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
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