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Education

1990-1993 - BFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
1992 - Semester exchange, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1988-90 - DEC, Creative Arts Programme, Dawson College, Montreal

Artist Residencies & Workshops Attended

2006-2007 - Residency at Boréal Art/Nature, Quebec
2006 - Production grant to produce video at Daimon, Gatineau
2006 - Artist-in-residence at Polli Talu Arts Centre, Estonia
2004 - Artist-in-residence at Porvoo Paperarts Centre, Porvoo, Finland
2003 - Symposium international d'art contemporain de Baie-Saint-Paul (residency), Quebec
2002 - Engrenage Noir: Workshop for artists working with communities, Montreal
2001-2002 - Improvisational sound/voice apprenticeship with violinist Malcolm Goldstein, Montreal
1998 - Artist-in-residence at Open Studio (Printmaking residency), Toronto
1997 - Residency at EST-NORD-EST Centre de Sculpture, St-Jean-Port-Joli, Quebec
1994-present - dance/movement/performance workshops with Linda Montano, Deborah Hay, Yumiko Yoshioka, Andrew Harwood, Nicole Laudouar, Linda Rabin, Nika Stein, Lin Snelling, etc.
1992 - Residency at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont

Exhibitions & Performances (selected)

2008 - Lamplight and Earth (with Jack Stanley), Galerie Port-Maurice, Montreal
2008 - Ensembles pour P.B., solo exhibition, Wilder and Davis, Montreal
2007 - participatory installation for children, (upcoming)
2007 - La souffleuse, performance, Galerie La Centrale, Montreal
2007 - Malinas, performance-installation, Boréal Art/Nature, Labelle
2006 - Excavation Drawings, performance in hotel, Montreal
2006 - Puder (Porridge), performance, Polli Talu Arts Centre, Estonia
2006 - To Draw from Touch, performance, Postsovkhoz Symposium, Estonia
2006 - Sorties/Stories, Galerie Lilian Rodriguez, Montreal
2006 - A Complicated Escape, performance in hotel, Visualeyez festival, Edmonton
2005 - The Mobile Museum/Le petit musée itinérant, performances, Montreal
2005 - A series of glipmses, performance, Maison de la Culture N.D.G., Montreal
2005 - Walking in Russia, Maison de la Culture N.D.G., Montreal
2004 - Oravannahkakauppaa, Taidetehdas, Porvoo, Finland
2004 - She came to my house, she knocked upon my door, The New Gallery, Calgary
2004 - They have nothing. So kick them out!, performance in loft, Montreal
2003 - Vitae, group exhibition as part of Voila Quebec en Mexico!, Hotel Isabel, Mexico City
2003 - InterAzioni Performance Festival, Sardinia, Italy
2002 - Palpable, Langage Plus, Alma, Quebec
2002 - Chimney sweeping, performance, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2002 - Opera Eclipses, exhibition/performance, Galerie Articule, Montreal
2002-present - Store: a moving sound ensemble, travelling performance for audiences of 1 or 2 people at a time, performed in homes across North America & Europe…
2001 - The Third Body, group exhibition, Galerie B-312, Montreal
2001 - Persimmon, Galerie Wilder & Davis (luthiers), Montreal
2000 - effigy, outdoor performance (with Jack Stanley), Le Mois de la Performance, Montreal
2000 - effigy excerpt, performance in former prison cell, SAW Gallery, Ottawa
2000 - Master Class 5, 7A-11D Performance Festival, Toronto
2000 - Porous, outdoor performance supported by Galerie Articule, Montreal
2000 - figment, a room under the stairs gallery, Montreal
1999 - In/habit, residency & exhibition, Ace Art Gallery, Winnipeg
1999 - The Ghost Leaves, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto
1998 - Puppen, exhibition/performance in a derelict store, Montreal
1998 - letter, collaboration with Dagmar Dahle, Galerie Articule, Montreal; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
1998 - The Space Between 3, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
1997 - Biennale du dessin, de l'estampe et du papier du Québec, Alma, Quebec
1997 - Standing over the deepest darkest hole in the earth, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
1996 - drawer, a book in an apartment, installation in an apartment in Montreal, supported by Articule Special Projects; also presented in an apartment in Halifax through OO Gallery
1995-present - Sleep Patterns, The Embassy Hotel, London, Ontario
1994 - Breathing Stories, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
1994 - When you were a flapper with a russian accent, performance, La Centrale, Montreal
1993 - To leave behind, unravelled, street performance supported by OO Gallery, Halifax

Pedagogical Experience (selected)

2006 - Paper cave construction workshop with children at MOKS, Mooste, Estonia
2006 - Intensive Drawing Workshop with Teens, Galerie Skol, Montreal
2002-present - Drawing workshops (small groups & private sessions for all ages), Montreal
2005 - Intergenerational self-portrait drawing workshop, Santropol Roulant, Montreal
2004 - Performative drawing workshop, Concordia University's conference on Community Development
1999-present - Teacher for children, teenagers, adults (various art classes), Visual Arts Centre, Montreal
2000-2001 - Interim Coordinator of Youth programme, Visual Arts Centre
2001 - Paper Puppets workshop, Au Papier Japonais, Montreal
2000 - Puppet Workshop for children and adults, a room under the stairs, Montreal
1999-present - Visiting artist for various projects in schools (murals, masks, sculpted books, shadow boxes)
1997 - Artist-Facilitator for Cité Murales, project with Montreal youth
1996 - Assistant to high school students for creating theatre props, F.A.C.E., Montreal
1996 - Props/Sets/Costumes for children's theatre production, Saidye Bronfman Camp of the Arts, Montreal

Exhibition Reviews (selected)

Imagined Passage: Vida Simon/Excavation Drawings
Andrew Forster, FUSE, summer 2007
Un après-midi à Boréal Art/Nature
Gilles Matte, TRACES, 8 juin 2007
Marcher en Russie, sur une installation de Vida Simon
Caroline Loncol-Daigneault, ESPACE, winter 2005
Baie-des-artistes
Michel Bois, Le Soleil, Quebec, 15 août 2003
Vida Simon expose ses oeuvres à Langage Plus
Paul-Emile Thériault, Le Progrès, 27 octobre 2002
Persimmon: In the Aura of Violins
Andre Seleanu, Artfocus magazine, Issue no. 71, summer 2001
Doll Faced, Vida Simon's storefront show
Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, June 25-July 1, 1998
Worthy objects
Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, February 13-19, 1997
Épatée, la galerie
Stéphane Aquin, VOIR, du 13 au 19 février 1997
Spinning yarns, Drawing on Vida Simon's work
Lucinda Catchlove, HOUR, March 7-13, 1996
Hidden in the drawer…
Megan Macgarvie, The McGill Daily Culture, March 14-20, 1996