Kathy Slade
Canadian artist
Kathy Slade (1966) is a Canadian artist, author, curator, editor, and publisher born in Montreal, Quebec, and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is currently a Term Lecturer at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
Education
Slade graduated with a B.A. from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC in 1990, and received an M.A. from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland in 2018. Slade graduated from SFU with the Helen Pitt Graduate Award.
Work
Slade has worked in a variety of mediums including embroidery, sound, sculpture, books, film, and video. The artist draws upon "sources ranging from cult films and punk rock music to literary classics and recent art history." Slade founded the Emily Carr University Press. In 1999, she developed READ Books, a bookstore located in the Charles H. Scott Gallery, now called the Libby Leshgold Gallery, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. In 2009, Slade received the VIVA Award, awarded by the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation "annually to celebrate exemplary achievement by British Columba artists in mid-career."
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
The Art Gallery of Alberta exhibited Slade's work titled Charrette Roulette: Language: Kathy Slade, Kay Higgins and Publication Studio Vancouver (2015), which was an "on-going collaborative project [that] posits publication as an art practice, while blurring the line between curatorial and editorial practice." For Edmonton Edition, PSV printed and bound books onsite working with artists to produce new artists’ books."
In 2012 and 2013, the artist exhibited It was a strange apartment; full of books… with Lisa Robertson at the Galerie Au 8 rue Saint Bon, Paris, France, and at Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, BC. In 2006, Slade exhibited 52 Transactions, which chronicled the artist's receipts from transactions at the Vancouver Public Library.
I Want It All I Want It Now was exhibited at the Or Gallery in Vancouver in 2003, which included the video installation Please Please Please depicting Slade’s point of view as she strolls through the streets of Vancouver leading from her studio to the Or Gallery with as she accompanies herself in song, covering The Smiths’ "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want."
In 2002, the artist exhibited "Embroidered Monochrome Propositions and Other New Work" at the Western Front Gallery in Vancouver featuring a number of monochrome paintings embroidered by machine, repeating a stitch to fill the entire canvas. These works draw upon histories of decorative art, feminism, technology, labour histories, and minimalist/conceptual practices.
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