Alice Mansell                  Curriculum vitae   2022

      Alice Mansell has exhibited multi-media, paintings, drawings, and installation works in public galleries across Canada, in the US, UK, Germany, Austria and China. 
     She has collaborated with choreographers and performers to create costumes and set designs from 1982 to the present.
     She has led innovations in art and design programs at universities and colleges in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia.
     As a consultant on organizational and program development and as an executive coach, she has worked with more than 30 universities and leaders across Canada; and now with not-for-profit women led organizations.
     As a visual artist, collaborator, and educator she is intensely engaged with how we learn to be - forming culture and formed by culture - through the ‘arts’ experience as audience, performer and creator.

Personal Information

Exhibitions

Selected One‑Person Exhibitions

·         “Cultured Identities: The Nature of Costume”: series of drawings and costume pieces for commissions and exhibitions, Left of Main, Vancouver, BC, April 2-12, 2019.

·         “Threads of Meaning, Porno Death Cult” series of painted, collaged and fabric works on canvas, Firehall Gallery, Vancouver, BC. Feb. 2014.

·         “Drawing on the Past”, series of ink and thread drawings on vintage linens, ArtWorks, Gabriola, BC, 2006.

·         “bioGraphics: Botanica”, paintings,costumes, photographs and performance of LifeSigns.  Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, April – May 2004. Video produced and exhibited in China, Vancouver, and Gabriola, 2004-8.

·         "bioGraphics:  Staged Practices", Kootenay Gallery, Castlegar, BC, September - October 2000.

·         "bioGraphics:  Staged Practices", Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, July – August 2000.

·         "The Texture and The Text; Clothing the Body", The City Art Gallery, Leicester, England, May - June 1998. Exhibition and catalogue

·         “Performing the Artist”, Video exhibited at the Leicester Museum, Leicester, England, May - June 1998.

·         “Performing the Artist” Video work exhibited at Dock 4 during documenta X, in Konfigurationen. Zwischen Kunst und Medien, Kassel, Germany, August 1997.

·         "bioGraphics:  enGendered Positions II” Hartnett Art Gallery,  University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, March - April 1997.

·         "bioGraphics:  enGendered Positions"  curator Susan Gibson‑Garvey, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Exhibition included an interactive web Site (http://www.nscad.ns.ca/alice) and publication, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, May ‑ June 1996.

·         "Biographies and Biographics: The Construction of Identity in Art Practice", Andere Korper, Curator Sigrid Schade, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria, August 1 ‑ 30, 1994, residence; September 22 - October 30, 1994, exhibition and catalogue

·         "A. Mansell: Cultured Identities", London Regional Art and Historical Museums, July 13 ‑ September 15, 1991.  Curator: M. Lennon. Exhibition and catalogue

Selected Performance works

·         I can’t remember the word for I can’t remember: Tara Cheyenne Performance, Costume Design and Creation, the Firehall, Vancouver, BC, Feb. 2018, toured 2018.

·         How to Be: Tara Cheyenne Performance, Costume Design and Creation, the Cultch, Vancouver, BC, April 12-15, 2017, toured 2017.

·         empty swimming pool: Tara Cheyenne Performance and Silvia Gibaudi, Costume Design and Creation, Scotia Dance Centre, Vancouver BC, Feb. 2015, Toured Italy April 2016

·         Porno Death Cult: Tara Cheyenne Performance, Costume design and Creation, The Firehall, Vancouver, BC, toured 2014-2016.·         4OUR; Joe Ink, Costume and Set Design and Creation, Scotia Dance Centre, Dance Centre, Vancouver, BC 2016

·         HighGate, the full version:Tara Cheyenne Performance, Costume Design and Creation, Set Decoration, Exhibition and Context Design and Creation, the cultch, Vancouver, April 30 – May 4, 2013. Toured 2014

·         Goggles: Tara Cheyenne Performance, Costume Design and Creation, The Firehall, Vancouver, toured 2013—14.

·         Left: Joe Ink, Costume design and Creation,  McPherson Playhouse, Victoria, BC February 6-7, 2013, Scotia Bank Dance Centre, March 6-9, 2013·         The Karolina Sisters: Caroline Liffmann & Lina Fitzner/ Light Box, Big Dress Costume design and creation, Dancing on the Edge, Firehall, July 5 and 7, 2012

·         The Tale of the Girl who went forth to learn what fear was: Lina Fitzner, Big Dress Costume design and creation, FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, July 6, 2012

·         Caroline Liffmann & Lina Fitzner, Big Dress Costume design and creation, Dances for a Small Stage, February, 2012

·         Las Tres Marias: The Contingency Plan Costume Design, Firehall Arts Centre, January 2012

·         Highgate: the Triplets: Tara Cheyenne Performance Costume design and creation,  Firehall Arts Centre, July 2011

