ABOUT
Andreas Rutkauskas was born in Winnipeg (Treaty 1 territory, the ancestral and traditional homeland of Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation) and currently resides on the unceded traditional territory of the syilx (Okanagan Valley, BC).
His projects involve photography and video, often focusing on landscapes that have changed due to a range of technologies; examples include surveillance along the Canada/U.S. border, cycles of industrialization & deindustrialization in Canada’s oil patch, and most recently, the aftermath and regeneration following wildfires in Western Canada.
Rutkauskas was the inaugural recipient of a residency with the Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement in 2020. In 2018, he was a Research Fellow with the Canadian Photography Institute, and he was a finalist for the Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape in 2016. His work has been exhibited in artist-run centres, public art galleries and museums across Canada, as well as internationally.
EDUCATION
Masters of Fine Arts, Photography, Concordia University, Montréal (2007)
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg (2003)
EXHIBITIONS (SOLO & DUO)
2023 - Éveil, Musée Régional de Rimouski, Québec. Curated by Franck Michel
2022 - Living Through Wildfire, Vernon Public Art Gallery, British Columbia
2022 - The Prefix Prize, Urbanspace Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2021 - Refuge: Après l’incendie / After the Fire, Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environnement, Québec. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier
2021 - After the Fire, Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art, Kelowna, British Columbia
2018 - Chaos, Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie, Québec
2017 - Between Friends, Canadian Photography Institute (National Gallery of Canada), Ottawa
2016 - Out of Office, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse. Duo with Jessica Auer
2016 - Borderline, FOFA Gallery, Montréal
2015 - Virtually There, Maison de la culture Frontenac. In collaboration with Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal. Curated by Joan Fontcuberta
2015 - Oil!, Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montréal. Duo with Ripley Whiteside
2014 - Virtually There, Campbell River Art Gallery, Campbell River, British Columbia
2013 - Petrolia, Judith and Norman ALIX Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
2013 - Petrolia, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa
2013 - Sea to Surface, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough. Duo with Jessica Auer
2013 - Petrolia, Sporobole Centre en Art Actuel, Sherbrooke
2012 - Ground Truth, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary. Duo with Karen Zalamea
2010 - Virtually There, Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal
2009 - Suburb Beautiful, Projex-Mtl Galerie, Montréal
2008 - Peak, Galerie Projex-Mtl, Montreal
2007 - A Typological Survey of Canadian Suburbs, FOFA Gallery, Montréal
2007 - Peak, Galerie Art Mûr, Montréal
EXHIBITIONS (GROUP)
2024 - Artifacts of Disturbance, Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie. With Anahita Norouzi, Charles-Frédérick Ouellet, Josée Pedneault, Ewa Monika Zebrowski, Luana Rigolli,Mériol Lehmann and others
2024 - Fire Season, University of Victoria Legacy Galleries - Downtown. With Sara-Jeanne Bourget, Ana Diab, Kerri Flannigan, Jonathan S. Green, Jude Griebel, Colton Hash, Eli Hirtle, Sylvia McKelvie and Kyle Scheurmann. Curated by Amory Abbott and Liz Toohey-Wiese
2024 - Significant Forms, Kelowna Art Gallery. With Wally Dion, Wanda Lock, Zachari Logan, Amanda McCavour, Samuel Roy-Bois, and Sami Tsang. Curated by Christine May
2024 - Sightlines, The Confluence Lab - Stories of Fire Online Exhibition Series, University of Idaho. Project developed by Erin James, Jenn Ladino, Teresa Cavazos Cohn, Stacy Isenbarger, Sasha Michelle White & Leah Hampton
2023 - Fieldwork, Lake Country Art Gallery, British Columbia. With Annie Briard, Tara Nicholson, Melany Nugent-Noble, Dr. prOphecy sun and Leah Weinstein
2023 - Slocan City International Music and Arts Fair, British Columbia. With William Bock, Jon Corbett, Patrick Lundeen, Rylan Broadbent, Graham Gillmore, Buck Walker, Seamus Gray, and Nelson Miller. Curated by Alison Trim
2022 - Triennale Banlieue!, Maison des arts de Laval, Québec. With Sophie Aubry, Michael Belmore, Ludovic Boney, Marie Côté, Marie-Suzanne Désilets, Nicolas Grenier, Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Catherine Lescarbeau, Deborah Margo, Louise Noguchi, Steven Orner, Graeme Patterson, Boris Pintado, Ariane Plante, Ross Racine, Eugenia Reznik, Scenocosme (Grégory Lasserre et Anaïs met den Ancxt), Lisa Sfriso. Curated by Marie Perrault & Yan Romanesky
2020 - Landed, Esplanade Art Gallery, Medicine Hat, Alberta. With Anahita Norouzi, Nurgul Rodriguez. Curated by Xanthe Isbister
2020 - Canadian Forces Artists Program Group 8, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa. With Philip Cheung, Rosalie Favell, Aislinn Hunter, Simone Jones, Emmanuelle Léonard. Curated by Stacey Barker
2019 - Apparaître – Disparaître, Fondation Grantham, Québec. With Asinnajaq, Aude Moreau, Benoît Aquin, Carl Trahan, Geneviève Chevalier, Guillaume Simoneau, Isabelle Hayeur, Karine Payette, Nadia Myre, Nicolas Baier, Patrick Bérubé, Sara Angelucci, Yann Pocreau, and others. Curated by Bénédicte Ramade
2019 - Territoires II, La Castiglione, Montréal. In collaboration with Momenta – La Biennale de l’image. With Pierre Blache, Gagnon-Forest, Hua Jin, Alain Lefort, Jayce Salloum. Curated by Marie-Josée Rousseau
2019 - Inside/Outside : Images of the LAND, Artexte, Montréal. Curated by Karla McManus
2018 - Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie, Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée, Montréal. With Isabelle Hayeur, Thomas Kneubühler, Jean-François Lemire, Valérian Mazataud. Curated by Jean de Julio-Paquin
2017 - Documentar, Contar, Mentir, El Museo de la Cancilleria (Mexico City), l’Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), and the Centro Cultural Clavijero (Morelia). With Raymonde April, Nicolas Baier, Michel Campeau, Bertrand Carrière, Jacynthe Carrier, Pascal Grandmaison, Alain Paiement, Roberto Pellegrinuzzi, Carlos et Jason Sanchez, Ève K. Tremblay and others. Curated by Mona Hakim and Sylvain Campeau
2016 - The Edge of the Earth: Climate Change in Photography and Video, Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto. With Raymond Boisjoly, Edward Burtynsky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Mishka Henner, Chris Jordan, Richard Misrach, Evariste Richer, Joel Sternfeld, Sharon Stewart, and others. Curated by Bénédicte Ramade
2016 - Shuttered, Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton. With Arnold Koroshegyi, Victoria Piersig, and Kathy Toth. Curated by Tara Bursey
2016 - Point of View, Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Banff. Richard Harrington, Clive Holden, David McMillan, Alison Rossiter, Stephen Shore, Barbara Spohr, Adrian Stimson, Diana Thorneycroft and others. Curated by Craig Richards
2015 - Fieldwork, oslo8 contemporary photography, Basel, Switzerland. With Thomas Kneubühler, Geoffrey Jones and Jessica Auer. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier
2014 - Encounters at the Edge of the Forest, Gallery 400, Chicago. With Ori Gersht, David Goldblatt, Ken Gonzales-Day Ariane Littman, Steve Rowell and Jennifer Scott. Curated by Rhoda Rosen
2014 - The Walking Encyclopaedia, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, England
2013 - Canada: On the (non) inhabited landscape, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2011 - The Creation of Evolution, ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon. With Sol Legault, Lewis & Taggart, Heidi Nagtegaal, Kerri Reid, Matt Shane, and Kara Uzelman. Curated by Lance Blomgren
2011 - Topographies, The Union Gallery, Kingston, Ontario.
2011 - Projet Stanstead ou Comment Traverser la Frontière, Foreman Art Gallery, Lennoxville, Québec. With Ursula Biemann and Christian Phillip Müller. Curated by Geneviève Chevalier
2011 - Travelogue as Allegory, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 - Before and After, (CONTACT festival), Launch Projects, Toronto
2010 - Art Souterrain, Part of the Montréal High Lights Festival
2009 - Monumental, Galerie Projex-Mtl, Montréal
2009 - Entre + Deux, Galerie Les Territoires, Montréal
2009 - 1+1=1, Espacio Mexico, Montréal
2008 - Modular Nature, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga
2006 - Imaging a Global Culture (Contact festival), Toronto Image Works
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 - Research Fellow, Canadian Photography Institute, National Gallery of Canada
2018 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant
2017 - Canada Council for the Arts : Project Grant
2017 - Alberta Foundation for the Arts : Visual Arts and New Media Individual Project Grant
2017 - Sessional Research Support Fund, University of British Columbia
2016 - Finalist for the Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape
2015 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Research and Creation Grant
2014 - Canada Council for the Arts : Project Grant
2013 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Travel Grant
2011 - Canada Council for the Arts : Travel Grant
2011 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Research and Creation Grant
2010 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Travel Grant
2009 - Evelyn Wood Memorial Scholarship, The Banff Centre
2009 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Research and Creation Grant
2008 - Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec : Travel Grant
RESIDENCIES
2024 - The Rooms, Gros Morne National Park - Woody Point, Newfoundland & Labrador
2024 - Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, Val Taleggio, Italy
2023/24 - Similkameen Artist Residency, Keremeos, BC
2020 - Fondation Grantham pour l’art et l’environment, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, Québec
2017 - Canadian Forces Artists Program, Department of National Defence
2014 - Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency, Parks Canada, U.S. National Parks, and The Yukon Art Centre
2012 - Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario
2009 - Visual Arts Thematic Residency: The Wanderer, The Banff Centre, Alberta
2009 - Gushul Studio, Blairmore, Alberta. Sponsored by the University of Lethbridge
PUBLICATIONS, ESSAYS, AND REVIEWS
2024
Dark Mountain Project: Issue 25. Editors: Nick Hunt, Anthea Lawson, Adam Weymouth. Art editor: Ava Osbiston. Production: Nick Hunt. Editorial assistant: Ava Osbiston
French, Elysia, Amanda White. Ecologies in Practice. Wilfrid Laurier University Press
2023
Rambold, Sarah. “Kelowna Art Book”.
White, Amanda, Zoë Heyn-Jones and Kirsty Robertson. “Assembling Recipes for Sustainability”. Centre for Sustainable Curating
2022
Michel, Franck. “The Resilience of Landscapes”. Ciel Variable, Number 119, Winter, 2022
Fortin, Noémie. “Andreas Rutkauskas: Refuge: Après l’incendie”. Espace, Number 130, Winter, 2022
Abbott, Amory and Liz Toohey-Wiese. “Fire Season II”.
Perreault, Marie. “Triennale Banlieue! Interrègnes”. Ville de Laval
2021
Chernykh, Andrey. “A Line Made by Clearing”. On Site Review Number 38: Borders, Breaks and Breaches. Winter, 2021
Mulvogue, Jessica. “Art of the Interregnum in Canada’s Chemical Valley”. The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change. Edited by T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott and Subhankar Banerjee.
Charron, Marie-Ève. “Sur le radar: en Forêt avec Andreas Rutkauskas”. Le Devoir, October 30, 2021
2020
Fortin, Noémie. “Sur les traces du Projet Stanstead ou comment traverser la frontière en temps de pandémie”. Vie Des Arts, Number 259, Summer, 2020
Simon Lloyd, Richard Povall & Jeremy Ralph. “Evolving the Forest”. Kingsbridge, United Kingdom: art.earth
Delgado, Jérôme. “Arts visuels: hors des grands centres, plein de saluts”. Le Devoir
Clément, Éric. “La Fondation Grantham choisit ses deux premiers boursiers”. La Presse
Roy, Christian. “Territoires II”. Ciel Variable Magazine, Number 114, Winter, 2020
2019
Sheren, Ila N. “Border Matters”. The Eyes Magazine, Number 10, Autumn, 2019
Bernier-Cormier, Samuel. “Inside/Outside: Images of the LAND in Artexte’s Collection”. C Magazine, Issue 143, Autumn, 2019
Campbell, James D. “Regards critiques et nouvelle photographie. Maison de la culture Claude-Léveillée”. Ciel Variable Magazine, Number 111, Winter, 2019
2018
Sheehan, Tanya. "Photography and Migration". New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Cheethan, Mark A. "Landscape into Eco Art: Articulations of Nature Since the '60s". University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Gessell, Paul. "A Long and Lonely Border". Galleries West
2017
Sheehan, Tanya. “Border – from the series Photography and Migration”. Still Searching… online discourse on the media of photography, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Hatt, Étienne. "Googlescapes le paysage à l’ère post-photographique / Landscape in the Age of Google Earth". Artpress, Number 440. January 2017
Rutkauskas, Andreas. “Borderline”. InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, New York
Rutkauskas, Andreas. “Against Nature”. SNAPLine, Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, Edmonton, Summer 2017
2016
Ramade, Bénédicte (editor). "The Edge of the Earth, Climate Change in Photography and Video". Black Dog Publishing Limited, London, United Kingdom, 2016
McManus, Karla. "Border Lines and Crossing Points". Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies. Issue 7-1, November 2016
Paquet, Suzanne. “Perambulating, Wandering, Fleeing. A Few Notes on Mobile Landscapes”. Esse Arts + Opinions, Number 88, Fall, 2016
Paquet, Suzanne. “Photographies de l’autre, des nôtres, des autres”. Captures, Vol. 1 Number 1, May, 2016
Fitzpatrick, Meagan. "Photographer’s eyes opened on epic road trip along Canada-U.S. border", CBC News, April 23, 2016
Mallonee, Laura. "The Invisible Security of Canada’s Seemingly Chill Border", WIRED, April 1, 2016
Daro, Ishmael N. "Photographer Spent Three Years Documenting The Canada-U.S. Border", Buzzfeed, April 28, 2016
Tremblay, Élène. “What Has Become of Photography in the Era of Mobile Technologies and Social Networks?”. Magazine Ciel Variable, Number 102. Winter 2016
2015
Fontcuberta, Joan (editor). “The Post-Photographic Condition”. With essays by Derrick de Kerckhove, Suzanne Paquet, Fred Ritchin, David Tomas. Kerber Verlag, 2015
Everett-Green, Robert. “Montreal festival mines for art in the visual heap of online databases”. The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2015
Pohl, John. “Mois de la Photo views the art form through a new lens”. Montreal Gazette, September 10, 2015
Cloutier, Mario. “Mois de la photo: le nouvel ordre visual”. La Presse, September 9, 2015
Moeder, Claire. “Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Parisian Laundry, SBC, Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Maison de la culture Frontenac”. ESSE arts + opinions, September 14, 2015
Farca, Paula A. (editor) “Energy in Literature: Essays on energy and its social and environmental implications in twentieth and twenty-first century literary texts”. Oxford:True-Heart Press
2014
Wecker, Menachem. “Chicago Show Highlights Canadian Artist’s Cross-Border Trek”. Canadian Art, May 22, 2014. http://www.canadianart.ca/features/2014/05/22/andreas-rutkauskas/
Wecker, Menachem. “Even Trees can be Political”. The Jewish Daily Forward, May 23,
2013
Bonin, Ève. “Les ruines de la pétrochemie”. La Nouvelle, Vol. 32 No. 41
McManus, Karla. “Revealing Landscape from Sea to Surface”. Exhibition text, Evans Contemporary. May 23 - June 30, 2013
2012
Chevalier, Geneviève. “Randonnée sur les traces de celui qui viendra”. Magazine Ciel Variable, Number 92. Autumn 2012
Rodriguez, Pablo. “Picturing Drift, Mapping Disorientation”. TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, July 2012
2011
Campeau, Sylvain. “Une Aura Intemporelle”. ETC Revue de l’Art Actuel. Number 92
Maisonneuve: A Quarterly of Arts, Opinions & Ideas. Issue 40, Summer, 2011
Dandelion Magazine. Issue 37.1 (The Mapping Issue)
2010
Brynjolson, Noni. “Virtual Explorations of the Sublime”. Exhibition text, Projex-Mtl. May 6 - June 12, 2010
2009
Kozinska, Dorota. Review of Suburb Beautiful. ARTnews. Vol.108, Number 6
Crevier, Lyne. "Spleen Urbain". ICI. Vol. 12, Number 25, Apr. 9 - Apr. 15, 2009