Nicole Shimonek

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Born: 1978
Lives: Winnipeg, Canada

Education
Masters in Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
University of the Arts London, London, UK, 2009, Visual Art

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honors)
School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, CA, 2000, Video and Film Studies


Solo Exhibitions
2007 Unafraid (Quick Response Series), Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, curated Kegan J. McFadden

Group Exhibitions
GROUP
2013 No Place Like Home: Winnipeg Issue CV2, Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
2011 Winter Warmer Ace Art, Winnipeg CA
2011 Open Studio Assume Vivid Astro Focus Summer Institute, PlugIn ICA, Winnipeg CA
2010 Open Studio Post Commodity Summer Institute, Plug In ICA, CA
2010 T.A.P.E (collective) - On the Road Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, CA
2010 Natural Causes (16 days Unorganized Art) Ace Art, Winnipeg, CA
2009 Propeller Island Brompton Design District, London UK
2008 MA Exhibition Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2008 Soapbox Kyber I.C.A, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2008 Art Building Community Gallery 1C03, Winnipeg, Canada
2005 Walking and Being Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
2004 An Incomplete and Anecdotal History of Performance Art
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

SCREENINGS
2013 Rockstar , Female Impersonators: Women Performing Women, Gallery 1C03,
Winnipeg
2013 Diver Geyser Criss Cross, Adhere and Deny, Winnipeg
2011 Coyote WNDX Film and Video Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2011 Rock star Winnipeg to Saskatoon, Prairie Scene, National Art Centre, Ottawa, CA
2011 Diver Geyser Propeller IslandTV, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm
2010 Diver Geyser Eliminate or Minimize: Substitute, Images Festival, Canada
2010 Diver Geyser BBC Big Screen Video Art Program, UK
2009 Diver Geyser No Passport Necessary, Camden Roundhouse, London, UK
2008 plane tree Dover Arts Club, London, UK
2006 Rockstar From the Peg, Harbourfront Festival: Toronto, ON,
2006 Rockstar Mini Projo, Studio 303 & the MAI, Montreal, QC
2005 visiting entomology Animator/Reanimator, Video Pool Media Arts, Canada, USA, Japan
2004 Winter Walking and Being, Video Pool Media Arts, Canada, USA Taiwan,
2004 Winter Winnipeg 19, Winnipeg Film Group, Canada, USA, Japan
2003 Rockstar, Detroit Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI, USA
2003 Rockstar Orality, Saint Norbert Arts and Cultural Center, Winnipeg,
2002 dragonfly Electric Film and Video, Cinematheque Theatre, Winnipeg
2000 visiting entomology & winter Springtime Video Show, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
2000 dragonfly Regina Film and Video Festival, Regina, Canada


Grants/Awards
2013 Creation/Production Visual Arts 'B' Manitoba Arts Council
2012 Film Production Fund Winnipeg Film Group
2012 Best Sculpture (Arm Garden) Red River Exhibition
2011 Grant to Individual Artists Winnipeg Arts Council
2011 Travel/Professional Development Grant Winnipeg Arts Council
2010 Creation/Production Visual Arts 'B' Manitoba Arts Council
2010 Travel/Professional Development Grant Winnipeg Arts Council & Manitoba Arts Council
2007 Grant to Individual Artists Winnipeg Arts Council
2005 MAWA mentorship program Mentoring Artists for Women�s Art
2004 Grant to Individual Artists Winnipeg Arts Council
2004 Creation/Production Visual Arts 'C' Manitoba Arts Council
2004 Travel Grant Manitoba Arts Council
2003 Creation/Production Visual Arts 'C' Manitoba Arts Council
2002 Wendy Geller Fund Video Pool Media Arts Centre

Projects
Residencies
2011 Summer Institute-w Assume Vivid Astro Focus Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2010 Silicone Rubber Buckets Bow Arts Trust, London UK
2010 Post Commodity Summer Institute Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2009 Propeller Island � an evolving artist space Brompton Design District, London, UK

Publications
2013 Notes on Systems, with Winnipeg in Mind, Contemporary Verse 2, v 35, no3, Winter 2013
2011 Anti-cool Rollerskate, PaperWait, Aceart Inc. v. 13, p.32, 07/2011
2010 Free Associates �The Artist Is�, Canadian Dimension Magazine, v 44, no 6, Nov/Dec2010
2009 Prairies Go Up in Smoke! PaperWait Aceart Inc, v.12 p. 48, 09/2009
2008 Bath Bombs: A great excuse for a sexy bath, by Aviva Cipilinski, Art Building Community, http://www.mawa.ca/artbuildingcommunity/responses/aviva_cipilinski/index.html
2007 Confront your fears at Plug in ICA-Nicole Shimonek�s unafraid takes on the most primal of emotions, by Stacey Abramson, Uptown Magazine for the Arts
2004 Live in the Centre: An incomplete and Anecdotal history of Winnipeg Performance Art, Winnipeg Art Gallery, p. 43, 2004