Tom Bendtsen
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Education

2003 Master's of Fine Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

1991 AOCAD Diploma, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada


Solo exhibitions

2010 Conversation #3(b), Luminato, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2008 Conversation #2, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2008 Conversation #2(b), Nuit Blanche Revisited, Royal Botanical Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada

2007 Onward, Nanaimo Regional Art Gallery, Naniamo, British Columbia, Canada

2005 Argument #4(b), