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Solo Exhibitions

2020   Beneath the Pond, YYZ, Toronto ON
2016    The Map of the Empire, Queen's University Centre for Indigenous Research
   Creation, Kingston ON
2015            The Visible Universe, Including the Fires of Hell, McMaster Museum of Art,
Hamilton ON
2015            The Dark Garden Path, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas ON
2014   The Green Wall, Petrified Forest Gallery, London, ON
2014   Foundation, Spirit Abuse, Albuquerque NM
2012   Still Life, Latcham Gallery, Stouffville ON
2012   Hiding Place, McIntosh Gallery, London ON
2007 trans/mission, J.W. Bush Gallery, Hamilton ON

Selected Two Person, Group Exhibitions, Projects and Screenings

2021    A Guest + A Host = A Ghost, Embassy Cultural House, curated by Ihor Holubizky
2021            Field Guide Public Journal #63 Unsettling Settler Canadian Nation Building (with
   Amanda White)
2020   Public Works, Factory Media Centre, Hamilton ON (with Amanada White)
2019    My World is Empty...Without You, Confederation Art Centre, Charlottetown PEI curated by Ihor Holubizky
2017            Past Forward, Artlab Gallery, London ON
2016            Culture Shift, Art Mur, Montreal QC
2015            In Kind, Forest City Gallery, London ON
2014        Wish List, Forest City Gallery, London ON
2014            Carte Blanche (with Amanda White), DNA, London ON
2014            The A.D. Coleman Reading Room, Petrified Forest Gallery, London ON
2013            No Boys with Frogs, DNA, London ON
2013    Sample, Artlab Gallery, London ON
2013          Win Win, Forest City Gallery, London ON
2013            In the Flesh, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2013          Flash Forward 2012, Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland ME
2013   Flash Forward 2012, Flash Forward Festival, Boston MA
2012            Flash Forward 2012, Regent Park, Toronto ON
2012 Flash Forward 2012, Photo Fusion, London UK
2012            :this must be the place, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto ON
2011   Out of Practice, Artlab Gallery, London ON
2011   Outside Context, James Buttrum and Son, Hamilton ON
2011   Liminal Spaces: New Century of the City, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton ON
2010    Festival X at EBA, Enriched Bread Artists, Ottawa ON
2010    The Open, The Print Studio, Hamilton ON (curated by Ola Wlusek)
2009   Annual Members Show, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton ON
2009   Exercise Your Brain, J.W. Bush Gallery, Hamilton ON
1999 Replacement Parts, McMaster University Faculty Club, Hamilton ON
1999 Class Work, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON
1999 Dark Reflections, McMaster University, Hamilton ON
1998   What is in the Whole, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton ON

Curatorial Projects

2016            All that you touch, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa ON
2015            Waking the Magicians, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton ON
2013            Pack Moves, Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton ON
2011 Outside Context, James Buttrum and Son, Hamilton ON
2010 Psychic Space, Loose Canon Gallery, Hamilton ON
2008 Being There, Burlington Art Centre, Burlington ON
2000 Gallery 25, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby ON

Publications and Reviews

Syphon Vol. 3, Issue 3, Fall 2016
(Re)Imagining Relationality: Brad Isaacs and the Map of the Empire, Carina Maggazeni, MA Thesis, Queen's University, 2016
Montreal Gazette, exhibition review, April 28, 2016
Seven Days, “Art Review: Contemporary Native Art Biennial, Montreal” May 11, 2016
La Presse, “De l'absence á l'ébullition” June 2, 2016
Le Journal De Montreal, “L'heritage Autochtone” May 29, 2016
Les Méconnus, “La Bienniale de l'art contemporain authochtone” May 27, 2016
La Presse, “La montée en puissance,” Éric Clément April 30, 2016
Montreal Gazette, exhibition review, April 28, 2016
Queen's Gazette, "Mapping the Empire", Andrew Carroll, March 29, 2016
Border Crossings, exhibition review, issue 136, Winter 2015
London Yodeller, “The Uncomfortable Jucture of Taxidermy and Art” May 2nd , 2015
Akimbo, review of No Boys with Frogs at DNA Artspace, Dec. 10th, 2013
culturetrip.com, “Four Aboriginal Artists Examine Our Relationship with Nature” Sept. 3rd, 2013
Pack Moves exhibition catalogue, Hamilton Artists Inc, 2013 ISBN 1-894861-68-X
In the Flesh exhibition catalogue, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2012 ISBN 978-1-894906-46-3
Ottawa Citizen, In the Flesh exhibition review, June 24th, 2013
Still Life exhibition catalogue, Latcham Gallery, 2012
Flash Forward 2012, Magenta Publishing, ISBN 978-1-926856-03-2, 2012
Stoufville Free Press, “The Nature of Things” September 3rd, 2012
Akimbo, review of Hiding Place at McIntosh Gallery, August 21st, 2012
this must be the place exhibition catalogue, 2012
Canadian Geographic, “Annual Photo Contest” January, 2009
H Magazine, “Urban Exploration” November, 2008
Hamilton Spectator, “Inward Bound” June 2nd, 2008
View, “Powerful Evolution” August 30th, 2007
Hamilton Spectator, “Class Touches” May 1st, 1999
Id, “Finding Everything, Knowing Nothing” July 16th, 1998

Writing

2013 From All of Us to All of You, exhibition text for Pack Moves
2012 Double Negative: Photography, Taxidermy, and Hiroshi Sugimoto's “Dioramas”
   MFA thesis
2010    Wavelength, exhibition text for Psychic Space.
2009    Industrial Revelation, exhibition text for Steven Laurie's Mud Flap Project.
     stevenlaurie.com
2008    Personal Space, “Being There” exhibition catalogue ISBN I-897052-48-0

Grants, Awards & Residencies

2020   Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant – Emerging
2019            Canada Council Project Grant (with Amanda White)
2017            Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant - Emerging
2016    Toronto Arts Council Visual Arts Grant
2016            Canada Council Travel Grant to Professionals in the Visual Arts
2016    Klondike Institute of Art and Culture artist residency (with Amanda White)
2015          Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Grant – Emerging
2014            Ontario Arts Council Aboriginal Curatorial Projects Grant
2014    Ontario Arts Council National and International Residency Grant
2014          Banff Centre “Global Positioning System” residency
2013            RBC Foundation Midsummer Ball Scholarship
2013            Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2012            Magenta Flash Forward, Canadian Winner
2011   University of Western Ontario Graduate Travel/Research Grant
2011           Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)
2011 University of Western Ontario Graduate Travel/Research Grant
2010    University of Western Ontario Graduate Travel/Research Grant
2010    Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2010            University of Western Ontario Graduate Research Scholarship
2010    Banff Centre Self-Directed Visual Arts Residency
2008   Canadian Geographic Annual Photo Contest (Honourable Mention)
2007    Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
1998    Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)
1997 Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)
1996 Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)
1995 Grand River Post-Secondary Education Office (Full Allowance)

Education

2012 Master of Fine Arts, The University of Western Ontario
2007 Intermediate Photography, Sheridan College
1999 Bachelor Honours Degree, Fine Art, McMaster University, Hamilton ON

24–09–2024

Brad Isaacs

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