Biography
Chun Hua Catherine Dong (she/they) is a Chinese-born Tiohtià:ke/ Montréal-based multimedia artist. Dong received an MFA at Intermedia from Concordia University and a BFA at Visual Art from Emily Carr University Art & Design in Canada. Dong has exhibited their works at The International Digital Art Biennial Montreal (BIAN), The International Biennial of Digital Arts of the Île-de-France (Némo), Times Square Arts, MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image, Kaunas Biennial, The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne in France, Quebec City Biennial, Foundation PHI for Contemporary Art, Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City, The Rooms Museum, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, DongGong Museum of Photograph in South Korea, He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen, Hubei Museum of Fine Art in Wuhan, The Aine Art Museum in Tornio, Bury Art Museum in Manchester, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Art Gallery of Hamilton, and so on.
Dong has performed in many international performance art festivals, such as Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival in Chicago, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto, ENCUENTRO Performance in Santiago, The Great American Performance Art in New York, Place des Arts in Montreal, Infr’Action in Venice, Dublin Live Art Festival in Dublin, Experimental Action/ Performance Art in Houston, Internationales Festival für Performance in Mannheim, Inverse Performance Art Festival in California, Miami Performance International Festival, Nuit Blanches in Montreal, Visualeyez Performance Festival in Edmonton, M:ST Performance Art Festival in Calgary, and many public art galleries and spaces in Europe, North and South America. Dong’s video work has been screened in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA, and so on.
Among many other grants and awards, Dong was the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Award for performance art in New York in 2014, listed the “10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History” by Canadian Art in 2017, and was named “The Artist of the Year” at the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea in 2018. Dong was a finalist for Contemporary Art Award at Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ) 2020, awarded with Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts by the Conseil des arts de Montréal in 2021, and a long-listed artist for Sobey Art Award in 2024.
Dong is represented by Galerie Charlot in France.
Artist Statement
Dong’s artistic practice is based in performance art, photography, video, VR, AR, and 3D printing within the contemporary context of global feminism. Body is political. Dong began their artistic career as a performance artist. Working within the gap between body as image and body as experienced reality, Dong uses the body—often their own body— as a visual territory in their work and a primary material to activate social commentary on gender, identity, and migration. By encapsulating these global issues in microcosm or magnifying personal predicaments until they become universally visible, Dong presents the body as an embodiment of dynamic human relations, locating themselves at the nexus of author, artwork and audience.
In recent years, Dong’s focus has expanded to the integration of technology, exploring new digital possibilities for bridging gaps between memories and experiences, whilst mediating culture and identity through the lens of gender and diaspora. Dong’s work speaks to the ways in which gender is explored, lost, created and re-created, and how digital diasporic experiences have shaped the notion of home and self with the rise of digitalization. In the space of digital experimentation and representation, Dong blurs the boundaries of here and there, actual and virtual, culture and nature, human and animal. Futures are envisioned, which dissolve binaries and borders, creating a new social relation that sustains different ways of living and diverse beings as an act of survival.
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EDUCATION
2015 MFA, Intermedia, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada
2011 BFA, Visual Art, Emily Carr University Art & Design, Vancouver, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Flow, Galerie Charlot, Paris, France
2024 MuLan, Midnight Moment, Times Square Art, New York, USA
2024 Espace Culturel Georges-Emile-Lapalme Project, Place des Art, Montreal, Canada
2024 I Wonder How I Wonder Why, Articule, Montreal, Canada
2023 At the Edge of Two World, The Rooms Museum, St. John’s, NL
2023 Shared Distance: Where the Links Flow, E. M. Bannister Art Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, USA
2022 Mission Photographique Charlevoix, Musée de Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Quebec (two person exhbibition)
2022 Cleavage, Arcade Project Curatorial, New York, curated by M. Charlene Steven
2022 Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Markham, CA
2022 At the Edge of Two World, TRUCK Contemporary, Calgary, Canada
2022 So Close Yet So Far Away, Gallery 101, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2021 Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada, curated by Tara Ng
2021 Meet Me Halfway, la Central Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal (Window Project)
2020 In Transition, Downtown Campus Gallery at Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada
2019 THEY, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City
2018 Age of Love, DongGang Museum of Photography, presented by DongGang International Photo Festival, Korea
2018 The Drift Latitudes, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kinston, ON, Canada
2018 In Transition, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2016 Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame, aceartinc. Winnipeg, Canada
2016 Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame, The New Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2015 To Rebel is Justified, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montréal, Canada
2015 Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame, Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton, Canada
2015 Surface, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, Canada
2015 State of Grace, Harcourt House Artist-Run Centre, Edmonton, Canada
2014 Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame, VMU art gallery “101”, Kaunas, Lithuania
2014 Between Reality and Transcendence, Articule | Artist Run Centre, Montreal, Canada
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Illusion, The 7thInternational Digital Art Biennale Montreal (BIAN), Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal
2024 Through the Ground Glass, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, CA. Curated by Rebecca Basciano
2024 A Butterfly Flaps its Wings, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Markham, ON
2024 Spiritual Machines, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2024 Memoire materielle, the Plural Pavilion, Montreal. Curated by Evlyne Laurin
2024 Regarde!, City of Montreal, curated by Eunice Belidor (public art)
2024 Theory of Networks, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal
2024 Plural Art Fair, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal
2023 Terms of Use/ Conditions d’utilisation, Foundation Phi, Montreal, curated by Daniel Fiset and Cheryl Sim
2023 En d’infinies variations/Endless variations, Némo Biennial, Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, Paris, curated by Catherine Bédard, Dominique Moulon, and Alain Thibault
2023 Eros, Death + Robots, Space Station, Beijing, curated by Fu Xiao Dong
2023 Wonder: The Real, the Surreal, and the Fantastic, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON
2023 Untitled Art Fair, with Galerie Charlot Paris, Miami, USA
2023 Chinatown Chronicles, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT, USA, curated by Julia Wintner
2023 Vague Force, Denver Digerati Gallery, Denver, Colorado, curated by Dr. Sam Grabowska
2023 Art Toronto, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, CA
2023 Coming into Sight: Recent Art Bank Acquisitions. Ajagemo Exhibition Space, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, CA
2023 On the moose’s potentially fatal unpredictability, Rencontres de la photographie en Gaspésie, Quebec
2023 Plural Art Fair, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, CA
2023 SPAO Photo Walk, SPAO Gallery, Ottawa (public art)
2022 METAMORPHOSIS – MUTATION, 6th The International Digital Art Biennial (BIAN), Montreal. Organized by ELEKTRA at Arsenal Contemporary Art Montreal
2022 Ostentation, Laval University, curated by Florence Gariépy and Julia Caron Guillemette, as part of Quebec City Biennial, Quebec City, Canada
2022 Art Brussels. Brussels, with Galerie Charlot Paris
2022 Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us, Le Kiasma/L’Agora, France, Curated by Catherine Bédard and Dominique Moulon
2022 Skin Deep, Nuit Blanch Toronto, the North York Centre, commissioned by the City of Toronto, curated by Dr. Julie Nagam
2022 Digital Art Waves, Galerie Charlot, Paris
2022 Flat Files Showcase, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York, curated by Alexandro Silver Durán and Joseph Wilcox
2022 Art Me!, Galerie Charlot Paris, Paris, curated by Dominique Moulon and Valérie Hasson-Benillouche
2022 Into the Valley of Despair, Pfzer Building, New York, curated by Carina Martinez
2022 Metamorphosis – Metaverse, Elektra Virtual Museum. Presented by Elektra Montreal, curated by DooEun Choi
2022 Future Perfect/Imperfect: The Next Century, Silvermine Art Centre, Connecticut, USA, curated by Lilly Wei
2022 The Next, LiTang Gallery, New York
2022 Now You See Me, Doris McCathy Gallery, Contact Photograph Festival, curated by Sandy Saad-Smith
2022 Descendance, SPAO Centre, Ottawa, curated by Darren Pottie and Myriam Farah Cobb
2022 Transobjectional – From the Handmade to the Digital, Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2021 The 4th Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, ShenZhen, China
2021 China – Exposicion de arte contemporaneo, Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
2021 The Misfits, Capture Photography Festival, presented by Richmond Art Gallery and Richmond Public Art (Public Art)
2021 I Have Been There, CAFKA Biennial – Contemporary Art in Public Space, Kitchener, ON (Public Art)
2021 Gallery Weekend, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal
2021 Chronometry, Art Souterrain, Montreal
2021 To Dissent, Embassy Cultural House, London, ON, curated by Olivia Mossuto
2020 Physis: Production of Nature, Human and Technology, HuBei Museum of Fine Art, WuHan, China, curated by Fu XaoDong
2020 Human Learning. What Machines Teach Us. Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, Paris, curated by Catherine Bédard, Dominique Moulon, and Alain Thibault
2020 The Space Between Us, Nuit Blanche Toronto, curated by Dr. Julie Nagam
2020 Resistance Resilience, Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery, Dawson College, Montreal, curated by Rhonda Meier
2020 Papier 2020, Montreal, Canada, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2020 Image…envoyee/Image…Sent, Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, Paris, curated by Catherine Bédard
2019 The Life of Thing, MOMENTA |Biennale de I’image, Galerie de I’ UQAM, Montreal, curated by María Wills Londoño and Audrey Genois
2019 Walking the Bridge, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Elizabeth Ross
2019 The Breadth of Distance, Humber Galleries, Toronto, Canada, curated by Alize Zorlutuna
2019 Vendu–Sold, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, presented by Les éditions esse
2019 Temporary Garden, Snarte Space, NanChang, Jiangxi, China, curated by Elizabeth Ross and ChaiMi
2019 Trames narratives / Storylines, Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, Quebec. guest curator Kasia Basta
2019 Meaningful Code, Living Art Centre, Mississauga, ON, curated by Katie Micak
2019 Are You My Mother?, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, CA. Curated by Jennifer Matotek
2018 Once Per Annum, The Istanbul Cumhuriyet Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey. Presented by KADEM Women & Democracy Association
2018 Happy, Bury Art Museum, Manchester, UK, curated by Tony Trehy
2018 VOLTA 14, Basel, Switzerland, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2018 Eminent Domain, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, presented by Art511 Magazine
2018 Papier 2018, Montreal, Canada, with Patrick Mikhail Gallery
2018 The Art of Redefining Gender, Montreal, presented by Art Souterrain, curated by Marie Perrault
2018 Changing Agent, Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2017 Sans Réserve, The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France, presented by Quebec City Biennial
2017 The Art of Joy, Manif d’art 8, Quebec City Biennial, Quebec City, Canada
2017 Canada: Day 1, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax, CA
2017 Far and Near: The Distances Between us, Art Museum at University of Toronto, curated by Henry Heng Lu
2017 What Remains, Gallery Gachet, Vancouver, CA
2017 Where are you From?, Art Mur, Montreal, CA
2017 Mother Tongue, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Markham, CA. Curated by Anik Glaude
2016 The Crust of The Soul, Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain, curated by Dr. Beth Moyses
2016 A Very Thin Line, The CERA Project, London, UK. Curated by Ines Valle
2016 Paratissima Art Fair, presented by torinoPERFORMANCEART, curated by Manuela Macco and Guido Salvini
2015 Now & After, The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2014 Creative Zone- Baroque Visual and Hybrid Art, Gera Museum, Vrsac, Serbia, curated by Danijela Halda
2014 Almost 3, The Others Art Fair, Turin, Italy, curated by Manuela Macco and Guido Salvini
2014 I Want to Smell You Hair, New Art Center, Boston,USA
2014 Art Chennai, Contemporary Art Festival, Chennai, India
2014 FUSE – Revolution Counter Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery, curated by Paul Wong, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Through the Body, CONTACT Photography Festival, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto, CA. Curated by Matthew Brower, Fu Xiaodong, Yan Zhou
2014 Pondy ART, Pondicherry, India
2013 LAPSody- Indicating Boundaries, The 4th International Conference and Festival for Live Art and Performance Studies, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Delhi Photo Festival, Open Palm Court Gallery, India Habitat Centre, Delhi, India
2013 Import/Export, Aine Art Museum, Tornio, Finland
2013 Red, Green, Blue ≠ White, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada, curated by Johnson Ngo
2012 INSIDER/OUTSIDER, The LPA Gallery, Waltham, Boston,USA, curated by Sandrine Schaefer
2012 IGNITION 8, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2012 The International Multimedia Art Festival, Yangon, Burma
2011 Fleeting Glance: Fast& Dirty, The Shoreditch Gallery, London, UK, curated by Kristen Hutchinson &Jennifer Forsyth
2011 1<3<CANDA, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Francisco-Fernando Granados
2011 Culture Blast- An Arts Explosion, Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2011 Ill Repute, the Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Sweaty Bones, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, curated by Heidi Nagtegaal
2011 Concourse Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Container Art, Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, Canada
2010 CHARGE UP-Interactive Electronic Art, 1612 Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 BEAST, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2010 EMBEDDED, WOO gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 EVEN, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Fabrication, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 An Alchemic Search for Gold & the Fall of the American Dream, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 LOW, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2009 ARTS2009, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2009 Seeing Eye to Eye, the Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Painting on the Edge, Federation Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2009 Of the Kingdom, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009 There-Persons’ Show, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2009 Escape, the Brown Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Researching, the Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada
2008 ARTS2008, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada
2008 LEAF Exhibition, Canvas Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Chinese Culture Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Meyer Family Vineyards Painting Competition, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
PERFORMANCES
2023 I Have Been There, public spaces in YueYang, HuNan, China
2022 I Have Been There, public spaces in Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia
2022 I Have Been There, public spaces in Cairo, Egypt
2021 I Have Been There, public spaces in New York City, NY, USA
2021 I Have Been There public spaces in Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada
2021 I Have Been There, public spaces in Hamilton, ON, Canada
2020 Online Performance, presented by Grace Exhibition Space, New York City
2019 To Begin, EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2019 They, Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City
2019 Where Are You From?, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City
2019 I still Look for You in Crowds, Neutral Ground, Regina, CA. Curated by Blair Fornwald
2019 I Have Been There, Segunda Jornada Internacional de Interferencias, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Reunion, Grace Exhibition Space, Manhattan, New York City
2019 Come Home, Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, Quebec
2019 A Single Rose, A Single Friend, Galeria Transparente, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 The Wall, Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
2018 Labor Improbus, Nuit Blanche, Montreal, presented by Art Souterrain
2018 The Undocumented, Surry Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2018 A Fair Day’s Work, dans le hall de Bibliotheque, Montreal, presented by Art Souterrain
2017 The Sign, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montréal, CA
2017 The Lost Island, Experimental Action|Performance Art, Houston, Texas, USA
2017 Mother Tongue, Varley Art Gallery of Markham, Markham, CA
2017 The Warrior, Inverse Performance Art Festival in San Luis Obispo, California, USA
2017 Where are You From?, Art Mur, Montreal, CA
2016 A Very Thin Line, The CERA Project, London, UK
2016 eX-centrico: dissidence, sovereignties, performance, organized by The Hemispheric Institute, Santiago, Chile
2016 Better Than the Alternative, Thomas Young Gallery, Boston, USA
2016 The Arrival, 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto
2016 A Fair Day’s Work, Nine Dot Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
2016 Set me on My High Place, Miami Performance International Festival, Miami, USA
2016 Awkwardness, Visualeyez Performance Festival, Latitude 53, Edmonton, CA
2016 Glamour, Nuit Blanche, Montreal, presented by Art Souterrain
2016 Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/ Symposium, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto
2016 Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame, The New Gallery, Calgary, CA
2016 Yellow Umbrella—an Unfinished Conversation, Arsenal Contemporary Art, Montreal, presented by Art Sorterrain
2016 Come Home, aceartinc. Winnipeg, CA
2015 Yellow Umbrella—an Unfinished Conversation, SELECT Art Fair, New York, presented by The Franklin Furnace
2015 Art must be Expensive!, The Great American Performance Art, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, USA
2015 The Lost Twelve Years, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Chicago, USA
2015 The Embodiment Ball (Bearings), ABC No Rio, New York, cureated by EstherR Neff
2015 Freedom, Democracy, and Vote, Performancy Forum Conference, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, USA
2015 The Emotional Architecture of the Body, Songs For Presidents, New York, curated by Frances Cooper
2015 Yellow Umbrella—an Unfinished Conversation, MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), Montréal, CA
2015 As If Never Happen, Hamilton Artists Inc. Hamilton, CA
2015 SPRING RUNOFF!, M:ST Performative Art Festival, Calgary, CA
2014 The Lost Twelve Years, M:ST Performative Art Festival, Truck Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, CA
2014 Pregnancy, Dublin Live Art Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Choreographing Social Movement in the Americas, organized by Hemispheric InstitutePHI Centre, Montreal
2014 Husbands and I, New Art Center, Boston, USA
2014 Legacy, Qouleur Festival, Montreal, CA
2014 Between Reality and Transcendence, Articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal, CA
2014 Just Another Mouth to Feed, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, USA
2014 Through the Body, CONTACT Festival, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
2014 Grey Zone, GRAY ZONE for Performance Art, Kingston, New York City, USA
2014 Foundation, Nuit Blanche, Contemporary Art Festival, Art Souterrain, Montreal, CA
2014 Spotlight, The Palais des congrès de Montréal, presented by Art Souterrain, Montreal, CA
2014 The Double, Place des Arts, Montreal, CA
2013 UNITEXT, Kaunas Biennial, National Museum of M. K. Čiurlionis, Kaunas, Lithuania
2013 Ultramodene, Art Mûr, Montreal, CA
2013 Labyrinth, Nuit Blanche, Art Souterrain, Montreal, CA
2013 Being is a Crime, Infr’Action Venice International Performance Art Festival, Venice, Italy
2013 The Double, Festival de théâtre de rue de Lachine, Montreal, CA
2013 Hourglass, Internationals Festival Fur Performance, zeitraumexit e.V., Mannheim, Germany
2013 TŪĀHU PERFORMANCE, Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal, CA
2012 Hourglass, M:ST 6 Performance Art Festival, Untitled Arts Society, Calgary, CA
2012 Hourglass, Helen Christou Gallery, University of Lethbridge, CA
2012 IGNITION 8, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, CA
2012 The Double, Ancienne Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Montreal, CA
2011 Another Witness, Nomad Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2011 (XXXX), Yactac, Vancouver, CA
2011 SPREAD, Chapel Arts, Vancouver, CA
2011 I Want You to Want Me, Concourse Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2011 A Pretty Shitty City, Artbank, Vancouver, CA, curated by Golboo Amani
2010 Food for Thoughts, Visualeyez 2010 Performance Festival, Latitude 53, Edmonton, CA
2010 CODE Live 2, CODE.lab at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, CA
2010 Will You Marry Me, the Jubilee Auditorium, Edmonton, CA
2010 A Night of Translation, The Western Front, Vancouver, CA, curated by Emilio Rojas
2010 Pact 4: Trade, Vancouver International Centre for contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, CA
2010 VIVO 2010: Safe Assembly, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, CA, curated by Emilio Rojas
2010 Slivers, Shivers, and Snake Skin- A Happening, Chapel Arts, Vancouver, curated by Zarah Acheman
2010 Hourglass, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver, CA
2010 EVEN, 221A Artist Run Centre, Vancouver, CA
2010 Fabrication, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, CA
SCREENINGS
2024 Merida Festival, Centro Culutral Olimpo, Merida, Mexico
2024 Korean Film Festival Canada, Montreal, CA
2023 Festival de Video artistos Chinas, Cine Morelos, Cuernavava, Mexico
2022 This is My Body, RiNo Art Park, Denver, USA, presented by Performance Is Alive
2022 A Body as a Fault in the System, in a System of Faults, Vector Festival, Toronto, curated by Amanda Low
2021 New Normal, New Narrative, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC
2021 Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
2020 6th festival International de Performance Zacatecas, Mexico, curated by Silvio de Gracia
2020 ]PS[ SCREENS, ]performance s p a c e[, Folkestone, UK
2019 NYC Feminist Film Week, Anthology Film Archives, New York City. Curated by Maya Suess
2019 Queer City Cinema, Regina, Canada
2019 Private Property, Siger Gallery, London, UK
2019 Satellite Art Show, Austin, Texas, presented by Performance is Alive, New York
2018 Sofia Arsenal – Museum for Contemporary Art, presented by Sofia International Performance Art Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria
2018 Private Property, Siger Gallery, London, UK
2018 La Buena Estrella, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 FestYin- Festival China Feminine, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2018 Festival Seni Performa Kaliwungu, Kendal, Indonesia
2018 Private Property, Siger Gallery, London, UK
2017 Movediça – Mostra de Performance Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil, curated by Silvio De Gracia
2017 Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2017 Drive In, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, CA
2017 Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
2016 No Todo Es Fragilidad, Sechiisland’s Mircro Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil, curated by Silvio De Gracia
2016 Yellow Umbrella – An Unfinished Conversation, Islington Mill, Manchester, UK
2016 Festival x-24, Gainsborough, UK, curated by Fenia Kotsopoulou
2016 Women Video Art, Artoon, Shanghai, China, curated by Elizabeth Ross
2016 Women Video Art, Hao Space, Beijing, China, curated by Elizabeth Ross
2015 Hide and Seek, Fusion Art Gallery, Torino, Italy, curated by Manuela Macco and Guido Salvini
2015 Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
2015 When I was Born, Voyage 4, KUNSTKRAFTWERK, Leipzig, Germany
2015 Torino Performance Art Festival, Turin, Italy
2015 IV International Biennial of Performance, Bogata, Colombia
2014 MART Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2014 Voyage 4, LA NEOMUDEJAR, Madrid, Spain
2014 MUU Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
2014 Interakcje Festival, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
2014 Art-Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2014 Lateral Artspace, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2014 Galleria Napa, Rovaniemi, Finland
2014 Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria, Pula, Croatia
2014 Not Festival, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Kobenhavn K, Denmark
2014 Tal Art Space, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2014 Folkets Bio, Umeå, Sweden
2014 Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden
2014 Visualcontainer, Milan, Italy
2014 New Performance Festival, Turku, Finland
2014 Sala Fenix, Barcelona, Spain
2014 Hangar, Barcelona, Spain
2014 Knockdown Center, New York, USA
2013 Media X: Subversive Revolution, White Water Gallery, Canada
2013 Video Pool Media Arts Centre, Winnipeg, Canada
2013 torinoPERFORMANCEART, Performance Art International Festival, Turin, Italy
2013 Media X: Subversive Revolution, Gallerywest, Toronto, Canada
2011 Mediate Your City, The Atmosphere Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York City
2024 Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
2024 Articule Artist Run Centre, Montreal
2023 The Rooms Museum, St. John’s, NL, CA
2023 Foundation PHI for Contemporary Art, Montreal, CA
2023 Atlantic Art at Night Festival Alliance, CA
2022 Asian and Asian American Studies Institute, University of Connecticut, USA
2022 University of Toronto, Scarborough campus, ON
2022 University of Calgary, Department Art and Art History, Calgary, CA
2022 A Home for our Migrations, Symposium, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Toronto
2022 Varley Art Gallery, Markham, ON
2022 TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, CA
2022 Gallery 101, Ottawa, CA
2021 Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2021 Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada
2021 Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, Canada
2021 Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2021 Film Department, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2020 Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Canada
2020 Sheridan College, Oakville, ON, Canada
2019 MOMENTA |Biennale de I’image, conversation with María Wills Londoño, Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal
2019 Unibes Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019 le Marché International de l’art numérique (MIAN) , Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada
2019 Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, Regina
2019 Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2018 The National Center for the Arts (CENART), Mexico City, Mexico
2018 Manchester School of Art at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
2018 Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
2018 Studio XX, Montreal, Canada
2018 Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
2018 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2018 The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver, Canada
2017 University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
2017 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2016 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, conversation with Annie Onyx Cheung, moderated by Tanya MARS
2016 Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2016 We are All the Other, The CERA Project, London, UK, conversation with Rachel Marsden
2016 Stories Untold, Artscape Youngplace, presented by Paralia Newcomer Arts Network
2016 Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/ Symposium, Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, conversation with Johanna Householder
2015 TALKaCTIVE – Performance Art Conversation Series, Queens Museum, Queens Museum, New York
2015 PAVED Art, Saskatoon, Canada
2015 Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2015 The Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta, Edmonton
2015 Harcourt House Artist-Run Centre, Edmonton
2015 Concordia University, Montreal
2014 Playing Around: Representations of Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Chinese Work, conversation with Dr. Matthew Brower, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto
2014 Conversation with Independent Curator Yan Zhou, Articule, Montreal, Canada
2014 Studio Arts, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2012 Performing Culture Transformation, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada
2011 Capilano University, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Culture Blast- An Arts Explosion, Deer Lake Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
GRANTS & AWARDS
2024 Longlist, Sobey Art Award, National Art Gallery of Canada
2024 Creation Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Quebec
2024 Travel Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Qubec, Canada
2023 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2023 Espace Culturel Georges-Emile-Lapalme Project in partnership with Place des Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec
2022 Professional Development grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2022 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2021 Exploration and Digital Deployment, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec
2021 Cultural Diversity Award in Visual Art Award, Conseil des arts de Montréal, Montreal
2020 Finalist, Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
2020 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2020 Digital Originals, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2019 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2019 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2019 Research and Creation Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Canada
2019 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2019 Travel Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Qubec, Canada
2018 Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts Canada
2018 Research and Creation Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Canada
2018 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts Canada
2018 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2018 Artist of the Year, the 17th DongGang International Photo Festival, Gangwon-do, Korea
2017 Project Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2017 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2016 Research and Creation Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Canada
2016 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2016 Travel Grant, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, Canada
2015 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2014 The Franklin Furnace Award, The Franklin Furnace Fund, USA
2014 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
2014 Finalist, The Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship, Montreal, CA
2014 Faculty of Fine Art Travel Grant, Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Canada
2013 Mobility Award, Concordia University, Canada
2013 Conference Award, Concordia University, Canada
2013 Faculty of Fine Art Travel Grant, Faculty of Fine Art, Concordia University, Canada
2012 Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, Canada
2012 Michael-Smith Foreign Study Scholarship, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada, Canada
2012 Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, Concordia University, Canada
2012 BC Arts Council Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2011 Faculty of Fine Arts Fellowship, Concordia University, Canada
2011 BC Arts Council Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2010 Brissenden Award, Brissenden Foundation, Canada
2010 BC Arts Council Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2009 Jack Harman Memorial Award, Jack Harman Foundation, Canada
2009 BC Arts Council Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2008 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Award, Jack & Doris Shadbolt Foundation, Burnaby, Canada
2008 BC Arts Council Scholarship, British Columbia Arts Council, Canada
2008 Helen Pitt Award, Helen Pitt Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
2008 Arts 2008 Award, Surry Arts Council, Surrey, Canada
2008 Meyer Vineyards Painting Competition Award, Meyer Family Vineyards, Vancouver, Canada
2008 CCAFV Award, Chinese Canadian Artist Federation in Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS/REVIEWS
Dude Joelle. “Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s The Warrior: Choosing Resilience.” Janus Unbound: Feminist Resistance, Memorial University, page 1-3, 2023
Reconnection, synthesizing meaningful spaces. Neural Magazine, 2023
Nolte Victoria. “Bridging Far and Near.” SportLight, Explore Canadian Art, Art Canada Institute. 2023
Cover Story: Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s At the Edge of Two Worlds. [EDIT]ION 63, The Maritime [EDIT], 2023
Morelli, Didier. “Chun Hua Catherine Dong, I Have Been There–New York,” Ciel Variable, Fall, p24-34. 2022
Wang, Theresa. “Mother,” C magazine, issue 151: Grief, p64-65
Velie, Elaine. “Fragmented Identity Through the Eyes of Chun Hua Catherine Dong,” Hyperallergic, 2022
Chang, Alexandra. “Chun Hua Catherine Dong – Caring for An Other.” Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas. Brill, P297-306, winter issue, 2021
Haggo, Regina, “Artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong explore culture and identity with new AGH installation,” The SPEC, Hamilton, Oct 16, 2021
Morelli, Didier. “Chun Hua Catherine Dong – An Unfinished Conversation.” vie des arts, 2021, issue 263, page 28-34.
Slanted #37 – Artificial Intelligence. Slanted Magazine, Typography & Graphic Design. Spring/Summer 2021 37A.I, Slanted Publishers UG, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2021: P 131.
Pender, Terry. “Photograph Exhibition Planned at ION State Ask, “Where is Home?” TheRecord, Waterloo, CA. April 03, 2021
Blanchet, Anne – Sophie. ” Eclaireuses 14 – Anne-Sophie Blanchet + Chun Hua Catherine Dong.” VU photo, Quebec
Camille, Neirynck. “Chun Hua Catherine Dong,” One Woman A Week, 2020
Lena, Chen. “Lena Chen in Conversation with Chun Hua Catherine Dong,” Femme Art Review, 2020
Ramone, Fernanda. “Eu estive la: a chegada de Chun Hua Catherine Dong ao Brasil.” Extramuros, Sept 10, 2019
Lu, Henry Heng. ” Interview.” Syphon 5.1. Kinston: Modern Fuel Artist -Run Centre, 2019
Moore, Sandee. “Are You My Mother.” Gallerieswest, Feb, 2019
Cho, Lily. ” Shame – Thinking with Chun Hua Catherine Dong.” nomorepotlucks, Editorial 50-Interview, editorial by Dayna McLead, 2018
Zappala, Madeline. “Moving Beyond the Frame.” The Society for Photographic Education’s Journal, Exposure Magazine, 2018
Liscum, Dean. “Women’s March, Women-Centered Issues & Performance Art in Huston.” Houston: Experimental
Action Houston, Jan31, 2018
Guillen, Francisco. “El Muro: Chun Hua Catherine Dong & Elizabeth Ross.” DDMMAA: Cuaderno Minimo, 2018
Shore, Amanda, “ Looking Back- A National Survey of 10 Artists Whose Works Reinvent History.” Canadian Art Magainze, Fall Issue, 2017: P 11 and 127
Doucet, Hannah. “Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame.” Contemporary Art Writing. Paperwait Volume 19. Winnipeg: aceartinc, 2017
Reese, Laura Beth Reese and Zappala, Madeline. Reflections on the Burden of Men. Boston, MA. 2017
Schotzko, T. Nikki Cesare. ” The Death of Performance Art!.”Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies by Heather Davis-Fisch, 2017
Zech, Brandon. “ Not Just Naked People: Experimental Action Performance Art Festival in Houston.” Houston: Glasstire. Feb27, 2017
Gillespie, Jessa. “On Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s To Begin.” Edmonton: Visualeyez Festival, 2017
Lacombe, Michelle & Karuhanga, Jessica. “ The Arrival.” Toronto: 7a*11d Performance Art Festival, 2017
Swift, Jenna. Feeling in the Dark: The Challenge of Perceiving Chun Hua Catherine Dong’s Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame. Catalog essay, Calgary: The New Gallery, 2016
Atnikov, Sara. The power of portraiture: This artist is exploring shame through her own image. CBC Arts, Nov,2016
Dong, Performances. Utsanga, Lecce: Astanga.it, September, 2016
Franser Sandra. Chun Hua Catherine Dong: An Instrument of Empathy. Paved Meant, Vol.2 (2015 -2016)
Ross, Elizabeth. Catalog. Mexico City: Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival, 2015: 23-25
Haggo, Regina. “Seeing double.” Hamilton: Hamilton Spectator, April11, 2015
Now & After. Catalog, Moscow: The Schusey State Museum of Architecture, 2015: 15
Sung, Victoria. Constructing the Diaspora: To Visually Embody Shame and “ Chineseness.” Catalog essay, Hamilton: Hamilton Artist Inc., 2015
Dery, Milly Alexandra. To Rebel is Justified: Perform According to the Real Imaginary. Catalog essay, Montreal: MAI (Montréal, arts interculturels), 2015
Fournier, Lauren. Self Care for Skeptics. Toronto: Rising International Press, 2015: 22
Meier, Rhonda. Husbands & Wives. Catalog essay, Montreal: Articule, 2014
Hilda, Danijela. Curative Zone – Baroque Visual and Hybrid Art, Vrsac: Gera Museum, 2014: 21-24
Brower, Matthew, Fu Xiaodong, and Yan Zhou. Through the Body—Lens-based Work by Contemporary Chinese Woman Artists, Toronto: Art Museum at University of Toronto, 2014
Incident Magazine, Issue One, New York, 2014
Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival. Toronto: Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, 2014
Emergency INDEX, Vol.3. New York: Ugly Duckling Press, 2014: 106-107
O’ Connor, Wanda. Review: “Out-standing artifacts—The Performance art of Chun Hua Catherine Dong.” Montreal: Roverarts, February, 4, 2014
IX Enuentro – Choreographing Social Movement in the Americas. New York & Montreal: Hemispheric Institute, 2014: 61
Volner, Ian. The Neutralization of Chinese Art – The ‘accepted rebels’ at the Venice Biennale. New Public, June, 2013
Vitkiene, Virginija. Unitext, Catalog: The 9th Kaunas Biennale, Kaunas, 2013: 30-31
Grace, Delhi Photo Festival, Delhi: Nazar Foundation, India Habit Centre and Nazar Foundation, 2013: 28-29
Ngo, Johnson. Red, Green, Blue≠ White, Catalog, Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery, 2013: 3- 5
LAPSody-Indicating Boundaries. Catalog: The 4th International Conference and Festival for Live Art and
Performance Studies, Helsinki: Theatre Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki
Fassio, Ivan. TPA-TORINO PERFORAMNCE ART, Exhibition Review, Trieste: JULIET Art Magazine, Aug,27 2013
Klassen, Lois. “Participatory Art at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympia: Performing Citizen, Civic Spectacle,” Toronto: PUBLIC Journal: Art Culture Ideas, Issue-45, Ed. Jim Drobnick & Jennifer Fisher, Spring, 2012
Addiction, HESA inprint, Issue-14, March 12, 2012:8-11
Schaefer,Sandrine. “ Insider/ Outsider” Exhibition. Boston: 2012: 23&24
Emergency INDEX. New York: Ugly Duckling Press, 2012
Dong, ChunHua & Ek Rzepka. We Give a Shit because We Care. Vancouver: UNIT/PIIT Press, 2011
Katalog-Issue 2,Vol 1-BABBLE, Central Canadian Centre for Performance, 2011:3
Amani, Golboo. “Silent Hunter.” Golboo Amani Askes Chun Hua Catherine Dong about Compliance and Aggression in Husbands and I. Front Magazine, Western Front Society. Winter, 2010: 10-11
Berry, David. “Food for Thought-Visuaeyez breaks between artist and audience.” VUE Weekly, Edmonton: 2010, 14
Baker, Cindy. “ Hourglass Figure.” Visualeyez 2010 Performance Festival, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta. 2010.18
Lithgow, Michael. “9 Amazing Political Art Projects of 2010.” Art & Threat Culture + Politics. 2010. 19 Dec 2010
Nelson, Miranda. Performance artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong launches Granville Island arts protest. Vancouver: The Georgia Straight, March, 2010
VISIONS. Vancouver: Emily Carr University Art & Design, Fall, 2008, 9
ARTS 2008. Surrey: Surrey Arts Gallery, 2008, 5
Researching. Vancouver: Chinese Canadian Artist Federation in Vancouver. 2008: 7-8
RESIDENCIES
2024 The Performance Corporation’s SPACE Programme, the Irish Cultural Centre Paris, Paris
2021 The International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NYC
2021 Musée de Charlevoix and internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie Rencontres, Quebec
2018 Manchester School of Art at the Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK (Visiting Artist)
2018 AgentC Project, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Space Station, Beijing, China
2013 The School of Inter-media Art, China Academy of Art, Hang Zhou, China
2010 Hammock Residency, Vancouver, Canada
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CA
Bank of Montreal, Toronto, CA
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, CA
City of Laval, Laval, Quebec, CA
Collection Desjardins, Montreal, CA
Doris McCarthy Gallery, Scarborough, CA
Fidelity Foundation, Boston, USA
Global Affairs Canada Visual Art Collection, Ottawa, CA
Hydro Quebec, Montreal, CA
Museum of Charlevoix, Charlevoix, Quebec
La Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), Montreal
The Image Centre, Toronto, CA
Varley Art Gallery of Markham, CA
Private collections
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
2024 Jury, Canada Council for the Arts
2023 Jury, online exhibition at LiTang Art Gallery, New York
2022 Jury, Canada Council for the Arts
2021 Jury, Canada Council for the Arts
2013-14 Part-time Faculty, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2012-13 Teaching Assistant, Performance Art, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2011-12 Teaching Assistant, Intermedia Performance Practice, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
2006-08 Art Instructor, Boys and Girls Club in Vancouver, Canada