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Email: claraursitti@hotmail.com b. Canada. Lives and Works in Glasgow, Scotland EDUCATION Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow Bachelor of Fine Art, York University, Toronto, Canada Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellow, University of Oxford and British School at Rome, 2006 – 2007 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/INTERVENTIONS 2019 and Upcoming Solo show, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, June 2020-January 2021 Solo show, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Canada, January 2020 Disentangle: Science in a Gendered World, Newly commissioned work January-April 2019. Work/research as part of Athena SWAN for Life Science Art Research Gallery, University of Dundee Break 2019, New Performance, as part of PARSE launch event and conference for their new journal launch titled WORK, with Andy Abbott, Petra Bauer, Dave Beech, Benjamin Fallon, Nathan Jones, Kirsteen Macdonald, Shona Macnaughton, Martha Rosler, superconductor, Marika Troili and Marina Vishmidt. May 7-8, Valand Academy and Skogen, Gothenburg, Sweden. http://parsejournal.com/event/work/ 2018Splitsville Smells like Irises, Tiger Strikes Astroid, New York, New York. Aug 3 – September 9 Perfume Shop, Ryder Projects, London. November 30 – February 2 2019 Two person show with Erica Eyres, Room 113, Newcastle, England, June 14 – August 2 Break, new work commissioned for What’s Love Got to Do With It, as part of PAC Festival ( Printemps Art Contemporain), Art-Cade Gallerie, Marseilles, France. May A Hole in the Sky, The Modern Institute, Airds Lane, Glasgow February 2 – March 17 Good £uck, with l’outil, new work commissioned for Glasgow International Festival of Art, at Bill’s Tools Store, April 17 – May 7. With David Sherry, Beagles & Ramsay, Erica Eyres and Jack Cheetham Artists Who Make Music, Musicians Who Make Art, curated by Ross Sinclair at Queens Park Railway Station, February 24 –March 25 2017 Bring Back the Hill, Commission for Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, as part of Edinburgh International Festival of Art August New work for SAR (Society for Artistic Research) conference, Helsinki, Finland April 28-29 2016 Kustom, scent intervention for Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art, April 7 – April 23 Heritage Site, work in collaboration with Nicky Bird, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, July - August as part of Edinburgh International Festival L’elephant, commissioned intervention by Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, for the Frankfurt Bookfair, October 20 and 21st I will be you lighthouse, new work for Sex Smells, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, September 2 – November 6 2015 There is Something in the Air: Scent in Art, Museum Villa Rot, Ulm, Germany March 22- July 28, 2015 The Smell of War, De Lovie - Poperinge, Belgium, April – August 2015 Libérez le Glamour , Scent intervention commissioned as part of Merchant City Festival, Glasgow. July 27, 2015 Belle Haleine – The Scent of Art, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, February 10 - May 17 Portraits +, Fife Contemporary Arts and Craft, Kirkcaldy Galleries, War Memorial Gardens, Scotland, 14 February - Sun 31 May 2014 A Big Stick of Confidence, Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, USA September - October Art Lending Library, Darlington, May - June 2013 Museo de los Aromas, Burgos, Spain Nite Flights , The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow Kiwi in Love, Helsinki Kunsthall, Finland 2012 ALL (Art Lending Library ), Mitchell Library, as part of Glasgow International 2012 Intersections, Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel, through the Contemporary Art Scoiety, London Whisper Game, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden 2010 Surreal House: The Fractured Body , event at Barbican Gallery, London, curated by Mobile Studio, July 22, 2010 Tatton Park Biennial , Knutsford, England May - September 2010 (site specific intervention ) Birch Bitch , Nomi's Kitchen, Glasgow, April 2010 The Museum of Gloves, in Vestiges Park, Low Salt, as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, April 2010 Five + One, intervention, Glasgow Project Room and various openings as part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, April 2010 Lunchtime and Not a Breast in Sight, shown in Rubble Stir, The Glue Factory, Glasgow 2009 Unheimlich, The Nunnery Gallery, London Grey Matter, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Removed from the Eyes of Strangers, Galleri Andersson/Sandström , Umeå, Sweden , then travelling to Co-Lab, Copehagen, Denmark 2008 Odour Limits, Esther M Klein Gallery, Philadephia, USA Unheimlich, Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds, England Machinic Alliances, Danielle Arnaud, London, England Communication Suite, Site specific exhibition curated by Christine Borland in the Communications suite of Glasgow University Medical Building. Artists include: Douglas Gordon, Mark Dion, Cornelia Parker, Abramovich and Ulay, and Alistair McLennan 2007 Transit, British School at Rome, Academy of Fine Art, Archaeology and Architecture, Rome Italy Studio Voltaire, London, ( selected by Stuart Comer and Polly Staple ) 2005 Westerner, Tramway, Glasgow, November Focus, Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2004 Cohabitation in a Flooded House, Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden (solo) Axxxpresssassssssunizm, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, England; then travelling to Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Birthday Party, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 2003 Frozen Tears, Cabinet Gallery, London, England ReminiSCENT, Karen Schreiber Gallery, Toronto, Canada James, Ibid, Vilnius, Lithuania/London, England Toxic Head, Tag Team Experiment, Edinburgh, Scotland Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland Afterlife, Vane, Newcastle, England; then traveled to Chapter, Cardiff, Wales 2002 Are You Experienced?, Montevideo, The Netherlands Media Institute, Amsterdam, Holland Deliberate Regression, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, England Fountain, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo) Humid , Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand Berlin Art Fair, Berlin, Germany 2001 Gothenburg International Biennial , Konsthallen, Gothenburg, Sweden Humid , Spike Island, Bristol, then traveled to ACCA ( Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ) PheromoneLink TM , YYZ Artists Space, Toronto, Canada (solo) Interface, Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, Scotland Here and Now: Scottish Art, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) 2000 Tales of the Unexpected , CAMAC, Marnay, France The Realm of the Senses, Turku Museum, Turku, Finland If I ruled the world, CCA (Centre for Contemporary Art) , Glasgow Evolution isn't over yet, travelled to The Lugar Comun, Lisbon, Portugal, and the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland Love Bites, Pumphouse Gallery, London, England Museum Magogo, PB Gallery, Swinbourne University, Melbourne, Australia The Department, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland 1999 If I Ruled the World, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Nerve System , Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), London 48 hours, Arts House, North Melbourne, Australia Evolution isn't over yet , Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Love Bites, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ( traveled to various venues in England ) Freestate, Art.TM Gallery, Inverness, Scotland ( in collaboration with Graham Ramsay and Hannah Robinson ) Tales of the Unexpected, Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, England Museum Magogo, Independent Studios, Glasgow 1998 habitat, Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP),Melbourne, Australia Bill , Tower Studio, Melbourne University, Australia (solo) Faux Shaux, Howey Place and Revolver, Melbourne, Australia Changing Perceptions, Collins Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland; Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland; Tower Art Gallery, Eastbourne, England MacTotem, Lewis Arts Centre, Stornaway, Scotland, This Island Earth, An Tuireann Art Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland 1997 The Smell of Fear, Part One and Two : Judy Garland, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (solo) Pheromone LinkTM, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (solo) Klick, 1st Floor Gallery, Melbourne Australia Immaterial Time , Artis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Changing Perceptions, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh See, Sense, Scottish Arts Council Traveling Gallery 1996 Art and Innovation, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Art for People, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 1995 Scottish Fest , Bartók 32 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Maikäfer Flieg, Hochbunker Köln-Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany Cluster, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Outpost, Vending Machines in Venice Biennale, Venice 1994 New Art in Scotland, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, and Aberdeen Art Gallery