·         HighGate:Tara Cheyenne Performance Set/Costume design and installation for performances, Photo work with Tara Cheyenne Performance, Edam Arts Centre, Vancouver, March, 2009, Dances for a Small Stage, October 2010, Dance Allsorts, February, 2011

·         InHabitat: Joe Ink set/costume design, creation and installation, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, October 15-18, 2, 2009

·         Live from the Bush of Ghosts: Theatre Conspiracy, costume creation, , FUSE, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2008

·         Timber Timbre: Joe Ink, set/costume design and creation with photo, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Scotiabank Dance Centre, March 14-17, 2008

·         bioGraphics: Botanica, paintings, costumes, photographs, installation and performance of LifeSigns.  Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, BC, April – May 2004. Video produced and exhibited in Shanghai, Vancouver and Gabriola.

·         The Beckoning: Tara Cheyenne, costume and set design and production, the Roxy, Vancouver, August 12-16, 2002, and Espace 303, Montreal, Quebec, March 2003

·         Traces: Alice Mansell, Costumes, Drawings and Sculpture Installation London Regional Art Gallery, Collaboration with J. Behrens, composer, and D. Krasnow, choreographer, grant from Ontario Arts Council. January 1990.

·         Treppentanz: Alice Mansell, and D. Krasnow, choreographer", Drawings, Projections, Costumes, Set Design and Installation, University Theatre, and composer, cast of 15 dancers, construction and stage crew, Calgary, Alberta, March 11 ‑ 14, 1987.

Selected Exhibitions

·         Wearing Identity, An Exhibition by Barb Clausen and Alice Mansell, Medici’s, Oliver BC, July-September, 2012

·         MOMENTUM: Contemporary Works By Chinese and Canadian Artists, Nanaimo Art Campus Gallery, Nanaimo, May 12 – June 10, 2006. Exhibition and catalogue

·         “WOMAN'S DECLARATION-Contemporary Women Artists' Exhibition”, Shanghai Duolun Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China, November 2004, exhibition and catalogue

·         Courbet’s “Venus and Psyche” a Painting Lost  by Alice Mansell and Mickey Meads, in the Body Missing Web site by Vera Frenkel, 1995-6 (http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing), the National Gallery of Canada, 1996, Bremen, Gemany, 1997, Power Plant, Toronto, 1996, Stockholm, Sweden. 1999, Tokyo, Japan, 2000, Goethe Institute, Toronto, 2000.  Exhibit ongoing to present.

·         "Body Missing", Internet Exhibit by Vera Frenkel.  "Courbet's Venus and Psyche, A Painting Lost: Three Investigations to locate the Remains of the Body Missing" Images, texts, and video by A. Mansell and A. Meads.  International Society for Electronic Art, Montreal, Que. Sept. ‑ Oct. 1995.  Now sited at http://www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing.

·         "Representations", Khyber Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 1995.

·         "Safe Spaces", Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, December 1994.

·         "Ot(her) Art:  Theory and Practice", Arthur Haberman Gallery, York University, Toronto, February 28 ‑ Mar. 11, 1994.

·         "Practice and Pedagogy", (Role and Identity: Cultivating the Artist, Painting and overlay of text and image).  Exhibition of Artists and other works from The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; Zavitz Hall, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, March 30 ‑ April 21, 1993.

·         "Practice and Pedagogy", (The Culture of the Artist, installation and 40 drawings).  Exhibition of Work by Artists at The University of Western Ontario and the University of Guelph, McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario, January 16 – February 21, 1993.

·         "Who's Work is It?  And Who Cares?", Video (30 min.) and Text (42 pages) by S. Butler, M. Lennon and A. Mansell, Hart House, Toronto, Ontario, July 1992; Peterborough, Ontario, December 1992 and Woodstock, Ontario, April 1993.

·         "Reflexion vor dem spiegel", curator S. Schade‑Tholen, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut,  Essen, Germany, February 7 ‑ 23, 1992.

·         "Memory Works:  Postmodern Impulses in Canadian Art", London Regional Art Gallery, Curated by M. Cheetham, Catalogue, London, Ontario. December 15, 1990 ‑ February 4, 1991; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, September ‑ October, 1991; Mississauga Civic Centre Art Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario, March 8 ‑ April, 1991.

·         "Traces", Drawings and Sculpture Installation London Regional Art Gallery, Collaboration with J. Behrens, composer, and D. Krasnow, choreographer, grant from Ontario Arts Council. January 1990.

·         "Treppentanz", Drawings, Projections, Costumes, Set Design and Installation, University Theatre, Major collaborative project, co‑directed with D. Krasnow, choreographer and composer, cast of 15 dancers, construction and stage crew, Calgary, Alberta, March 11 ‑ 14, 1987.

