Curriculum Vitae Education 1996 B.F.A, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB.
2009 (upcoming) Solo exhibition, Latitude 53, Edmonton, (March 2009) (upcoming) Here Now or Nowhere, video installation group exhibition curated by Micah Lexier. 2008 (upcoming) Vanish. Group exhibition, Art Gallery of Regina, December 10, 2008 to January 24, 2009. I Promise It Will Always Be This Way. Performance and installation for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2008, Saturday, October 4. Lamport Stadium, Toronto. Stories, In Pieces. Group exhibition, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto. The Constant Search for a Better Way. Group exhibition, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver BC. Vanities and Vandals, the Art Gallery of Ontario's 2008 Massive Party fundraising event, April 10. At Play, screening curated by Michelle Kasprzak as part of Our Friends Are Electric, Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia. A Little Art Every Day as Directed. Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University. Two-person exhibition with Kelly Mark, March 14-May 18. Video Now: Artists Working in the Spirit of Bruce Nauman, video screening in association with the exhibit A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, the Menil Collection, Houston, TX. NYNYNY. Group exhibition, Flux Factory, NYC. December 14, 2007 to January 13, 2008. Limited: artist editions and multiples. Group exhibition, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto. December 15, 2007 to January 12, 2008. Six Shaggy Dog Stories, solo exhibition, video wall, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga. December 10th, 2007 to January 15th, 2008. 2007 Moving the Goal Posts, solo exhibition, The New Gallery, Calgary. October 2007. I’ve Paid My Dues. An unlimited edition multiple produced by Art Metropole, Toronto. CAFKA (Contemporary Art Forum, Kitchener and Area) - HAPTIC screening curated by Laurel Woodcock, Princess Cinema, September 27. Blacklight Thrift Store for PLAY/GROUNDS a weekend-long festival of installation and performance art taking place in the community of Parkdale. September 15, 2007 Snakes and Ladd(ers), C Magazine Artist Centerfold project, issue 94, Summer 2007. Wishing for Three More Wishes, solo exhibition at Gallery TPW, Toronto. Audio Video Jockey (AVJ). Event featuring collaborative live mixing of video artists and DJs. Coordinated by the Art Gallery of Mississauga, June 16. Antihero Décor, solo exhibition at The Centre for Culture and Leisure No. 1, Toronto, a project space co-directed by Brian Joseph Davis, Emily Schultz. My Square Foot, Group exhibition at the Koffler Gallery, Toronto. Rooftop TV (Manhattan) broadcast. Included in the opening episode of the 2007 season of Rooftop TV, Sunday, March 18, 9pm EST, on Channels 34 and 83 in Manhattan. 2006 Dark Hart, with Instant Coffee in collaboration with Fastwürms, Hart House Gallery, University of Toronto, September 30, 7 pm to 7am. Curated by Barbara Fischer. Trapped Inside the Machine, video screening, August 5th, Rooftop Films, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Playlist Thursday, a one-evening event at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, July 27. Instant Coffee: One is Never Enough, at OR Gallery, Vancouver. Instant Coffee: Peer Pleasure 1, group exhibition with the Royal Art Lodge and Space 1026. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2005 Instant Coffee: Year of Perfect Days, at Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany. Instant Coffee Consolidated, project launch event at the MOCCA, (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art,) Toronto, September 17. Instant Coffee+Inter-mission: Appearances, as part of the FUSE event series, the Vancouver Art Gallery, July 22. What do we do when we can’t be together, Instant Coffee at 69 Pender, Vancouver. 2004 Instant Coffee: Printable. San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 4, 2004-March 2005. How to be a Canadian, Eyebeam Gallery, NYC, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, traveling video program curated by Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere. Geostash, in collaboration with Paola Poletto, co-presented by Year01 and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto. Instant Coffee: Sorry We’re Open. Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco. Guest Book, Satchel Gallery, a site-specific project for artist/curator Anitra Hamilton’s mobile gallery. Robot Landscapes, presented by The Design Exchange at York Quay Gallery, Toronto. A component of digifest 2004: On The Move. LET'S GET TESTED, video program screening, Curated by Astria Suparak. Oberhausen Film Festival, Special Program. Program travelled to the Independent Film Show 4th edition, Napoli Italy, December 3. weewerk15, off-site event curated by Germaine Koh and Phil Klygo in conjunction with Canadian Music Week. Sneaky Dee’s, Toronto, March 6. 2003 Urban Disco Trailer, Instant Coffee + Everyone. The Americas Society, New York. Event series with programs at the following venues: apexart, Printed Matter, Inc., The Americas Society, Participant, Inc., Artists Alliance Inc., 16Beaver, Momenta Art, Parlour Projects. 8th Habana Biennial, an Instant Coffee curated video program, as part of 4D, organized by the artist collective RAIN, Cuban Pavilion, Havana. CAFKA 03 :Probing
Into the Distance, (Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener & Area,) Event
series with Instant Coffee, Kitchener, City Hall. Psychotopes, group exhibition with Instant Coffee, curated by Markus Müller. YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto. Buy–Sellf – IMPORT/EXPORT, group exhibition with Instant Coffee. Quartier Éphémère, Montreal in collaboration with l’Atelier Clark, Montreal. Re-Play, a component of Soundtracks, a traveling exhibition with Instant Coffee, curated by Barbara Fischer and Catherine Crowston. Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton (June, 2003), The Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, (December, 2003), Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina (February, 2003), Ottawa Art Gallery, (October 2004) +System, Short Videos from the World, traveling exhibition, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai (April, 2003) Vitamin Creative Space, Canton (May, 2003) Médiathèque,
an Instant Coffee project as part of SOURCE. In conjunction with the 16th
annual Images Festival, Toronto. Instant Coffee January Show, Zsa Zsa gallery, Toronto. 2002 Oh Canada Video Program,
curated by Natalie De Vito, Taikang Art Museum, Instant Coffee on a Stick, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. Caffeine Screens, CD-ROM compilation of screensavers by thirty-five artists and designers. Co-produced with Instant Coffee, Small World, Gallery LeDeco, Tokyo and Sis Boom Bah, Toronto. UDC and Friends, an Instant Coffee Project at Galeria Garash, Mexico City.
Scott Rogers. There's that word ”existentialism." Jon Sasaki's wry and funny installations come to The New Gallery. FFWD weekly, visual arts section, October 25, 2007. Nicholas Brown. The Artist as Failure, Jon Sasaki Won’t Help Me And He Won’t Help You. Art Feature article in: Color Magazine, volume 5 issue 4, fall 2007, p. 94-95. Dan Adler. Exhibition Text for Moving the Goal Posts, The New Gallery, Calgary, October 2007. Dave Dyment. Jon Sasaki, Antihero Décor, The Centre for Culture and Leisure No. 1; Wishing for Three More Wishes, Gallery TPW; Toronto. Review in C Magazine, issue 95, Fall 2007, p. 39-41. Jennifer McMackon. Jon Sasaki, Toronto review in: Art Papers, September/October 2007, p. 72. Jesse Birch. Interview and studio visit, Art Gallery of York University Studio Blog, www.yorku.ca/agyu/index Nadja Sayej. The Humourously Tragic, An Interview with Jon Sasaki. (author miscredited as James King.) Broken Pencil Magazine, Issue 36, summer 2007, p. 52-53. Gary Michael Dault. Buster Keaton, high up in the sky. Review in The Globe and Mail, Saturday, June 30, 2007. Brian Joseph Davis. Monsieur Sasaki's Holiday. Exhibition essay for Wishing for Three More Wishes, Gallery TPW , June 2007. Arts Now podcast #12, on BlogTO, interview with Ella Cooper and Nick Brown. June, 2007. “Is it Art?” interview on CBC Radio 1 program Socket, with host Angela Antle, July 26 2006. Catherine Osborne. Beyond the White Cube, Design Lines Toronto, Spring 2005. Xavier Garcia Bardon, editor, Naples Independent Film Show, exhibition catalogue. December 2004. Jon Davies. Metal Gods & Leather Rebels, review in XTRA! July 22, 2004 Kevin Temple. Bag It, Jon Sasaki Guest Book Suits Satchel Gallery. Review in Now, July 15, 2004 Sven Von Reden. Die Nächsten 50 Jahre? Festivalmagazin for the 50th International Short film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany, April 2004.
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