Alexander Rondeau is a queer, Francophone interdisciplinary artist, curator, and writer from New Liskeard, Ontario. He holds a BFA in Image Arts from Ryerson University and is currently an Ontario Graduate Scholarship funded MFA candidate in the Criticism and Curatorial Program at OCAD University. Rondeau’s research-driven artistic practice is largely lens-based hybridizing photography, sculpture, and performative site-specific interventions highlighting the complicated intersections of queerness and Northern rurality. He has done several residencies including MAD in Sigulda, Latvia, and was slated for a fully-funded funded residency in rural South Africa under the mentorship of Zanele Muholi (cancelled due to COVID-19), and has had several group and solo exhibitions across Ontario including a Featured solo exhibition during the 2017 CONTACT Photography Festival. As a curator, Rondeau is dedicated to producing research based exhibitions centring artistic and cultural production in Northern Ontario, with an emphasis on queer, trans, and two spirits artists. Prior to starting his MFA, Rondeau was the Program Coordinator at the Near North Mobile Media Lab in North Bay, Ontario. He has received several Ontario Arts Council grants for both his artistic and curatorial projects. Rondeau is a founding member of Minor Hockey Curatorial (alongside Robin Alex McDonald), and découpé__projects (alongside Marilyn Adlington and Alex Gregory).
ALEXANDER RONDEAU
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EDUCATION
2019-21 Master of Fine Arts, Criticism & Curatorial Practice, OCAD University, Toronto ON
2013-17 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography Studies, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Toronto ON
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Pond Secrets are Drying in the Banks, LEFT Contemporary, Windsor ON
2017 Making an Offering, featured exhibition Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Alliance Française, curated by Heather Rigg, Toronto ON
2017 From Quarry, to Body, Being, and Back, Gallery 310, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 fonction, faillite, with Anyse Ducharme, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay ON
2018 Touchy/Feely?, with Kris Langille, Brandscape (Tough Guy Mountain), curated by Lucy Wowk, Toronto ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 New Vintages, Temiskaming Art Gallery, New Liskeard ON
2018 Tranquility, Museum of Northern History, Kirkland Lake ON
2017-18 The President’s Show, Ryerson University’s President’s Office, Toronto ON
2017 Bread and Butter, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
2017 BIOREVOLUTION, Sigulda Castle, Sigulda, Latvia
2017 Maximum Exposure, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
2016 Bread and Butter, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
2016 TRACES, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
2016 loud, INTIMATE featured PRIDE 2016 exhibition, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
2016 Written on the Body, Gallery 310, Toronto ON
2016 First Edition Photo Book Show, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
RESIDENCIES
2020 Global Experience Project under the mentorship of Zanele Muholi, Johannesburg, South Africa* cancelled due to COVID-19
2020 Contingencies of Care Digital Residency, OCAD University, June
2019 Curator in Residence, White Water Gallery, North Bay ON, June // July
2017 Masters of Art and Design (MAD) Summer Residency, Sigulda, Latvia, July // Aug
2016 Art Camp: Artist Residency for Emerging Artists, Toronto ON, May // Oct 2016 Queer + Trans Artist Residency, Toronto ON, May // July
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 fissures, faults, and other feelings with Anyse Ducharme, Morningstar Derosier, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Alicia Hunt, Emilio Portal, Sophie Anne Edwards, and Isabelle Michaud (co-curated with Marilyn Adlington as découpé__projects), 180 Projects, Sault Ste. Marie, ON (forthcoming)
2020 Pressure Cracks, for Ice Follies Biennial with Jon Sasaki, Christine Negus, and Emily Pelstring (co-curated with Robin Alex McDonald as Minor Hockey Curatorial), Frozen Lake Nipissing in North Bay, ON,
