University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
(art history courses)
1975–76
Prince Albert Community College, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
(art courses)
AWARDS & GRANTS
2007
Chris Awards
The Bronze Plaque for CBC Artspots: Aganetha Dyck & Bees
Producer: Rhonda Bruchanski
Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
2006
Manitoba Arts Council Award of Distinction
1995
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Leon A. Brown Award
others
Canada Council grants in Visual Arts, Inter Arts, Explorations and Travel
Manitoba Arts Council grants in Visual Arts, Project and Travel
Winnipeg Arts Council, Travel grant
COLLECTIONS
The Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario
Chalmers Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Gallery 1.1.1, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Manitoba Arts Council Art Bank, Winnipeg, Manitoba
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
Passage, Centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Regina, Saskatchewan
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom
and international private collections
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009
June 21 – September 6
The Queen Bee
The Canadian Clay and Glass Museum, Waterloo, Ontario
2008
Since 2005
Part II of Emptying Out of the Plains project The Plexi House (bee work continues in apiary for the Disappearing Priaie Landscape Series)
Four-year live bee installation project
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.A.
2005–06
Aganetha Dyck: Walking Closet
Contemporary Art Project Series
Curated by Shirley Madill
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
2004
Hive Scans (with Richard Dyck)
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Survey Exhibition
Dawson Creek Art Gallery, Dawson Creek, British Columbia
2003
Site Specific Bee work; Hive Scans (with Richard Dyck)
Curated by John Kerl
Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta
2002
New Work from the Hive
Curated by Utsi Harado
Upstairs Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2001
Survey Exhibition with Conversation
Sound work by Richard Dyck. Catalogue.
The Canadian Cultural Centre, Canadian Embassy, Paris, France
Toured to Passages, Centre d’art Contemporain, Troyes, France
The Glass Dress
The Collections Gallery
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
Inter Species Communication Attempt with Conversation: Two hives speaking to one another
Sound by Richard Dyck
CD-ROM publication by Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000
Inter Species Communication Attempt
Sound by Richard Dyck
Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1999
Working in the Dark
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1997
Aganetha Dyck: The Yorkshire Bee Project in the Camellia House
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
1995–97
Aganetha Dyck, Survey Exhibition
Curated by Shirley Madill
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Toured to:
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1995
Sports Night in Canada
Outdoor installation
St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, St. Norbert, Manitoba
1994
Danced Shoes and Hive Blankets
Strike 3 Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
1993
Danced Shoes and Hive Blankets
Connexion Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Sizes 8 – 46
Arthur Street Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1978
Recent Work
Prince Albert Art Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
1976
Changes (toured Saskatchewan)
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
SELECTED GROUP & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Started May 1, 2007
Fresh Art - Canadian Contemporary Art from Glenbow’s Collection
Virtual exhibition (5-year web site exhibition via CHIN)
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
2008
October
Orientalism and Ephemera
Curated by Jamelie Hassan
Kenderdine Art Gallery
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
June 15 – September 14
Touched
Curated by Virginia Eichhorn
The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario
June 14 – July 26
Biological Imperative
Curated by Emma Wilcox
Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey, USA
April 5 – June 8
Arena: The Art of Hockey (touring exhibition)
Held in conjunction with the world Junior Hockey championships
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
March 14 – April 26
Orientalism and Ephemera
Curated by Jamelie Hassan
Centre A, Vancouver, B.C.
February 7 – March 22
Revisiting the Collection
Traveling to Manitoba Communities
University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2007
December
Gathie Falk and Aganetha Dyck
Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
Artefact Montréal 2007 - Sculptures urbaines
Île Sainte-Hélène, Montréal, Québec
Off Artefact group exhibition sites:
Galerie Art-Mûr, Montréal, Québec
Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montréal, Québec
Canada Collects
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Hive Scans: Richard Dyck and Aganetha Dyck
(via Canadian Foreign Affairs)
Canadian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Hot Wax: A Lexicon of Contemporary Encaustic Art
A North American group exhibition
The Room, St. John’s, Newfoundland
Governor General’s Awards exhibition
The National Gallery of Canada (Contemporary Gallery), Ottawa, Ontario
2006
October – November
Bond, Dyck, Koop, Thornyecroft
Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporain BNSC
Trois Rivière, Québec
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois
(via Michael Gibson Gallery)
Crossover
The Station Gallery, Whitby, Ontario
Story Girls
Curated by Virginia Eichhorn
Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
(via Michael Gibson Gallery)
2005
Live Bee Project; Hive Scans (with Richard Dyck)
Curated by Laurel Reuter
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.A.
