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Kent Tate
Kent Tate at lava flows
Born
Rivers, Manitoba
NationalityCanadian
Known forShort films
Websitewww.kenttate.ca

Kent Tate is a Canadian artist and filmmaker living in British Columbia.[1] Tate is known for his single-channel video video installation works.

Early life

Tate was born in Rivers, Manitoba. He grew up in Germany until he moved with his family to Ottawa, Ontario.[2][3]

Exhibitions

Tate has exhibited in Canada since the early 1980s.[4] exhibiting in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, British Columbia and Saskatchewan.

In 1982 Jennifer Oille reviewed Tate's A.R.C. satellite installation in Toronto, the Museum of Post-Habitation, in Vanguard,[5] describing Tate's conversion of a soon to be abandoned dwelling into a museum.[5] The exhibition ended with Tate's performance, Ending All Occupation.[6]

In 1984 he and Joe Average exhibited Survival of the Will, The 1984 Show at Open Space Gallery in Victoria, BC.[7]

In 1985 the Helen Pitt Gallery in Vancouver presented Tate's exhibition No Rest for the Restless.[8]

In 1986 he presented the installation The Chemical Chamber at the Western Front artist-run centre in Vancouver.[9] Archival material related to the exhibition is held in the Western Front Fonds at the University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections.[10]

In 1988, Tate exhibited The Stalker installation at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver.[11][12]

In 2012 Tate exhibited Movies for a Pulsing Earth, a ten-year retrospective video/sculptural installation at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.[2][13] The piece toured to the Moose Jaw Museum and Gallery the same year.[14][15]

In 2019 he presented the exhibition Peneplain at the Art Gallery of Swift Current.[16][17]

Filmography

Awards

Further reading

  • Nye, Jeff (2012). The Hypnosis of Time. Kent Tate, Movies for a Pulsing Earth. Art Gallery of Swift Current catalogue. pp. 2-4 (pp. 1-6).

References

  1. ^ Government of Canada, Canadian Heritage. "Artists in Canada". app.pch.gc.ca.
  2. ^ a b Dowson, Elisabeth (29 March 2012). "Tate's Movies for a Pulsing Earth offer compelling introspection at Gallery". Medicine Hat, Canada: Star News Publishing Inc. The Southwest Booster. p. A4. Archived from the original on 25 March 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  3. ^ McNeil, Paul (5 March 2013). "Touring exhibit features work of Shaunavon artist". The Shaunavon Standard.
  4. ^ Alain-Martin Richard; Clive Robertson (Oct 1991). Performance In Canada, 1970-1990 (Book). Toronto, Canada: The Coach House Press. p. 369. ISBN 978-2920500044. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  5. ^ a b Oille, Jennifer (March 1983). "Museum of Post-Habitation". Vanguard. 12 (2). Vancouver, Canada: 32. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  6. ^ Miroslav, Miki (December 1982). "Ending All Occupation". Parallelogramme. Vol. 8, no. 2. p. 29.
  7. ^ Willey, Phillip Manton (1984). "Vanguard". Vol. 13. Vancouver Art Gallery. p. 41.
  8. ^ "Kent Tate: No Rest for the Restless".
  9. ^ "The Chemical Chamber - Western Front".
  10. ^ "Western Front Society Fonds: A finding aid to their records in the UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections" (PDF). rbscarchives.library.ubc.ca. University of British Columbia. Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  11. ^ Oraf (30 December 1988). "Year in Review". Vol. Visual Arts. Vancouver, Canada: The Georgia Straight. p. 22.
  12. ^ Perry, Art (19 September 1988). "Stalk the Light". The Province. p. 43.
  13. ^ Gowan, Jesse (14 March 2012). "Tate exhibit exciting for Art Gallery of Swift Current". Prairie Post.
  14. ^ "Around the Southwest › Maple Creek News".
  15. ^ "PAST".
  16. ^ "Peneplain by Kent Tate | Art Gallery of Swift Current".
  17. ^ "Exhibition features filmmaker's view of the prairie's beauty and contrast".
  18. ^ "SENSORES (Sensors)". Festival Ecra.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Kent Tate | Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre".
  20. ^ "Catalyst".
  21. ^ a b "The Walthamstow International Film Festival 2019 Winners Announcement – E17 Films". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  22. ^ a b "Top film award goes to Saskatoon producer".
  23. ^ "Winnipeg Film Group : Isolated Gestures".
  24. ^ "Âkâm'askîhk ᐋᑳᒼ'ᐊᐢᑮ".
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