
Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario.
Maskunow:
A Trail, A Path
1989
Art Gallery of Memorial University, St. John’s.
Notions of Environment
1989
Eastern Edge, St. John’s, Newfoundland, and tour:
1989
Great
George Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
1989
Anna
Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1989
AKA,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
20th Anniversary Exhibition (Queen’s and St. Lawrence
Fine Arts Programs)
1989
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
Persons
Award Exhibition (for
the
Status of Women)
1988
National
Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario.
On Landscape
1988
Ufundi
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Transart
1988-
Ottawa-Carleton Transitway and Canada Council Art Bank
project.
Sans
Démarcation
1987
Sault
Ste. Marie, Ontario, through the Art Gallery of Algoma and
Visual Arts Ontario.
101 at NAC
1987
Niagara
Artists’ Centre, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Process to 3D
1986
The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario (Art Gallery of
Ontario, Extension Services).
The
Physicality of Landscape: Christo, Paterson Ewen, Marlene
Creates
1985
Artspace,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Traces from the Travels of Marlene Creates and Pat Martin
Bates
1985
Mount
Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Ontario Jury Exhibition
1985
Rodman
Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Intervention in the Landscape
1985
Brock
University, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Polaroid deux
1985
Axe
Néo-7, Hull, Québec.
Contemporary Canadian Photography from the Collection of
the National Film Board
1984-87
national
touring exhibition:
Musée
du Québec, Québec
Art
Gallery of Hamilton
Dalhousie
Art Gallery, Halifax
National
Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Winnipeg
Art Gallery
Presentation
House Gallery, North Vancouver
Edmonton
Art Gallery.
Regional Juried Exhibition
1983
Agnes
Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario.
Photographic Sequences
1983
Art
Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario.
Ontario Jury Exhibition
1982
Rodman
Hall, St. Catharines, Ontario.
Elements: Points of View on Nature / Éléments : points de
vue sur la nature
1981
National
Film Board of Canada, Photo Gallery, Ottawa.
Provincial Cultural Symposium exhibition
1981
Ottawa
City Hall, Ottawa, Ontario.
Letters to Kobe
1981
Kobe
Port Island Exposition, Kobe, Japan.
Four Ottawa Artists
1978
Artspace,
Peterborough, Ontario.
Visual Arts Faculty Exhibitions
1977-79
Algonquin
College Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
Artists Who Teach
1977
York
Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario.
HONOURS / DISTINCTIONS
Honorary Doctor of
Letters (D. Litt.), Memorial University, St. John's, 2024
https://gazette.mun.ca/campus-and-community/convocation-set-2/
recording of the
Convocation:
https://dai.mun.ca/media/convocat/Convocation2024Spring28Maymorningsession.mp4
The
Order of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2021
https://www.gov.nl.ca/releases/2021/exec/0716n08-2/
https://vocm.com/2021/09/01/order-of-nl-investiture-2021/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/order-newfoundland-labrador-2021-1.6161239
video portrait by The Canada Council for the Arts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7apC0qVneE8&feature=youtu.be
The Mary MacDonald Award, Excellence in
Visual Arts (EVAs), VANL-CARFAC, 2019
Special Recognition Award, International Film Festival for
Environment, Health, and Culture, Jakarta, Indonesia, 2015
Royal Reel Award, Canada International Film Festival,
Vancouver, 2015
The Grand Jury Award, Yosemite International Film Festival,
2014
The BMW Exhibition Prize, Scotiabank CONTACT Photography
Festival, Toronto, 2013
Government of Newfoundland & Labrador Arts and Letters
Award (Poetry), 2010
The CARFAC National Visual Arts Advocate Award, 2009
The Long Haul Award, Excellence in Visual Arts
(EVAs), VANL-CARFAC, 2009
Elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts, 2001
The 1996 Artist of the
Year Award,
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council
‘Best of Show’, Regional
Juried Exhibition, Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston, Ontario, 1983
GRANTS / BOURSES
Canada Council for the Arts
Canada/Newfoundland
Agreement on Economic Renewal
Canada/Newfoundland
Cooperation Agreement on Cultural Industries
Canada/Newfoundland
Comprehensive Economic Development Agreement
City of St. John’s
Cultural Economic
Development Program, Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council / ArtsNL
VISITING ARTIST lectures,
panels / ARTISTE INVITÉE, conférences
Acadia University Art Gallery,
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, 1992, 2000
Agnes Etherington Art Centre,
Kingston, 1981, 2001
AKA, Saskatoon, 1989
Algonquin College Gallery, Ottawa,
1981
ARCCO Conference, Convergence
Strategies & Influences, Congress Centre, Ottawa,
2002
Art and Research Exchange, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, 1981
Artcite, Windsor, 1984
art.earth, Dartington Hall Estate,
Totnes, UK
High Water: sharing our
connections to the sea and the tides (online event
via Zoom), 2021
Sentient Performativities: thinking
alongside the human, symposium (via Zoom), 2022
Art Ex: Visual Art in the
Exploits Valley, artists' panel, Gordon Pinsent
Centre for the Arts, Grand Falls-Windors, 2010
Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste.
Marie, 1987
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria, 2001
Art Gallery of Newfoundland &
Labrador, St. John’s, 1999, 2001
The City
Lecture Series, 2000
Art Gallery of Peterborough,
Ontario, 1993
Artspace, Peterborough, 1981, 1985
Association of Canadian Clubs:
Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Lethbridge, Lindsay, Medicine Hat,
Moose Jaw, Orillia, Oshawa, 1983-84
Association for Literature,
Environment, and Culture in Canada (ALECC), plenary speaker
at the biennial conference,
Space + Memory = Place,
University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, B.C., 2012
Atlas Obscura, Brooklyn, NY, The Hidden World of
Lichens with Felicity Roberts, in collaboration with
Marlene Creates, Emily Jan, and
Yolanda Wiersma (via Zoom), 2021
Beaverbrook Art Gallery,
Fredericton, panel: Retrospective?
The paths we have trodden, the paths we still pursue,
2017
Bishop Feild Elementary School, St. John's, 1998, 1999
Bonavista Biennale, panel: Art & Place, Coaker
Foundation, Port Union, Newfoundland, 2017
Brock University, Department of Fine Arts, St. Catharines,
1985
Brother T. I. Murphy Learning
Resource Centre, Community Youth Arts Program, St. John's,
2003, 2008
Cabot College, Textile
Studies Program, St. John’s, 1994
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge,
Ontario, 2007
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, 1987
Canadian Historical Association
Annual General Meeting at Congress
2011 of the Humanities and Social Sciences, St.
Thomas University,
Fredericton,
panel: Art, Memory, and Place:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the work of Marlene
Creates, 2011
Canadian Museums Association national conference, St.
John's, 2010
panel: The Art and Science of People,
Place and Meaning
Canadian Museum of
Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1995
Canadian Parks and Wilderness
Society, St. John’s, 2007
Carleton University Art Gallery,
Ottawa, 1993, 2019
Department of Continuing Studies, 1987
Department of Art History, 1992
La Centrale, Montréal,
1993
Central Junior Secondary School,
Victoria, 2000
Central Newfoundland Visual Arts
Society (CNVAS), Grand Falls-Windsor, 2012
Centre Eye Gallery, Calgary, 1983
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon
Forest Park, Exeter, Devon, England, 2009
La Chambre blanche/Musée du Québec,
Québec, Investir un lieu, 1995
College of the North Atlantic,
Visual Arts Department, Stephenville, Newfoundland, 2000
College of the North Atlantic, Textile Studies Program, St.
John's, Artists'
Copyright and Intellectual Property, 2011
Collins Gallery, University of
Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 1995
Commonwealth Foundation, Fellowship
Program, St. John's, 1996
Comox Valley Art Gallery,
Courtenay, British Columbia, 2022
Concordia University,
Montreal
Faculty of Fine Arts,
1992, 2016
Art History
Department, 1995
Photography Programme,
1998
Centre for
Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, Waters Lost, Waters Found
Research Group, 2016
Culture and
Communication course, Loyola College for Diversity and
Sustainability (via Zoom), 2021, 2022