ELLIOTT ELLIOTT
(b. 1986, Juneau AK)
EDUCATION
2020 Concordia University, MFA Studio Arts
2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Studio Arts
EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES (selected)
2020 tofeelclose | aka artist run, Saskatoon, SK
2020 Ignition 16 | Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, QC
2018 Seed Bomb | Canadian Expo Pavilion Montreal, QC
Maureen | Darling Foundry Montreal, QC
2017 Maureen | L’Ecole des Beaux Arts Montreal, QC 2015 Episode 2: Corridors | OSLO10 Basel, CH
Eroticism of Tra Sarah for L All | Verboomstraat Salon, (solo) Rotterdam, NL
2014 It's About Time | Galleryyy, Brooklyn, (solo) New York, NY 2013 Keep Taking it Apart | Note On Berlin, DE
2012 November | The Lake and Only Trin, CH
JARS OF SWEETS, BAGS OF SEEDS, JARS IN STORES, BAGS IN STORES | Ausstellungsraum Klingental Basel, CH
Goats and Virgins | Goethe Shed Brocken, DE
Post-Studio Tales | District Berlin, DE
2011 Moving Between Two Or More Points | Back Yard Projects, (solo) New York, NY
Needed By Things | Furnished Space London, UK
Testing Ground/Time Scale | Zabludowicz Collection London, UK 2010 Pleasure Island | 16 Beaver New York, NY
Topless | Topless New York, NY
S/Z Cordially Invites You To Wait – on the Corner of Broom St. and Lafayette
Friday, 10 September, New York, New York, September (public intervention) New York, NY
No Soul For Sale | Tate Modern, (c/o Next Visit) London, UK
2009 Elastic Strategies for making vertical moves on a horizontal trajectory and horizontal moves on a
vertical trajectory | Knock Knock Gallery, (solo) Chicago, IL
Exhibition 3.12052009 | MVSEVM Chicago, IL
Panda Malin-Head | auto italia south east London, UK
Provisional Title (for a Project in Greencastle) | Low Road Gallery, (solo) Greencastle, IN
I don't know how close I am to a mountain AND
You must have something to do with this | auto italia south-east London, UK
Everything Again | Scott Projects Chicago, IL
No Soul For Sale | X Initiative, (c/o Next Visit) New York, NY
8 People Are Invited To Gives Talks About Geography | The Orientation Center Chicago, IL
2008 Some New Works in Parts | KEN London (solo) London, UK
gooDDrawers: Works Not On The Internet | Scott Projects Chicago, IL
About | Auto Italia South East London, UK
An X About X | Revolving Door Gallery Chicago, IL
2007 Wish List | Koscielak Gallery Chicago, IL
Justin Swinburne Presents | Gallery X Chicago, IL
New Blood | Links Hall Chicago, IL
A folding chair: His name is my name too, DA NA NA NA, KEN London London, UK
Thank You! | Swinburne Henderson and Swinburne Chicago, IL
Soup and Tart Chicago | Elegant Mr Gallery Chicago, IL
TEACHING
2018 - present Teaching Assistant FFAR | Concordia University Montreal, QC
2018 Assistant Professor ARTX 280 | Concordia University Montreal, QC
2017-2018 Teaching Assistant ARTX 280 | Concordia University Montreal, QC
2018 Workshop Leader ARTX 280 | Concordia University Montreal, QC
2016 Teaching Assistant Sculpture 310/410 | Concordia University Montreal, QC
2015-17 Workshop Facilitator and Founding Member, Projet Bleuet, Montreal,QC
2014-present Watercolour instructor | Manoir Westmount Montreal, QC
2013-16 Summer Camp Teacher | The Painted Cloud | New York, NY
2013-14 Lead Teacher Art Play-group | The Painted Cloud, New York, NY
2013 Teacher, Stop Motion Animation | Greene Hill School Summer Camp New York, NY
2012 Artshop Teacher, after school program | Greene Hill School New York, NY
2009 "How Does A Work Work Where?" | Depauw University Greencastle, IN
2009-2010 Teacher, After school classes in video, painting, printmaking and performance.
Hyde Park Art Center Chicago, IL
RESEARCH AND STUDIO ASSISTANTSHIPS
2019 - Present Research Assistant & Series Coordinator, Workshopping the Workshop, Critiquing the Critique
2019 Research Assistant, Kelly Jazvac
2018 Research and Project Assistant, Mat Chivers’ exhibition Migrations,
Musée d’Art de Joliette
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Bourse pour stages en milieu practique, Fond de Recherche du Qubec - Société et Culture
2016 Dave Mcgary Memorial Award In Fine Arts, Concordia University
Concordia International Tuition Award of Excellence, Concordia University
2004 Distinguished Merit Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2012 - 2015 Complimenta - Founding member - Complimenta was an experimental arts collective and
residency program, Ithaca NY
2009 - 2010 KEN, gallery program co-organized with Zayne Armstrong, London UK
2008 - 2009 Twenty Two Oh One, gallery program co-organized with Julia Rich, Chicago IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015 "About Artistic Practice and Feminism Today", interview with Jenny Nachtigall, Post Studio Tales
Catalog, ed. by John Beeson, Ulrike Gerhardt and Friedemann Heckel,
2012 A-I-M-E-R: (notes for a forthcoming detective novel), Peradam Press, New York
2011 Quick Draw Artist Interview #19: Elliott, ArtPost (interview with Otino Corsano)
After Midnight in Part 04, Gedanken zur Revolution, Leipzig, Germany, ed. Falke Messerschmidt & Dr. Marc Ries
Open Letter to Yvonne Rainer, Monaco Magazine, Issue 4
2010 Asymptotes, 491 (fourninetyone.com), Issue 1
Proposal for Amendment to Thomas Jefferson's 1776 Declaration of Independence, (S/Z)
Monaco Magazine, Issue 2
2009 Panda Malin Head, Auto Italia South East, London (exhibition catalog)
Books of Mine David Took When He Moved Out of Our Apartment, The Mock, and Other
Superstitions,Issue 2
FILMOGRAPHY
2011 Set 31 (The Marriage of Figaro/Andy Warhol), HDV (20 minutes) - producer/production
coordinator, set properties design and manager, locations manage
2009 Take Your Time, HDV (26 minutes) - co-writer/director (with Nick Monsour), premiered at Echo
Park Film Center, 2011