·         "Witness to Private Motives", Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Curated by V. Greenfield, Catalogue, Four‑person show. January 8 ‑ February 4, 1987.

·         "Looking at Myself", Exhibit of Self-Portraits, Off Centre Centre, Calgary, Alberta, September 30, 1986. Curated by Don Maybe.

·         "Landshifts", Drawing Series of 20: Projected and Exhibited for Mainstage, University Theatre, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, collaborative performance project with D. Krasnow, choreographer, 1986.

·         "An Alternative Point of View", Four person show, Gulf Canada Square, Calgary, Alberta, January 8 ‑ 27, 1986. Curated by S. Gorris.

Selected Articles and Chapters Published

·         Coastal Women Artists, Essay in catalogue for “WOMAN'S DECLARATION-Contemporary Women Artists' Exhibition” with D. Kneisivich, Shanghai Duolun Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China, November 2004

·         “KunstlerInnen and die CyberUnivers~itat: Fur eine kulturelle Perspecktive im, ‘Global Village’” in Konfiguration: Zwischen Kunst und Medien, eds. Sigrid Schade and Georg Christoph Tholen, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: Munchen, Buch and CD Rom, ISBN 3-7705-3348-8, pp. 498 - 510, 1999.

·         "Staging the Issues:  A Conversation about Practice and Pedagogy" by A. Mansell and R. Shuebrook, in Practice and Pedagogy, The University of Western Ontario, 1993.

·         "Visual Art as Knowledge:  Why we study art at University", Western Gazette, Winter, 1992, p. 34.

·         "Who's Work is it?  And Who Cares", Book and video with M. Lennon & S. Butler.  Project supported by Canada Council Grant, 1991.  Text and video exhibited and used in programs at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, York University, Concordia University and Grant McEwan College, 1993 ‑ 2000.

·         "Contemporary Art and Critical Theory in Canada, or Who's on Top?", in The Woman as Artist: Papers in Honour of Marsha Hanen, eds. Christine Mason Sutherland and Beverly Matson Rasporich, University of Calgary Press, pp. 145 ‑ 162, ISBN 895176‑37‑9, 1993.

·         "Gender Bias in Art Education", Gender Bias in Research:  The Pervasive Prejudice, eds, W. Tomm, G. Hamilton, translated by John Yokota, Japan 1992.

·         "Voice of Art: Education/Image/Art," OSEA Journal, Volume 20, Fall, 1991, pp. 22 ‑ 30.

·         “A. Mansell:  Cultured Identities”, with M. Lennon, Catalogue London Regional Art Gallery & Historical Museum, 1991.

·         "The Identity of the Body:  The Body as Identity", Canadian Woman Studies Journal, Volume II, Number 1, North York: York University Press, pp. 29 ‑ 31.  ISBN0713‑3235, 1990.

·         "Gender Bias in Art Education," Gender Bias in Research: The Pervasive Prejudice, Waterloo: Sir Wilfred Laurier Press, 1988, pp. 99 ‑ 117.

Reviews and References

·         “In Homeless times, a dance creates shelter” by Gail Johnson, Vancouver Sun, October 15, 2009

·         “Timber/Timbre” by Kevin Griffin, Vancouver Sun, March 15, 2008, “Cloth-Swathed dancers get limber for Timber” by Louise Philips, Vancouver Courier, March 19, 2008, and “ Timber/Timbre, Janet Smith, Georgia Straight, March 15, 2008

·         "Whose Idea Was It Anyway?  And Who Cares?", by Johanna Drucker, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Contemporary Art Issues, #13, May 1993, New York: Segue Foundation, pp. 5 ‑ 7.

·         "Visual Pleasure:  A Feminist Perspective", by Johanna Drucker, M/E/A/N/I/N/G: Contemporary Art Issues, Number 11, May, 1992, New York:  Seque Foundation, p 3‑11.

·         "Alice Mansell", by Janice Andrae, Parachute 66, April/May/June 1992, Montreal, pp.44-5.

·         "Vom Versagen der Spiegel, Das Selbst‑Portrait in Zeitalter seiner Unonoglichkeit (Maria Lassnig, Cindy Sherman, Alice Mansell, Eva‑Maria Schon)" by Sigrid Schade, Reflexionen vor dem Spiegel: Herausgegeben von Farideh Akashe‑Bohme, Frankfurt am Main:  Suhrkamp‑Verlag, 1992, pp. 139 ‑ 163.

·         La memoire postmoderne: Essai sur l'art canadien contemporain, par Mark Cheetham, Trans: Jean Papineau, Montreal:  Editions Liber, 1992, pp. 100 ‑ 104, 205.

·         "Art, Identity and the Poetics of Displacement" by Janet Wolff, Catalogue for Faculty Exhibition, 1992, Arbutus.

University Degrees and Certificates

Executive and Academic Positions