2004
Anniversary Show
Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Break Away!
Held in conjunction with Kelowna hosting the Memorial Cup
Curated by Linda Sawchyn. Catalogue
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
Canned Buttons, Sizes 8–46
Collections exhibition
Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Hive Scans (with Richard Dyck)
{Richard took his lap top computer and scanner to the bee hives; we scanned the bees collaborating with us on an art project.}
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
(via Other Gallery. Curated by Paul Butler)
Inter Species Communication Attempt and Hive Scans
(with Richard Dyck)
Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia
Latitudes
Curated by Charles Shilliday
Academy B.K., Belgrade, Serbia
McLuhan International Festival of the Future
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2003
Doublures
Curated by Johanne Lamoureux. Catalogue
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec City, Québec
Dress: Signal
Curated by Marlene Hilton Moore
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
4 Winnipeg Artists
Curated by Paul Butler
Other Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Ontario
(via DeLeon White Gallery)
Traversée des sens, métamorphose des apparences
Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
2002
Alteration: Seven Canadian Women Artists
The National Gallery of Canada Website
Hot Picks, 90 Years of Collecting at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Curated by Doug Lewis
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Insects in Contemporary Art
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
West of Wawa
Michael Gibson Gallery, London, Ontario
2001
An Art Odyssey – Recent Acquisitions to the Contemporary Collection
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Art Fair Niemes, Niemes, France
(via DeLeon White Gallery)
Earthly Gestures
Curated by Lisa Baldissera
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Manifestation Internationale d’art de Québec
Curated by André Dargle
l’Oeil de Poisson, Québec City, Québec
Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
(via DeLeon White Gallery)
2000
DeLeon White Gallery, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
1999
Amour - Horreur
Curated by Gail Bourgeois
Gallerie La Centrale, Montréal, Québec
The Wax Museum
Video Pool Inc. send + receive a festival of sound, Winnipeg, Manitoba
(CD-ROM produced in collaboration by Aganetha Dyck, Richard Dyck and William Eakin)
1998–99
Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Fashion and Art
Curated by Peter Wollen with Fiona Bradley
Hayward Gallery, London, England
Toured to Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
1998
Between Body and Soul
Co-curated by Karen Antaki and David Liss
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
Liane and Danny Taran Gallery
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montréal, Québec
Fetish
Curated by Renee Baert
Art Gallery of Windsor (Devonshire Mall site), Windsor, Ontario
1996
Home Is Where the Heart Is
Curated by Natalie Kamphueys
Fremdkörper Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again
Curated by Anne McPherson
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Toured to:
Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
Lynwood Arts Centre, Simcoe, Ontario
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catherines, Ontario
Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario
Trames de Mémoires/Materializing Memories
Curated by Renée Baert
Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec
1995
Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Ritual in Contemporary Art
Curated by Karen Antaki
Galerie Leonard et Bina Ellen,
Université Concordia, Montréal, Québec
Still Life (with Karen Thornton)
Curated by Sigrid Dahle
Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Survivors, In Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage
Travelling exhibit for the fight against breast cancer
M. Joan Chalmers Cultural Centre Foundation
Coordinator Barbara Amesbury
1994
Art Hotel
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
(via Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba)
EXPO ARTE Guadalajara
Guadalajara, Mexico
(via Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba)
1993
Corpus
Curated by Bruce Grenville
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Toured to:
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
Oakville Art Gallery, Oakville
