Paul LaPorte
 
 

       

       

       

Group Exhibitions

2008       Once Near Water,
               Commissioned jointly by Continuum Contemporary Music and the Images Festival
               co-produced by Jennifer Waring and Scott Miller Berry for the SHIFT Festival, Amsterdam
               Directed by Vera Frenkel

               Once Near Water,
               Akau Inc., Toronto, Ontario
               Directed by Vera Frenkel
               Curated by Cheryl Sourkes

               The Twilight Express,
               Bravo!FACT
               Directed by Stephen Philipson

               Poem City City Poem,
               Penex Metropolis Video Wall Commission,
               Toronto, Ontario,
               Produced and Directed by Vera Frenkel

               One Minute Film and Video Festival,
               Opening Animation Director
               Toronto, Ontario

2007       One Minute Film and Video Festival,
               Aarau, Switzerland

               Smogfest, in association with the Citizens Environment Alliance,
               Milk Coffee Bar, Windsor, Ontario

               Impulse Archaeology, DVD installation,
               White Box, New York, NY, USA
               curated by Eldon Garnet                

2006       Growth, One Minute Film & Video Festival,
               Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Ontario

               Open Screening Under the Stars, Pleasure Dome,
               401 Richmond St. W. Courtyard, Toronto, Ontario

               Outvideo'06, International Video-Art Festival,
               Festival places: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh,
               Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan',
               Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yaroslavl', Yekaterinburg & Surgut, Russia

               Smogfest, in association with the Citizens Environment Alliance,
               Milk Coffee Bar, Windsor, Ontario

2005       Impulse Archaeology, DVD installation,
               Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA),
               Toronto, Ontario,
               curated by Eldon Garnet

2004       Square Foot,  with 369+ international artists,
               A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

               Smogfest, in association with the Citizens Environment Alliance,
               Artspeak Gallery, Windsor, Ontario

2002       Industry Day,  Digital animation screening,
               Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario

2000       Stratum,  new paintings & drawings by Paul LaPorte & Barb Bondy,
               Malden Park Centre, Windsor, Ontario

1999       Artseen 7, in association with Artcite Inc.,
               former Sealtest Dairy, Windsor, Ontario

               Duty Free, a members exchange show curated by Artcite Inc.,
               Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, Michigan

               Force; Counterforce, new paintings & drawings by Paul LaPorte & Barb Bondy,
               Mackenzie Hall Cultural Centre, Windsor, Ontario

1998       Invitational Show,
               Park Street Gallery, Windsor, Ontario, curated by Christian Sfalcin

               Decomposition, new paintings by Paul LaPorte & Barb Bondy,
               Arts Council of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario

               A Recycled Art Exhibit,
               Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Ontario

               B.F.A. Exhibition,
               School of Visual Arts, Windsor, Ontario

               Ricochet,
               Lebel Art Gallery, Windsor, Ontario

1996       Land Minds,
               Common Ground Gallery, Windsor, Ontario

Juried Exhibitions

2006       Juried Exhibition,
               Glenhyrst, Art Gallery of Brant, Brantford, Ontario,
               juried by Catherine Elliot Shaw (Curator, McIntosh Gallery, University of Western, London) &
               Martin Pearce (Artist, Instructor at Universities of Guelph and Toronto)

               10th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition,
               Council Chambers, Uxbridge Municipal Building, Uxbridge, Ontario,
               juried by Margaret Rodgers (Visual Artist, Arts Educator)
               & Sharon Gaum-Kuchar (City of Vaughn Arts Coordinator)

               Biannual Juried Exhibition,
               Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, Ontario,
               juried by Michael Allgoewer (Visual Artist), Marguerite Larmand (Visual Artist, Arts Educator)
               & Gordon Hatt (Director/Curator)

               Colour & Form Society Juried Exhibition,
               Paper Mill Gallery, Toronto, Ontario,
               juried by Joanne MacDonnell Foster (OCAD)

               Artworks 7th Annual Juried Exhibition,
               Exhibition program of the Oakville Arts Council, Oakville Town Hall, Oakville, Ontario,
               juried by John Leonard (Visual Artist) & Michael Maynard (Associate Dean at the School of Animation,
               Arts and Design at Sheridan Institute, Oakville)

               Open Juried Exhibition,
               Latcham Gallery, Stouffville, Ontario,
               juried by Alison Eagles (Director of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition),
               Seamus Kealy (Curator of the Blackwood Gallery) &
               Gerald McMaster (Curator of Canadian Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario)

2005       Open Juried Exhibition,
               The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario,
               juried by Mark Laliberte (Visual Artist)

               7th Annual Juried Environmental Art Show,
               The Broken Fence Society, Toronto, Ontario

2004       11th Annual Juried Exhibition,
               Lakeshore Arts, Etobicoke, Ontario,
               juried by Nancy Easun (Visual Artist), Julien LeBourdais (Visual Artist)
               & Nancy Newton (Visual Artist)

1999       Open Juried Exhibition,
               The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario,
               juried by Adele Duck (Visual Artist)

Awards

2007       Penex Metropolis Video Wall Commission, Toronto, Ontario, collaboration with Vera Frenkel

2006       Juror’s Award - Juried Exhibition, The Paper Mill Gallery, Toronto, Ontario

2005       Juror’s Award - Juried Exhibition, The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario

2002       Silver Medal for the highest cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA)
               in Computer Animation program, Sheridan College, Oakville, Ontario

1999       Juror’s Award - Juried Exhibition, The Thames Art Gallery, Chatham, Ontario