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BIOGRAPHY
Richard Perkins has exhibited his work in Boston, Sweden, and across
Canada. He has an MFA from the University of Guelph, ON, and is
currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
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2001 MFA (PAINTING), University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
1997 BFA (STUDIO ART/ART HISTORY), Concordia University.
1992 BA (GEOGRAPHY), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
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SELECTED
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2006 The City, Rodman
Hall, Brock University, St. Catherines,
Ontario.
2005 The City,
Cambridge
Galleries (Preston),
Cambridge,
Ontario.
2002 Models, Peak Gallery,
Toronto,
Ontario.
2001 Representing the Absurd, Zavitz Gallery, Guelph, Ontario.
1998 Memory is a Lamp, Helge Ands Ruins, Visby, Sweden.
1998 Pieces of You for Pieces of Me, Kontsmuseet, Visby, Sweden.
1997 Urban Myths, Cafe X, Montreal, Quebec.
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SELECTED
GROUP PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2008 Arthouse Boston, Jamaica
Plain,
Boston, MA
2007 Massachusetts Artists 2007, Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.
2005 Summer Street Solstice, BCEC, Boston, MA.
2003 KW/AG Biennial, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener,
Ontario.
2002 Guelph 2002, MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario.
2002 Southwest Open Competition, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario.
2001 Home, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario.
2001 Open Juried Competition, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge,
Ontario.
Jury Prize for Painting.
2000
The Helpless Academics, Zavitz Gallery,
Ontario.
1997 The Best of Painting and Drawing, VAV Gallery, Montreal,
Quebec.
1997 BC Festival of the Arts, Port Alberni, British Columbia.
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AWARDS
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2002 Canada Council for the Arts, Production Grant to Emerging
Artist.
2002 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant to Emerging Artist.
2000 Ontario Graduate Scholarship.
2000 British Columbia Arts Council, Senior Award.
1999 British Columbia Arts Council, Senior Award.
1999 Sheila Hugh Mackay Foundation Arts Production Grant.
1999 University Graduate Scholarship (University of Guelph).
1999 Board of Graduate Studies Research Scholarship (University
of Guelph).
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ARTIST
IN RESIDENCIES
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1998
Brucebo Fine Arts Summer Scholarship (A three month artist
in residency in Visby, Sweden)
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
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2000-03
Sessional Instructor in Visual Studies I (Introduction to
drawing, painting, photography, and relief printing),
University of Guelph, Guelph,
Ontario.
2001
Instructor in Beginners Acrylic
Painting, Guelph School of Art, Guelph, Ontario.
2000
Sessional Instructor in Visual
Studies II (Introduction to sculpture, performance, and video),
University of Guelph, Ontario.
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ARTIST
TALKS
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2006
Ontario College of Art and Design
Brock University
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PUBLICATIONS
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Vish
Khanna, "Painting the
City." Pulse Niagara.
Vol. 20 No. 9., 2006.
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