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exhibition

• 2017 Networks
• Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects, Contact Feature Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario

• 2013 Facebook Albums, BRB, Everybody’s Autobiography
• Drone: The Automated Image, Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Curator: Paul Wombell
• Galerie B-312, Montréal, Québec

• 2012 *Best*Amateur*Webcams*
• Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• 1995-2010 Genes and Genesis/Inexact Shadows
• Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario, Museum London, London, Ontario

• 2008 The Promise of Reality
• Division Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

• 2008 Webcams and Chatrooms
• Optica, Montreal, Quebec

• 2008 Parking on Personal Webcams
• Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005-2007 Public Camera
• National Gallery of Canada/Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2007 Live Free Webcams
• Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec

• 2007 Featured Webcam
• twenty+3 projects, Manchester, UK

• 2002 Cam Cities in Shadow of the Machine
• Museum London, London, Ontario

• 2000 Field Guide for Artificial Life in Nature Canada
• Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario

• 1999 Ready or not in Game Girls
• InterAccess, Toronto, Ontario

• 1998 Restless Girls in Emoticontown in Interface: Encounters with New Technology
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

• 1992-1995 Doctrine of Signatures
• Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Galerie Triangle, Rennes, France, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK, Galerie Vox, Montreal, Quebec

• 1991-1998 Fata Scribunda
• MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario

• 1987-1995 Cheryl Sourkes – Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography collection
• Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba, The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Ontario, Art Gallery St. Thomas-Elgin, St. Thomas, Ontario, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario,
• Brampton Art Gallery, Brampton, Ontario, Griffiths Art Center, Canton, New York, Museee du seminaire de Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec, Galerie Sequence, Chicoutimi, Quebec, Center Eye, Calgary, Alberta

• 1990-1991 Language Is Means
• Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy

• 1988 The Environmental Unconscious
• Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1987 The Book of Gates
• Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1986-1987 Opening up the Psychic Economy
• Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1985-1986 Of Difference Lost and Retrieved
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario, 49th Parallel, New York, NY, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1984 Determination Events
• Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1983 Street Photographs
• Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1982 Rubbings from the Inside Wall
• Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1981 Infinitives II
• Roy Kiyooka’s Blue Mule Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1980 Infinitives
• Roy Kiyooka’s Blue Mule Gallery, Vancouver, BC

group exhibition

• 2012 Desire
• Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

• 2012 Where I Lived and What I Lived For
• Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario

• 2012 C.1983 Part ll
• Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.

• 2011 medium_massage 2.0 :: the infinite inventory
• Year Zero One, Contact Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2011 U_N_C_A_N_N_Y__ V_A_L_L_E_Y_ , video/Internet art party!
• Toronto, Ontario

• 2010-2011 Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control
• Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Mississauga Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario

• 2010 Status Update
• Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2010 Geoweb
• Agence TOPO, SAT, Montreal, Quebec

• 2007-2010 Titles
• Balfour Books, Toronto, Ontario, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, Librairie L’Ecume Des Jours, Montreal, Quebec, Attic Books, London, Ontario,
• Musee d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Maclaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

• 2009 Bank on Art
• ATM location, 952 Queen St. West, Toronto, Ontario

• 2009 Trade City
• Contemporary Art Manchester, CHIPS Building, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK

• 2008 Mixed Messages
• Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario

• 2008 Cast Some Light
• Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, CCA, Glasgow, Scotland, International Academy of Art, Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine

• 2005-2009 Live from the Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas in Transmedia:29:59
• Toronto, Ontario, Outdoor Large Screen Festival, Manchester, UK, Federation
• Square, Melbourne, Australia, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands

• 2006-2008 Forest for the Trees
• Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy, Studio Gennai, Pisa, Italy, Museo Nuova Era, Bari, Italy, Art Gallery St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

• 2007 In the Flesh
• Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

• 2007 Outlook Accumulated
• Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario

• 2006 Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society
• Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, BC

• 2006 Event Cities: Architecture as Performance
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

• 2006 Mean Mama
• Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Bound_less, (collaboration with Heidi Schaefer)
• Stenmuseen, Oslo, Norway

• 2005 NXT. Message
• Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Sweet Shit
• Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario

• 2004 Corabbleation
• Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK

• 2002 Trans-it/mit/fer/form
• YYZ, Toronto, Ontario

• 2001 Love Story
• Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario

• 2000 Tilt
• Overflo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 1999 Who You Callin’ a Bossy Bitch
• Overflo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 1998 Twenty-five Contemporary Canadian Artists
• Warehouse Show, Toronto, Ontario

