Kim Tomczak
Kim Tomczak is a multidisciplinary artist primarily known for his work in performance, photography, video and photo/text work. Since 1983, he has worked exclusively in collaboration with Lisa Steele. They have received numerous grants and awards, including the Bell Canada prize for excellence in Video Art, a Toronto Arts Award and in 2005, a Governor General’s Award for lifetime achievement in Visual & Media Arts.
Major public art commissions awarded to the two include Love Squared, screened on the video board at Yonge & Dundas in Toronto and Watertable, a light and sound installation that marks the original shoreline of Lake Ontario.
Tomczak is a co-founder of Vtape, a Toronto media arts centre and taught at the University of Toronto in the Department of Visual Studies.
Most recently, Steele + Tomczak have been exhibited in Instanbul at Akbank Sanat (Metamorphoz) and Sophia, Bulgaria at the Central Bath (Opening the Closed Shops). In February 2009, their 4-channel video installation work "Becoming…" was featured in the Berlin Film Festival, Forum Expanded. Fall 2009 exhibitions include: a major installation, Speak City, featured in TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival), photo-text works from 2003-9 The funniest thing... at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto, photo series from the 1970s at VMAC Gallery. A major survey of their photo and video work opened at the Wharf Centre d'art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie in January 2010. In June 2010, their video installation work is included in Empire of Dreams at MOCCA in Toronto.
Artist Code: 038
Videography
2007, 06:05 minutes, colour, English (text only)
2006, 01:35 minutes, colour, Silent; English & French Text
Make Love Not War - installation
2003, 02:10 minutes, colour, Silent; English & French Text
2003, 03:13 minutes, colour, silent
We're Getting Younger All The Time
2001, 20:05 minutes, colour, silent
1998, 01:56 minutes, colour, Silent; English & French Text
1998, 01:32 minutes, colour, silent
1998, 01:31 minutes, colour, Silent
The Blood Records written and annotated
1997, 49:20 minutes, B&W & colour, English & French
1992, 79:49 minutes, colour, B&W, English
1988, 09:05 minutes, colour, English / French
1987, 18:29 minutes, colour, English
1985, 28:08 minutes, colour, English
1981, 23:18 minutes, colour, English
Vancouver Canada Or They Chant Fed Up
1980, 23:00 minutes, colour, English
A Demonstration of The Fear of Pain
1980, 14:00 minutes, colour, English
One Hundred Years of Aggression
1979, 18:32 minutes, colour, English
Herman Nitsche At The Western Front
1978, 05:00 minutes, colour, English
Everything is Illusion Except Power
1978, 04:30 minutes, colour, English
Critical Writing
by . The Toronto Star, Mar. 9, 2005.
by . The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts 2005, 2005. Toronto: Canada Council for the Arts, 2005.
by . The National Post- Vancouver Edition, Mar. 9, 2005.
by . Lisa Steele - Kim Tomczak, 2003. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2003.
by . Lux: A Decade of Film and Video, 2000. Toronto: YYZ and Pleasure Dome, 2000.
by . C Magazine, Sept. 1998, no. 59. Toronto: C International, 1998.
by and . The Post-Colonial Landscape, 1996. The Edmonton Art Gallery, The Mendel Art Gallery, 1996.
by . Toronto: Art Metropole, 1993.
Toronto: A Space (Artists Space), 1990.
by . New York City: A Space (Artists Space), 1990.
by and . 4 Hours and 38 Minutes, 1989. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1989.
by . The Globe and Mail, Feb. 20, 1988.
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by . Calgary Herald, Jan. 23 Winter, 1988.
by and . Fuse, Fall 1987, v. 11, no. 3.
The Globe and Mail, Apr. 30, 1987.
by . Video Guide, Oct. 1987, v. 9, no. 1.
by . From Sea to Shining Sea, 1986. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1986.
by . Video Guide, Sept. 1986, v. 8, no. 38.
by . Breaking Through: Conscience and the Status Quo, 1985. Toronto: A Space/ Vtape/ The Toronto Arts Council, 1985.
by . Toronto: A Space (Artists Space), 1985.
by . Video '84, - Recontres Vidéo Internationales de Montreal, 1984, v. sept.
by and . Toronto: A Space (Artists Space), 1984.
by . Toronto: A Space (Artists Space), 1982.
by . North of Everything: English Canadian Cinema Since 1980, 1980. University of Alberta Press, 1980.
by and . Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO).