Curriculum Vitae                          Beth Howe


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Education       
2003    MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1998    BA, Printmaking, Haverford College, PA      
  

Exhibitions

2009

‘At Variance’, Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, AB

'e-xhibit', Christopher West Presents, Indianapolis, IN 

2008

‘Obsolete Concepts’, A Space, Toronto, ON (traveling to Gallery Lambton, Sarnia ON and McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa ON)
‘Radiant Dark’, MADE at the Burrough Building, Toronto, ON
‘Beth Howe: Environs’, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON       
   
2007

‘Best of the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition’, First Canadian Place, Toronto, ON
‘REPORTS’, The Explorers Club Research Collections Department, New York, NY
‘MadeReady’, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, ON

2006

‘Topograph’, MADE Design, Toronto, ON
‘Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition’, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON
‘New Lines: Drawn, Stitched, and Sculpted’, SPUR Projects, Portola Valley, CA
‘Re-Shelving Initiative’, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, NS

2005

‘To Have and To Hold’, Minnesota Center for the Book, Minneapolis, MN   
‘Under Construction’, Dyan Marie Projects, Toronto, ON
‘Do You Like Stuff?’, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
‘Fibreworks 2004’, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, ON

2004

‘Imagine’, La Jolla Fiber Arts, La Jolla, CA
‘Portable’, Rad’a Gallery, Montreal, QC
‘Fibreworks 2004’, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON
‘Post-Minimal’, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON
‘The Block’, Galerie Une, Neuchatel, Switzerland
‘Scapes’, Berliner Kunst Projeckt, Berlin, Germany

2003

‘The Art of the Draw’, Armory Gallery, Napa, CA
‘Four in the Foreground’, Hang Annex, San Francisco, CA   
‘San Francisco Art Institute MFA Exhibition’, San Francisco, CA
‘Phalanges’, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
‘Crosstown Drawings’, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

‘Today’, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
‘Sidelong Stories’, American Industrial Building, San Francisco, CA   
‘Escalations’, L7 Public Interventions, San Francisco, CA
‘City Maps’, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA       

2001

‘Organized Labor’, Detour 888, San Francisco, CA
‘Pursuant to Ordinance #32-84’, San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, San Francisco

Public Collections

Artist’s Books and Other Works in Special Collections at:    

    University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
    Femmarte Foundation, Toronto, ON
    Collection of the City of Toronto, ON
    Neutral Capital Collection, New York, NY
    Mandeville Special Collections Library, University of San Diego, CA
    Mobilivre Traveling Book Arts Collection 2004, Montreal, QC                       
    Auchenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
    CalPoly San Luis Obispo, CA
    Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
    Herron School of Art Library (Indiana/Purdue University), IN

Honors:

   Murray Koffler Founding Chairman Purchase Prize (Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition) 2006
    Framework Foundation Purchase 2005, 2006, and 2007
    San Francisco Art Institute Books Arts Prize 2002 and 2003
    San Francisco Art Institute Graduate Student Grant 2001, 2002, and 2003
    BA with honors, Haverford College, 1998

Teaching

Assistant Professor Print Media, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver BC, 2008-present
Sessional Faculty, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto ON 2005-2008

Other Events

Artist in Residence at Djerassi Foundation, California, April-May 2009
Work featured in Canadian Art Magazine Gallery Hop Gala and Auction, Moss Park Armoury, Toronto, September 2007