Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Abbreviated CV
Collectives: Kinngarni Katujjiqatigiit (KC, c. 2019), PA System (2010-2020), Embassy of Imagination (EOI 2014-2020)
Gallery Representation: Patel Brown Gallery https://www.patelbrown.com/
Upcoming
2024
- Solo exhibition, Patel Brown Gallery, Montreal, QC
- Ohayo Radio, Ino-cho Paper Museum, Kochi, Japan (w. Johnny Nghiem)
2023
- Unchanging changing and changing, Solo exhibition and performance, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Gendai Gallery, Toronto (Opening October 12, 2023)
- MELTWATER, group exhibition, curated by Claire Shea, Fogo Island Arts, NL
- Martian Chronicles: And the Moon Be Still as Bright, group exhibition, Harper’s, NYC
- Art Toronto Art Fair, with Patel Brown (Toronto, Montreal) and Trotter&Scholer (NYC), Toronto
Solo and Two person Exhibitions
2023
- Anonymous Art Project, Tokyo, Japan (w. Devon Shinoyama)
2022
- Washi 和紙: connecting cultures, countries, generations, exhibition with Naoko Matsubara, Nikkei National Museum, Burnaby, BC
- side by each 2.0, solo exhibition, AXENE07, Gatineau, QC
2021
- side by each, solo exhibition, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto
2019
- Do you want to take the short-cut or the long-cut?, Open Studio Gallery, 401 Richmond, Toronto (PA System)
- PA System, General Hardware, Toronto (PA System)
2018
- wind wind, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, CH (PA System)
2014
- Larding and Barding, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, CH (PA System)
2012
- Cultural Persistence, DDR Projects, Long Beach, CA
- Evoke’s Pancake House, Montana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (PA System)
Group Exhibitions
2022
- CROSSING, curated by Keita Morimoto, Kotaro Nukaga, Tokyo, Japan
- Sonic Acts Festival, Amsterdam, NL (Collaborative video)
2021
- Expo Chicago, exhibiting with Patel Brown Gallery
- Papier Art Fair, exhibiting with Patel Brown Gallery
- Artifacts of the Horizon, Part 2: Settling into Space, Patel Brown Gallery, group exhibition, Toronto
- Art Toronto Art Fair, limited edition commission, exhibiting with Patel Brown Gallery
- GTA21, Commission for Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (w. Ashoona Ashoona)
- NADA House, exhibiting with Patel Brown Gallery, Governors Island, New York
2020
- Art Toronto Art Fair, limited edition commission, exhibiting with Patel Brown Gallery
- Arctic: Culture and Climate, group exhibition & acquisition, The British Museum, London, UK (PA System + EOI + collaborators)
- Adapt and Pivot, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019
- Sinaaqpagiaqtuut/The Long-Cut, Toronto Biennial of Art & The Bentway, Site-specific performance commission and installation, Toronto (PA System + EOI)
- Nature As Communities, group show, Dalhousie Art Gallery (PA System + EOI)
2018
- uvanga and imagine if, Legislative Assembly of Nunavut Gallery, Iqaluit, Nunavut (EOI)
2017
- Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON (PA System + EOI)
- Lightning Speak: Solo and Collaborative Works of Raven Chacon, University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM & Fine Arts Center at Colorado College, Colorado Springs (PA System + collaborators)
- Inuuqatigiitsiarniq, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, ON (EOI)
- Darn Windy, Video screenings, Art on Screens, Mississauga, ON (PA System)
2016
- Flow Edge: New Art and Collaborations from the North, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, MB, Canada House, London, UK & AXENÉO7, Gatineau, QC (PA System +
Raven Chacon, Sarah McNair-Landry, Eric McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer, Danny Osborne)
- Lost Faces, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
- Gauge, Video Screening, Nuit Blanche at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON (PA System + Raven Chacon, Sarah McNair-Landry, Eric McNair-Landry, Erik Boomer, Danny Osborne)
- The Divadale Project, site-specific temporary installations, Toronto, ON
2014
- Hard Twist: This is Personal, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
2013
- Guanlan International Printmaking Biennale Exhibition, Shenzen, China
- Mutual Friends, Parenthesis, Halifax, NS
2012
- This We Know, Planet IndigenUS at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
- Artsu Matsuri, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON
- 20 Under 30, Ontario Crafts Council, Toronto, ON
- Under 30 at 30, Japanese Paper Place, Toronto, ON
- 8 Vignettes, performance with Annyen Lam, The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON
- Black Sheep, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, ON
Public Art & Projects
2019
- Sinaaqpagiaqtuut/The Long-Cut, Toronto Biennial of Art & The Bentway, Site-specific performance commission, Kinngait, NU & Toronto (PA System + EOI + collaborators)
- Resolution (Mass of Clarity), Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto and Ontario Science Centre (PA System)
- Instant Class Kit curated by Vesna Krstich, The Pedagogical Impulse research-creation project
2018
-Quviana Parade, collaborative performance with 70+ community members and youth, Cape Dorset, NU (EOI & Leah Mersky)
-Beginning of/ Nandri (mural, metal sculptural installation, mosaics, public art), Global Pathways School, Chettipalayam, India (PA System)
2017
- Avatittinnik Kamatsiarniq, collaborative youth public mural, Relay 150, Toronto (EOI)
- Pijitsirniq, collaborative youth public mural, w. Hamlet of Kinngait, Kinngait, NU (EOI)
- Tunnganarniq, collaborative youth public mural, w. Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa (EOI)
