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Alec Dempster - Visual Artist -  Resume

Visual Art Education

1994 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (Visual Arts / Specialization in Printmaking) - York University 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019    Walker´s Point Center for Arts - Milwaukee
2018    La Mano Gráfica - Pátzcuaro
             El Corazón Parlante - Guanajuato
              OPEN center for the arts - Chicago
              Galería de arte contemporánea de la USBI - Veracruz
2017     Centro de Cultura Arte Trabajo y Educacion (CCATE) - Norristown, Pennsylvania
              MECA - Houston
2016    Kultrun Gallery - Waterloo, Canada
             Mandrágora - Metepec
2015    Bullet Space Gallery - Manhattan
2013    Centre 3 - Hamilton, Canada
             Meztli Gallery - Chicago
2012    Index G Gallery - Toronto
2010    Index G Gallery - Toronto
2008    Café Teatro Tierra Luna - Xalapa
2007    Galería La Iguana – Hervas, España.
             Inst. Mexicano de Planeación e Investigación - Ciudad Juárez
             Meztli Galería - Chicago.
             Claustro del Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura – Puerto de Veracruz
2006    Mexic-arte Museum & International Airport – Austin
2006    El Agora de la Ciudad - Xalapa
2004    Louche Gallery – Toronto
             Jardín de las Esculturas – Xalapa
2003    Espace Latinos – Lyon, Francia.
             Galería Marie Louise Ferrari – Xalapa
2001    Pinacoteca Diego Rivera – Xalapa
2000    Galería Alva de la Canal – Xalapa
1999    Galería A.P. / Universidad Veracruzana – Xalapa
             Galería del Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura – Veracruz 
1998    The Spanish Centre - Toronto
1997    Open Studio Gallery – Toronto
             Casa de la Cultura Jesús Romero - México D.F.
1996    Tableau Vivant Gallery - Toronto


Awards and Achievements

2017 Artist in residence “Taller Corazón Parlante" - Guanajuato
2015 Travel grant for Lotería Huasteca book tour - Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Professional Music Grant “Study in Huasteca region of Mexico” - Canada Council for the Arts.
2014 Writers’ Reserve Grant for Lotería Huasteca- Ontario Arts Council.
2014 Travel grant for Lotería Jarocha book tour - Canada Council for the Arts.
2012 Popular Music Grant for composition project - Ontario Arts Council.
2010 Permanent installation for the Liberty Village Public Bench Art Program, Toronto.
2007 First prize, International ex-libris competition in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico.
2006 Artist in residence - “Serie Project”, Coronado Studios in Austin, Texas.
2005 Emerging artist grant - FONCyA (National Fund for the Culture and Arts), Verarcuz, Mexico.
2003 Emerging artist grant - FONCyA (National Fund for the Culture and Arts), Veracruz, Mexico
1995 Artist in residence - St. Michael's Printshop, St. John's, NL.




Books
2018
Mañwuíin - Poema by Hubert Matiuwaa, Ilustrations by Alec Dempster - University of Guadalajara Press

2017
Xtambaa - Poems by Hubert Malinaa, Illustrations by Alec Dempster - Pluralia
Aclarando Amanece - Texts by Heraclio Alvardo, illustration by Alec Dempster - Ediciones del Lirio & Pluralia
Rojo Deseo - Poema by Irma Pineda, Illustrations by Alec Dempster - Pluralia
(to be published November 2017)

2016 La Jarana de Mario - Editora del Estado de Veracruz - Xalapa, Mexico.
2015 Lotería Huasteca “Woodblock Prints” - The Porcupine’s Quill
2013 Lotería Jarocha ‘linoleum prints’ - The Porcupine´s Quiil
2012 Down in the Bottom of the Bottom of the Box (Poems by JonArno Lawson) - The Porcupine’s Quill
2011 Faces of Son Jarocho - self published


Other publications

2014 - Lotería Jarocha (educational board game with CD ) - self-published
2008 - Lotería Huasteca (educational board game) with poems by Arturo Castillo Tristán - self-published


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