CURRICULUM VITAE – WOJCIECH OLEJNIK

EDUCATION
2002 MFA University of Waterloo
2000 HBA Philosophy, University of Toronto

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Decimal Investigations, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canda.
2002 Negotiable Floor Plans, University of Waterloo Art Gallery (MFA Thesis Exhibition), Canda.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 participating artist in eStamina, a project by Grégoire Blunt and Emmy Skensved, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany & 8-11, Toronto, Canada..
2014 Behind the High Grass (part four), O'Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada.
2012 Upgrade, Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2012 POST, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Canada.
2010 (t)here, Greusslich Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
2010 Everything Next To Each Other, YYZ, Toronto, Canada.
2005 New Work, Other Gallery (Exhibition with Scott Rogers), Banff Centre, Canda.
2004 Form and Consequence, Gallery 1313, Toronto, Canda.
2004 Homecoming, University of Waterloo Art Gallery (The Alumni Juried Exhibition) Waterloo, Canda.
2003 Tampered With, 0 to 1 Gallery (Exhibition with Michael Ambedian), Kitchener, Canda.
GRANTS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2015 Ontario Arts Council, Mid-Career Visual Artist Grant.
2011 Canada Council for the Arts, Assistance to Visual Artists – Career Dvelopment Grant.
2011 Ontario Arts Council, Visual Artist Emerging Grant.
2010 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance.
2007 Fellowship in New Research in Abstraction, headed by Robert Linsley
2005 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance.
2006 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance.
2005 Optic Nerve Thematic Residency, The Banff Centre.
2005 Self-Directed Residency, The Banff Centre.
2001 Best in Show “39th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery.
2001 The Keith & Win Shantz Summer Internship: Artist Assistant to Stephen Ellis, New York, USA.
PRESS
2012 POST: MFA Alumni survey of Keith and Winifred Shantz Internship Award Recipients Catalogue, UWAG. ©2012, ISBN978-0-9781543-3-2.
2012 Exhibition surveys work of 11 alumni artists, by Robert Reid, The Record (Kitchener), October 18, 2012.
2005 Architectures of Imagination, by Daniel Baird, exhibition text for Decimal Investigations, The Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
WRITING
2015 Valérie Blass is both accessible and locked-up in “my life”, MOMUS, Apr. 19, 2015
http://momus.ca/valerie-blass-is-both-accessible-and-locked-up-in-my-life/
2014 Time, Travel, and Trial in the Work of Jason de Haan, MOMUS, Dec. 1, 2014
http://momus.ca/time-travel-and-trial-in-the-work-of-jason-de-haan/
2014 Gordon Lebredt, Border Crossings, Issue # 132.2013 Patrick Howlett, Canadian Art Online (January 2013).
2012 Pictures and Picture Proofs: A Conversation Between James Robert Brown and Wojciech Olejnik, Old Mill Books, Kitchener.
2011 Text accompanying Lauren Hall’s exhibition "Sail Fast Cloud-Shadows and Sunbeams," YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada.
2011 Christian Andersson, Frieze Magazine Blog: Current Shows (February, 2011).
2011 Text accompanying Michael Murphy’s and Anders Oinonen’s Sadderday Night, G Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Randi Nygård, måg - MAGAZINE, published by NABROAD (Issue Two, 2010).
2010 Text accompanying Munan Øvrelid’s "An Encounter like a Flash, from Now to the End of Consciousness," Unge Kunstneres Samfund, Oslo, Norway.
2010 Text accompanying Maja Nilsen's "Unfluid Were the Waves," TSSK, Trondheim, Norway.
2009 Lina Viste Grnøli, Frieze Magazine Blog: Current Shows (December, 2009).
2009 Mircea Cantor, Canadian Art (Winter 2009, Volume 26, No. 4).
2009 Inevitable Research, Syphon (Winter 2009, Issue 1, Volume 1).
2008 Kevin Rodgers, C Magazine (Autumn 2008, issue #99).
2008 Afterward to the text Art and Its Others: Boris Groys Robert Linsley, Old Mill Books, Vancouver.
2008 Matrix of Surds: A Conversation Between Michael Murphy and Wojciech Olejnik, Old Mill Books, Vancouver.
2008 Eoghan McTigue, C Magazine (Spring 2008, issue #97).
2007 Simon Dybbroe Møller, Canadian Art (Winter 2007, Volume 24, No. 4).
2007 Jaro Straub and Matthew Burbidge, C Magazine (Winter 2007, issue #96).
2007 Monika Baer and Thomas Bayrle, C Magazine (Fall 2007, issue #95).
2007 On the Subject of Anders Oinonen’s Recent Work, www.meanders.ca/start.html.
2007 New Research in Abstraction Exhibition, http://abstraction.uwaterloo.ca/MainContent/Text-Wojciech.html.
2006 Text accompanying artwork of Scott Rogers in the exhibition Mixed Signals, Truck, Calgary, Alberta.
2005 Dimensionality, C Magazine (Winter 2005, issue #88).
2005 Ann Course, Canadian Art (Fall 2005, Volume 22 Number 3).