• 1998 disquieting strangeness
• CFAR, London, UK

• 1997 a little object
• CFAR, London, UK

• 1997 Charades et Rebus
• Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec

• 1991-95 Le Reel et ses Simulacres
• Centre national d’exposition, Jonquiere, Quebec, Centre d’exposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, Quebec, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Centre culturel de l’Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherooke, Quebec, Palais Montcalm, Quebec, Maison Jacques Prevert, Dieppe, France, Delegation du Quebec à Paris, Paris, France, Halle au Ble, Saint Malo, France, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels, Belgium

• 1993 The Nature of the Medium
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

• 1993 The Horizon is a Line
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

• 1993 The Historic Female: Re-presentation of archival photographs
• Gallery III, Montreal, Quebec

• 1991-1998 Fata Scribunda
• MacDonald Steward Gallery, Guelph, Ontario, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec, Toronto Photographers Workshop, Toronto, Ontario

• 1991 War, Media, and the New World Order
• CIAC, Montreal, Quebec

• 1990 Collection Pret d’Oevres d’Art
• Musee du Quebec, Quebec City, Quebec

• 1990 Tandem Bis
• Galerie Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec

• 1990 Evenement Quebecoise
• Office Municipal de la Culture, Cannes, France

• 1989-1990 The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Real Stories
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Memorial University, St.Jean, Newfoundland, Mendel Art Gallery,
• Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Galerie de l’Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 Faire Image
• Musee de la civilisation, Quebec City, Quebec

• 1989 Entrer Libre
• Cite de l’image, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 A Posteriori
• Librairie Paragraph, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 Photographie Alteree
• Galerie Aubes, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 Photographie Quebecoise, Art Jonction International
• Galerie Latitude, Art Fair, Nice, France

• 1989 Recent Acquisitions
• Concordia Art Gallery, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 Powerplays: Contemporary Photography from Canada
• Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, UK, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK, MacRobert Art Centre, Stirling, UK, Posterngate Gallery, Hull, UK, Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK, Canada House, London, UK

• 1988 Second International Photography Exhibition
• Galerie Transpose, Montreal, Quebec

• 1988 Vancouver/Hamburg
• Kunst auf Kampenagel, Hamburg, Germany

• 1988 Art et Litterature Feministe
• Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec

• 1988 Eye of the Mind/Mind of the Eye
• Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1988 Illuminated Manuscript
• Cornish Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA

• 1987 Marques et Contrastes
• Galerie Sequence, Jonquiere, Quebec

• 1987 Recent Acquisitions
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1986 Transitions
• Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal, Quebec

• 1986 Making History
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1986 L’Effet Visuel/Titlesearch
• Galerie Ovo, Montreal, Quebec

• 1984 Summer Salon
• Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 1984 Art and Photography
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1984 Deliberations
• Vancouver Art Gallery Extensions, toured BC

• 1983 The October Show
• Warehouse Location, Vancouver, BC

• 1982 Matronize
• Women In Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1982 Woman to Woman – PART II
• Women in Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1981 Woman to Woman
• Woman In Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC

collection

• Air Canada Collection
• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Art Metropole
• Canada Council Art Bank
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Concordia Art Gallery
• La Collection Prêt D’oeuvre D’Art
• MacDonald Stewart Art Centre
• Museum London
• National Gallery of Canada
• Oakville Galleries
• Ryerson Image Centre
• Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP Lawyers
• Seattle Art Museum
• Surrey Art Gallery
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Winnipeg Art Gallery

Publication

• 2021 #whatev
• Cheryl Sourkes
• publisher: Impulse [b]
• Toronto, Ontario

• 2018 FACELESS: Re-inventing Privacy Through Subversive Media Strategies
• images in conjunction with text by Hille Koskela
• editors: Bogomir Doringer, Brigitte Felderer,
• publisher: De Gruyter, Walter de GmbH

• 2014 Cheryl Sourkes, Webcams
• Exit #53 Image and Culture
• Madrid, Spain

• 2013 Nothing and all, Palimpsest
• writer: Rachel Zolf
• Platform Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• 2012 Desire
• curator/writer: Eli Okkenhaug
• Art Museums of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

• 2010 Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes and Social Control
• curators/writers: Jan Allen with Sarah E.K. Smith
• Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Mississauga Art Centre, Toronto, Ontario

• 2010 Status Update
• curator/writer: Shauna Thompson
• Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2009 Art/Porn: A History of Seeing and Touching
• Kelly Dennis, Berg Publishers

• 2009 Tons Of Webcammer Babes
• artist book: images Cheryl Sourkes, text Sharon Kivland
• Editions J’ai Vu, Quebec, Quebec
• launched at: Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Quebec, Le Mois de la photo, Montreal, Quebec, Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario

• 2008 Portfolio
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Prefix Magazine, issue 18
• Toronto, Ontario

• 2008 Formal beauty in a webcam world
• review: Gary Michael Dault
• Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario

• 2007 Surfing with Cheryl Sourkes
• article: Cyril Reade
• BlackFlash vol. 25.1, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

• 2007 Cheryl Sourkes
• review: Vid Ingelevics
• Canadian Art vol. 4.3, Toronto, Ontario

• 2007 expanding bodies
• curator/writer: Robert Bean
• ART CITIES ENVIRONMENT, Riverside Architectural press and Tuns Press

• 2007 In the Flesh
• curator/writer: Robert Bean
• Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS

• 2007 Loitering in Cyberspace
• article: Cheryl Simon
• C Magazine Summer 2007, Toronto, Ontario

• 2007 Cheryl Sourkes | Public Camera
• catalogue essay: Cheryl Simon
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography/National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

• 2007 GALLERY GOING: Cheryl Sourkes at Peak Gallery
• review: Gary Michael Dault
• Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario

• 2007 Candid cameras
• review: Peter Goddard
• Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario

• 2006 Homecammers – Women
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• n. paradoxa vol. 18, London, UK

• 2006 Event Cities: Architecture as Performance
• curator/writer: Katy McCormick
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Questions of Obsolescence, Image and Inscription
• essay: Robert Bean
• YYZ books, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 NXT. Message
• curator/writer: Cyril Reade
• Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Carte Blanche
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Suspect, Alphabet City 10
• editor: John Knechtel
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• MIT & Alphabet City Media Inc.

• 2005 The Big Picture 22
• review: R.M. Vaughan
• National Post, Toronto, Ontario

• 2005 Cheryl Sourkes: Cam Work
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• CV Ciel Variable #69, Montreal, Quebec

• 2003 Virtual Cities, cover image
• Geist vol. 12.51, Vancouver, BC

• 2002 Shadow of the Machine
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Museum London, London, Ontario

• 2002 Artificial Life – Virtual Worlds
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• ANGELAKI journal of the theoretic humanities vol. 7.1, Routledge, London, UK

• 2000 Nature Canada
• curator/writer: Shirley Madill
• Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario

• 2000 small falling figure, In the Place of an Object
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Algate Press, London, UK

• 2000 Art, Money, Madness: With Origins in Mind, Capital Culture
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal, Kingston, London, Ithaca

• 1998 Interface: Encounters with New Technology
• curator/writer: Carol Payne
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

• 1998 Fata Scribunda
• curator/writer: Judith Nasby
• Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario

• 1997 Ornithology/Etymology: The deliberate shape of wind
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Blackflash, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

• 1996 Genes and Genesis/Inexact Shadows
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• new formations TECHNOSCIENCE #29
• London, UK

• 1995 Cheryl Sourkes, Writing Nations
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• TESSERA Vol 18, Toronto, Ontario

• 1994 Cheryl Sourkes, Souvenir Ecran
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery Vu, Quebec City, Quebec

• 1994 Cheryl Sourkes, Semiotext(e) Canadas
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• New York, NY

• 1994 The text opens up and lets her in, Love issue
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Public 10, Toronto, Ontario

• 1993 Cheryl Sourkes, Feminist(s)/Projets (des) feminists
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• TESSERA Vol. 15, Toronto, Ontario

• 1993 Doctrine of Signatures, Reading in the Dark
• writers: Renee Baert, Bruce Russell
• Algate Press, London UK

• 1993 The Horizon is a Line
• curator/writer: April Hickox
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

• 1991 War, Media, and the New World Order
• CIAC, Montreal, Quebec

• 1991 Thirteen Essays on Photography
• editors: Martha Langford, Geoffrey James, Richard Baillargeon, Cheryl Sourkes
• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

