Allison Hrabluik

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Allison Hrabluik is a visual artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Her practice primarily involves video, experimental film and animation. Her practice is informed by literature, narrative, and storytelling and she often utilizes traditional mediums such as collage, sculpture, and print media.

Biography

Hrabluik graduated from Alberta College of Art and Design, where she received an Alumni Honour Award in 2015. [1] Hrabluik is Sessional Faculty at Emily Carr University of Art and Design [2] in Vancouver. In 2014, she was long listed for that year's Sobey Award. [3]

Hrabluik has participated in both solo and group exhibitions, including How Soon Is Now (2009) [4] at the Vancouver Art Gallery; her film Rossendale (2006) was screened in the Diaz Contemporary Gallery [5] [6] in Toronto, Canada. Her most recent film, The Splits (2015), was exhibited in Ambivalent Pleasures at the Vancouver Art Gallery [7] in 2016 and 2017 and at the Simon Fraser University Gallery in Burnaby, British Columbia in 2016. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Alumni award recipients | Alberta College of Art and Design". www.acad.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  2. ↑ "Faculty | Emily Carr University". www.connect.ecuad.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  3. ↑ "Longlist Announced for the 2014 Sobey Art Award". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  4. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 2018-08-02. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  5. ↑ Gallery, Blackwood. "Diaz Contemporary". www.diazcontemporary.ca. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  6. ↑ "Dan Adler on Allison Hrabluik". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  7. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Archived from the original on 2019-01-13. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  8. ↑ SFU Galleries (Jan 30, 2016). "Allison Hrabluik: The Splits" (PDF). Allison Hrabluik: The Splits Bibliography. Simon Fraser University Galleries. Retrieved March 10, 2018.


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