SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Oct 18-Nov 16, 2024 | Noise
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, AB
Apr 28-June 10, 2023 | DRUNKEN PAW not keeping sweet since 2009
Tilted Brick Gallery, Creston, BC
April - June 2012 | The Ants Go Marching
Epcor Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, AB
February, 2012 | Love Triangle: Evil as All Bejeesus
Hot Wax Records Calgary, Alberta
August 2011 | egg drop soup
Museum of Ephemera, Nakusp, BC
Summer 2011 | The Leavening
Drunken Paw at Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, a six week exhibition and performance Sidewalk Citizen Bakery, Calgary, Alberta
January - February 2011 | Drunken Paw’s Interpretation of Houdini’s Chinese Water Torture Trick
a six week exhibition and performance Sugar Cube Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
April 2022 | Atlas Project Release
Esker Foundation, Calgary AB
October/November 2021 | New Normal
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary AB
July/August 2019 | Cache
curated by Kevin Kanashiro. Group exhibition at Herringer Kiss Gallery, Calgary AB
November/December 2014 | Carte Blanche
A Postcare Exhibition DNA Artspace, London ON
December 2012 | Black Tie One On
exhibition & fundraiser; Stride Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
November 2011 | Ring a Ding Dong Dandy
a three month installation and one night exhibition | BJ’s Gym, Calgary, Alberta
July - August 2011 | Bring the Noise
Jarvis Hall Fine Art, Calgary, Alberta
September 2010 | Passages: A Chris J. Melnychuk Retrospective Curated by Kari McQueen
Untitled Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
August 2010 | Summer’s Edge II
The Edge Gallery, Canmore, Alberta
June 13, 2010 | Gender Blender
Sugar Shack Art Salon, Calgary, Alberta
December 6, 2009 | Paper Jam
Sugar Shack Art Salon, Calgary, Alberta
September 30 - October 3, 2009 | SPAWN
Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary Alberta
ARTIST TALKS
October 26 2024 | Noise
Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Alberta
April 22 2022 | The Calgary Atlas Project + Esker Foundation present:
Celebrating Calgary – Art Underground, Calgary Goes to the Movies & Architecture in 40 Buildings
Esker Foundation, Calgary Alberta
March 24, 2022 | Nickel at Noon:
James Ellis – The Atlas Project: Calgary’s Art Underground with Diana Sherlock and Drunken Paw Nickel Galleries, Calgary AB
SPECIAL PROJECTS
2021 | Calgary Institute for the Humanities Atlas Project:
Calgary's Underground Art Scene: Place | Time | Art | A Guide
Drunken Paw was invited to produce a drawing that was reproduced for this art map project. Three large scale drawings were made and one was chosen for reproduction. DETAILS
2012 | The New Gallery Fundraising print portfolio
December 2012 Drunken Paw drawing made for The New Gallery Fundraising print portfolio:
One of ten chosen artists specially commissioned for the inaugural run of prints on John Snow’s refurbished press. John Snow House, Calgary – artists in the portfolio are: drunken paw, David Garneau, Heather Huston, Kim Huynh, Don Mabie, Mirielle Perron, Scott Rogers, Ryan Statz, Tim Westbury and Andrea Williamson.
John Snow was a master printer and an influential member and supporter of Calgary’s arts community from the 1950’s onwards.
SITE SPECIFIC DRAWING RESIDENCIES
2024 | Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC
2023 | Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC
2022 | Empire of Dirt, Creston, BC Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts
2016 | Simmon’s Building, Calgary AB Sponsored by Sidewalk Citizen Bakery
2015 | The Bourbon Room, Calgary AB Sponsored by Kevin Kanashiro
2011 | Museum of Ephemera, Nakusp, BC Sponsored by the AFA
2011 | BJ’s Gym, Calgary, AB
2011 | Sugar Cube Gallery, Calgary, AB
FUNDING: GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 2022 Canada Council for the Arts - Research and Creation Grant
- 2011 Alberta Foundation for the Arts Project Grant
COLLECTIONS
- Alberta Foundation for the Arts
- Drunken Paw is represented in numerous private collections throughout North America
ONLINE PUBLICATIONS
PRESS – Online and print
- Drunken Paw Love Triangle: Evil as All Bejeesus, February 2012 catalogue that accompanied the exhibition of the same name at Hot Wax Records, Calgary. Writing by Diana Sherlock drunken paw: drawing in public
- Paradis Claire, Drunken Paw in Nakusp, Arrow Lakes News, BC, December, 2011
- Tousley, Nancy, ‘Calgary Report: An Artist-Run Alberta’, Canadian Art, March 2011 www.canadianart.ca/online/features/2011/03/03/calgary_report
FILM
- Sidewalk Citizen (in production) | Feature length documentary by Michal Lavi (supported by the Canada Council & the AFA)