VIDEO SCREENINGS 2011 PB, Merchant City Festival, July 23 2011, GMAC, Glasgow 2010 Wall of Light Commission , Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (new film work for BBC Big Screen , Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Glasgow Film Theatre) 2005 No Stills, Alice Day Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2000 Sense Machines , part of video programme for Uncommon Senses, an international conference on the non-visual senses, Montréal, Canada 1999 Video from Glasgow , V-Tape Video Biennial, Toronto, Canada Video Screening , Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland Canadian Fall , Video Screening, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow 1998 Video from Glasgow , Articule Galerie , Montréal, Canada 1996 Chicken Farm , Hunter College, New York; Fringe Film Festival, Edinburgh; CCA TV, Glasgow
INTERVIEWS / REVIEWS / CATALOGUES/ BOOKS 2018 Smell, Terrorism and Performance, article featuring my work in the Journal of Performance Research, Jim Drobnick, 24/4-5, p.355-361, 2018 Interviewing a scent artist: Clara Ursitti, by Laura Estrada Prada, in roots and routes: Research on Visual Cultures 2017 Under Your Nose, Jo Barratt in Canadian Art Magazine, March 2017 http://canadianart.ca/features/under-your-nose/ 2016 The trail-blazing Canadian artists using scent: Art is political and so is scent. These are the Canadian artists using smell to evoke emotions. Verity Stevens in The Toronto Star, June 2 2016 I will be your lighthouse, Kustverein Wolfsburg, Germany, September 4 – November 9, 2016, German and and English Version. 22 pages Now Past Later, Maxwell William (editor), The Institute for Art and Olfaction, limited edition of 150 copies . P.4 - 7 2015 There is Something in the Air: Art and Scent, Museum Villa Rot, Burgreiden Germany. #01/15 p8 and 72 – 77 Belle Haleine: The Scent of Art. Museum Tinguely. Basel, Switzerland P.60, 150 2014 Mood Is Made, Temperature is Taken, with text from Quinn Latimer. New scent work within catalogue. Mood Is Made, Temperature is Taken http://artreview.com/reviews/october_2014_mood_is_made_1/ Art and Science, Eliane Strosberg, Abbeville Inc Press ( survey book and e-book ) Sense of Smell, Feature pages on my work with a scratch and sniff page. An anthology of scent and scent technology for art and design researchers, tecbooks.nl 2012 Whisper Game, exhibition catalogue, Rotor Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden 2011 Scent and Scentability, Barbara Pollack, ARTnews, March 2011 p 92 Bad Romance ,contribution to a collaborative novel initiated by Laura Edbrook , Collective gallery, Edinburgh 2010 Review, Art Monthly, June 2010, p.24 - 25 Art + Science Now, Thames& Hudson Press, ed. Stephen Wilson ( available in UK March 2010 ) Tatton Park Biennial Catalogue, Parabola Pick of the Week: Guardian Guide, Framing Identity, Tatton Park Biennial, May 8, 2010 The Senses in Society ( journal article on a commission I did for Artlink by Margaret Morse ) , Berg Publishers My Glasgow International top tips, Charlotte Higgins, Guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/apr/20/glasgow/print Art and the Senses, Oxford University Press, ed. Francesca Baci ( images and journal article on my practice by Tim Jacobs ) , due date July 2011 2008 Review of Unheimlich, AN Magazine, June 2008 Machinic Alliances, catalogue for exhibition of same title with essays by Rosi Braidotti and Maria Walsh 2007 Tansit, British School at Rome 2006 -2007 , catalogue of exhibitions and work of British School at Rome artist residency holders. 2006 The Scent Cultural Reader , March 2006, ed. Jim Drobnick, Berg Publishers Map Magazine, Center page spread, artist project, Issue 6, Spring 2006 2005 Review, The Guardian, for exhibition Westerner, Tramway, Glasgow, November 2005 Review, Metro , for exhibition Westerner , Tramway, Glasgow, November 2005 Catalogue, for exhibition Westerner, Tramway, Glasgow, November 2006 2004 Review, Afterlife at Chapter, Circa 107, Spring 2004 2003 Journal article, Trafficking in Air, Jim Drobnick in Performance Research 8(3), p 38 (pp 29 - 43) 2002 Scent of a Woman: Clara Ursitti , Jim Drobnick. Tessera , Summer 2002 Review, Deliberate Regression , in Art Monthly , Nov. 2002 Review, Deliberate Regression , in Contemporary , Nov.2002 2001 Preview, Pheromone Link TM , in Mix Magazine , vol.24 no4, Spring Review, The Department , in Make Magazine , Issue 91 Catalogue, Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990 - 2000 , Dundee Contemporary Art Catalogue, Humid , Melbourne Festival, Australia 2000 Review, If I Ruled the World , in Frieze Magazine , September 2000 Review, If I Ruled the World , Guardian , April 15, 2000 Catalogue, If I Ruled the World , CCA ( Centre for Contemporary Art ), Glasgow Interview, Sense and Scentability, in Everything Magazine (with Paula Smithard and scent insert ) Article, Inhaling Passions: Art, Sex and Scent, Jim Drobnick in The Journal of Sexuality and Culture , vol. 4. no.3 Burnt Offerings , as part of a seminar on Digital Bodies in Nouveau, France. Maragaret Morse, research Fellow at Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study Social Science and Professor of Film and Digital Media, University of California at Santa Cruz 1999 Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts, ed. Sian Ede, preface A.S.Byatt, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Review , Evolution isn't over yet..., Art Monthly, June 1999 Review, Evolution isn't over yet..., Untitled Magazine, July 1999 1998 Catalogue, Mac Totem, Scottish Arts Council Catalogue, Morning Star, Evening Star, Scottish Arts Council 1997 Interview, The List Magazine, 16-29 May, 1999 Review, The Herald, May 24, 1999 Catalogue, Changing Perceptions, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh Catalogue, See, Sense, Scottish Arts Council 1996 Interview, On the Scent of Love, The Independent, November 11 1995 Catalogue, Scottish Autumn, British Council, Budapest, Hungary Catalogue, Maikäfer Flieg, British Council, Cologne, Germany 1994 Catalogue, New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow,Scotland PUBLICATIONS / WRITING 2012 Pist Protta, Copenhagen and Glasgow. New 2 page work commissioned for publication. Uncle Chop Chop, Issue 6 , launch at the CCA Glasgow 2003 Frozen Tears , Article Press, University of Central London ( I published a short story for a compilation novel editied by John Russell, titled: The Pink Room , p. 643 - 658 ) 2001 Gothenburg Biennale , Artist Newsletter, August 2001 ( I wrote an article about Gothenburg's first Biennale, and about their artist run initiatives RADIO, TELEVISION and CONFERENCES Authenticity in Transition Roundtable – presented paper for panel on topic of Revisiting Authorship. December 2 2014. Artist talk as part of the panel at CAA ( College Art Association ) Annual Conference, New York New York 2013 American Synesthesia Association Annual Conference, Toronto Canada. Presented a paper on my work in relation to cross modal perception. CBC Television, Canada Now , May 10, 2001 o CBC Radio, May 10, 2001, Canada CKLN, May 10, 2001 ( With Carla Garnet ), Canada U8 Reality Television ( Two of the "lodgers " on the programme in Toronto joined Phereomone LinkTM and were subsequently filmed live) , May 2001 BBC 2, Newsnight , Jeremy Paxman, January 12, 1999 BBC radio World Service , Guy Chizan, January 14, 1999 BBC radio, Five Live with Dianne Flood, January 14. 1999 South African Broad casting Corporation, January 20, 1999 PBS Radio, Melbourne, Australia ,September 3, 1998 ABC radio, Melbourne, Australia, September 28, 1998 BBC radio, Women's Hour , November 23, 1998 AWARDS / ARTIST RESIDENCIES 2012 -2014 2008 - 2009 Scottish Arts Council Artist Award 2006 -2007 Helen Chadwick Fellowship , artist residency between the British School at Rome and Ruskin School, University of Oxford. 2004 IASPIS artist residency ( International Artists Studio Programme in Sweden ) 2003 Artist Grant, Glasgow City Council School of Fine Art Research Grant, Glasgow School of Art 2001 Scottish Arts Council Assistance Award Glasgow School of Art, School of Fine Art Research Award 2000 Artist Grant , Glasgow City Council 1998 Sci - Art Award , Scottish Arts Council Combined Arts Department Sci - Art Award , Wellcome Trust Tower Studio Residency , Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia 1997 Artist Award , Scottish Arts Council 1996 Small Assistance Grant , Scottish Arts Council Award (Short listed), ICA ( Institute for Contemporary Art, London )/ Toshiba Art and Innovation Competition 1995 Travel Grant , British Arts Council ( Budapest, Hungary; Cologne, Germany ) COMMISSIONS 2017 2016 2014 2010 Walls of Light Film commission from Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow and Creative Scotland 2006 Map Magazine, Center page spread, artist project, Issue 6, Spring 2006 2003 ReminiSCENT , FADO (as part of sited scent performance festival )Toronto, Canada 1998 Showgirls , Billboard Project, in Sheffield, England 1996 See Sense, Commission, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland |
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