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Eva Kolcze is a Toronto-based artist and filmmaker.

BIOGRAPHY
Eva Kolcze, a Toronto-based artist, explores the fluidity of time and its expression in natural and built spaces through projects involving geology, architecture, and the environment. Her projects incorporate material explorations with analog film, fabric, and digital imagery. Her work has been exhibited at 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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Pendulum, Todmorden Mills, part of Toronto History Museums Awakenings / The Reset, Toronto, ON
2022 Continental Drift, curated by Ana Barajas, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, ON
2019 All That Is Solid, Facing the Waves, Dust Cycles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sterling Weekend / Doors Open, Toronto, ON
2018 Dust Cycles, Nuit Blanche, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, ON
2017 Eva Kolcze: Topography and Traces, VISIONS screening series at La Lumiere, Montreal, QC
2010 775 King St. West, XPACE Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Haptics of Optics, The Image in the Stone, curated by Jessica Thalmann, Namara Projects, Toronto, ON
2024 Crossroads, a collaboration with Jessica Thalmann, Mount Dennis Public Library, Toronto, ON
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
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
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, 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 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 CanadaThe 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

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, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2023 AD HOC 41: An Evening of Canadian Underground Cinema, Facing the Waves, 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, ON
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: 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 as 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'ArtBy 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 CinemaBy 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, Jakarta, 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
2024 Toronto Arts Council - Artists in the Library
2022 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, 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, March 2022
2021 Langford, Martha, Sloan, Johanne, Photogenic Montreal: Activisms and Archives in a Post-industrial City, 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, 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, October 25, 2015
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