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Curriculum Vitae

Susan McEachern

33 Cuisack St., Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 2L7


Education:


MacKenzie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Full-time student in Digital Media Design Program
 September 2000-December 2000
The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Ontario
M.A.- Sociology in Education, Area of Emphasis, Feminist Studies and Gender Relations, 1988.
The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta
Senior Diploma, Visual Communication/Photography, 1975-77
Colour Photography Studio, Summer, 1979
The Zone System, Summer, 1975
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
B.A. - Theatre Arts (Honors), 1969-73
Minnesota Teacher Certification, Speech and Theatre, 1975

Employment:


The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Editorial Director, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design 2001-present.
Promoted to Full Professor, Media Arts, July 1999
Director of Graduate Studies; MFA Program , 1994-1999
Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies; Acting Associate Dean, 1996 - 1997
Associate Professor, Photography, Studio Division, 1988-1999
Assistant Professor, Photography, Design Division, 1979-88
Part-time faculty, 1977-79
The Banff Centre, Banff Alberta
The Walter J. Phillips Gallery, Technical Assistant, Photographer, 1977
Departmental Assistant, Photography Division, 1977
 

Solo Exhibitions:


[upcoming] Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Susan McEachern, Ottawa, Ontario, October, 2009
Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Susan McEachern, Ottawa, Ontario, March 2009
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Structures of Meaning, June, 2006.
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, Structures of Meaning, Sept. 2004, touring exhibition
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Backyard Community, November, 2001.
I-Land Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Images from Atlantic Canada, October, 2000.
The Dundas Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Questions of Nature, June, 1998.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sandy Cove Outfall, September, 1997.
Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, NFLD., Questions of Nature, December, 1995.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, NFLD., Questions of Nature, Oct., 1995.
Speciology, Galerie SAW, Ottawa, Ontario, two person exhibition, Anne-Marie Beneteau and Susan McEachern, Feb. 1995.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Questions of Nature, Sept. 1994
Eye Level Members Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Questions of Nature: a work in progress, April, 1993
Toronto Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, The Creation of Desire, Jan, 1992
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Creation of Desire, October, 1990
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, On Living at Home, June 1989
AKA, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, The Family, October, 1987
Plug/in, Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Family, September, 1987
The Toronto Photographer’s Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, The Family, July, 1986
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Family, January, 1986
The Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, The Family, Jan. 1985
The Photographer’s Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, The Home, May, 1983
Powerhouse Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, The Home, Feb., 1983
Dazibao, Centre de animation et d’exhibition photo, Montreal, Quebec
November, 1982
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, The Home, Feb. 1982
Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Photographs of the Preparation of Food, July 1981
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stories, October, 1980

Group Exhibitions:


“The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography,” the New Orleans Museum of Art, May 16 -August 2, 2009. 
“Photography in Retrospect: 25 years of Photographic Pedagogy at NSCAD,” Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 2008.
“Exalted Beings: Animal Relationships,” Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August, 2008.
“Roots and Shoots,” Mount Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August-September 2006
“The Eighties Exhibition,” Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, November, 2006
“Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, Jan. 2006.
Installation of work in Government House, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2003
“An Invested Nature; Contemporary photography in the permanent collection, Dalhousie University, June 2002.
“Roundabout” Group photography exhibition, Harbourfront, Toronto, May 2002.
“Arts2000,” 
“A national Celebration of visual arts produced by the Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts,” and one of nine prize-winners in this exhibition, Stratford, Ontario, May, 2000.
“Boundaries,” group Photography Exhibition, Anna Leonowens Gallery, October, 1998.
“Landscape in Question,” recent acquisitions, curated by Susan Gibson Garvey, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1998.
“Collective Viewing: Selections from the Art Bank of Nova Scotia, 1975-1995, Saint Mary’s Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1995.
“The Food Show,” Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, curated by Storme Arden, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April, 1995.
“Alliances: The Family,” CMCP, curated by Justin Wonnicott, Ottawa, Ontario, Sept., 1994 - 1998 Touring
"Marion McCain Atlantic Art Exhibition," Fredericton, N.B. Sept., 1994 - 1996 Touring
“Maternal Instincts,” Mount Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov. 1992, Anna Leonowens Gallery, July, 1991 curated by Heather Smith and Jessica Curran.
“In Honour of Carol Fraser and Recent Acquisitions,” Mont. Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Aug. 1991.
“The End of the Millennium: Conflict and Contradiction,” Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March, 1991 curated by Kil Young Yu.
“Messages Sent/Received,” SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, 1991.
“Art Against Violence Against Women,” Eye Level Gallery, December, 1990.
“Fact or Fiction, Some Points of View in Contemporary Nova Scotia Photography,” The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, March, 1990, curated by Cathy Busby.  Touring.
“Photo Salon,”,” The Nova, Scotia Photo Co-op, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Nov. 1989.
“Politics and Conventions,” La Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Quebec, curated by the CMCP, Sept. 1989.
“There is No Place Like Home,” SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, May, 1989, curated by Christine Conley.
“Collecting,” Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, April, 1989.  (Exhibition of recent acquisitions.)
“The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Real Stories,” Optica Gallery, Montreal, May 1989,  curated by Cheryl Simon. Touring .
“Lublin/Halifax Exchange,” Lublin, Poland. Sept. 1988, curated by Bruce Barber.
“Making Space,” Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 1988.  Suzanne Lacy, Susan McEachern, Frances Robson and Honor Rogers, Touring  to Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario, curated by Joan Borsa.
“Another Focus,” Rosemont Art Gallery, Regina, April, 1988 and The Photographer’s Gallery, Saskatoon, March, 1988, curated by The Photographer’s Gallery.
“Susan McEachern, Chuck Samuels and Jayce Salloum,” Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec, Feb. 1988.
“Auckland/Halifax Exchange,” Auckland, New Zealand, 1986.
“Rossiter, McEachern, Fairfield,” Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s, NFLD, 1986 Touring, curated by Doug Townsend.
“Family: tradition/transition,” Katherine E. Nash Gallery, Mpls., MN. March 1985, curated by Linda Brooks.
“Contemporary Canadian Photography from the collection of the N.F.B., Edmonton, Alberta, October, 1984,  Touring.
“Production and the Axis of Sexuality,” The Walter J. Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, July, 1984, curated by Barbara Fisher.
“Satire as Discontent,” Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, July 1984, curated by Ingrid Koenig.
“Appropriation/Expropriation,” Mount Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 1983, curated by Bruce Barber.
“Regional Realism,” Mount Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 1982.
“The Mask of Objectivity/ Subjective Images,” McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario, Feb. 1981, curated by George Legrady.
“Atlantic Parallels,” National Film Board Exhibition of Ten Atlantic Photographers, July 1980, Acquisition - Touring.
“The Year of the Child,” Mount Saint Vincent Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 1979.
“Two Person Exhibition,” Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dec. 1978.
“Correspondences,” The Catskill Centre for Photography, Woodstock, New York, Sept. 1978.
“Alberta Work,” Calgary Alberta, March, 1977.

Books and Catalogue Essays:


Structures of Meaning, essay by Andrea Kunard,  “Sites of Awareness,” CMCP 2004.
Questions of Nature, exhibition catalogue with essay by Susan Gibson Garvey, Dalhousie Art Gallery, September, 1994.
Frame of Mind: Viewpoints on Photography in Contemporary Canadian  Art, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, essay “Domestic Subversion: Susan McEachern’s On Living at Home,”  by Cheryl Simon, 1993.
The Creation of Desire: An Exhibition by Susan McEachern with essays by Gillian Thomas and Joan Borsa, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Dec. 1992.
Thirteen Essays, The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario, essay on Suzy Lake and Susan McEachern by Gail Fisher-Taylor, 1991.
The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Real Stories, Optica, Montreal Quebec, edited by Cheryl Simon, 1989.
The Event Horizon, Essays on Hope Sexuality, Social Space and Mediation in Art, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, edited by Lorne Falk and Barbara Fisher, 1987.
Contemporary Canadian Photography, from the collection of the N.F.B., N.F.B. of Canada, Still Photography division, Ottawa, Ontario, 1984.

Visiting Lecturer:


Lecturer: “Materiality and the image; the multiple nature of the photographic archive,” for The Council for the Nova Scotia Archives, May, 2008.
U.A.A.C. Conference, Organized and Presented the panel “The Photographic Archive,” November, 2008.
U.A.A.C. Conference, Organized and presented the panel “Photography, Gender, and the Natural World in Conflict,” Waterloo, Ontario, November, 2007.
Exhibition tour for Structures of meaning, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2006
Exhibition tour for Structures of meaning, CMCP, Ottawa, Ontario, 2004
The University of Ottawa, visiting artist, 2004
The University of Lethbridge,  visiting artist and lecturer, 2002.
U.A.A.C. Conference, Organized and presented the panel “Engaging the digital: Methods, Materials and Meaning in an age of New Technology,” Winnipeg, Manitoba, November, 2000.
U.A.A.C. Conference, Organized and presented the panel “From the Daguerreotype to Photoshop: Photography’s Domination of the image,” Toronto, Ontario,  November, 1999.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, panel presentation on the exhibition “From the Background to the Foreground,” October, 1999.
 Dundas Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, presentation of my work in conjunction with my exhibition, June, 1998.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, presentation on Panel Discussion, “The Harbour in Question,” October, 1998.
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, artist’s presentation of my work in conjunction with the exhibition, “Sandy Cove Outfall,” September, 1998.
U.A.A.C. Conference, Vancouver, presented a paper on my work titled, “Language at Play; Photography as Interdisciplinary,” November, 1998.
The University of Sask. Department of Art and Art History, visiting lecturer, “Artistic Practice and Natural Resources,” Feb. 1997.
The Photographer’s Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask, panel discussion, “Photography: From Documentary to the Electronic Era,” Feb. 1997.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, panel discussion, “Who do Juried Exhibitions Serve?” September, 1996.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, artist’s talk in conjunction with jurying the VANS Far and Wide Exhibition, Feb. 16, 1996.
Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John’s NFLD, artist’s talk, Dec., 1995
Sir Wilfred Grenville Art Gallery, Cornerbrook, NFLD. artist’s talk, Nov., 1995
Galerie SAW, Ottawa, Ontario,  artist’s talk, Feb., 1995
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, artist’s talk, Sept., 1994
U.A.A.C. Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, organized the panel, “photography: Challenging Art History,” Oct. 1994.
CMCP, Ottawa, Ontario, member of the panel, “Relatively Speaking,” November, 1994.
N.S.C.A.D., “The Art/Craft Debate Continues,” panel discussion, March, 1994.
Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Visiting artist/lecturer, Nov. 1992.
West Viking College, Stephenville, NFLD. and Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Cornerbrook, NFLD., visiting artist/lecturer, Oct. 1992.
The Confederation Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I., visiting artist/lecturer.
The University of Saskatchewan, visiting artist, Myna Forsyth Lecture Series, Feb. 1991.
UAAC Conference, presentation of panel, “Women, Language and the Visual,” Montreal, Quebec, 1990.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia,  artist presentation, April, 1990.
Banff Symposium, “Voices/Voix,” invited participant, panel presentation, March 1990.
Nova Scotia Women Artist’s Network Workshop, panel participant, March, 1990.
UAAC Conference, presentation on panel, “Feminist Practice in the University,” Winnipeg, Man. Nov. 1989.
Mercer Union, artist’s presentation, Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 1989.
Symposium, “Hidden Work, Hidden Workers,” Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, presented the paper, “Images of Women at Work 1911-1951 in The Canadian Home Journal,” Halifax, Nova Scotia, Oct. 1988.
The Emily Carr College of Art and Design, artist’s presentation, Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 1988.
The Photographer’s Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Lecture and Workshop on Popular Culture, March, 1988.
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Women Studies Program, Toronto, Ontario, artist’s presentation, Feb. 1988.
Conference on Feminism and Art, Toronto, Ontario, presentation and workshop on the N.A.A.G.S. performance group with Wilma Needham, Oct., 1987.
The Rivoli, artist’s presentation organized by the Toronto Photographer’s Workshop, Toronto, Ontario, Feb. 1986.
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, artist’s presentation, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Jan. 1986.
The Hamilton Art Gallery, artist’s presentation, Hamilton, Ontario, Feb. 1985.
The University of Manitoba, artist’s presentation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March, 1984.
Video-pool, artist’s presentation, Winnipeg, Manitoba, March, 1984.
The Photographer’s Gallery, artist’s presentation, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May, 1983.
Powerhouse Gallery, artist’s presentation, Montreal, Quebec, Feb., 1983.
The University of Ottawa, artist’s presentation, Ottawa, Ontario, Feb. 1983.
The Banff Centre, artist’s presentation, Banff, Alberta, Feb. 1981.
New Brunswick Crafts College, artist’s presentation, Fredericton, N.B., Nov. 1981.

Publications:


Now Appearing,  Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery publication, a catalogue in which I wrote three descriptions of artwork from the MSV permanent collection, Summer, 1996.
Review, “ Moritz Gaede,” Arts Atlantic,  Spring, 1994.
“Feminism, Family and Photography,” by Susan McEachern, Canadian Woman Studies, Spring, 1990.
Review of Looking On: Images of Femininity in the Visual Arts and Media, by Rosemary Betterman, ed., in Resources for Feminist Research, March, 1988.
Review of Women Photographers: The Other Observers 1900 to the Present, by Val Williams, in  Resources for Feminist Research,  March, 1988.
Review of Post-Partum Documents by Mary Kelly, in “Resources for Feminist Research, Sept. 1985.

Reviews:


“Domestic Lives,” Feature  Review of  Structures of Meaning by Meghan Bisonette, Visual Arts News, Winter 2007
“The Powers that Be: McEachern explores personal, global relationships, struggles,” The Chronicle  Herald,  July 8, 2006.
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“Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination,” Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2006.
“Five Exemplary Exhibitions,” The National Post. Oct. 4, 2004
Reviews for “Structures of Meaning” show,  Ottawa Citizen, 2004.
“Backyard Community,” Arts Atlantic, reviewed by Heather McLeod, Summer, 2002.
“Artist Makes Nature an Idea,” Jack Anderson, The Leader Post, Regina, Saskatchewan, section C3, July 16, 1998.
“Susan McEachern: Sandy Cove Outfall,” Gil McElroy, Arts Atlantic, #61, pp. 4-5, Summer, 1998.
“Susan McEachern: Sandy Cove Outfall: A photographic Installation,” Anna  Lightfoot, Visual Arts News, Vol. 20 #1, pp. 15-16, Spring 1998.
“Sandy Cove’s Dirty Secret,” Marla Cranston, The Daily News, p. 37, November 5, 1997.
“Susan McEachern: Questions of Nature,” Sylvie-anne, Delalune,  Visual Art News, Vol. 15, #3, Fall, 1993.
“Fact of Fiction exhibition hot with mix of images,”  Elissa Banard, The Mail Star, March 9, 1990.
“Exploring Violence Against Women: Few optimistic pieces among these gut wrenching works,” Elissa Banard, The Mail Star, Dec. 13, 1990.
“Telling Pictures, Revealing Histories,” Bob Wilkie, review of the book The Zone of Conventional Practice and Other Real Stories, in “Afterimage, Vol. 17, Number 9, April, 1990.
“Une photographie canadienne particulierement riche,” Claire Gravel, Le Devoir, Montreal, Quebec, 8 avril, 1989.
“Bain D’Arret, entre la photographie et la narration, d’art síebat en toute liberte,” Francois Dion, Voir, Montreal, Quebec, 6 avril, 1989.
“A Thickly Intellectual Zone,” Alex Varty, The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C., 19 Sept., 1989.
“The Zone of Conventional Practice...,An Interview with Cheryl Simon,” Lorraine Johnson, Views, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 1990.
“Making Space,” Carol Laing, Parachute, Spring, 1989.
“Allegorical Intervention,” Petra Watson, Vanguard, Nov. 1988.
“Women Photographers on Women’s issues,”  Brenda Pelkey, Backflash, Spring, 1988.
“Susan McEachern talks about Photography, Feminism and the lives we really live,” Joanne Latremouille, Pandora, June, 1987.
“Giving Birth is Just the Beginning, Judith Crawley and Susan McEachern,” Geoffrey Miles, Vanguard,  October/November 1986.
“THe Family in the Context of Childrearing,”  The Globe and Mail, July 24, 1986.
“The Family in the Context of Childrearing,” Now, Toronto, July 10, 1986.
“The Family in the Context of Childrearing,” Robert Labossiere, Parachute, Fall, 1985.
“Production and the Axis of Sexuality,” Vanguard, October, 1984.
“Signs of Subversion,” Banff Letters, Fall, 1984.
“Exhibition offers a cool look at Hot Content,” Calgary Herald, August 10, 1984.
“Susan McEachern,” Parachute,  1984.
“The Mask of Objectivity/Subjective Images,” Parachute, Summer, 1981.
“The Mask of Objectivity/Subjective images,” Vanguard, August 1981.
“Photographic Art of the Atlantic Ten,” The Mail Star, August 9, 1980.
“Atlantic Parallels, No Meat of the N.F.B. Table,” Ottawa Review, October 1980.
“Atlantic Parallels: Ten East Coast Photographers Coming on Strong,” Atlantic Insight, October, 1980.
“Water, Water Everywhere but Here, Maclean’s,, Dec. 15, 1980.

Grants:


Canada Council Project Grant, 2009
Canada Council Senior Arts Grant, 2004
Canada Council Senior Arts Grant, 2000.
Canada Council B Grant, 1996
Canada Council B Grant, 1993.
Canada Council Project Grant, Jan. 1991.
Canada Council Project Grant, Sept. 1988.
Canada Council Project Grant, June, 1985.
Canada Council Project Grant, June, 1983.

Collections:


The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, 2001.
Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1996
The Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa, Ontario, 1993, 2002.
The Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, 1989.
The Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Sask., 1988.
The Nova Scotia Art Bank, 1989, 1993.
Mount Saint Vincent Art Gallery, 1980, 1991.
The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1979, 1986, 1989, 2004


Other Activities:


  • Co-curated with Sue Earle an exhibition at the Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia; 20 years of Photographic Pedagogy, a group exhibition of faculty and staff who have taught at NSCAD.
  • Jury Member, Canada Council, Literary and Arts Publications, May, 2008.
  • Chair; Dartmouth Harbourfront Trails Association, July 2007-present.
  • External Program Reviewer, Art and Art History Department, University of Saskatchewan, Fall, 2003.
  • Included in the film; Photographies: Onze artistes du Canada (Photographies, Eleven Canadian Artists)  by Hermenegilde  Chaisson, NFB.
  • Juror for Canada Council, Visual Arts, 2001.
  • Member of the Dalhousie Art Gallery Advisory Committee, 1996-1999
  • Japan Karate Association, earned Black Belt,  March, 2000.
  • Completed the 10 week course, “Photoshop” Continuing Education, NSCAD, May 1999.
  • Completed the 10 week course, Photoshop II, at the Nova Scotia Community College, July, 1998.
  • Juror for Canada Council, Photography Division, May 11-15, 1998.
  • Member of Jury for Visual Arts Nova Scotia Exhibition,  Far and Wide, Feb., 1996
  • Member of Steering Committee to Recommend Legislation, Policies and Programs for the formation of a Nova Scotia Arts Council, Summer, 1996.
  • Board Member, Eye Level Gallery, Sept. 1993-1994.
  • External Assessor, The Concordia University Photography Program, April, 1993.
  • Juror for Canada Council, Photography division, Sept. 1992.
  • Juror for “Faces of Canada,” National Photography Competition, Exhibition and Publication, August, 1992.
  • Member of N.A.A.G.S. , an anti-militarist performance group. 1985-87.
  • Member of weekly Popular Culture Radio Panel, CKDU, Dalhousie University, 1985.