biography + cv [ download pdf ] + special projects + links
Solo Exhibitions
| 2009 | AMERICAN EMPRESS: Credit for the Empire’s Troubled Royalty, North York Central Library, Toronto |
| 2004 | Light as a Feather, Heavy Like Lead, Trane Studio, Toronto |
Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | 2nd Ghetto Biennale, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Curated by Leah Gordon, André Eugène and Jean Hérard Celeur. |
| Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts. Curated by Camilo Alvarez. | |
| 2010 | Made You Look., Manifesto: Festival of Community & Culture, 99 Sudbury, Toronto. Curated by Ashley McKenzie-Barnes. |
| 2009 | CRUX, Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia. Juried by William Hennessey, Solomon Isekeije and Ken Daley. |
| 2008 | Movement ’08, The Production House, Etobicoke, Ontario. Curated by Stephen Fakiyesi. |
| Hands On, Latin-Afro Fest, Gallery 1313, Toronto. Curated by Sandra Brewster and Amelia Jimenez. | |
| Urbanity Humanity, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche ’08, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto | |
| 2007 | One-Day Art Affair, The Production House, Etobicoke, Ontario. Curated by Stephen Fakiyesi. |
| Scotiabank Nuit Blanche '07, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto | |
| Square Foot 2007, Awol Gallery, Toronto | |
| 2006 | Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto |
| 2005 | Poetry is Not a Luxury, This Ain't the Rosedale Library Gallery, Toronto |
| Ten: A Group Exhibition, Trane Studio, Toronto. Curated by the SEEN Collective. | |
| 1996 | Image Dis: Emerging Black Women Artists, Galerie SAW Video, Ottawa, Ontario. Curated by P. Afua Marcus. |
| 1994 | Telling Lives: Women and HIV, ArtSpace, Peterborough, Ontario. Curated by Lynn Beavis. |
| 1993 | Remapping Desire, A Space Gallery, Toronto |
| 1992 | Gathering: The Memorial Project, A Space Gallery, Toronto |
| Feathers of the Phoenix, A Space Gallery, Toronto. Curated by Haruko Okano. | |
| 1991 | Healing Images, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto. Curated by a bunch of feminists. |
| Irreverent Visions, A Space Gallery, Toronto, Ontario. Curated by the Lesbian Art Committee. | |
| 1990 | Black Women and Image, A Space Gallery, Toronto. Curated by Hazel Da Breo. |
Screenings
| 2009 | Cachín Cachán Cachunga, The Street, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2005 | Ed Video Media Arts Centre, University of Guelph |
| Boiling Frog's Screaming Media, Toronto | |
| Optic Nerve Film & Video Festival, Peterborough | |
| 2003 | Independent Media Arts Alliance Conference, Regina, Saskatchewan |
| Images Festival, University of Toronto | |
| 2001 | Trinity Square Video, Toronto |
Public Collections
Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Discography
Poem: "Sapphire," Shannon Harris Presents the New World Reveal-a-Solution (Chicago, IL: Urbanicity Recordings). (2004)
Selected Bibliography
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Exhibition Catalogues:
CRUX Seventh Annual Juried Exhibit, produced by Trinity Presbyterian Church. Norfolk: Mayer Fine Art Gallery, 2009, 12 pgs.
Image Dis: A Group Exhibition created by P. Afua Marcus with guest writer Alison Duke. Featuring: Karen Miranda Augustine, Nicole Peña, Stella Fakiyesi and P. Afua Marcus. Ottawa: Galerie SAW Video, 1996, 12 pgs.
Citations:
"Talent Spotlight." Manifesto Festival Magazine, vol.4 (2010), 51.
"African-American and African Diaspora Art" in Claude J. Summers (Ed.), The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts. San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004, 13.
Sethi, Meera. “The Mainstreaming of Dissent: Women Artists of Colour and Canadian Arts Institutions. Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche féministe (Winter 2002), 86.
Cornell, Drucilla (Ed.). Feminism and Pornography. New York: Oxford UP, 2000, 300.
Millersdaughter, Katherine. “A Coincidence of Lipstick and Self-Revelation” in Laura Harris and Elizabeth Crocker (Eds.) Femme: Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls. New York: Routledge, 1997, 119.
Cossman, Brenda, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell and Becki Ross (Eds.), Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997).
“The Art of Reflection.” The Art Book: Issues, News & Reviews, vol. 4, issue 3 (June 1997), 29–44.
Meskimmon, Marsha. “The Body Politic: Sexual Violence” in The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia UP, 1996, 180–182.
Gottlieb, Amy.”Artist-Run Culture,” MIX: Magazine of Artist-Run Culture (Fall 1996).
Ross, Becki, The House that Jill Built: A Lesbian Nation in Formation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995).
“Black History Month: Racing Issues of Sexuality,” XTRA! (February 17, 1995) no. 269, 27.
Chater, Nancy. “Someone Hume Happens to Be....” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics (Spring 1991), 12.
Interviews & Reviews:
Ossandon, Desirée (D. Cole). “Shameless Women: Karen Miranda Augustine: Ritualistic Pop Artist.” Shameless Magazine: For Girls Who Get It. 17 September 2009. <http://www.shamelessmag.com/blog/ 2009/09/karen-miranda-augustine-ritualistic-pop-artist>.
Davis, Nicholas. “Artist revisits how women portrayed: Karen Miranda Augustine tells Nicholas Davis she makes her subjects 'strong and sensual.'“ The Toronto Sun 8 November 2004: 22.
JD, “Soundz n Music: DJ pussykhat,” Siren magazine (June/July 2001), 36.
Infantry, Ashante, “A positive spin on urban grooves,” The Toronto Star (Thursday, April 20, 2000), J4.
Felesky, Leigh. “Defining & Redefining Women: A Three-Part Look at Canadian Women's Magazines; Back of the Rack: That's Where Canada's Alternative Magazines Sit. Too Bad, Because They Provide a Valuable Forum for Dissident Voices.” Ryerson Review of Journalism (Summer 1997), 23, 35–39.
Goes, Holly, “Honey, I rocked the house,” Eye Weekly (Thursday, June 5, 1997), 13.
Beavis, Lynn. “Telling Lives: Women and HIV.” Matriart: A Visual Arts Magazine, vol. 6, no. 2&3 (1996), 8–13.
“At the Crossroads.” Broken Pencil. 1996.
Nicholson, Judith. “At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent.” Afterimage (June 1995), 27.
Christakos, Margaret and Amy Gottlieb. “Telling Lives: Women and HIV.” Parallélogramme: Contemporary Art, vol. 20, no. 3 (Winter 1994/95), 67.
“Multiplying Desires.” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94), 30.
Eamon, Christopher. “Gathering: The Memorial Project.” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 16, no. 3 (Spring 1993), 40–41.
Hanna, Deirdre. “Gathering: The Memorial Project,” NOW magazine (November 5–12, 1992).
Judge, Martha. “Healing Images.” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 15, no.1&2 (Fall 1991), 42–43.
Elamin, Ahmed. “Brave, Disturbing Show.” Share 17 March 1991: 17.
Hume, Christopher. “Reflections on Black History and Artists.” The Toronto Star 15 February 1991: D1, D14.
Judge, Martha. “Purple Haze: Irreverent Visions.” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics (Summer 1990), 45–47.
Anthologies:
The Rosedale Ain’thology. Ed. James Gunn, OCAD, Toronto, 2007.
Red Light: Superheroes, Saints and Sluts. Ed. Anna Camilleri. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005.
“bizarre women, exotic bodies & outrageous sex: or if annie sprinkle was a black ho she wouldn’t be all that,” reprinted in Stan Fogel and Lynette Thoman, Eds. Changing Identities: Reading and Writing Ourselves (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2002) 81–85.