• 1992 Le Reel et ses Simulacres
• editors: Sylvain Campeau et Gaetan Gosselin
• Vu, Quebec, Quebec

• 1989 Powerplay: Contemporary Photography from Canada
• curator/writer: Martha Langford
• Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

• 1989 The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Real Stories
• curator/writer: Cheryl Simon
• artist project: Cheryl Sourkes
• Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 Marques et Contrastes, Actes du colloque
• Jonquiere, Quebec

• 1989 Photographie Alteree
• curator/writer: Dennis Lessard
• Galerie Aubes, Montreal, Quebec

• 1989 A Posteriori
• Oculus postcard project
• Librairie Paragraph, Montreal, Quebec

• 1988 Eye of the Mind/Mind of the Eye
• curator/writer: Rod Slemmons
• Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1987 Cheryl Sourkes: slide/interview presentation
• circulated by Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario

• 1986 Opening up the Psychic Economy
• interview: Irene Dual Chan
• Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1986 Photoperspectives
• juror statement: Cheryl Sourkes
• Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1985 musing with mothertongue
• text: Daphne Marlatt, images: Cheryl Sourkes
• Photocommunique Magazine, Toronto, Ontario

• 1985 Of Difference Lost and Retrieved
• curator/writer: Jill Pollack
• Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC

• 1984 Art and Photography
• curator/writer: Scott Watson
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC

curatorial

• 2005-2009 akau project space
• Toronto, Ontario
• random objects; random thoughts – Yvonne Singer
• Slow Pans – Karen Henderson
• Panorama Pictures – Christos Dikeakos
• ONCE NEAR WATER – Vera Frenkel
• Certainties – Paul Donald
• The Other Side of Abstraction – Michel Daigneault
• 1916 – Fred McSherry
• Relief – Isoje Chou and Kathryn Dain
• Frieze – Lorraine Simms
• What Isn’t There – Elle Flanders
• Honeytrap – Lorna Mills
• Folded landscapes ~ Unfolding Maps – Gwen MacGregor and Flavio Trevisan
• Not for Navigational Purposes – Katherine Knight
• Road Maps – Sandra Rechico
• Alpha Beta Data – Stephen Andrews, Robert Bean, Michelle Gay, Vid Ingelevics, Carol Laing, Yam Lau, Michael Maranda, Lorna Mills, Cheryl Sourkes
• Parks & Culture – Helen de Main and Vid Ingelevics
• Weaving Van Gogh – Dagmar Dahle
• A deer in the headlights – Stephen Andrews
• Capital and Pedestal – Sharon Kivland and Sylvia Safdie
• Verbatim – Bob Bean
• Canthus – Carol Laing
• Breath and Intonation – Michael Maranda
• She Forgot – Michelle Johnson and Heidi Schaefer
• have less be more – Michelle Gay

• 2008 Excision, Michael Maranda, Michelle Bellemare, Robert Bean
• twenty+3 projects, Manchester, UK

• 2005-2006 Lesbian.mbox
• portfolio of work by lesbian artists and writers
• Paul Petro Projects Space, Toronto, Ontario, akau, Toronto, Ontario

• 2004 Wind and Water, Katherine Knight
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Art Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario

• 2002 Shadow of the Machine
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Museum London, London, Ontario

• 2000 Troubled Beds, Sorel Cohen
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

• 1999 Mind Toys
• co-curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes & David Craig
• Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

• 1999 Lunch Money
• co-curator/co-writer: Cheryl Sourkes & Kim Fullerton
• Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Hailfax, NS

• 1999 Fatherlands
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario

• 1998 Read Only Memory
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario

• 1998 Mes Tendresses: Sharon Kivland
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario

• 1997 Love, Love, Love
• co-curator/co-writer: Cheryl Sourkes & Kim Fullerton
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario

• 1997 FAUST WORKS (excerpts), Eva Brandl
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario

• 1996-1997 Dis/Location Markers
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

• 1996 Found Missing: Archival photographs and the new historicity
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• 1996-1998 Three hundred and sixty-five pictures, Stephen Andrews
• curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes
• Gallery TPW, Toronto, Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS

• 95-99 Culture Slash Nation
• co-curator/writer: Cheryl Sourkes & Lorraine Johnson
• Gallery TPW, Ontario, Toronto, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario