Kent Tate

Career

Born in Rivers, Manitoba, Tate spent his childhood in Germany and then in Ottawa. At the young age of 14, Tate's father died and he moved with his mother to the United States where he later began studies in painting and film.

Tate settled in Toronto after returning to Canada in 1980 and began an active period of exhibiting paintings, films and music. Tate's career has included a broad spectrum of styles and media, experimenting with performance art, performance installation, painting, sculpture and film, including his Super 8 Epic,"Vanishing Heat". During the touring of the movie "Vanishing Heat" in Canada and US, Tate's only film print was stolen in Seattle.

After Tate moved to Vancouver, BC he continued to exhibit throughout the 1980s in both Vancouver and Victoria. Tate, having adopted a type of Arte Povera sensibility to his work, used materials such as salt, sulphur, wax, copper, water, crude oil, house dust and electricity in his installations from 1984 to 1988. In The Stalker, Tate used salt, soils, wax, copper, oil and electricity.

In 1992 Tate visited the island of Hawaii, motivating him to move to Hawaii. He lived near Volcano Village, just outside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, until 2005. It was during this time that Tate produced his movie The Birthing Earth

Since returning to Canada in 2005, Tate's work has been shown in national and international film and new media festivals, symposiums, group screenings – exhibitions, and solo gallery installations.

In Tate's career, he has received multiple residencies, grants and awards from The Banff Centre, Banff-Alberta, the Wallace Stegner House, Eastend-Saskatchewan, and Gushul Studio, Crowsnest Pass-Alberta, Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, British Columbia Arts Council, and the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.

In 2015 Tate's movie "Isolated Gestures" won the Ruth Shaw Award (Best of Saskatchewan) and was nominated for the Experimental Golden Sheaf Award in the 2015 Yorkton Film Festival.

Selected Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances

Prairie Grizzly talks with Kent | single-channel movie | on-line screening | VUCAVU “#EyesOnVU” – Winnipeg Film Group, Winnipeg-MB (2017);

Orbit | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection “The 90 Second” WUFF – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg-MB (2017);

No Rest for the Restless | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection “International Competition Short Films #1” Thailand Premiere – 15th International Festival Signs of the Night (Signes de Nuit) Bangkok-Thailand (2017);

No Rest for the Restless | single-channel movie| group screening | Official Selection “International Competition Short Films #2“ International Premiere – 15th International Festival Signs of the Night (Signes de Nuit) Urbino-Italy (2017);

Inventory & Utopia + Activated Island | single-channel movies | group screening | Official Selection "Annual Members Screening" – PAVED Arts, Saskatoon-SK (2017);

Uncommon Landscapes | multi-channel movies | two-person exhibition | “Arts On The Move” tour organized by Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Council presented at Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, Yorkton-SK (2017);

Movies for a Pulsing Earth | multi-channel movies & sculpture | solo installation + artist talk | exhibition tour organized by Art Gallery of Swift Current and presented at Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw-SK (2016);

Navigations through a Pulsing Earth | multi-channel movies & sculpture | screening & artist talk | exhibition tour organized by Art Gallery of Swift Current “Kent Tate - In Conversation” and presented at Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw-SK (2016);

Fire & Water | single-channel movie | group screening | “HearteartH 2015” presented at Power Station – Berliner Liste 2016, Berlin-Germany (2016);

Fire & Water | single-channel movie | group screening | “HearteartH 2015” presented at Group Global 3000, Berlin-Germany (2016);

Fire & Water | single-channel movie | group screening | “HearteartH 2015” Videoart Project presented – VisualcontainerTV International Videoart WebTV, Berlin-Germany (2016);

Uncommon Landscapes | multi-channel movies | two-person exhibition | “Arts On The Move” tour organized by Organization of Saskatchewan Arts Council presented at Last Mountain Lake Cultural Centre, Regina Beach-SK | Chapple Gallery, Battleford-SK (2016);

Isolated Gestures | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection presented in the "Ravine Room" Ruth Shaw Award winner (Best of Saskatchewan) and Golden Sheaf Award (Best of Experimental) Nominee – 2015 Yorkton Film Festival, Yorkton-SK (2015);

Outer edge of somewhere | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “Walking Distance” 3rd Fraser Valley Biennale – The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford-BC (2015);

Fire & Water | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “HearteartH” Fair for Contemporary Art – Berliner Liste 2015, Berlin-Germany (2015);

Fire & Water | single-channel movie | group screening | “HearteartH” Cel-AV – The Kovinent Vice Video, Barcelona-Spain (2015);

Reflecting Frames | single-channel movies| screening & artist talk | “Kent Tate: Gushul Cottage Artist in Residence Artist Talk and Screening” – CASA Gallery, Lethbridge-AB (2015);

Prairie Grizzly talks with Kent | single-channel movie | group screening | “The 90 Second” – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg-MB (2015);

The Sun Comes Out at Night | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “Ex-Docs–Documentary Shorts Program” by Parallel Studios presented at Center for Contemporary Art – CURRENTS 2014: Santa Fee International New Media Festival, Santa Fe-NM (2014);

Landing Sites-Ghost Train | single-channel movie | multi-media artwork exhibition | “Wild Thing: Prairie as Concept, Prairie as Environment” by Creative Saskatchewan – SOFA CHICAGO, Chicago-IL 2014);

Landing Sites-Ghost Train | single-channel movie | multi-media artwork exhibition | “Wild Thing: Prairie as Concept, Prairie as Environment” Creative Saskatchewan Trade Mission NYC – The Lightbox Art Gallery, New York City-NY (2014);

