TIKI MULVIHILL
SELECTED – RECENT EXHIBITIONS
June 2010
EPICENTRE, Banff Centre. Audio Installation, Banff Alberta
May 2010
DOCUMENTA: Global and Local, Kings Lynn, UK. Video: Flotsam and Jetsam, Collaboration with Fae Logie
November 2009
FIRE SUCCESSIONAL, Installation, North Vancouver, BC
October 2009
FAEBLE, Installation, Collaboration with Fae Logie, Merrell Gerber and Sharon Kallis, Capilano University Gallery
August 2009
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, Performance, Collaborative performance with Fae Logie, 2nd Narrows Bridge, North Vancouver
November 2008
SIDETRACK, installation, Capilano University, Studio Art Gallery
October 2008
CAMP, performance collaboration with Kay Burns: Truck Artist Run Centre, Calgary, Alberta (A TRUCK CAMPER/patch project)
June 2007
MINIATURE, group exhibition, Other Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta
June 2007
SOJOURNE, installation of work in progress, Other Gallery, Banff, AB
February 2006
RATHBONE’S CHAIN, installation in group exhibition, Wollongong University Gallery, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
January 2006
ONE-PT PERSPECTIVE, installation from WITNESS CORNER, group exhibition, Capilano College Gallery, North Vancouver
Summer 2005
TRACK, site specific collaborative installation with WAYWARD GIRLS COLLECTIVE, Vancouver, BC
April 2005
BETWEEN MOUNTAINS AND MOLEHILLS, exhibition of sculpture, Burnaby Art Gallery, Ceperley House
March 2005
HATQUI ISLAND, installation/performance, SAGA Gallery, Salmon Arm
Summer 2004
HATQUI ISLAND, Installation/performance, Nanaimo Art Gallery
Spring 2002
THE TRAVELER, Installation/performance, Two Rivers Gallery, Prairie Gallery, Latitude 53, Alberta College of Art and Design, Grand Forks Gallery
Spring 2001
THE TRAVELER, Installation/Performance, Vancouver and Squamish
May 2000
THE RED SCHOOL, small installation, Prairie Art Gallery, G P, Alta
April 1998
PASSAGES, Installation Prince George Art Gallery, Prince George
May 1997
SHORT STORIES, Installation, Prairie Gallery, Grande Prairie
Januuary 1997
CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES, Installation, Muttart Public A G, Calgary
January 1996
IMAGES OF THE GODDESS, Installation, University of Calgary
August 1995
THE ATTIC, Installation/performance, The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary
September 1994
BOX, NUMBER, SITE AND SECTION, Installation, Little Gallery, University of Calgary
Touring, 1992
THE BANKHEAD PROJECT, Multi-media performance @Grande Prairie, The Works Festival, Edmonton & Medicine Hat Cultural Centre
EDUCATION
1993-95
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY, MFA
Graduated from program in September of 1995. Studio work: three-
Dimensional multi-media constructions and installations.
1984-85
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO. MA (Fine Arts)
Emphasis on painting, drawing, three-dimensional constructions and collage in
Studio. Thesis topic – “The Validity of Performance Art in the Eighties.”
1982-84
UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO. BFA
Graduated cum laude from a program emphasizing gallery management, history,
graphic arts, performance art, with a focus on painting. Secondarily involved in Dance program focusing on dance composition, modern, jazz, and ballet technique
classes. Three-year affiliation with performing dance group.
1980-82
DAVID THOMPSON UNIVERSITY CENTRE
A general University education narrowing into a fine arts specialization
SELECTED – AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
THE BANFF CENTRE ‘ALMOST PERFECT’– BNMI residency
THE BANFF CENTRE ‘IMAGINARY PLACES’ –thematic residency
CANADA COUNCIL EXPLORATIONS PROGRAM -- Grant
VISUAL ARTS BRANCH, ALBERTA CULTURE -- Grant
PHI KAPPA PHI HONOUR SOCIETY -- scholastic achievement
MARY KIRKWOOD SCHOLARSHIP -- Artistic achievement
JURIES CHOICE AWARD -- 1984 Undergraduate Exhibition
HELEN PITT AWARD -- Artistic Achievement
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: City of St. Albert Collection, Prairie Art Gallery Collection, Alberta
Foundation Collection, University of Calgary Faculty Business Collection, Burnaby Art Gallery Collection.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bouchard, Gilbert, “A Quirky Look at Urban Spaces.”
The Globe and Mail, 27 May.2002: R3.
Biography
Although currently situated in Vancouver, Tiki Mulvihill sees herself as a reluctant nomad, moving throughout her adult life between rural and urban communities. This transience generates an ongoing dialogue within her sculptures, installations and accompanying performances. Beginning with the strategy of fictional premise, her studio practice develops out of truths often overlooked in conflicted relationships with place. Her experiential installations/performances voice contradictions of belonging in disparate environments. Tiki’s smaller sculptural works are a departure from her installation–based practice. These smaller pieces most often grow out of tangents that demand exploration, but refuse to conform within larger installations. Mulvihill currently teaches part-time sculpture/drawing classes for Capilano University.
