Philippe Blanchard is a Toronto-based artist, animator and educator. His diverse creative background has informed an interdisciplinary practice combining animation, installation, light shows, textile and printmaking. His studio research explores and disrupts how moving images– with their underlying histories and inherited disciplinary boundaries–inform cultural notions of time and space.
Recent projects include textile production research at TextielLab (Textile Museum, Tilburg NL), a solo exhibition of experimental stop-motion animations at Atelier Circulaire (Montreal), a studio residency and an exhibition at Proyecto ‘Ace (Buenos Aires).
Over the last eight years, Philippe has exhibited expanded animation installations at TAIS, Ontario Place (Toronto), Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury), Sinan Mansions (Shanghai); Festival Chromatic (Paris); Centro de Artes de Guanajuato, San Pedro Museo de Arte in Puebla, the National Museum of Print in Mexico City (Mexico); Glendon Gallery (Toronto), Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge ON), and ARPRIM (Montreal), all work featuring screen-printed imagery or textiles animated by computer-controlled coloured lighting.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2008-2010
MFA (Interdisciplinary Art, Media & Design), OCAD University, Toronto
2004-2005
Diploma (Visual Effects for Film and Television), Seneca College, Toronto
1994-1998
BFA (Film Production), Concordia University, Montreal
Recent Exhibited Works
“Interference Patterns”, Open Studio Project Space, October 2021. Solo Exhibition.
“Rayuela” (Hopscotch), Proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 2019. Group Exhibition.
“Brouillages/Interference Patterns”, Atelier Circulaire, September 2019. Solo Exhibition.
“New Troglodytes”, Public Art Installation for L’Avenue du Mont-Royal, Montréal, December 2018.
“New Troglodytes”, Solo Exhibition at Factory Media Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, August 2018.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Hand-On Centre Artist Intervention, November 2017.
ReformerArt Gallery, Shanghai, China, Solo Exhibition, July 2017.
in/FUTURE, Toronto ON. Group Exhibition, September 2016.
“Inbetweening”, Open Studio, Toronto ON. Solo Exhibition, October 2016.
The Frame is the Keyframe: Frame Anomalies, TAIS, Toronto ON. Group Exhibition, November 2016.
Inventions of Light Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto ON. (Group Show)
Wayhome Festival, Oro Medonte, ON. (Temporary Installation, Summer 2015).
“New Troglodytes 2” Centro de las Artes de Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Mexico (Group Show, Summer 2015)
“New Troglodytes 2” San Pedro Museum of Art, Puebla, Mexico (Group Show, Fall 2015)
“New Troglodytes” Festival Chromatic Paris (Group Show, Spring 2015)
“Structured Light” Cambridge Galleries (Solo Show, Winter 2015)
“New Troglodytes 2” National Musem of Print, Mexico City (Group Show, Fall 2014)
Other Solo Exhibitions
“New Troglodytes”, Solo Show, ARPRIM, Montreal (Winter 2013)
Time Tunnel, Solo Show, InterAccess, Toronto (Fall 2011)
Selected Other Exhibitions and Screenings
“Belief System”, part of touring screening “Cartune Xprez - Special Effect” (2012)
Screenings: Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Institute of Modern Art. Brisbane, AU.
“Stupid Tricks 1&2” (2004-2011) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Horton Gallery (New York), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montréal), CAKFA (Kitchener ON)
“Springfield Eternal” (2009) Impakt Festival, Utrecht (NL), Center for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow)
“Taco Monde” (2005) Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, Pop Montreal Festival, Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), The Kitchen (New York), National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC), San Francisco Art Institute, Impakt Festival (Utrecht NL), Cal Arts (Valencia, CA)
“Alien Ice: Miami” (2007) LACMA (Los Angeles), Hirshhorn Museum (Washington DC), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, RISD (Providence RI)
“New Troglodytes”, Installation for C2MTL conference/Chromatic Festival (Summer 2013), Montreal. Sponsored by Sid Lee and Cirque du Soleil.
Power Ball (Summer 2012), Group Show, The Power Plant, Toronto.
Recent Professional Experience
2020 -
Chair, Integrated Media and DPXA, OCAD University (Toronto)
2019
Textile project/professional development at TextielLab (Textile Museum, Tilburg NL)
2016 - 2017
Chair, Media & Installation Art, OCAD University
2014-2016
Associate Chair, Media & Installation Art, OCAD University
2016 -
Associate-Professor, Faculty of Art, OCAD University
2011-2016
Assistant-Professor (Tenure-Track), OCAD University, Drawing & Painting / Integrated Media
2009-2011
Sessional Faculty, OCAD University
2003-2008
Animator/Director, Head Gear Animation (Toronto)
Awards/Grants/Commissions
2020
Ontario Arts Council, Bourse pour artistes visuels et des métiers d’art
2019
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore & Create Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Grant for Art Residency at proyecto ‘ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2018
Price Excellence in Teaching Award, OCAD University
Canada Council for the Arts, Professional Development Grant for textile project at TextielLab (Textile Museum, Tilburg NL)
2017
Ontario Arts Council, Bourse pour artistes visuels et des métiers d’art
2016
The Frame is the Keyframe: Frame Anomalies, Toronto Animated Image Society
Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant (two)
Canada Council for the Arts, New Media Research Grant
2015
Nick Novak Fellowship, Open Studio
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2014
Canada Council for the Arts, New Media Research Grant
Ontario Arts Council, Bourse pour artistes visuels et des métiers d’art
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
Toronto Arts Council, Media Artist Grant
2012
Canada Council for the Arts, New Media Research Grant
Ontario Arts Council, Bourse pour artistes visuels et des métiers d’art
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance
2011
Ontario Arts Council, Bourse pour artistes visuels et des métiers d’art
2009
Ontario Arts Council, Avance Médias Grant
SSHRC, Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
2005
Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Research/Creation Grant
2003
Canada Council for the Arts, Media Arts Research/Creation Grant