Patrick Thompson (artist)

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Name Patrick Thompson		Role Artist

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Patrick Thompson (Canadian artist b.1978 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) works in made and found material. With his partner Alexa Hatanaka, they collaborate as PA System. Hatanaka and Thompson are founders of Embassy of Imagination (EOI), a multidisciplinary arts initiative for youth based in Cape Dorset( ᑭᙵᐃᑦ, Kinngait), Nunavut.

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PA System was named on a 2016 list of Canada's 16 greatest art collaborations by Canadian Art Magazine.

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Solo and group projects

2016 – Lightening Speak: Solo and Collaborative Work by w. Raven Chacon. U of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2016 – Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Mural, organized by independent and nonprofit art space: 516 ARTS

2016 – Floe Edge: New art and collaborations from the north, AXENÉO7 Gatineau PQ

2016 – Gauge: Collaborative film made in Iqaluit, NU, Nuit Blanche at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON and University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

2016 – Stanley Aviation, site-specific installations, Denver, CO (PA System)

2016 – Global Pathways School, exterior and interior murals, Chettipalayam, India (PA System)

2016 – Junction, mural, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2015 – Shibori Sherpa, Way Home Festival, site specific sculpture installation, Barrie, ON

2015 – The Divadale Project, temporary site specific sculpture installations at 82 Divadale Drive, Toronto

2014 – Larding and Barding: exhibition, w. Alexa Hatanaka, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, CH

2013 – Au-Delà de cette limite, l'art s'en mêle, with Pascal Paquette Le Labo & Alliance Française, Toronto

2013 – Saving, Giving and Losing Face, Zai Gallery, Shenzhen, China

2012 – Evoke's Pancake House, Montana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2012 – Mistakism, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2011 – Think Tent, Le Labo, Toronto, Ontario

2011 – Donnacona, w. Alexa Hatanaka, La Place Forte Gallery, Paris, France

Public work

2017 – Lungs, The Wall to Wall Mural and Culture Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba

2015 – Darn Windy, Short Film, CBC: The Collective

2015 – Jigging Kamiit, mural, Inukjuak, QC (PA System)

2015 – Felled, with Adam Cutts, mural, Ottawa Public Art, Ottawa, ON (PA System)

2015 – Shibori Sherpa, site-specific installation, Wayhome Music and Arts Festival, Burl’s Creek, ON (PA System)

2015 – Walking into the Unknown Tupiq, mural, Burlington Public Art, Burlington, ON (PA System)

2014 – Row, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (PA System)

2014 – SKEIN, mural, with S.T.E.P.S Initiative, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2014 – Expecting, mural, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2014 – Curtain, NXNE, Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2014 – Mine Your Imagination, mural, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, Cape Dorset, NU (PA System)

2013 – Glenalmond School, mural, Perthshire, Scotland (PA System)

2013 – Happy Anniversary, World Pride 2014, mural, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2013 – Volvo Art Session, Installation, film and book, Zurich, CH (PA System)

2013 – Elders and Youth House, mural, Hall Beach, Nunavut (PA System)

2012 – Amos Waites Park, public murals, with Lakeshore Arts, Toronto, ON (PA System)

2012 – Festival Murales, Escosesa Studio, Barcelona, Spain (PA System)

2012 – Traveller, mural, Xing Ping, China

2012 – Pauloosie Qulitalik, Kingulliit Productions, mural, Igloolik, NU (PA System)

2012 – Canada, National Capital Commission, Canada Day mural, Ottawa, ON

Residencies

2015 – Stanley Aviation Project, Denver, CO

2014 – Articulate Baboon Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2013 – Guanlan International Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China

2012 – Artists in the Park, Beausoleil Island, ON

Awards and grants

2017 – Canada Council for the Arts, New Chapter Grant

2014 – Canada Council for the Arts, Production Grant for Group Film Project ‘Gauge’

2013 – Toronto BIA Mural of the Year

2013 – Guanlan Printmaking Base Biennial Official Selection

2011 – Nanjing Arts Institute Permanent Collection

2011 – Guanlan Printmaking Base Biennial, Short-listed

2008 – BC150 Community Arts Production Grant, BOOM! Oxygen Art Center, Nelson BC

2007 – Schools Without Borders, Support for participation,

2007 – Barcelona Contemporary Arts Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain

2007 – Canadian North, Support for Travel, ALIANAIT FESTIVAL, Iqaluit, Nunavut

2007 – Schools Without Borders, IGNITE Art Festival, Toronto

2003 – Canada Council for the Arts, travel grant recipient

Reviews and interviews

2016 – Gang Up: 16 Great Canadian Art Collaborations, Canadian Art Magazine, June 27, 2016 B Alison Cooey and Daniella Sanader

2015 – ‘Artwork slated for the excavator draws a crowd’ DesignLines Magazine by Tory Healy

2015 – CBC Radio Canada National, Cape Dorset Mural Project

2013 – Spectator UK Online ‘Painting the world's walls’ by Claudia Massie

2012 – RTVE Spain, National television news story, Barcelona Spain

2011 – Walls & Frames book, Featured artist, Fine Arts from the Streets, Maximiliano Ruiz

2011 – MISC Magazine, Feature ‘The Future of the Future’

2010 – CBC NORTH, Radio Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, August,

2010 – ELbeit Magazine, Cairo, Egypt

2009 – CBC NORTH, Radio Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, September

2009 – CBC NORTH, Television Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, September

2009 – The District Weekly (Cover), What Lies Beneath, Los Angeles California

2009 – Grunion, Downtown and Uptown Gazette, Los Angeles California, “Artwork Feeds

2009 – Off “Mistakeism” - By Julian Bermudez, April 8, 2009

2009 – BOOM! , Oxygen Art Centre, Exhibition Catalogue

2008 – BAC! Babylon 2007, Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival, Exhibition Catalogue, DL B-52822-2007

2007 – Art for Social Change: Mural in Iqaluit, Nunavut with Jonathan Cruz included in multiple presentations by UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Professor, Judy Baca

2006 – Up Until Now, Upper Playground Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue 175 pages, Featured Artist

2006 – Cover, Nelson Daily News, Nelson, British Columbia

2006 – Exit Hinterland (Unfinished), Documentary Film, The Moody Group, Featured

2005 – The Tao of Thompson, Ottawa Xpress, Anita Euteneier, April 7

2003 – The 2nd Rule, digital magazine, Singapore

2003 – CBC National Radio Live from the Singapore Street Festival interview

2002 – Painting Without Permission], featured artist as Evoke, An Ethnological Study of Street Art, Bergin and Garvey, author: Janice Rahn

2002 – Ottawa Citizen, Stealth Artists

2002 – CBC Ottawa Radio , Ottawa Morning, Interview w. S. Lee

Collections

Kitchen Community, Kimbal Musk (Founder Zip2, Board of Directors SpaceX and Tesla Motors)

Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner Attorneys at Law, Boulder, CO

The Designers Club, Zurich CH

Guanlan International Print Base, Guanlan China

Nanjing Arts Institute Permanent Collection

References

Patrick Thompson (artist) Wikipedia

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