CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION
l998 – 2000
l978 – 1981
l976 – 1977		 York University:  MFA Visual Arts
Ontario College of Art:  AOAC Experimental Arts
H.B.Beal Technical School:  SSGD Special Art Program
SELECTED VIDEO/FILM PRODUCTIONS AND SCREENINGS
2017 Fire in the hole, collaborative intervention (socially engaged foraging & eating; video and mobile projection) in Linda Duvall’s “in the hole” project, Saskatchewan
2016 BURSTING AT THE SEAMS  Community based video: a collaborative production with a coalition of anti poverty organizations, projected onto Mayor John Tory’s condo, Toronto
2016 What World Do You Live In? and Test#1  (screening & workshop with mashed economies collective), Radical Film Network Film Festival and Unconference, Glasgow, Scotland
2013-2016 Meeting Place Organic Film, Community based video exploring the history of an organic farm and permaculture in Southwestern Ontario, with the McQuail Family and related communities, Lucknow Ontario
2011-2014 Sanctuary Stories, Community video project documenting and critiquing police violence against vulnerable adults. Culminated in feature length video What World Do You Live In?, Screenings in Toronto, Montreal, Chicago. (Special Selection Feature Prize, (in)Justice Film Festival)
2014 Dark/Light, collaborative video with Mashed Economies, the Monday Art Group and Hazel Bell Koski
2013 Autorganizaciones, participant/collaborator, internet collective video project by Alexandra Gelis
2012 The Unknown Migrant, banner & performance @ Immigrant Movement International & Migrant Justice Event, Toronto, Canada.
search>scan>any body>three sisters, single channel video 
that was then, single channel video, for autorganizaciones
Mr. Businessman’s Blues, music video, collaboration with Diem Lafortune, screening online and at ImagineNative Festival, Toronto.
Abundant Futures, performance/workshop/lecture/edible sculpture ritual/organ auction, with Kim Jackson at Cool Hand of a Girl, Toronto.
2011 Occupy Y(our) Life, screening/performance/workshop/ritual/edible sculpture, Ford City, Windsor Ontario. Collaboration with Kim Jackson
  search>geography>erasure>affect, single channel video essay. Screenings: G.I.V. Montreal,
2010 why are we marching?, a collaborative video poem with Michael J. Paul-Martin, 2010
2009 Dehcho Ndehe Gha Nadaots’ehthe:  Fighting for Our Land, community based video with the Dehcho First Nations. Running time:  1 hr 8 min., screenings: Dene National Assembly, OISE Toronto and Kairos, Ottawa.
search>echolocation>open sky, audio video installation, real time audio mixed with prerecorded soundtrack to create a new soundtrack daily. solo exhibition: Open Sky Arts Festival and Open Sky Gallery, Ft Simpson NWT.
Northern Exchange, 12 min, mini DV, The Money Project Screenings, The Junction, Toronto, community screening, Montreal
2004 Breathless 2003, 2 min, mini DV.  Tranztech Media Arts Festival and Olive Project website.
2003 Homeless in Toronto:  Fighting Back, 27:00, a Paper Tiger Television production, co-produced with Deedee Halleck and OCAD students
2002 Safe Park, 47 min, mini DV/Betacam.  Allen Gardens and Bloor Cinema screenings, 2001;  May Works, Toronto, 2003
2002 Rooster Rock, 30 min, mini DV.  Collaborative project with Bonnie Devine.  Best Experimental Film Award at ImagineNative film festival, Toronto; Heard Museum Indigenous Film Festival, Arizona
2001 Double Bewitched, 5 min, 30 sec Hi 8 and Digital (mini DV), two monitor installation.  Trinity Square Video screening, 2000
1999 Mahoso:  The Child in an Age of Insecurity, 9:10 min, Hi 8, mastered on Betacam SP, Screened in “Possible Maps” series, curated by Michael Balser, V-Tape l999; and ‘4×4’, Jackman Hall, A.G.O., 1999.
l998 Foodland, 5 min. NTSC Hi8, mastered on BetacamSP, screened at YYZ Toronto, l999; and G.I.V. Montreal, l999.
l997 It’s Good for Us, 32 min.Pal VHS, mastered on Pal SVHS, screened at Dadaab Refugee Camps and various CARE venues.
l995 The Kamila Band and the BWJWG, 9 minutes Pal Betacam, mastered on Betacam, screened on NBC in September, l995.
The Bukhayo West Joint Women’s Groups in Action,  32 minutes NTSC Hi 8, mastered on Pal SVHS,  screened at BWJWG venues in Busia; Nairobi, Kenya and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Continental Drift,54 minutes Hi 8, mastered on Betacam SP, screened on Vision TV, Toronto and Launch at Kine 3, sponsored by Canadian High Commission, Harare Zimbabwe.
l994 One Community, One Sweat,28:10 minutes Video 8 mastered on Betacam screened at Community Publishing Program, Harare Zimbabwe.
l992 returning takes time,18:56 minutes, shot and mastered on Betacam,
screened at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
l99l a moment of pure feeling, 7 minutes Shot and mastered on Betacam.
l990 Second Language, 30 min, ¾” Umatic, screened at The Funnel, Toronto.
l981 Cine Blanc, S-8 film transferred to video collaboration with Jorge Lozano The Funnel, Toronto London Video Arts, London, England.
l980 And and Out, S-8 films The Funnel, Toronto.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010 Echolocation Open Sky, mixed media installation (video, interactive audio, painting), solo exhibition, Open Sky Gallery, Ft Simpson, NWT.
2000 Scratching the Surface, 80 Spadina Ave, Toronto (Parking Lot), two monitor mobile video installation in the back of an ’89 Honda Civic Hatchback.
2000 Sites of Struggle, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto.  Three video installations, solo show.
l992 an ordered absence, Delta Gallery, Zimbabwe.  Mixed media installation, solo show.
l991 structural adjustments, National Gallery of Zimbabwe.  Mixed media installation, group show.
l990 Soul Containers, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe.  Multi media installation,solo show.
l990 Secrets, Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe. Mixed media installation solo show.
l989 a moment of pure feeling, Grace Hopper Gallery, Toronto.  Mixed media and 16 mm film installation, group show.
l987 Girl Asleep and Why She Died, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, photo collages on canvas group show.
l986 Crazy Jane and the Torrent Men, in Dark/Light (3 person show with Judith Barry and James Coleman, curated by Elke Town) YYZ gallery, Toronto16 mm film installation.
l984 Public School, YYZ gallery, Toronto multi media installation solo show.
l983 Public School, Cinema & Ideology (2 person show with Lyne LaPointe, curated by Martha Fleming)P.S.1, New York multi media installation.
l982 (More) Utopia, in Monumenta, A Space, Toronto photo collage, group show.
Site Specific, Chromozone, Toronto mixed media.
l981 Project for a Divided House, Gallery 76, Toronto film installation, solo show.
Factions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.  Collaboration with Jorge Lozano: multi media performance.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
2013-present External Committee Member, York U. Fine Arts Practice Based Phd Graduate Program
2012 Autorganizaciones, internet video curatorial project, with Alexandra
Gelis, Kim Jackson and Riaz Mehmood, International
2011-ongoing Sanctuary/Pebble Beach, community video project documenting police
violence against vulnerable adults, Toronto
2008-2010 Collaborator/Participant, The Money Project, a community video project
Initiated by Kim Jackson. Screenings in the Junction Toronto & Montreal
2010 Health, Embodiment and Visual Culture Conference, Panelist:  search > three sisters presentation on “Informed Consent” panel
2007 Visible Evidence Conference, Panelist:  Resisting Borders: Canadian Video Artists Approaches to Identity and Trans-local Cultural Exchanges, Chair:  Dot Tuer 
2003 The Olive Project (curatorial), a web-based international video art initiative by the Hard Pressed Collective, launched at Tranztech and viewable at charlesstreetvideo.com
2000 – 2006 President, Board of Directors, Charles Street Video
2003 Course Director,  “Theory & Practice for Independent Production”; “Advanced Video for Artists”; “Integrated Media Fundamentals”; OCAD 
2002 Course Director, “Film, Video and Social Change”; “Advanced Video 1”
2001 – 2002 Course Director, “Video Art”, York University. 
2000 – 2001 Course Director,  “But Why Is It Art?”, University of Toronto at Scarborough. 
l998 – 2000 Board of Directors, Charles Street Video
2000 Studio Instructor, “Time-Based Art”, York University. 
1999 Teaching Assistant, “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art”, York U.
1998 Teaching Assistant, “Critical Issues in Contemporary Art”, York U,
1995 Studio Instructor, “Crossing Boundaries”, York University. 
l989 – l993   Consultant, Trainer and Producer of a community-based video project for Dadaab Refugee Camp, Kenya.
l981 – l986  Consultant, Producer and Facilitator of a community based video project for Bakhayo West Joint Women’s Groups, Busia,, Kenya.
Visiting Artist in Residence, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe     
Board of Directors, YYZ Artists’ run gallery, Toronto, Canada. 
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016 Art, Labour and Precarity in the Age of Veneer Politics,Rebecca Garrett & Liza Kim Jackson, Alternate Routes, 2016 
2007 Good Red, by Annie Holmes.  Edited by Rebecca Garrett and Deborah Root.  Published by PUBLIC.  
2005 Waiting for the Sky to Fall by John Greyson, in Surface Tension:  Essays on Video, V-Tape, 2005
2003 PUBLIC 27, Co-editor (with Dot Tuer and Deborah Root) of thematic issue (‘shop’) of arts and culture journal 
The Woman with the Box; Siya So. Image/text collaborative pieces with Munya Madzima.  In PUBLIC 27:  Shop
l999 “Transactions”, Rebecca Garrett, Gallery Magazine #20, Harare Zimbabwe.
l994 “Continental Drift”, Review by Olley Maruma, Harare Sunday Times, November, Zimbabwe. 
l993 “Continental Drift #2: Young men”, Artists’ project, ‘C’ magazine, Spring, Toronto. 
l990 “Art has Ironic Look at Developing Countries”.  Review by Tony Mhonda, The Harare Herald, Zimbabwe.
“Dance On”, Artists’ project, ‘C’ magazine, Toronto.
l987 “London Life Young Contemporaries”, exhibition catalogue, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario.
l986 “Rebecca Garrett”, in “Dark/Light (James Coleman, Judith Barry, Rebecca Garrett)”, exhibition catalogue by Elke Town, YYZ, Toronto
l984 “The Problem: A Peripatetic Soap Opera”, Artists’ project, Impulse magazine, Toronto.
l983 “Cinema and Ideology:  Rebecca Garrett and Lyne LaPointe”, P.S.1 catalogue, Queens, New York.
l98l “Project for a Divided House”, Review by Martha Fleming, Vanguard September, Vancouver