b. 1994, Winnipeg, MB
grahamwiebe@hotmail.com
Education
2019-2021 MFA, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2012-2016 BFA (HONS), University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Awards and Residencies
2022 Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2022 Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
2022 Create Grant, Manitoba Arts Council, Winnipeg, MB
2021 Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize (Shortlisted), The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 2021 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award (Honourable Mention), International Sculpture Center, Hamilton, NJ
2020 Audain Travel Award, Audain Foundation, Vancouver, BC
2020 UVic Graduate Award, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 Jessie Allen Forsyth Scholarship, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 Audrey St. Denys & M. E. Johnson Scholarship, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2019 UVic Graduate Award, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2019 British Columbia Graduate Scholarship, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2019 Optic Nerve Image Contest 2019 (Honourable Mention), BlackFlash Magazine, Saskatoon, SK
2018 Celine Bureau Residency (two person residency with Daniel Fernandes), Montréal, QC
2018 Darwall Endowment, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2018 BAiR Emerging Visual and Digital Arts Residency, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2018 Visual Essayist for the Young Lungs Dance Collective Research Series Nov-Jan 2018, Winnipeg, MB
2015 AIMIA AGO Photography Scholarship Prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2015 Manitoban Art Competition, 1st Place Photo, Winnipeg, MB
2012 Heidi Murray Memorial Scholarship, Winnipeg, MB
Selected Exhibitions (* indicates solo)
2023 Apartment 13, Providence, RI (forthcoming) *
2023 Make this dirt cleaner, Final Hot Desert, Utah Museum of Concemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
2023 Super Deep Healing Noise ✧ Sun Tunnels (120 Seconds), curated by Ben Sang, Final Hot Desert, Great Basin Desert, UT (two person exhibition with Nancy Holt)
2022 Antidote, Jargon Projects, Chicago, IL *
2022 They won’t stand time, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS
2022 Hasten slowly, curated by Benny Xu, Afternoon Projects, Vancouver, BC
2022 The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2022 Eolith, curated by Daniel Fernandes and Nick Castonguay, Sault-au-Recollet Mill, Montreal, QC
2022 Daisies, curated by Paige Silveria, pleasewait. Gallery, Paris, FR
2022 Pomp Miracles, curated by Luther Konadu, Blinkers Art & Project Space, Winnipeg, MB (two person exhibition with Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes)
2022 BAITBALL02, invited by Jargon Projects (Chicago, IL), Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare, IT
2021 The Lind Prize 2021, The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2021 moveObjects On, curated by Emma Green and Alison Postma, the plumb, Toronto, ON
2021 The Gernsback Continuum, curated by Prometheus Projects, Twilight Sculpture Garden, Montreal, QC
2021 Wait here while I slip into something more comfortable, Xchanges Gallery, Victoria, BC *
2021 Inspirational Stones, MFA Exhibition, University of Victoria, Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC *
2020 TUTORIAL, curated by Gözde Filinta, Ronny Szillo, and Marian Luft, invited by Essenza Club, BSMNT, Leipzig, DE
2020 Solo Show Chapter 7: Anno ∞ Domini, curated by Valerie You for Underground Flower (online)
2020 Free Spirit, beached boat in Cadboro Bay, Victoria, BC *
2020 Flotation Devices, MFA Exchange between University of Victoria and Newcastle University, Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2020 Forever & For Never, curated by Deborah de Boer, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC
2020 Waiting Room, Kitchenette Contemporary, Victoria, BC
2019 Side Salad, The Audain Gallery, Victoria, BC
2019 Close Call, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen, DK
2019 The Perfect Time For Honesty, 52 Edmonton Street, Winnipeg, MB *
2019 Always seeing something, never seeing nothing, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
2019 NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL LOVE, The Photocopy Club, Hart Club London, London, ENG
2019 Anything Whatever, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
2018 Hot Glue, Celine Bureau Garage, Montréal, QC
2018 Summer Sun Day Dream, The Lab at Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburg, PA
2018 Recap, Chromatic Festival, L’Ancienne École des Beaux-Arts, OK COOL, Montréal, QC
2018 26 Days, The Project Space, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, AB
2018 CLUTCH, The Sunroom, Winnipeg, MB (two person exhibition with Emma Schwenke)
2018 Anything Whatever IV, Platform Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts, Winnipeg, MB
2017 To Bloom With Brown Edges, Delivery Truck, Winnipeg, MB *
2017 Carte Blanche, ACEART inc., Winnipeg, MB
2016 Shelter Belt, Le Studio, La Maison des Artistes Visuels, Winnipeg, MB *
2016 Carte Blanche, ACEART inc., Winnipeg, MB
2016 Wall-to-Wall Mural and Cultural Festival, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Cohesive Devices, Graffiti Gallery, Winnipeg, MB (two person exhibition with Reza Rezai)
2016 What We’ve Found: Felines, Aint Bad Magazine, Savannah, GA (online)
2016 You Can’t Call People Without Wings Angels, Flux Gallery, ACEART inc., Winnipeg, MB *
2016 Baptism, Starving Artist Gallery, Winnipeg, MB *
2016 You Can’t Call People Without Wings Angels, BFA Exhibition, School of Art, University of Mantioba, Winnipeg, MB
2016 EASE, Stolen Ground Publishing no. 3 Zine Launch, Broue Pub Brouhaha, Montréal, QC
2015/2016 Summerland, AIMIA AGO Scholarship Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
2015 Descendant of Goffman Workshop with Steven Duval, School of Art, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Show and Create, Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Fountain Room, Fountian Room Gallery, Kenora, ON
2015 Shingle, Dork Zone Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2014 Show and Create, Edge Gallery, Winnipeg, MB
2014 Summerland, Starving Artist Gallery, Winnipeg, MB *
Selected Press and Features
2023 Make this dirt cleaner, Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Graham Wiebe and Nancy Holt at Final Hot Desert, Art Viewer, Antwerp, BE
2023 Super Deep Healing Noise ✧ Sun Tunnels (120 Seconds), Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles, CA
2022 ‘Antidote’ by Graham Wiebe at Jargon Projects, Chicago, TZVETNIK, Moscow, RU
2022 Graham Wiebe – Antidote, KUBAPARIS, Berlin, DE
2022 Antidote, MUST SEE – artguide Chicago, ARTFORUM, New York, NY
2022 Antidote, Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Umbreytingarferli vatns – Þorvaldur S. Helgason, FRÉTTABLAÐIÐ, Reykjavík, IS
2022 ‘Eolith’ Off-Site Group Show at Sault-au-Recolett Mill, Montreal, TZVETNIK, Moscow, RU
2022 Pomp Miracles, Contemporary Art Library, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Pomp Miracles, KUBAPARIS, Berlin, DE
2022 Baitball#2 at Palazzo San Giuseppe/Polignano a Mare, Daily Lazy, Athens, GR
2022 Sculpture Magazine, January/February 2022, Hamilton, NJ
2021 The Gernsback Continuum – Curated by Prometheus Projects at Twilight Sculpture Garden, Montreal, OFluxo, Lisbon, PT
2021 moveObjects On at the plumb, Art Viewer, Antwerp, BE
2021 Big, Beautiful, Blue Sky – Luther Konadu, Public Parking, Winnipeg, MB
2021 Inspirational Stones, KUBAPARIS, Berlin, DE
2021 'TUTORIAL', Group project at BSMNT, Leipzig, TZVETNIK, Moscow, RU
2020 Never Look Back: An interview with Graham Wiebe – Clint Enns, BlackFlash 37.2, Saskatoon, SK
2020 Free Spirit, KUBAPARIS, Berlin, DE
2020 Peripheral Review 2019 Publication, Toronto, ON
2019 Like Home, Peripheral Review, Toronto, ON
2019 PIX 004 & 005 Spotz Club Portfolio, Spotz Club, 25 Ave. A, New York, USA
2019 Always Seeing Something – Stacey Abramson, Galleries West, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Optic Nerve Image Contest 2019, BlackFlash Magazine 36.2, Saskatoon, SK
2019 SPIEGEL Bento – Dummy FS, Der Spiegel Magazine, Hamburg, DE
2019 Dawkroom/Lightroom Interview – Davis Plett, The Uniter, Volume 73, Number 21, Winnipeg, MB
2019 Hamburger Eyes No. 37, Hamburger Eyes, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Волосы из глаз: Портфолио Грэма Вибе (Hair from the Eyes: Interview by Graham Wiebe), Bird In Flight, UA
2017 Incandescent Zine, Issue 12, Pine Island Press, Portland, OR
2017 PaperWait, Vol. 19, aceartinc., Winnipeg, MB
2017 Issue 04 Speed=Distance/Time, Terra Firma Magazine, AU
2017 NEON Magazin, 02/2017: Opener Wilde Welt, NEON Magazin, Hamburg, DE
2016 Le Telejournal Interview, ICI Manitoba, La Maison des Artistes Visuels, Winnipeg, MB
2016 “You Can’t Call People Without Wings Angels, artist Graham Wiebe’s exhibition opens at Flux Gallery” – Joy Balmana, Winnipeg, MB
2016 You Can’t Call people Without Wings Angels, Trip Magazine, England, UK
2016 Making Connections – Steven Leyden Cochrane, The Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, MB
2016 Better Late Than Never, Surreal Snapshots of a Beautiful Life, Hunger Magazine, London, ENG
2016 School of Art BFA Graduating Exhibition Catalogue, University of Mantioba, Winnipeg, MB
2016 ‘Try to always have fun’: A Conversation with Graham Wiebe, Public Parking – Luther Konadu, Winnipeg, MB
2016 EASE, Stolen Ground no. 3, Montréal, QC
2016 UM Today News, UM Student Wins Photography Scholarship, Winnipeg, MB
2016 You Can’t Call People Without Wings Angels, Then There Was Us Magazine, UK
2016 SHITMONGER, The Photography of Graham Wiebe – Linnie Cole, Juxtapoz Magazine, San Francisco, CA
2015 1st Place Photography Prize, The Manitoban, Winnipeg, MB
2014 POTD, Fecal Face dot Com, San Francisco, CA
Related Experience and Collections
2022 The Living Art Museum Collection, Reykjavík, IS
2021 Mini-Curate Co-Lab #1 : Artist Graham Wiebe, Workshop Leader, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC (postponed)
2021 Teaching Assistant for ART 380 – Curatorial Direction, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020-2021 Copy + Paste Writing Group organized by Dr Kim Dhillon
2020 Sessional Instructor for Art 241 – Photography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 Teaching Assistant for ART 141 – An Introduction to Contemporary Art Photography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 Teaching Assistant for ART 117 – An Introduction to Observational Drawing, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2020 Kitchenette Contemporary (Curatorial Project), Victoria, BC
2019 Teaching Assistant for ART 141 – An Introduction to Contemporary Art Photography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
2016-2019 Flux Gallery Committee Member, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Laura Letinsky Workshop, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB