BIOGRAPHY
Eva Kolcze is a Toronto-based artist who creates films and installations that investigate themes of geology, architecture, and the environment. Her work has screened at venues and festivals, including the National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), MOCA Toronto, the Gardiner Museum, Nuit Blanche, Cinémathèque québécoise, Birch Contemporary, and the Images Festival. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD University and a Master of Fine Arts from York University.
EDUCATION
2014 York University - Master of Fine Arts in Film Production
2007 OCAD University - Bachelor of Fine Arts (with distinction) in Integrated Media
2006 OCAD University - Off-Campus Studies, Florence Italy
2002 Toronto Metropolitan University - Certificate in Film Studies
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Hydra, group exhibition, All That is Solid, curated by Anh Dao, part of Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
2022 The Time Being, online exhibition and collaboration with Jessica Thalmann and other featured artists
2020 The Time Being, online exhibition and collaboration with Jessica Thalmann and other featured artists
2019 Access is Love, and Love is Complicated, S/pace, curated by Emily Cook, Critical Distance, Toronto, ON
2019 An Index, a group exhibition curated by Marsya Maharani and Marjan Verstappen, The Image in the Stone, MOCA, Toronto, ON
2019 TIFF Reference Library, Film Farm: 25 Years, curated by Michelle Lovegrove Thomson, Toronto, ON
2019 Sterling Weekend, Doors Open, Dust Cycles, Facing the Waves, All that is Solid, MOCA, Toronto, ON
2019 Design TO, Surface Tension exhibition, Dust Cycles, Artport Gallery, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, ON
2017 Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC), In Search of Expo, curated by Monika Kin Gagnon and Lesley Johnstone, QC
2017 Angell Gallery, The Readable City, All That Is Solid and Facing the Waves, curated by Bill Clarke, Toronto, ON
2016 National Gallery of Canada, The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, By The Time We Got To Expo, Ottawa, ON
2015 Birch Contemporary, New Monuments Forget The Future, curated by Rebecca Travis, All That Is Solid, Toronto, ON
2012 Director’s Lounge, Urban Research, 775 King St. West, Berlin, Germany
2011 Artscape Gibraltar Point, ALL CAPS Festival, Lighthouse, Toronto
2011 Union Gallery, Topographies, 775 King St. West, Kingston, ON
2010 Under New Management, Video Rental and Newmedialand, Modern Island, Toronto
2009 Cinecycle, Mom Jeans (performer), Toronto
2009 The Big On Bloor Festival, Cover Stories, Toronto
2009 Minnow and Bass Gallery, As Much as Possible, Cover Stories, Toronto
2007 OCAD Graduate Exhibition, Four Corners, Toronto.
2007 Toronto Free Gallery, Crossing Borders / Crossing Boundaries (performer), Toronto
2006 XPACE Cultural Centre, Do Me performance, FADO International Performance Festival, Toronto.
2006 Mayday Gallery, In Transit, Florence, Italy
2006 OCAD Studio, Those Who Go, Those Who Stay, Florence, Italy
2005 OCAD Studio, The 33 Show, Florence, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Continental Drift, curated by Ana Barajas, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON
2021 The Time Being video installation, curated by Noah Gano, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2021 The Time Being, online exhibition, curated by Noah Gano, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art, Sterling Weekend / Doors Open, All That Is Solid, Facing the Waves, Dust Cycles, MOCA Toronto, ON
2018 Nuit Blanche, Dust Cycles, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2017 VISIONS screening series at La Lumiere, Eva Kolcze: Topography and Traces, Montreal, QC
2010 XPACE Cultural Centre, 775 King St. West, Toronto, ON
SCREENINGS
2024 Dresdner Schmalfilmtage, By the Time We Got to Expo, Dresden, Germany
2024 AD HOC 54: Philip Hoffman: Collaborations and Meditations, By the Time We Got to Expo, Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2023 AD HOC 41: An Evening of Canadian Underground Cinema, Facing the Waves, Innis College, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2023 Embedded Emanations, Dust Cycles, programmed by Raouf Moussa, online screening, opencircuitcinema.com
2022 Conditions of Life (screening and talk), All That Is Solid, curated by Fraser McCallum, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario
2022 Archivio Aperto, By The Time We Got To Expo, Bologna, Italy
2022 San Francisco Cinematheque, Moments of Perception program, Low Tide, curated by Jim Shedden, San Francisco, CA
2022 The 8Fest, Facing the Waves, part of the program Where Do We Go From Here?, Toronto, ON
2021 Mining and Manipulating the Home Movie, Canadian Images in Conversation, Peterborough, ON
2020 Fifth Exposure - Short Film Festival, Dust Cycles, online screening, Kopernik Observatory and Science Centre, NY
2020 Rhizome DC, Virtual Microcinema, Low Tide, online screening
2019 Around the World in Day program, curated by Michael Sicinski, Rice Media Centre, Rice University, Houston, TX
2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Low Tide, Houston, TX
2019 Light Field film festival, Facing the Waves, San Francisco, CA
2019 Films for the Fair: The World’s Fair and Cinema, Expo 67 & Expanded Cinema, By the Time We Got To Expo, Anthology Film Archives, NY
2018 Narva Art Residency, All That is Solid, part of the ‘Night, is it Time or Space?’ program, Narva, Estonia
2018 Syros International Film Festival, Dust Cycles and Markings 1-3
2018 Edinburgh Film Festival, Dust Cycles and Markings 1-3, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018 SCMS Conference, Toronto Back and Forth, Facing the Waves, curated by Jesse Cumming, Toronto, ON
2017 Dawawine Beirut, Facing the Waves, part of the LAND(E)SCAPES program, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Festival Nouveau Cinema, Cinémathèque québécoise, Dust Cycles, Montreal, QC
2017 Rendezvous with Madness, All That Is Solid, Tunnel Vision at CAMH program, part of Doors Open Toronto, Toronto, ON
2017 Independent Filmmakers Co-op of Ottawa (IFCO), North of 49 Screening, By The Time We Got To Expo, Ottawa, ON
2017 National Gallery of Art, By The Time We Got To Expo, Saluting Canada at 150 program, Washington, DC
2017 (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, By The Time We Got To Expo, A Coruña, Spain
2017 $100 Film Festival, By The Time We Got To Expo, Calgary, AB
2017 Factory Theatre, By The Time We Got To Expo, part of the Hand-Processed & Experimental Program, Hamilton, ON
2017 II Fronteira Festival, Facing the Waves, part of the LAND(E)SCAPES program, Goiania, Brazil
2017 Alchemy Film Festival, By The Time We Got To Expo, part of the Rhythms Crackle Program, Hawick, Scotland
2017 Projection Screening Series, Modern Island, La Station, Nice, France
2017 Kinosmiðja Screening Series, All That Is Solid, programmed by Terra Jean Long, Reykjavik, Iceland
2016 aCinema Screening Series, Markings 1-3, 'Not Similar to Anything, Just Similar' program, Milwaukee, WI
2016 Victoria Film Festival, All That Is Solid, Shorts program: Ontario, Victoria, BC
2016 Bienal de la Imagen an Movimiento, By The Time We Got To Expo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 Festival Nouveau Cinema, Cinémathèque québécoise, Facing the Waves, Montreal, QC
2016 Pacific Cinematheque, DIM Cinema, All That Is Solid, curated by Melanie O’Brien, Vancouver, BC
2016 In/Future Festival at Ontario Place, By The Time We Got To Expo, curated by Janine Marchessault, Toronto, ON
2016 City of Mississauga: Culture, Art on the Screens, By The Time We Got To Expo, Celebration Square, Mississauga, ON
2016 Crazy Dames: We Built this City part of the Gardiner Community Arts Space, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, ON
2016 Edge of Frame Programme Three, DIY Space for London, Markings 1-3, London, UK
2016 (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, Facing the Waves, La internacional impresionista program, A Coruña, Spain
2016 Images Festival, This Illuminated World Program, By The Time We Got To Expo, Toronto, ON
2016 Shapeshifters: An Evening of Experimental Cinema, The Grange Film Series, All That Is Solid, East Haddam, CT
2016 Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, AGX Film Collective, By The Time We Got To Expo, Waltham, MA
2016 Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Center for Performance Research, By The Time We Got To Expo, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Festival International Du Films Sur L'Art, By The Time We Got To Expo, Montreal, QC
2016 Art Court Theatre / Canadian Film Institute, By The Time We Got To Expo, Ottawa, ON
2016 Copenhagen Architecture Film Festival, All That Is Solid, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016 Scratch Projection, EXPRMTL GRRL, Markings 1-3, Paris, France
2016 Experiments In Cinema, Best of the Festival, Markings 1-3, Southwest Film Centre, Albuquerque, NM
2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Dinamo P&I Screening, Facing The Waves, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Filmmakers Co-op, New Year New Works, All That Is Solid, New York, NY
2016 DocPoint, Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, By The Time We Got To Expo, Helsinki, Finland
2016 The 8Fest, Facing The Waves, Toronto, ON
2015 Café Ex - The Films of Philip Hoffman, By The Time We Got To Expo, Ottawa, ON
2015 Echo Park Film Centre, Northern Light: New Experimental Works, By The Time We Got To Expo, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, By The Time We Got To Expo, Czech Republic
2015 Winnipeg Design Festival, All That Is Solid, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Analogica Film Festival, All That Is Solid, Bolzano, Italy
2015 Antimatter Film Festival, By The Time We Got To Expo, Victoria, BC
2015 Festival Nouveau Cinema, By The Time We Got To Expo, Montreal, QC
2015 Pleasuredome New Toronto Works, By The Time We Got To Expo, Toronto, ON
2015 EMMEDIA, Fresh Short Shorts program, All That Is Solid, Calgary, AB
2015 EXIS Experimental Film and Video Festival, International Competition EX-Now, All That Is Solid, Seoul, Korea
2015 Arkipel International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, All That Is Solid, Jarkarta, Indonesia
2015 VideoEx, Architecture Light and Space program, All That Is Solid, Zurich, Switzerland
2015 Mire, Superstructure: Definitive Opening program, Nantes, France
2015 Vivo Media Arts Centre, Urban Decay Program, All That Is Solid, Vancouver BC
2015 Lux, The Film Farm Lux 20th Anniversary Show, By The Time We Got To Expo, London UK
2015 Echo Park Film Centre, Not So Static: Lorenzo Gattorna & Close Company, Badlands, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, All That Is Solid and By The Time We Got To Expo, Winnipeg, MB
2015 Montreal Underground Film Festival, All That Is Solid, Montreal, QC
2015 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, All That Is Solid, Oberhausen, Germany
2015 Canadian Film Day, Why We Love Canadian Film, Modern Island, York University, Toronto, ON
2015 Proceso de Error - Festival Internacional de Video Experimental, Markings 1-3, Valparaíso, Chile
2015 Iowa City International Documentary Festival, All That Is Solid, Iowa City, IA
2015 Images Festival, All That Is Solid, Toronto, ON
2015 Art Cinema OFFoff, Young Vagrants, Badlands, Ghent, Belgium
2015 Counterpath, Collaboration with Nature program, Markings 1-3, Boulder, CO
2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Dinamo P&I Screening, All That Is Solid, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Gladstone Hotel, Re-Imagining Cinema: Film at Expo 67, By The Time I Got To Expo, Toronto, ON
2014 Echo Park Film Centre, Collaboration with Nature program, Markings 1-3, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Centre Fotografico Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Antimatter Mexico Tour, Modern Island, Oaxaca, Mexico
2014 Casa Nueve, Antimatter Mexico Tour, Modern Island San Andrés, Cholula, Mexico
2014 Jackman Hall, Art Gallery Of Ontario, Depth of Field, All That Is Solid, Toronto, ON
2014 Northwest Film Forum, Collaboration with Nature program, Markings 1-3, Seattle, Washington
2014 Rogers Cable 10, XS Network, Modern Island, Toronto, ON
2014 Pleasure Dome, Film Farm: A Pact with Process, Markings 1-3, Toronto, ON
2014 Festival De Lima, Otras Miradas program, Markings 1-3, Lima, Peru
2014 Synethsesia III - Film and Music, Markings 1-3, Toronto, ON
2014 Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Badlands, Haverhill, MA
2014 Montreal Experimental Film Festival, Badlands, Montreal, QC
2014 Experimental Film Fest Portland, Collaboration with Nature program, Markings 1-3, Portland, OR
2014 Images Festival, Another Country program, Modern Island, Toronto, ON
2014 Alchemy Film Festival, Markings 1-3, Hawick, Scotland
2014 Exploded View Gallery, Collaboration with Nature program, Markings 1-3, Tuscon, AZ
2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Modern Island, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2014 The 8 Fest, Badlands, Toronto, ON
2014 Open City Cinema, Badlands, Winnipeg, MB
2013 Ghost Hole V, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Badlands, Toronto Islands
2013 Nuit Blanche, CFMDC 'Merging Solitudes', Markings 1-3, Toronto, ON
2013 CFMDC TV, Markings 1-3 http://www.cfmdc.tv/index.html
2013 Transient Visions: Festivals of the Moving Image, Modern Island, Johnson City, NY
2013 Rare Earth, FPS Screening, Plug Projects, Markings 1-3, Kansas City, MO
2013 Anthology Film Archives, Experimental Documentaries, Modern Island, New York, NY
2013 Cinesthesia Feminist Film Festival, Markings 1-3, Carbondale, IL
2013 Experiments In Cinema, Markings 1-3, Albuquerque, NM
2013 Under New Management - Video Rental Store, Modern Island , ODD Gallery, Dawson, Yukon
2012 Gaze #3 Material Worlds, Artist’s Television Access, Markings 1 - 3, San Francisco, CA
2012 Antimatter Film Festival, Modern Island, Victoria BC
2012 Nuit Blanche, K-Town If You Leave Me Now, Toronto
2012 Montreal Underground Film Festival, Modern Island, Montreal QC
2012 Spark Contemporary Art Space, If You Leave Me Now K-Town, Syracuse, NY
2012 Rhubarb Festival, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, K-Town, Toronto, ON
2010 Toronto Urban Film Festival 2010, Holy Ed's, Toronto, ON
2008 Gallery Lambton, The Streets of Florence, Sarnia, ON
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Toronto Arts Council - Visual Artists Grant
2021 Canada Council for the Arts - Digital Now grant for The Time Being
2020 Canada Council for the Arts / CBC - Radio Canada - Digital Originals grant for The Time Being
2019 Toronto Arts Council - Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2019 Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2018 Ontario Arts Council - Exhibition Assistance Grant for Dust Cycles
2016 Canada Council for the Arts - Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2016 Toronto Arts Council - Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2016 Ontario Arts Council - Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2015 Toronto Arts Council - Visual and Media Arts Project Grant for Film for Artists: Site and Cycle
2015 Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto - Production Support Grant
2015 Ontario Arts Council - Media Artists Grant - for Dust Cycles
2014 Toronto Arts Council - Media Artists Grant - for Dust Cycles
2013 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2010 Liaison of Independent Filmmakers Toronto - Production Support Grant
2007 Kodak Canada Prize
2007 Charles Street Video Award
CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS
2011 Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm), Mount Forest Ontario - Participant
CURATION / PROGRAMMING
2016 Lindsay McIntyre Records and Reconstructions, 16mm performance, co-presented by imagineNATIVE Film Festival, Artscape Sandbox, Toronto, ON
LECTURES / TALKS
2023 Artist Talk, Landscape Concepts, SPAO: Photographic Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario
2022 Conditions of Life (screening and talk), curated by Fraser McCallum, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Ontario
2021 Artist Talk as part of Continental Drift at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, moderated by Justine Kohleal, Toronto, ON
2021 Mining and Manipulating the Home Movie, virtual artist talk, Canadian Images in Conversation, Peterborough, ON
2021 CFMDC Panel Discussion for Kim Knowles's book Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices
2021 Film friends with Film For Artists, virtual artist talk, Echo Park Film Centre, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Time Being, virtual artist talk with Jessica Thalmann, Angell Gallery, Toronto, ON
2019 Cultural Community Expo, Studio Tour at MOCA with Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers, OCAD University
2018 Re-Framing Doris McCarthy, A Symposium, Dust Cycles, University of Toronto Scarborough Campus, Toronto, ON
2017 Artist talk, part of the group exhibition 'The Readable City' at Angell Gallery
2017 Panel discussion, Professional Practice, OCAD University
2011 Topographies, artist talk at Union Gallery, Kingston Ontario
2008 Sunday Scene, artist talk, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery
RESIDENCIES
2014 The Banff Centre, Summer Banff Artist In Residence (BAIR) Program
2013 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Independent Artist Residency, Toronto Islands
2011 Artscape Gibraltar Point, Independent Artist Residency, Toronto Islands
MEMBERSHIPS
2015-2016 - Pleasure Dome Programming Collective
2009 – present - Liaison Of Independent Filmmakers Toronto
PUBLICATIONS
2023 Broomer, Stephen, Northern Light: A Sampler Of Canadian Underground Film, Split Tooth Media, July 2023
2022 Shedden, Jim, Seven Experimental Filmmakers to Know, AGO Insider, March 23, 2022
2022 Kohleal, Justine, Staying with and in the displacement: erosion, porosity, and (im)permanence in Continental Drift, Exhibition Essay, March 2022
2021 Langford, Martha, Sloan, Johanne, Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City, McGill-Queen's University Press, November 2021
2021 Broomer, Stephen, Zyrd, Michael, Moments of Perception (book), Goose Lane Editions, November 2021
2021 Sandblom, Mikael, The Time Being at Angell Gallery, Artoronto, February 2021
2020 Knowles, Kim, Experimental Film and Photochemical Practices, Palgrave Macmillan
2020 Kin Gagnon, Monica and Johnstone, Leslie, In Search of Expo 67, McGill-Queens University Press
2020 Calvo, Borja Castillejo, The Image in the Stone, Infinite Cinemas, June 2020
2019 Kashmere, Brett, Process Cinema - Handmade Film in the Digital Age, McGill-Queens University Press, 2019
2018 Cunningham, Sara, Eva Kolcze’s Dust Cycles Explores the Fragility of the Bluffs, Designlines Magazine,
September 2018
2017 Johnson, Jasmine, Crossed Wires and Generative Dissonance, British Arts Council Blog, October 16, 2017
2017 Everett-Green, Robert, Montreal Museums Hunt Ghosts of Expo 67, The Globe and Mail, August 11, 2017
2016 Levine, Matthew, By The Time We Got To Expo, Found Footage Magazine, May 2016
2016 Heaney, Olivia, The “New” Nostalgia of Montreal’s 44th Festival du Nouveau Cinéma,
The Los Angeles Review of Books, Jan 26, 2016
2015 Smith, Justine, 'The Rebels and Vanguards of Montreal's Festival De Nouveau Cinema', The Globe and Mail, 10/25/15
2015 Lear, Rowan, 'New Monuments Forget the Future', this is tomorrow, September 2, 2015
2015 Schechter, Fran 'Gallery Crawl: Eva Kolcze, David R. Harper and more' July 31, 2015
2015 Broomer, Stephen, 'Eva Kolcze: The Protagonist of Architecture', The Seventh Art, May 25, 2015
2015 Valencia, Jacqueline, 'Images Festival 2015', MUBI.COM, April 18, 2015
2015 Mechanical Forest Sound, 'Images Festival Reviews 2015' Mechanical Forest Sound, April 9, 2015
2015 Wilner, Norman, 'Images Festival: 28th edition of the festival sprawls around town', NOW Toronto April 8, 2015
2014 Camarena, David, ‘Markings 1-3’. Experiments in Cinema, August, 2014
2014 Griffin, Paolo, 'A Mash-up of Music and Film with FAWN & Seventh Art'. New Music Toronto May '14
2014 Fava, Matthew, 'A thoughtful retrospect on Synesthesia III'. Canadian Music Cente, May 8, 2014
2014 Valencia, Jacqueline, 'My Introduction to The 8 Fest and 3 films.' These Girls On Film, Jan 15, 2014
2013 Anderson, Jason, 'The Ed is Nigh', The Grid TO, July 31, 2013
2011 Purdie, Jocelyn, 'Topographies', exhibition catalogue, December 2011
2011 Kotzer, Zach, 'All Caps Breezes Onto Toronto Shores', Torontoist, August 17 2011
2011 Barr, Jessica Marion, 'Not On Any Map: Charting Topographies'’ August 2010
2010 Vaughn, R.M, 'Eva Kolcze at XPACE Cultural Centre', The Globe and Mail, September 25, 2010