“What Some Call Community, Others Call Clicks,” in Plural Desires: Writing Bisexual Women’s Realities. Ed. Sharon Lewis et. al. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1995.
“bizarre women, exotic bodies & outrageous sex: or if annie sprinkle was a black ho she wouldn’t be all that,” reprinted in Mona Oikawa, Dionne Falconer and Ann Decter, Eds. RESIST! Essays Against a Homophobic Culture (Toronto: Women's Press, 1994) 44–49.
“J/not in Me,” Forbidden Subjects: Lesbian Artists Self-Portraiture, Ed. Caffyn Kelley (Vancouver: Gallerie Women Artists' Monographs, 1992), 61–65.
“Poem for Pat/on seeing an o’jays concert in buffalo,” reprinted in Getting Wet: Tales of Lesbian Seduction. Eds. Carol Allain and Rosamund Elwin (Toronto: Women’s Press, 1992).
“JOE/Rape Poem” and “Lesbians Get AIDS,” reprinted in Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology, Ed. Makeda Silvera (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1991). “JOE/Rape Poem” reprinted in The Queer Press Collective, Ed. Loving in Fear (Toronto: Queer Press, 1991).
Selected Publications:
“Pomba Gira,” Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly, (forthcoming: Spring 2011).
“She carries the power of lightning beneath her tongue” and “Contragun,” Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly, (Winter 2010-2011), 38, 40.
“Reach for the Ceiling,” 3rdfloor: a portable artspace, no. 3 (Fall 2005), 18.
“revelations,” Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, vol. 23, no.2 (Summer 2004), 124–126.
“crush.,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 79 (Winter 2003), 25–32.
“the queens. art project,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 79 (Winter 2003), 33–43.
“Brick House,” Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme, vol. 21, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2001), 78.
“Sapphire/on reading ‘a window opens,’” Strange Fruit: A Literary Journal, vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 2000), 16–17.
“Who is Jill Scott?” The People Have Spoken, vol. 1, no. 3 (Summer 2000), 35.
“Talking Visions: The Poetic Era of Ursula Rucker,” The People Have Spoken, vol. 1, no. 2 (Spring 2000), 31.
“Michie Mee on this Mic,” The People Have Spoken, vol. 1, no. 1 (Winter 2000), 31.
“A Soulful Niche: Les Nubians,” Panache, vol. 6, no. 2 (Fall 1999), 86.
“Strong Words for Coloured Girls: Ursula Rucker,” Panache, vol. 5, no. 4 (Spring 1999), 80–82.
“Wade O. Brown,” NICHE Interactive Audio Magazine, vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 1998).
“Hot Steppers: Stompin’ Black ’96,” Umoja Publications, vol. 1, no. 2 (Fall 1996), 16–18.
“reVIEW: John Singleton’s Higher Learning,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 49 (Summer 1995), 16–18.
“bizarre women, exotic bodies & outrageous sex: or if annie sprinkle was a black ho she wouldn’t be all that,” reprinted in Border/Lines: Canada’s Magazine of Cultural Studies, no. 32 (1994), 22–24. Originally published in Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 42 (Winter 1994) 44–49.
“Blacklisted: An Interview with Danny Tisdale,” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 3 (Spring 1994), 44–45.
“Breaking Crackers: Profile of diaspora Magazine,” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94), 45–46.
“givin’ props 2 da boyz: a black review of the festival of festivals,” FUSE: Art, Media & Politics, vol. 17, no. 2 (Winter 1993/94), 41–42.
“Pop Art & Politics: An Interview with Christopher Estridge,” XTRA!, no. 233 (October 1st, 1993), 25.
“Poem for Pat/on seeing an o’jays concert in buffalo,” Diversity: The Lesbian Rag, vol. 4, no. 4, 22–23.
“JOE/Rape Poem,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 33 (Summer 1991), 19–24.
“Science Experiments and Geography,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 32 (Spring 1991), 44–47.
“Lesbians Get AIDS,” Matriart: A Canadian Feminist Art Journal, issue 1, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 1990), 11.