- Embassy of Imagination Installation, printed vinyl and video, Square One, Mississauga
2016
- Picturing the Ward, public mixed-media installation, Toronto (PA System)
- Solidarity Flag, public mural and community-engaged flags, Parkdale Neighbourhood Land Trust, Toronto, ON (PA System & Sean Martindale)
- Aqua Lungs, public mural, Wall to Wall, Winnipeg, MB (PA System & Parr Josephee)
- Qanuqtuurniq, collaborative youth public mural, produced w. MU, Montreal, QC (EOI)
- Training, public mural, Metrolinx & City of Toronto, Toronto, ON (PA System)
- Colour Sphere, public mural, w. 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM (PA System)
- Untitled, Stanley Aviation, site-specific installations, Denver, CO (PA System)
2015
- Darn Windy, Video, CBC: The Collective (PA System)
- Jigging Kamiit, public mural, w. Hamlet of Inukjuak, QC (PA System)
- Felled, public mural, Ottawa Public Art, Ottawa, ON (PA System + Adam Cutts)
- Shibori, installation, Wayhome Music and Arts Festival, Burl’s Creek, ON (PA System)
- Piliriqatigiingniq, collaborative youth public mural, w. Mural Routes and Nunavut Arts and Crafts Association, Toronto, ON (EOI)
- Walking into the Unknown Tupiq, mural, Burlington Public Art, Burlington, ON (PA System)
2014
- Resting, public mural, Denver, CO (PA System)
- Row, public mural, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (PA System)
- Curtain, public mural, NXNE Festival, Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, ON (PA System)
- Mine Your Imagination, collaborative youth public mural, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, Cape Dorset, NU (EOI)
- Year of Reconciliation, temporary installations, Vancouver Public Art, Vancouver, BC
2013
- Private, Glenalmond School, mural, Perthshire, Scotland (PA System)
- Happy Anniversary, public mural, World Pride 2014, Toronto, ON (PA System)
- Four Ways, temporary installation, Supercrawl, Hamilton, ON (PA System)
2012
- Water, Amos Waites Park public murals, Lakeshore Arts, Toronto, ON (PA System)
- Tourist, Festival Murales mural, Escosesa Studios, Barcelona, Spain (PA System)
- Traveller, public mural, Xing Ping, China (PA System)
- Pauloosie Qulitalik, public mural, Kingulliit Productions, Igloolik, NU (PA System)
- Canada, temporary installation, National Capital Commission, Ottawa, ON
Speaking
2019
- Exchange Rate, Keynote for National Mural Symposium, Toronto (PA System)
- Educator Workshop, Toronto Biennial of Art (PA System)
2019
- Artist Talk, University of Toronto, Printmaking, Toronto
- Artist Talk, OCADU Cultural Community Expo, Toronto
2018
- Emergence Conference, Key note panelist, Humber College, Toronto
2017
- Embassy of Imagination Artist Talk, The Entangled Gaze: Art Gallery of Ontario and OCAD University Conference, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
- Youth Collaboration and Connectivity: Artist Talk and Activity, Creative Time Summit, Art Gallery of Ontario (PA System)
- Placemaking Talk, Indigenous Placemaking Council, Ryerson University, Toronto (EOI)
2016
- Arts Activism Artist Talk, Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, ON (PA System)
- PA System Artist Talk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Collections
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Art Bank at Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Ontario
Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia
McMicheal Art Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario
TD Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
RBC Bank Collection, Toronto, Ontario
Canada Goose Collections, Frankfurt, China, Canada
Select Grant Support & Recognition
2022
- Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grant
- Canada Council for the Arts: Mentorship Grant
2020
- Canada Council for the Arts: Project Grant
- Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant
- Climate Change and Health Adaptation Program, Government of Canada (EOI + collaborators)
2019
- Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Fellowship, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
- Performa: Embassy of Imagination - Sinaaqpagiaqtuut/The Long-Cut, by Charlene K. Lau
- Canada Council for the Arts: Concept to Realization Project Grant
- Ontario Arts Council: Visual Arts Project Grant
- Ontario Arts Council: Artists in Communities Grant
- Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant
2018
- CMagazine, “Inventory” by Jaimie Isaac
2017
- Canada Council for the Arts: New Chapter Grant (PA System)
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami: Project Funding Support (EOI)
- Canadian Heritage: Canada 150, Nunavut 150 (EOI)
- Glorious & Free: The Canadians, artist profile, by Rita Field-Marsham and Kim Bozack
- Designlines Magazine: “PA System’s Artwork Charts a Course to Canada’s North"
2016
- Canadian Art Magazine: A Cross-Canada survey of leading collaborative practices
- Canada Council for the Arts: Visual Artist Project Grant
- W. Garfield Weston Foundation - Embassy of Imagination project support
2015
- Americans for the Arts Public Art Network, Outstanding Works of 2014
- Ontario Arts Council: Travel Grant
- Canada Council for the Arts: Visual Arts Project Grant
- Canadian Heritage: Community Celebrations Pan Am Games Fund (EOI)
- Arts Development Grant: Government of Nunavut (EOI)
2014
- Canada Council for the Arts: Travel Grant
- Ontario Arts Council: Craft Development
2013
- Ontario Arts Council: Chalmers Fellowship
Education
2012 - OCADU Bachelor of Fine Arts, Printmaking, with distinction
2011 - Nanjing Arts Institute, China, OCADU exchange program, traditional Chinese
Printmaking