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I am drawn to inner processes and how they become visible and more known through relationships. My work is narrative, and can include family members, friends, local landscapes, filmography, dreams and architecture. I am inspired by a feeling that is elusive yet familiar, and lies in the construction of the space. The presence of things meeting with the presence of other things including the space, composes the atmosphere. I sometimes include found material for its otherness, relatability, and as a reminder of the tactile world which we belong to. I am concerned with my experience as as a woman and my place in the world. I am curious about how things influence each other physically, emotionally and spiritually, and the results of that. My architectural pieces embody feelings that are indefinable and integral.
Stefanie Denz, artist, educator and art therapist lives on Salt Spring Island, BC. She completed her MFA (University of Auckland, 1989) on full Commonwealth Scholarship, and has received Canada Arts Council and BC Arts Council grants. Stefanie has exhibited in New Zealand, Germany, USA and Canada. She attended two residencies in Berlin, 2013, 2014 (Transarts Institute). She is represented by Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver, and her work can be seen in Rhubarb, Ganges BC, and in her studio.
Blog by Something rich and strange
The Uncanny Poetry of Interior Spaces. "Flower," by Stefanie Denz
Stefanie Denz - Curriculum Vitae
@stefaniedenzart
Presently represented by Elliott Louis Gallery, Vancouver BC.
Education and awards
2022 Victoria Foundation and Salt Spring Foundation community programs grant.
2020 Disability Alliance BC Grant, Vancouver BC
2019 ATC Vancouver Art Therapy Institute, Vancouver BC
2016 B.Ed Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo BC
2014 Residency Transart Institute, Berlin, Germany
2013 Residency Takt, Berlin, Germany
2009/11/13 Invitation to the Florence Bienale, Italy
2009/10 SSAC project grant,
2009 BC Council of the Arts Grant for Collaboration
2003 Canada Council Project Grant
1999 Canada Council Travel Grant
1995 Award of Merit, Look ‘95, Victoria, BC
1991 Award of Excellence, Images and Objects in North Vancouver, BC
1989 M.F.A. in painting, Auckland University, N.Z
1987 Commonwealth Scholarship for postgraduate studies, Auckland, N.Z.
1985 B.F.A. University of Victoria
1983 Award of Excellence, Images and Objects, Penticton, BC
Selected solo exhibits
2023 The Figurative, Fortune Gallery, Victoria BC
2023 Being Whereabouts, presence in local landscapes. The Kube, Gibsons BC
2017 Hypnotic Charisma, Faultline Projects, Ganges. BC
2016 End of the Affair, Amelia Douglas Gallery, New Westminster BC
2013 Tapir Kunstraum Berlin, Germany
2012 Crawling Woman with performance DVOT# 3, Campbell River Public Art Gallery, BC
2012 Family History, Duthie Gallery, Ganges. BC
2008 Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC
2007 A/range/ments, Point Gallery, Salt Spring Is. BC
2005 Zorba, Duthie Gallery, Saltspring Is., BC
2004 Subeez, Vancouver, BC
2000 Family Affairs and Other Trends - SSI Gallery of Fine Arts, Salt Spring Is. BC
1999 Bilder auf Holz, Galerie Melnikof, Heidelberg, Germany
1998 Assembly for Reconciliation, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, BC
1992 Sylvia and Others - Vortex Gallery, Saltspring Is., BC
1988 Gallery III - Auckland, N.Z.
1986 Of Temples and Greenhouses, MacPherson Gallery, University of Victoria, BC
Selected group shows
2023 Listen Softly, Look Between, Island Mountain Arts, Wells BC
2022 Mahon Hall, the Nature of Memory. Stefanie Denz and Chris Arnett curation.
2021 Parallel Show (with SSNAP), Ganges BC
2020 Writers and Artists, Margaret Day curation, Artspring Ganges, BC
2019 Paeonie, Lorsch, Germany.
2016/17 Winchester Galleries, Victoria BC
2015 You and me, w. Frieda Denz Poetry and Robbyn Scott Dance, Point Gallery, Salt Spring Is.
2014 SomoS Galerie, Berlin Germany
2013 Kunstraum Tapir, Berlin Germany
2011 Collaboration with Robbyn Scott, Seward Park, Manhatten NYC
2009/10 movement collaborative project with Robbyn Scott-DVOT, Victoria BC
2008/9/10 Installations in Ganges Forest Sculpture Walk, Saltspring Is.
2007 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2007 Salvaged, Artspring Gallery, Saltspring Is., BC
2006 Denz and Kimura, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
2005 Break age, North Vancouver Arts council Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2003 Fran Willis Gallery of Contemporary Art, Victoria BC
2002 Recycled Art, North Vancouver Arts Council Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2001 Larsen Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 Artropolis, CBC building, Vancouver, BC
1998 Stoyko/Denz, Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay, BC
1996 Erotic Show, Mahon Hall, Saltspring Is., BC
1992 Oppel/Denz, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, BC
1989 Gallery Artists, Star Art Gallery, Auckland, N.Z.
1986 Spiral Procedures- a collaboration involving music, dance, and painting, Open Space
Gallery, Victoria, BC
Performance
2019 Peonies, Lorsch Germany
2018 On we Go, Antler Ridge Studio, Salt Spring Island BC
2017 Tug o War, ArtSpring Theatre Salt Spring Island, BC
2017 Pulling Threads, Artspring Theatre, Salt Spring Island
2015 DVOT collaboration phase 3 with TRIPOD, Dance Victoria Festival, Victoria BC
2014 DVOT Phase 1, Dance Festival, Metro Studio Victoria BC
Publications
2017 blog https://belasten.weebly.com/blog/the-uncanny-poetry-of-interior-spaces-flower-by-stefanie-denz
2009 Preview Magazine, summer edition, Vancouver - Hastings House Sculpture walk.
2008 Aqua Quarterly Magazine, summer, article, Andrea Rabinovitch, Salt Spring Is.
2006 Film, Women and art practice, Connie Morey, Victoria BC
1999 Rhein Neckar Zeitung, review, von Heid Seele, Mannheim
1997 Valley Voice, review, Donna Matila, Courtenay, BC
1995 Artichoke, article, Ben Goodman, Vancouver BC
1987 Auckland Star, review, Tom Burnett, Auckland NZ
Teaching experience and artist talks
1998-2021 Drawing & Painting classes
2013 Tapir KunstRaum, Berlin
2012 North Island College
2012 Cambell River Public Art gallery
2013 North Vancouver Public Library
2007-18 Artist in the class program
1998 Nanaimo Art Gallery
Other art related activities
2016-2024 facilitator Art Jam a drop in for marginalized people, Ganges BC
2009- 2019 Board Member and Chair (4 yrs) of the Salt Spring Arts Council
20011&12- organized educational artist talks at Signature Art Week, Saltspring Is.
2005 - participant of Connie Morey(Victoria BC) documentary film on women artists.
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