exhibitions
08 The Promise of Reality, Division Gallery, Montréal, Québec
08 Webcams and Chatrooms, Optica, Montréal, Québec
08 Parking on Personal Webcams, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
05-07 Public Camera*, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery, Owen Sound, Ontario, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
07 Live Free Webcams*, Peak Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Galerie Vu, Quebec City, Québec
07 Featured Webcam, twenty+3 projects, Manchester, UK
02 Cam Cities - Shadow of the Machine*, Museum London, London, Ontario
00 Field Guide for Artificial Life - Nature Canada*, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
99 Ready or not… Game Girls, InterAccess, Toronto, Ontario
98 Restless Girls in Emoticontown - interface*, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Ontario
95-98 Genes and Genesis/Inexact Shadows*, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario, YYZ, Toronto, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Ontario
92-95 Doctrine of Signatures*, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Galerie Triangle, Rennes, France, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK, Galerie Vox, Montréal, Quebec
91-98 Fata Scribunda*, MacDonald Steward Gallery, Guelph, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Galerie Vu, Québec City, Québec, The Photographers Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
87-95 Cheryl Sourkes - C.M.C.P. collection, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, The Gallery/Stratford, Stratford, Art Gallery St. Thomas-Elgin, St. Thomas, Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Brampton Art Gallery, Brampton, Griffiths Art Center, Canton, New York, Musée du seminaire de Québec, Québec City, Galerie Séquence, Chicoutimi, Center Eye, Calgary
90-91 Language Is Means, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canadian Cultural Centre, Rome, Italy
88 The Environmental Unconscious, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC
87 The Book of Gates, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
86-87 Opening up the Psychic Economy*, Galerie Vu, Québec City, Galerie Optica, Montréal, Québec, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
85-86 Of Difference Lost and Retrieved*, Gallery TPW, Toronto, 49th Parallel, New York, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
84 Determination Events, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
83 Street Photographs, Coburg Gallery, Vancouver, BC
82 Rubbings from the Inside Wall, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, BC81 Infinitives - Part Two, Roy Kiyooka's Blue Mule Gallery, Vancouver, BC
80 Infinitives, Roy Kiyooka's Blue Mule Gallery, Vancouver, BC
group shows
09 Bank on Art, ATM location 952 Queen St. West, Toronto
09 Trade City, Contemporary Art Manchester, CHIPS Building, Manchester, UK
08 Mixed Messages, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
08 Cast Some Light, CCA, Glasgow international Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, Scotland, International Academy of Art – Palestine, Ramallah, Palestine
05-09 Live from the Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Transmedia:29:59, Toronto, Ontario, Outdoor Large Screen Festival, Manchester, UK, Federation Square. Melbourne, Australia, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
06-08 Forest for the Trees, Lonsdale Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Il Gabbiano, La Spezia, Italy, Studio Gennai, Pisa, Italy, Museo Nuova Era, Bari, Italy, Art Gallery St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia
07-08 Titles, Balfour Books, Toronto, Ontario, Unversity of Massachussets Amherst Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachussets, USA, Librairie L'Ecume Des Jours, Montréal, Québec, Attic Books, London, Ontario
07 In the Flesh*, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS
07 Outlook Accumulated, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario
06 Canadian Photographic Portfolio Society New edition launch and 20th anniversary survey,
Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, BC
06 Event Cities: Architecture as Performance*, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
06 Mean Mama, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
05 Bound_less, (collaboration with Heidi Schaefer), Stenmuseen, Oslo, Norway
05 NXT. Message*, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
05 Sweet Shit - Bossy Bitches, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario
04 Corabbleation, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
02 Trans-it/mit/fer/form, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
01 Love Story, Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
00 Tilt, Overflo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
99 Who You Callin' a Bossy Bitch, Overflo Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
98 25 Contemporary Canadian Artists, Warehouse Show, Toronto, Ontario
98 disquieting strangeness, CFAR, London, UK
97 a little object, CFAR, London, UK
97 Charades et Rebus, Galerie Vu, Québec City
91-95 Le Réel et ses Simulacres*, Centre national d'éxposition, Jonquière, Centre d'éxposition Plein Sud, Longueuil, Photographers Gallery, Saskatoon, Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sher., Palais Montcalm, Québec, Maison Jacques Prévert, Dieppe, France, Délégation du Québec à Paris, Paris, France, Halle au Blé, Saint Malo, France, Espace photographique Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
93 The Nature of the Medium, C.M.C.P. Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario
93 The Horizon is a Line*, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
93 The Historic Female: Re-presentation of archival photographs, Gallery III, Montréal, Québec
91 War, Media, and the New World Order*, CIAC, Montreal, Québec
90 Collection Prêt d'Oevres d'Art, Musée du Québec, Québec City, Québec
90 Tandem Bis, Galerie Dazibao, Montreal, Québec
90 Evénement Québecoise, Office Municipal de la Culture, Cannes, France
89-90 The Zone of Conventional Practice & Other Real Stories*, Gallery TPW, Toronto,
Memorial University, St.Jean, Newfoundland, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Galerie de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Galerie Optica, Montréal, Québec
89 Faire Image*, Musée de la civilisation, Québec City, Québec
89 Entrer Libre, Cité de l'image, Montréal, Québec
89 A Posteriori*, Librairie Paragraph, Montréal, Québec
89 Photographie Alterée*, Galerie Aubes, Montréal, Québec
89 Photographie Québecoise, Art Jonction International*, Galerie Latitude, Art Fair, Nice, France
89 Recent Acquisitions, Concordia Art Gallery, Montréal, Québec
89 Power Plays*, Eden Court Theatre, Inverness, UK, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, UK, MacRobert Art Centre, Stirling, UK, Posterngate Gallery, Hull, UK, Fotogallery, Cardiff, UK, Canada House, London, UK, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
88 Second International Photography Exhibition*, Galerie Transpose, Montréal, Québec
88 Vancouver - Hamburg Exchange*, Kunst auf Kampenagel, Hamburg, Germany
88 Art et Litterature Feministe*, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec
88 Eye of the Mind/Mind of the Eye*, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
88 Illuminated Manuscript, Cornish Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA
87 Marques et Contrastes*, Galerie Séquence, Jonquiere, Québec
87 Recent Acquisitions, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
86 Transitions, Galerie Powerhouse, Montréal, Québec
86 Making History, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
86 L'Effet Visuel/Titlesearch, Galerie Ovo, Montréal, Québec
84 Summer Salon, Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
84 Art and Photography*, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
84 Deliberations, Vancouver Art Gallery Extensions, toured BC
83 The October Show*, Warehouse Location, Vancouver, BC
82 Matronize, Women In Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC
82 Woman to Woman - PART II, Women in Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC
81 Woman to Woman, Woman In Focus Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• denotes catalogue
collections
Air Canada Collection
Canada Council Art Bank
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
Concordia Art Gallery
La Collection Prêt D'oeuvre D'Art
MacDonald Steward Art Gallery
Museum London
National Gallery of Canada
Oakville Galleries
Sack Goldblatt Mitchell LLP Lawyers
Seattle Art Museum
Surrey Art Gallery
Toronto Photographers Workshop Contemporary Canadian Photographs
Vancouver Art Gallery
Winnipeg Art Gallery
selected publications
09 Tons of Webcammer Babes, images by Cheryl Sourkes, text by Sharon Kivland, Éditions J’ai Vu, Québec, Québec - launches, Galerie Vu, Québec, Mois de la photo, Montreal, Art Metropole, Toronto
07 Surfing with Cheryl Sourkes, Cyril Reade, BlackFlash, vol25.1, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
07 Cheryl Sourkes, Vid Ingelevics, Canadian Art, vol4.3, Toronto, Ontario
07 expanding bodies, ART • CITIES • ENVIRONMENT, Riverside Architectural press and Tuns Press
07 Travels in Cyberspace, Cheryl Simon, C Magazine, Summer 2007, Toronto, Ontario
07 Cheryl Sourkes | Public Camera, catalogue essay by Cheryl Simon, Toronto, Ontario
06 Homecammers - Women, n. paradoxa, Vol. 18, London, UK
05 Image and Inscription, edited by Bob Bean, Gallery 44, YYZ books, Toronto, Ontario
05 Carte Blanche, The Magenta Foundation, Toronto, Ontario
05 Suspect, Alphabet City 10, edited by John Knechtel, MIT & Alphabet City Media Inc.
05 Cheryl Sourkes, CV ciel variable 69, Montreal, Québec
03 Cheryl Sourkes, Geist, Vol. 12, No. 51, Virtual Cities
02 Cheryl Sourkes, ANGELAKI journal of the theoretic humanities, Vol. 7, No. 1, Artificial Life – Virtual Worlds, Routledge, London, UK
00 In the Place of an Object, small falling figure, Algate Press, London, UK
00 Capital Culture, Art, Money, Madness: With Origins in Mind, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal & Kingston • London • Ithaca
97 Genes and Genesis/Inexact Shadows, The Capilano Review, Vancouver, BC
97 Ornithology/Etymology: The deliberate shape of wind, Blackflash, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
96 Genes and Genesis/Inexact Shadows, new formations TECHNOSCIENCE #29, London, UK
95 Cheryl Sourkes, TESSERA Writing Nations, Volume 18, Toronto, Ontario
94 Cheryl Sourkes, Souvenir - Ecran, Gallery Vu, Québec City, Québec
94 Cheryl Sourkes, Semiotext(e) Canada, Photos, New York, NY
94 Cheryl Sourkes, Public, Love issue, Toronto, Ontario
93 Cheryl Sourkes, TESSERA Féminist(s)/Projets (des) feminists, Vol. 15, Toronto, Ontario
91 Thirteen Essays on Photography, Editor, C.M.C.P., Ottawa
89 The Zone of Conventional Practice & Other Real Stories, Editor, Cheryl Simon, Montréal
89 Marques et Contrastes, Actes du colloque, Jonquiere, Québec
86 Photoperspectives, Juror's statement, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC
85 Cheryl Sourkes, Photocommunique Magazine, Toronto, Ontario
curatorial projects
05-09 akau, Toronto, Ontario, random objects; random thoughts - Yvonne Singer, Slow Pans - Karen Henderson, Panorama Pictures - Christos Dikeakos, ONCE NEAR WATER – Vera Frenkel, Certainties - Paul Donald, The Other Side of Abstraction - Michel Daigneault, 1916 – Fred McSherry, Relief - Isoje Chou & Kathryn Dain, Frieze - Lorraine Simms, What Isn’t There - Elle Flanders, Honeytrap - Lorna Mills, Folded landscapes ~ Unfolding Maps, Gwen MacGregor & Flavio Trevisan, Not for Navigational Purposes - Katherine Knight, Road Maps - Sandra Rechico, Alpha Beta Data - Stephen Andrews, Bob Bean, Michelle Gay, Vid Ingelevics, Carol Laing, Yam Lau, Michael Maranda, Lorna Mills, Cheryl Sourkes, Parks & Culture - Helen de Main & Vid Ingelevics, Weaving Van Gogh - Dagmar Dahle, A deer in the headlights - Stephen Andrews, Capital and Pedestal - Sharon Kivland & Sylvia Safdie, Verbatim - Bob Bean, Canthus - Carol Laing, Breath and Intonation - Michael Maranda, She Forgot - Michelle Johnson & Heidi Schaefer, have less be more - Michelle Gay
08 Excision, twenty+3, Manchester, UK
05-06 Lesbian.mbox, Paul Petro Projects Space, Toronto, Ontario, akau, Toronto, Ontario
04 Wind and Water: Katherine Knight*, Art Gallery of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario
02 Shadow of the Machine*, Museum London, London, Ontario
00 Troubled Beds: Sorel Cohen*, Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
99 Mind Toys*, co-curator David Craig, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
99 Lunch Money* co-curator Kim Fullerton, Mount St. Vincent U. Art Gallery, Hailfax, NS
99 Fatherlands*, Gallery 44, Toronto, Ontario
98 Read Only Memory*, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario
98 Mes Tendresses: Sharon Kivland*, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario
97 Love, Love, Love, co-curator Kim Fullerton, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario
97 FAUST WORKS (excerpts): Eva Brandl, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Ontario
96-97 Dis/Location Markers*, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
96 Found Missing: Archival photographs and the new historicity*, Gallery 44, Toronto, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
96-98 Three hundred and sixty-five pictures: Stephen Andrews*, Gallery TPW, Toronto,
Mount St. Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, NS
95-99 Culture Slash Nation, co-curator Lorraine Johnson*, Gallery TPW, Toronto, Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, Ontario
upcoming exhibitions
10 Sorting Daemons, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario
10 Fugitive Archive, Galerie T40, Dusseldorf, Germany,
10 Geoweb, Agence TOPO, Montréal, Québec
10 Genes and Genesis: Inexact Shadows, Museum London, London, Ontario
represention
Peak Gallery, Toronto and Division Gallery, Montréal