C.V. Alison Bigg 2023
Education
2017 Independent Studio Program, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
1989 Diploma in Fine Art, Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
1984/86 Coursework, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB (foundation, photography)
Professional Development and Residencies
2023 RECLAIM Public Art Residency with Germaine Koh, STEPS and the Victoria Arts Council
2016 Lithography Pronto intensive (with Victoria Edgarr), Ground Zero Printmakers Society, Victoria, BC
2007 Solar Plate Etching, Vancouver Island School of Art, Victoria, BC
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Auricals, Harcourt House ARC, Edmonton, AB
2023 Auricals, Victoria Arts Council Main Gallery, Victoria, BC
2023 #lostfoundsound, a limited edition printmaking book through Flask publications.
2021 Gestural Prompt, Errant Art Space, Victoria, BC with guest artists June Higgins and Jillian Player
Eyeball Safety, City of Victoria Johnson Street Parkade, Victoria, BC
2020 Angel on Horseback, MoCL Window Gallery, Victoria, BC
Occupying the Void, installation, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
2018 I Wonder, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC
2017 Globular Cluster, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
Gone Home, Slide Room Gallery, Victoria, BC
2015 The 100 Day Project,The Midwives Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC
2013 Victoria: A History in Layers, Habit Coffee, Victoria, BC
Studies of the Artichoke Flower, The Midwives Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC
2012 Victoria: A History in Layers, site-specific installation in shop windows, Victoria, BC
1995 Cut Block No 69A3-X, Still Eagle, Nelson, BC
1994 Shakti: Feminine Energy, Nelson Museum Gallery, Nelson, BC
Group Exhibitions
2023 Segue, arc.hive ARC, Victoria, BC
2022 BIMPE XI Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition, BC
2022 TOMPE2022 The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition, London, On
2022 Assemblage, arc.hive ARC, Victoria, BC
2022 Mixedtape soundscape UNTIL online magazine issue 12 https://untilmagazine.wordpress.com/issue-12- mixtape- soundscape/
2021 Little Gems, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC
2021 to gather….again, arc.hive ARC, Victoria, BC
2020 Beyond the Archive, with Ground Zero Printmakers, Victoria Arts Council, Victoria, BC
2020 Stanza, arc.hive ARC, Victoria, BC online poetry collaboration, Ekphrasis: https://arc-hivearc.org/alison-bigg- rhonda-ganz/
2019 Discovery, Seymour Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Branch, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
2018 Swell, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
Mend, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
Under/Where, Ou Gallery, Duncan, BC
Refugium, The Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, BC
2017 Bridge, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
Hopeful Monsters, arc.hive gallery, Victoria, BC
Take Your Bearings, 50/50 Arts Collective Gallery, Victoria, BC
2012 The Small Treasures Show, Coast Collective Gallery, Metchosin, BC
The Small Works Show, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2011 In Your Skin, GZPS, Arts Centre at Cedar Hill, Victoria, BC
1992 Natural Histories: Traces, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC
1989 ECCAD graduation show, ECCAD campus, Vancouver, BC
Collections
2023 #lostfoundsound artist book UVIC Special Collections
2023 #lostfoundsound artist book Art Gallery of Ontario, The E.P. Taylor Library & Archives
Grants and Awards
2023 RECLAIM Public Art Residency with Germaine Koh, STEPS and the Victoria Arts Council
2023 Canada Council Conception to Realization grant
2023 CARFAC fee from the Victoria Arts Council for Auricals
2023 Commission by Flask publications, BC Arts Council funding.
2021 Purchase for use by the City of Victoria, Eyeball Safety
2019 Winner of an emerging artist award from the Seymour Art Gallery.
2012 People and Places 150 Grant, support for the Victoria: A History in Layers exhibition awarded by the City of Victoria, BC
Bibliography
“Auricals” exhibition catalogue, essays by Kegan McFadden and Regan Rasmussen, Poems by Rhonda Ganz.2023
“Tompe 2022” Exhibition catalogue, The Ontario Miniature Print Exhibition. 2022
“Ekphrasis” exhibition catalogue, arc.hive, Victoria, BC, 2020
Robin Laurence, Alison Bigg: “I Wonder” Exhibition review, Preview Magazine, Victoria, BC, April/May edition, 2018.
“Refugium: Poems for the Pacific”, exhibition catalogue, Maritime Museum, Victoria, BC, 2018
“Hopeful Monsters”, exhibition catalogue, arc.hive, Victoria, BC, 2017, page 23, essay, Connie Morey.
“Gone Home” exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Island School of Art,Victoria,BC 2017,essay, Wendy Welch.
Community Activities
2023 Workshop instructor, solar plate etching at the Salt Spring Island Printmakers Group
2022 Studio assistant at the Metchosin International School for the Arts
2022 Juror for the 2023 exhibition year at Cedar Hill Gallery
2020-now Co- Founder, board member, instructor and studio artist at PRINT: Victoria
2020-2022 Director of the CRD Project grants for the PRINTgallery.
2019-2023 Volunteer and studio artist at Cedar Hill Ceramic Department
2018-2021 Board Member, Ground Zero Printmakers Society, Victoria, BC
2018 -now Member of CARFAC
2017-now Program director and member of the Board, arc.hive artist-run centre