Shadows from Magnets | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “Legacy: A Swift Current History of Visual Arts” – Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current-SK (2014);

SIGHTINGS | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection “Shorts Program 9: Wants Mired” – 22nd Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago-IL (2014);

SIGHTINGS | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection “FFF 2014 Experimental Films” – Fargo Film Festival, Fargo-ND (2014);

SIGHTINGS | single-channel movie | group screening | Official Selection "Shorts Program" 3rd Annaul Zero Film Festival Canada, Montreal-QC | Toronto-ON (2014);

SIGHTINGS | single-channel movie | group screening | Mann Art Gallery at Nature Park Theatre – 11the Reel Rave International Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake-SK (2014);

Transmissions on a Thin Line | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “The Salon” – ART GALLERY OF SWIFT CURRENT, Swift Current-SK (2013);

Containers | single-channel movie | group screening | “All About Work” Parallel Screening Athens Historic Center of Kalamata – Art Video Festival Miden, Kalamata-Greece (2013);

Containers | single-channel movie | group screening | “The 90 Second” WUFF – Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, Winnipeg-MB (2013);

Circumstantial Evidence – Part 3 | single-channel movie | group screening | “Expanded Documentary Program” by Parallel Studios presented at Center for Contemporary Art – CURRENTS 2012, 3rd Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe-NM (2012);

Circumstantial Evidence, Part 3 | single-channel movie | looped group screening | “CURRENTS @ ISEA2012” by Parallel Studios presented at Gem Theater of Albuquerque Museum of Art & History – 18th Annual International Symposium on Electronic Art: Machine Wilderness, Albuquerque-NM (2012);

Movies for a Pulsing Earth | multi-channel movies & sculpture | solo installation + artist talks | exhibition tour organized by Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current-SK (2012);

Circumstances with some Earth & Sky | multi-channel movies | projection | solo installation + artist talk | ProjExRoom at Latitude 53, Edmonton-AB (2012);

Altar of Sacrifice | single-channel movie | juried group screening | "The Artesian Annual Filmpool Premiere Screening" Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Regina – Saskatchewan (2012);

Anchor | single-channel movie | juried group exhibition | "Summer Salon" – Art Gallery of Swift Current – Saskatchewan (2012);

Altar of Sacrifice | single-channel movie | group screening | “Shadow Challenge” Media Arts Centre – ED Video, Guelph-ON (2011);

Circumstantial Evidence, Part 3 | single-channel movie | group screening | Mann Art Gallery – Reel Rave International Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake-SK (2011);

Circumstantial Evidence, Part 2 | single-channel movie | group screening | “Filmpool Premiere 2011” – Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Regina-SK (2011);

A Flood and then some Desert | single-channel movie | group screening | “OIL” Screening Room – EMMEDIA Centre for the Media Arts, Calgary-AB (2011);

Circumstantial Evidence, Part 1 | single-channel movie | group screening | “Celebration of BC Media Art” Victoria Event Centre – Media Net, Victoria-BC (2011);

Earth & Sky–Grasslands | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “Summer Salon” – Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current-SK (2011);

Earth & Sky | single-channel movie | group exhibition | “Summer Salon” – Art Gallery of Swift Current, Swift Current-SK (2010);

Circumstantial Evidence – Part 1 | single-channel movie | group screening | “Filmpool Premiere Screening” – Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, Regina-SK (2010);

Burning Farm House | single-channel movie | group screening | Mann Art Gallery – Reel Rave International Film Festival, Waskesiu Lake-SK (2009);

Burning Farm House | single-channel movie | group screening | “The Painful Parts” Eastern Edge Video Series – The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s-NL (2008);

Accelerated | single-channel movie | group screening | “Paradox of Technology and Sustainability Film Series” Film Harbourfront Series – Planet in Focus, Toronto-ON (2007);

Surface under Sky | single-channel movie | screening | The Earthvision Environmental Film Festival, Santa Cruz-CA (2005);

The Birthing Earth | selected movie screening + artist talk | Media Net, Victori-BC (2005);

Elemental Views | selected movie screening + artist talk | Volcano Art Center, Volcano-HI (1996);

Elemental Views | selected movie screening + artist talk | East Hawaii Cultural Center, Hilo-HI (1995);

Art Seen | director/producer | TV broadcast (6 episodes) Hawaii Cable TV, Hilo-HI (1995);

Prosper Sculpture | sculpture | group exhibition | “Artropolis 90” – The Roundhouse, Vancouver-BC (1990);

The Stalker | sculptures | solo installation | Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Vancouver-BC (1988);

The Chemical Chamber | sculptures | paintings | wax figures | solo installation | The Western Front Society, Vancouver-BC (1986);

No Rest for the Restless sculptures | paintings | solo installation | Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver-BC (1985);

Feast From Famine | sculptures | paintings | two-person exhibition | Open Space Gallery, Victoria-BC (1985);

Radiating Suit | painting | group exhibition | “The Last Pittsure Show” – Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver-BC (1984);

Uninvited Houseguest | sculptures-paintings | two-person exhibition | Open Space Gallery, Victoria-BC (1984;)

Vanishing Heat | super 8 movie | screenings | The Funnel, Toronto-ON | A.R.C., Toront-ON | Artcite, Winsor-ON | Latitude 53, Edmonton-AB | Unit Pitt Gallery, Vancouver-BC | Open Space Gallery, Victoria-BC (1983);

Museum of Post-Habitation | sculpture – painting | solo installation | Ending All Occupation | performance | – A.R.C. satellite exhibition, Toronto – Ontario (1982)

Museum of Post Habitation |sculptures | paintings | solo installation| A.R.C., Toronto-ON;