2019 Above the Belt, Below the Bush (co-curated with Robin Alex McDonald as Minor Hockey Curatorial) with Dayna Danger, Adrienne Crossman, Tyler Matheson, Walter Kaheró:ton Scott, Dominic Pinney, and Jordyn Stewart, vacant industrial building, North Bay, ON
2019 it’s a towardness, really: and it’s been places too with Christine Negus, Andie Kinney, Lucy Wowk, Sheri Nault, and Jeremy Saya
2018 An Upstream Flow in a Downstream Current, 15 artists from across Ontario, Pete’s Dam Park, New Liskeard ON
2017 Body Talks; Limitations and Manifestations with Nicholas Aiden, Maddie Alexander, Nadia Hayford, and Evan Roy, Ryerson Artspace, Toronto ON
2016 In Search Of by Alessandra Abballe, Stephanie Sutter, and Cassandrea Xavier, Gallery 310, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
2016 What Fits with Clea Christakos-Gee, Gallery 310, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
2016 Koža with Deanna Pizzitelli, Gallery 310, Ryerson University, Toronto ON
2016 Preserving the Self with Rachel Ciolfi, Mina Markovic, and Melanie Winter, Gallery 310, Ryerson University Toronto ON
2016 HUMANITAS XV, (co-curator) over 60 artists, The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto ON
GRANTS // AWARDS
2020-21 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2019 Community Engagement Fund, SPARC
2019 Visual Arts Creation Projects, Ontario Arts Council
2019 Community Engagement Fund Project Grant, SPARC
2019 Presenter’s Projects, (for Minor Hockey Curatorial) Ontario Arts Council
2019 Exhibitions Assistance, Ontario Arts Council
2019-20 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, OCAD University
2016 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival + Alliance Française + Ryerson University Award for best Production and Curatorial Package
2016 Summer Company Entrepreneurial Grant, Temiskaming Shores ON
PUBLICATIONS // PRESS
2019 Art, Queer Potentiality, and the North, review of Above the Belt, Below the Bush (co-curated as Minor Hockey Curatorial), Anishinabek News
2019 Above the Belt, Below the Bush, documentation and texts (as Minor Hockey Curatorial) published in Off Centre
2018 Digital Creator North: Media Arts and Safe Spaces as Seen Through the Lens of Temiskaming Shores in Digest, writing commissioned by Forest City Gallery
2017 Function Magazine
2017 CONTACT Exhibition Catalogue
2017 L’identité queer dans l’objectif d’Alexander Rondeau in L’Express
2016 HUMANITAS XV Exhibition Catalogue
TALKS // WORKSHOPS
2018 An Upstream Flow in a Downstream Current: An Alternative Curatorial
Strategy, invited Guest Speaker in the Issues in Curation and Museum Representation FAVA 4066 class, Nipissing University Department of Fine and Performing Arts, North Bay, ON
2018 Queering the Normative // Art and the Readymade, artist talk, guest mentorship, and workshop facilitator in partnership with Digital Creator North at the Haileybury Public Library, Haileybury ON
2016 The Queer Artist, École Secondaire Catholique Sainte-Marie, New Liskeard ON
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
2020 Research Assistant to Anyse Ducharme, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
2019-2020 Teaching Assistant to Professors Charles Reeve and Heather Coffey: Global Material and Visual Culture: Beginnings to 1800, and Global Material and Visual Culture: Beginnings to 1800 to Present OCAD University, Toronto ON *2020-2021 laid-off due to COVID-19
2019-20 Research Assistant, to Kim Kitchen, supported by the Canada Council for the Arts), North Bay ON
2019 ‘connection_found’ panel moderator, OCAD University
2019 Jury Member, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto ON
2019 Northern Ontario Mobile Residency Jury Member, Near North Mobile Media Lab, North Bay ON
2018 -19 Program Coordinator, Near North Mobile Media Lab, North Bay ON
2018 Fundraising Committee, White Water Gallery, North Bay ON
2018 North Bay Film Festival Committee, North Bay ON
2018 North Bay Film Festival Short Film Series Subcommittee, North Bay ON
2017-18 Director on the Temiskaming Art Gallery Board of Directors Temiskaming Shores ON
2016-17 Exhibitions Assistant, Gallery 310, Toronto ON
2016 Gallery Assistant (intern), Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto ON