“Open Your Eyes and Listen,” Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, no. 31 (Fall 1990), 23–28.
Blogs:
Romero-Cesareo, Ivette. "The Three Erzulies / Ezilis yo Twa." Repeating Islands: News and commentary on Caribbean culture, literature, and the arts. 08 December 2011. <http://repeating
islands.com/2011/12/08/the-three-erzulies-ezilis-yo-twa/>.
Mattera, Joanne. “Marketing Mondays: A Week’s Worth of Useful Reading.” Joanne Mattera Art Blog. January 11, 2010. <http://joannemattera.blogspot.com/2006/07/marketing-mondays-week-of-useful.html>.
LeMinh, Angelica. “North York Central – D/1 – September 16, ’09.” metro_textual. 20 September 2009. <http://metrotextual.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/north-york-central-d1-september-16-09>.
Grants / Residencies / Awards
Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway (2012)
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (2011/08)
Third Prize, "CRUX," Mayer Fine Art Gallery, Norfolk, Virginia (2009)
Ontario Arts Council, Works-in-Progress (2002)
Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve (2001/00)
Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance (1996/94/92)
Toronto Arts Council, Grants to Writers (1994)
Ontario Arts Council, Writers' Reserve (1994/93/92)
Independent Arts Publishing
Artist Business Blog Publisher, The Artist’s Business Digest (2009-present)
Art Blog Publisher, POSSESSION: All that is sacred in contemporary art (2008-present)
Founding Editor, At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent (1992-97)
Teaching
Course Instructor, “DON’T GET GOOD AT WHAT YOU DON’T WANT TO BE DOING: Business Development Intensive for Self-Employed Artists & Healers” (2009-present)
Selected Panels / Artist Talks / Broadcasts
SexTV, CityTV, Toronto (2001)
“Funding Cuts & the State of the Arts,” FUSE magazine, Rivoli Bar and Café, Toronto (1999)
“Women DJ,” Women in Urban Music Seminar, Harris Institute for the Arts, Toronto (1998)
“At the Crossroads magazine,” Women’s Television Network/Breakthrough Films, Toronto (1996)
“Supporting Arts and Culture,” Reclaiming the Sisterhood: 1996 Black Women’s Conference, York University, Toronto (1996)
“Say What? The Politics of Magazine Publishing,” Writing Thru Race: Conference of First Nations Writers & Writers of Colour, Vancouver (1994)
“The Politics of Desire: Censorship, Pornography & Freedom of Expression,” Upfront: The Community Speaks, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto (1993)
“Forbidden Subjects: Lesbian Artists,” Gallerie: Women Artists’ Monographs, Beyond the Boundaries Conference, Women’s Caucus for Art, Seattle, Washington (1993)
Professional Credits
Ontario Arts Council, African-Canadian Artist Consultation Committee (2011)
Ontario Arts Council (Access & Career Development), Juror (2009)
Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Committee Member (2009)
Charles Street Video, Board of Directors (2005-08)
Riverdale Art Walk, Juror (2007)
Ontario Arts Council (Works in Progress), Juror (2005)
CKLN 88.1 FM Radio, Radio Host (1992-2004)
Toronto Arts Council (Grants to Writers), Juror (2004)
Scream Literary Festival, Board of Directors (2004/03)
Ontario Arts Council (Grants to Literary Organizations), Juror (1996)
Griots Speak: Black Writers Conference, Organizing Committee (1996)
FUSE: Art, Media, Politics magazine, Editorial Board (1994)
Representation
VTape
Memberships
Access Copyright
CARFAC Ontario: The Professional Association of Visual & Media Artists
CARFAC Copyright Collective
Education
Master of Arts, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies (2008)
York University, Toronto, Ontario
Specializations: Visual Arts, Women’s Studies, Humanities
Thesis Paper: “Paradise Jacked: Primitivism, Disidentification & Feminist Cultural Practice”
Thesis Project: “paradise jacked: snapshots of the cultural underground” (11 minutes, video)