Cultural Commentary
Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1991
Mentoring: Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art: A Catalytic Situation
Curated by Carol Phillips
The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
Volumes
Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Wild Things
Curated by Carol Phillips
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1990
Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
Main Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1989
Off the Beaten Track
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
Organized by Sheila Butler through Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Toured to Seagate Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
1987
A Multiplicity of Voices
Gallery 1.1.1., University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, with
Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Contemporary Art in Manitoba
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Toured to:
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Ontario
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
McDonald Stewart Art Gallery, Guelph, Ontario
1986
Another Prairies
Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Toured Saskatchewan in 1987
Convergence 86
John Black Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Footnotes
Expo ’86, Canada Pavilion, Vancouver, British Columbia
1985
Contact One
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta
Cradles
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
Under Construction: Six Manitoba Sculptors
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1982
12 Manitoba Artists
Leonard Marcoe Studio Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
To a Fine Art: Saskatchewan Fabric
Rosemount Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
1979
Oseredok Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1976
Prince Albert Art Centre, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
FILMS AND CDs
2007
Aganetha Dyck: Bee Work
LANDSCAPE AS MUSE, Bravo Channel
2006
Aganetha Dyck & Bees
CBC ARTSPOT, CBC
Bee Talker: The Secret World of Bees
A study by bee behaviouralist Dr. Mark Winston, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia involving the bee work of Aganetha Dyck
Directed by Mark Johnston, NOMAD Films
Aired:
January 2006
ARTE France
July 23 & 26, 2006
CBC, THE NATURE OF THINGS WITH DAVID SUZUKI
2001
De L’Armoire aux Ruches
Passages, centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France. 10 mn
1997
Aganetha Dyck
Recording of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Residency
West Bretton, Wakefield, Great Britain
1996
The Wax Museum
CD-ROM project with William Eakin and Richard Dyck
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, BOOKS & BOOK COVERS
2007
Summer
Prairie Fire Literary Magazine Cover
Spring
Article by Robert Enright
Border Crossings Magazine
2004
Break Away! by Linda Sawchyn
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
Latitudes by Charles Shilliday
Galerija 063, Akademija umetnosti BK Beograd
2003
Corpus solus. Para un mapa del cuerpo en el arte contemporáneo
(An art history book - mapping the body in contemporary art) by Juan Antonio Ramírez, Madrid, Spain
Chapter 8. La piel de cerre: Aganetha Dyck y Amaya Bozal
Brochure by Marlene Hilton Moore
Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
2002
Traversée des sens, métamorphose des apparences
Brochure by Jocelyn Fortin
Musée régional de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
Cover image of the literary magazine “The Malahat Review”
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
2001
Aganetha Dyck
Catalogue by Catherine Bedard
Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Manifestation Internationale départ de Québec
Catalogue by Andres Daigle and Stephane Caron
Inter Species Communication Attempt
Brochure by Virginia MacDonnell
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2000
The Beehive Metaphor: From Gaudi to Le Corbusier
A book by Juan Antonio Ramirez on how the bees and honeycomb have influenced architects and artists. English translation
University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Brochure by Lisa Gabirelle Mark
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Zone 6B, Art in the Environment
Catalogue by Shirley Madill and Ivan Jurakic
Hamilton Artists Inc., Hamilton, Ontario
1999
Brochure
DeLeon White Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Fetish by Renee Baert
A postcard publication
Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Image and short article Amour - Horreur (group exhibition with Joyce Wieland and Francine Larivée at Gallerie La Centrale, Montréal, Québec)
MIX Magazine, p.24
1997
Brochure for the exhibition Aganetha Dyck: The Yorkshire Bee Project in the Camellia House at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
A book by Elizabeth Martin and Vivian Meyer which explores the lives and work of many women artists
Second Story Press, Toronto, Ontario, p.124
Front and back book covers plus back cover quote of Teratologies, International Library of Sociology by Jackie Stacey
The Newspaper in Art
A book by Garry Apgar, Shaun O'L. Higgins and Colleen Striegel which explores the use of newspapers in art, providing perspectives on the evolution of news media, but also on the evolution of art and society
New Media Ventures Inc., Spokane, Washington, p.167
1996
Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again by Anne McPherson
Published for a touring group exhibition organized by the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, April 11 to June 16, 1996
MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario, p.12
Trames de Mémoires/Materializing Memories
Catalogue by Renée Baert
Published for a touring group exhibition held at Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, May 1–21, 1996
Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, pp.18–21
1995
Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Ritual in Contemporary Art
Catalogue by Karen Antaki
Published for a group exhibition held at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, October 26 – December 2, 1995
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, pp.2, 10–11,18–19, 20, 24
Aganetha Dyck
64-page catalogue by Shirley Madill, Bruce Grenville, Joan Borsa, Sigrid Dahle and Gilles Hebert
Published in conjunction with the St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre for a national touring exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, May 11 – October 25, 1995
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Survivors, In Search of a Voice: The Art of Courage
Book by Barbra Amesbury
Published for a national touring group exhibition held at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, February 17 – May 23, 1995
Woodlawn Arts Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, p.36
Corpus
Essays by Bruce Grenville and Jessica Bradley
Published for a touring group exhibition held at the Mendel Art Gallery, January 15 – March 7 and March 12 – May 2, 1993
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, pp.12, 24–25
1992
Mentoring: Manitoba Artists for Women’s Art: A Catalytic Situation
Catalogue by Sandra Tivy Vida and Sylvia Ziemann
Published for a group exhibition presented at The New Gallery, February 6–23, 1991
The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, p.11
1991
Aganetha Dyck, The Library: Inner Outer
31-page catalogue by Joan Borsa
Published for a touring exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Southern Alberta, January 26 – March 10, 1991
Art Gallery of Southern Alberta, Lethbridge, Alberta
1990
Aganetha Dyck. Vancouver: The Lateral Gallery at Women in Focus, 1990
60-page publication by Sigrid Dahle and Jill Pollock
Published for an exhibition held at the Lateral Gallery, April 11 – May 13, 1990
Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
Catalogue by Priscilla Reimer
Published for a group exhibition held at Main/Access, July 6–29, 1990
Main/Access Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, pp.13–14, 36–37
Prairie Fire Magazine
Cover plus bee work images
Volume 11, Number 2, Summer
1989
Off The Beaten Track: New Canadian Art
By Ron Frohwerk and Gerry Kisil
Published for a touring group exhibition held at The Collective Gallery, The Wine Emporium and The Gilded Balloon Theatre at the 1989 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland
Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, pp.7–8, 11–12, 16, 26
1988
Brain Is Not Enough
12-page catalogue by Grace E. Thomson
Published for an exhibition held at Gallery 1.1.1., January 10–28, 1988
Gallery 1.1.1., School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1987
A Multiplicity of Voices: Work by Manitoba Women Artists
By Sigrid Dahle
Published for a group exhibition held at Gallery 1.1.1. and Plug-In Gallery, March 4–29, 1987
Gallery 1.1.1., School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, pp.5, 12–13
Contemporary Art in Manitoba
By Shirley Madill, et al.
Published for a national touring group exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, August 20 – October 18, 1987
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, pp.32, 91
1986
Another Prairies
By Joan Borsa
Published for a touring group exhibition held at The Art Gallery At Harbourfront, September 12 – October 26, 1986
Art Gallery At Harbourfront, Toronto, Ontario, pp.4–5, 8–9
1985
Cradles
3-page brochure by Donna McAlear
Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, British Columbia
1984
Aganetha Dyck: Recent Work
2-page brochure
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1982
Under Construction: Six Manitoba Sculptors
By Shirley Madill
Published for an exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, April 18 – May 30, 1982
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, pp.6, 12–15, 37
1978
Changes
Brochure by Carol Phillips
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
ARTICLES, REVIEWS, RADIO, T.V. INTERVIEWS
2007
October
Interview
CBC Radio, St. John’s, Newfoundland
February 2
Manitoba’s ‘bee lady’ abuzz over prestigious arts award by Morley Walker
Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, D8
February 1
TV Spots by Sylvia Kuzyk
Re Manitoba Art Council Award of Distinction
CTV, Winnipeg, Manitoba
2006
Image of Pivot
Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine
Espace Sculpture magazine, Fall
Image of Pivot
Biennale Nationale de Sculpture Contemporaine
By Françoise Belu
Vie Des Arts magazine, pp.54-57, Automne
Review of Story Girls by Robert Reid
The Record, Kitchener, Cambridge, Waterloo, May 26
The Winnipeg Alphabestiary
Border Crossing’s Magazine, 25th Anniversary Issue
2003
Bees Produce Sweet Artistry by Carole Thorbes
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
A Collaboration With The Bees: The Art of Aganetha Dyck
By Sarah Alford
Hive Lights, Canadian Honey Council, vol.16 #3, cover, August
2002
The Aesthetics of Cruelty vs. the Aesthetics of Empathy
By Karen Thornton
Aesthetics of Care conference
Paper Presentation: Bienniale of Electronic Arts, Perth, Australia
Inter Species Communication Attempt
By John Grande
Vie Des Arts, no.185, Hiver
2001–02
Inter Species Communication Attempt
By Egon Von Bark, Daphne Gerou & Tegan Smith
Lola 11, Winter
2001
November 3
Angels and Insects by Robert Enright
Globe and Mail
April
Ruche à conviction by Fabienne Fulchéri
Colour Illustration Helmet
Expos du mois 62, numéro 22
March
Tricot d’Abeilles by Anne Kerner
Colour Illustration Helmet
Beaux Arts Magazine, Paris, France
January
Aganetha by Dr. Mark Winston
American Bee Journal, p.17 & 18
2000
The Incredible Lightness of Bee-ing
By Robert Enright & Meeka Walsh
Border Crossings, no.74
Sports Helmet by Aganetha Dyck
Art Le Sabord: création littéraire et visuelle. no.54, January (visuals)
1999
Aganetha Dyck Cooks up a Honey of a Show
By Gary Michael Dault
Globe and Mail, R10, December 11
Anxiety, a Partial Guide to the Extended Wedding Party
Poem and article by Sarah Klassen
Mennonite Literary Society
Rhubarb Magazine, Romance Issue, Summer
Performing Interconnectedness: The Cathartic Installations of Aganetha Dyck, Ann Hamilton and Susan Shantz
By Joan Borsa
n. paradoxa, vol.3, pp.24–29
1998–99
Artist-Run Culture: a portfolio of recent and upcoming work from across the country
By Aganetha Dyck
Mix, vol.24, no.3, p.24, Winter (visuals)
1998
December 5 – 6
Corps Psychique by Bernard Lamarche
Le Devoir
November 21
Artists Construct Fantasy Selves by Henry Lehman
The Gazette
November 19 – 25
Le corps réinventé by Nicolas Mavrikakis
Voir
November 14
Encore le corps mais cette fois, éthéré
By Jennifer Couëlle
La Presse
November 10
Featured on City Beat
CBC Television
November 6
Bodies of Work by Jacquie Kolodiejchuk
The Link
Fall
Interview by Virginia MacDonnell
Matriart, vol.7:4/8:1
1997
September 15
Beekeeper’s Art Opens Art Gallery
By Christina Sabat
Review of Aganetha Dyck touring exhibition in Fredericton, New Brunswick
The Daily Gleaner
June 15
A Swing Against the Cultural Slide
By Anthea Gerrie
The Observer, London, England
1996
November 12
Serne landschappen verrassenn publilek in de Westergasfabriek
By Paola van de Velde
Review of Home is Where the Heart Is
Amsterdams Nieuws Van De Dag
November 6
Review of Home is Where the Heart Is
de Voorkant (Amsterdam daily newspaper)
November 1
By Bianca Stigter, Galerie, NRC Handelsblad
Amsterdam Press, The Netherlands
November
Newspaper review of Home is Where the Heart Is
de Volkskrant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Summer
From Wedding Dresses to Bees at Work
Article by Katharina Stiefenhoffer
Glass Gazette
June, July, August
Aganetha Dyck: The fabric of daily existence
By Paula Gustafson
Espace, vol.36, pp.34–36
June
Aganetha Dyck, Winnipeg Art Gallery
By Cliff Eyland
C Magazine
April 20
All About Eve by Doug Hallett
Review of Second Skin: Looking at the Garden Again at the MacDonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario
The Guelph Tribune
April
Interview on the Vicky Gabereau Show
CBC Radio
February 28
Minding Her Beeswax
Article by Chris Dafoe
The Globe and Mail
January 10
Interview on Bravo, Vancouver
January 9
Interview on the Peter Gzowski Show
CBC Radio
1995
November 5
On the Edge by David Liss
The Montreal Gazette
Fall
Survivors: In Search of a Voice
By Nancy Campbell
Ontario Craft, pp.23–24
August 15
Review of Ordinary Magic: Aspects of Ritual in Contemporary Art
By Stephane Aquin
Voir
July
Review of Winnipeg Art Gallery beework installation
By Don DeGrow
Vitality
Summer
Objects of Wonder by Alison Gillmor
Border Crossings, vol.14, no.3, pp.22–23
May 18
Review of Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition
By Andrea Geary
Family Focus
May 16
Minding Her Beeswax by James O’Conner
Review of Winnipeg Art Galley beework installation
Winnipeg Sun
May
Coverage of beework installation at the Winnipeg Art Gallery
Arts National, CBC Radio
Coverage of Winnipeg Art Gallery exhibition on:
CKND TV, WTN TV and CKY TV
Interview from the Winnipeg Art Gallery by Robert Enright
CBC TV
Review of Winnipeg Art Gallery beework installation
By Garth Buchholz
Winnipeg Free Press
April 1
Pair’s Works Evoke Fertility, Power
By Garth Buchholz
Winnipeg Free Press, p.B9
1994
August 25
Review of Corpus by Oliver Girling
Eye Weekly
July 23
Review of Corpus by Kate Taylor
Globe and Mail
Interview by Heather Reimer on CBC Radio
Interview on CBC, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
1993
September 18
Review of Danced Shoes and Hive Blankets
By Christian Sabat
The Daily Gleaner
Summer
Rumours of Our Breath
Review of Corpus by Len Findlay
Border Crossings, vol.12, no.3
Review of Volumes by Kate Taylor
The Globe and Mail
August
Interview by Allison Clay
CBC Radio
January 31
Review of Aganetha Dyck, The Library: Inner Outer
By Tara Elder
The Meliorist (University of Lethbridge’s paper)
January
Interview by Robert Enright
CBC Radio
1990
May 4
Last Butts’ Last Rites by Robin Laurence
The Georgia Straight
April 21
The Art of Quitting by Ann Rosenberg
Vancouver Sun
Review of Mennonite Artist: Insider as Outsider
By Randal McIlroy
Winnipeg Free Press
1989
August 28
Review of Off the Beaten Track
By Murdo McDonald
The Scotsman
Review of Off the Beaten Track
By Terrence Heath
ALBA, Edinburgh, Scotland
1988
April 7
Reformed Smoker Uses Object of Fetish to Look at Society
By Nancy Tousley
Calgary Herald
January 27
Review of Brain Is Not Enough
By Leonard Marcoe
University of Manitoba Faculty Bulletin
Interview by Jacqui Good
CBC Arts National, CBC Radio
Coverage of Brain Is Not Enough
By Robert Enright
State of the Arts, CBC TV
1987
December 1987 – January 1988
‘M’ is for Memory
By Jean Tourangeau
Vanguard, vol.16, no.6, pp.44–45
June
Border Crossings, vol.6, no.3
Aganetha Dyck’s Mad Hatting
By Al Rushton, pp.25–26
Review of A Multiplicity of Voices
By Tom Lovatt, pp.49–50
Spring – Summer
Sharron Zenith Corne, Aganetha Dyck, Esther Warkov: Three Manitoba Artists
By Marion Yeo
Woman’s Art Journal, vol.8, no.1, pp.33–39
Spring
Personal Baggage by Sigrid Dahle
Midcontinental, vol.4, no.3, pp.20–21
January
Interview by Robert Enright
State of the Arts, CBC TV
1986
Winter
Review of Another Prairies
By Terrence Heath
Border Crossings, p.28
September 18
Review of Another Prairies
By John Bentley Mays
The Globe and Mail
February 6
Coverage of Cradles
State of the Arts, CBC TV
1985
September
Review of Susan Whitney Gallery exhibition
By Joan Borsa
Vanguard, vol.14, no.7, p.30
August 22
Responding to the Environment, Aganetha Dyck Uses the Ordinary to Create Art
By Sigrid Dahle
Western People Magazine, pp.WP14–15
June 20
Surreal Exhibit Explores Range of Buttons in Jars
Review of Susan Whitney Gallery exhibition by Meta Perry
Regina Leader Post
Interview by Robert Enright
State of the Arts, CBC TV
1984
Winter
Women’s Work: The Radical Domestications of Aganetha Dyck
By Sheila Butler
Arts Manitoba, vol.4, no.1, pp.15–19
1982
Summer
Review of Under Construction
By Kip Park
Vanguard
June
Winnipeg: Under Construction
By Andrea Lange
Arts West, vol.7, no.6, pp.20–22
1979
January
Coverage of Sizes 8–46
CKY-TV News, Winnipeg
Review of Sizes 8–46
By Dale Amundson
Round About, CBC Radio
Coverage of Changes
By Lorna Jackson
CBC TV
Interview by Kevin Evans
For Art’s Sake, CKND TV
RESIDENCIES
2004
Prairie North Creative Residency (two weeks)
Facilitators: Aganetha Dyck and Walter May
Grande Prairie, Alberta
2002
Biological Science Lab, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
Week long residency to research painting, drawing and sculpting collaboratively with the bees under the direction of Dr. Mark Winston and assistant Heather Higo
2001
Site Ginkgo Atelier, Passages, Centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
Three-month residency to work with beekeepers and bees in the region; to research the ancient bee walls of France and to meet with international bee expert Dr. Yves Le Conte of Avignon, France
2000
Since 1990
Ten-year outdoor apiary residency on the grounds of the St. Norbert’s Art & Cultural Centre, St. Norbert, Manitoba
Worked with beekeeper Phil Veldhuis and Manitoba’s head apiarist, Don Dixon
1997
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
Two-month residency to work with the Park’s beekeepers of wild swarm bees, to create sculpture for the Park’s Camellia House, circa 1865
1993
Studio at the Stichting Kunst and Complex, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Three-month residency to research the bees and flowers of the Netherlands, meet local apiarists and cultural workers
1988
Three-week residency and part-time faculty
Paper and Fibre Studio, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta. 1986
Galerija 063, Akademija umetnosti BK, Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia
Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, British Columbia
2003
Guest speaker at The Canadian Beemasters Course
Invited by Dr. Mark Winston, Biological Studies Faculty
Simon Fraser University, Buranby, British Columbia
2002
Musée de Rimouski, Rimouski, Québec
2001
Passages centre d’art contemporain, Troyes, France
Textile Design Academy, Troyes, France
2000
Guest speaker
Canadian Art Teacher’s Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia
Guest speaker
First Person Plural (M.A.W.A.) Winnipeg, Manitoba
Zone 6B, Art in the Environment, Hamilton, Ontario
1999
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
Queens University, Kingston, Ontario
1997
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Alberta
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Western University, London, Ontario
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
1996
Education through Art
National Education Conference, Burnaby, British Columbia
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The Textile Museum, Toronto, Ontario
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
1995
St. Norbert Arts and Cultural Centre, St. Norbert, Manitoba
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
1994
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario
Memorial University, Corner Brook, Newfoundland
School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
West Viking College, Stephenville, Newfoundland
1993
Connexion Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1992
Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario
Comoson College, Victoria, British Columbia
1991
Art Gallery of Southern Alberta, Lethbridge, Alberta
Canadian McMichael Art Gallery, Kleinburg, Ontario
Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
1990
Lateral Gallery at Women in Focus, Vancouver, British Columbia
1988
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
