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Artist Talk, March 28, 2019 Filmaker and Visual Artist Paige Gratland is completing a Branscombe House Artist in Residency this year (https://www.richmond-news.com/arts/richmond-welcomes-queer-feminist-artist-and-labourer-as-2019-branscombe-house-artist-in-residence-1.23600431) and invited me to do an artist talk to kick off a public and collaborative weaving project.
drink, December 1 - January 1, 2019 Neutral Ground. The exhibition 'drink' is an overt commentary on our precious natural resources and the effects of our consumer culture on them. The artist invites you to have a drink during her exhibition in cups woven on a floor loom. This duo exhibition also featured Contact by Barbara Meneley.
Toronto International Art Fair, October 26 - 29 ,2018 Booth C10 Lisa Kehler Art + Projects at TIAF at the Toronto International Art Fair October 26 to 29, 2018 featuring works by Kristin Nelson, Anna Breininger, Corri-Lynn Tetz, Erica Eyres, Manuela Gonzalez and Lauren Seiden.
A Handmade Assembly, October 17 - 20, 2018 Join me for a drink at A Handmade Assembly in Sackville, New Brunswick, in a weekend of performance, workshops, lectures and artist talks brought to you by Struts Gallery & Faucet Media Arts Centre. Keynote speaker Sarah Quinton.
Sidney Sydney, August 25, 2018 Doors at 7:00pm, at the Sidney Community Centre in Sidney, Manitoba, for a listening event featuring sounds of the Sydney Opera House curtains as interpreted in 10 new audio compositions by: Andrea Roberts, Casey Mesija, Christine Fellows, crys cole, Gail Priest, hannah_g, Judith Rice, Kelly Ruth, Roger White and Süss, With 'curtain' piano by Dallas Nedotiafko. This project was made possible by Video Pool Media Arts and the New Artist in Media Art fund and the Manitoba Arts Council. Artists are not necessarily in attendance. This venue is wheelchair accessible.
Edition Toronto 2, October 27 - 30, 2017 drink is an overt commentary on our precious natural resources and the effects of our consumer culture on them. These cups were woven by some of Riding Mountain National Park’s most stunning lakes. Kristin Nelson invites you to have a drink at the water cooler during Edition Toronto and help her in the continuation of a new art installation drink.
New Artist in New Media Fund, July, 2017 - August, 2018 Sidney Sydney supported by year long mentorship program through Video Pool through their New Artist and New Media Fund.
Riding Mountain Residency, June 19 - July 2, 2017 A Manitoba Arts Council. The Riding Mountain Artists’ Residency provides professional artists with an opportunity to be inspired and create their works in the park’s setting. In return these professional artists invite visitors to interact with them and uniquely discover the park through their eyes and works.
This Must Be the Place (Part 1), February 17 - March 17, 2017 Curated by Lisa Kehler, Lisa Kehler Art & Projects. A collection of work by Ian August, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Erica Eyres, Sylvia Matas, Kristin Nelson, and Cyrus Smith, featuring Winnipeg as the source of inspiration.
Mobilizing Metaphor: Art, Culture and Disability Activism in Canada, October, 2016 Contributor: Kristin Nelson Chapter 4: Insiders, Outsiders and the Potential of Progressive Studios. Edited by Christine Kelly and Michael Orsini. UBC Press, Published October, 2016.
he Daniel McIntyre / St Matthews Map of Interesting Places, August 22 - 29, 2015 With Suzie Smith, Box Gallery. A free risograph map Interesting Places, Orioles Bike Cage.
Feature Contemporary Art Fair, October 22 - 25, 2015 Artwork featured at Feature Contemporary Art Fair by Lisa Kehler Art + Projects.
Canadian Art Foundation Gala, September 17, 2015 Located at the Carlu in Toronto, silent auction and gala to invest in the Canadian Art Foundation.
Contemporary Verse 2, Summer 2015 Co-Edited by J.J. Kegan McFadden, this first queer issue explores "the factors that shape queer art and literature today." (CV2)The Poetics of Queer, Summer 2015. Vol 38. No. 1, publication,
cover art.
Papier 15, April 24 - 26, 2015 Lisa Kehler Art + Projects at Papier15 Montreal.
Artspace, Sydney AU, February 1 - May 29, 2015 A Canada Council International Residency at Artspace, Sydney Australia.
La chose en soi, 11 juin - 24 septembre, 2017 Commissaire Eve De Garie-Lamanque.Dans l’exposition La Chose en soi*, dix artistes sont réunis et repensent la nature et la dynamique des relations entre l’objet et l’individu.

Michel de Broin (Québec), CFCF (Michael Silver – Québec), Cozic (Québec), Jacinthe Lessard-L (Québec), Micah Lexier (Ontario), Axel Lieber (Allemagne et Suède), Kristin Nelson (Manitoba), James Nizam (Colombie-Britannique), Roula Partheniou (Ontario) et Michael A. Robinson (Québec).
Dear Cheryl... March 9 - April 30, 2017 Winnipeg's only 24-hour gallery run by Kegan McFadden and Divya Mehra, Window, featured Dear Cheryl, a glow in the dark, sequined elevator blanket.
Superimposition: Image and Sculpture, October 1 - January 1, 2016-17 Curated by Jenifer Papararo, Plug In ICA. Nadia Belerique, Valérie Blass, Ursula Johnson, Kelly Lycan, Ursula Mayer, Kristin Nelson, Dominique Rey and Andrea Roberts are connected in Superimposition: Sculpture and Image as artists who contend with the spatial terms of sculpture while also contemplating the flat surface of images.
Fibreworks, September 16 - November 13, 2016 Group exhibition, IDEA/EXCHANGE, Cambridge, ON. Juried by Sarah Quinton, Artist/Curatorial Director, Textile Museum of Canada (Toronto, ON) and Jaime Angelopoulos, Artist (Toronto, ON). a biennial juried exhibition of contemporary Canadian fibre art. It is a showcase of the most current and versatile approaches to fibre as a medium.
Make Work, November 13 - December 20, 2014 Curated by Lisa Kehler, Actual Gallery. Make Work is show in conjunction with Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier's exhibit, Blanket Statements.
Make - Soft, September 12 - October 17, 2014 Raw Gallery. The exhibition Make - Soft was a response to the physical space of RAW gallery in an attempt to make it softer.
Actual Gallery Grand Opening, July 24 - August 30, 2014 Curated by Lisa Kehler, Actual Gallery. This inaugural exhibition serves as an exciting introduction to Actual's roster of artists, featuring new work by Ted Barker,
Scott Benesiinaabandan, Paul Butler, Michael Dumontier,
Derek Dunlop, William Eakin, Erica Eyres, Neil Farber, Jeanette Johns, Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Wanda Koop, Sylvia Matas, Shaun Morin, Kristin Nelson, Paul Robles, Mélanie Rocan, Suzie Smith and Robert Taite.
Roche, Papier, Ciseaux ,19 juin - 28 aout, 2014 La maison des artistes visuels francophone. L’exposition « Roche, Papier, Ciseaux » rassemble des œuvres de trois artistes de chez nous : Kristin Nelson, David Perrett et Gaëtanne Sylvester. Quoique leur média et leurs recherches diffèrent l’un de l’autre, ces trois artistes s’inspirent et utilisent de technique et média souvent dit « artisanal » pour créer leurs œuvres.
Ras le bol! 18 avril - 17 mai, 2014 Commissaire Ève Dorais, Skol. Skol invited Montreal curator Ève Dorais to bring together a selection of emerging artists in response to the theme of The Artist in Dangerous Times. This multidisciplinary exhibition features work by Louis Boutin, Isabelle Guimond, Whitney Lafleur, Isabelle Mathieu, Kristin Nelson, Aurélien Monsarrat and Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa.
Collision 10, February 26 - March 15, 2014 Parisian Laundry. Collision brings together a selection of graduating students from Montreal Master of Fine Arts Programs, curated by Parisian Laundry's director Jeanie Riddle.
Work, October 25 - December 6, 2013 Parlour. Three hand-woven cotton replicas of paper are on display, developed in multiples and numbered in series. Each series, given a different value, by the artist, stands in relationship to its individual purpose of production.
Deskilling and Reskilling of Artistic Production Research, November 1 - 16, 2013 Concordia University. Devon Knowles and Luanne Martineau are workshop leaders in "The Deskilling and Reskilling of Artistic Production Research Workshop". This workshop "will focus specifically on how contemporary artists are revisiting the skill of making as a place from which to critique or react to the post-digital age of software-specific art and design, consumerism, condensed time, and globalism." Please click on the link for more information.
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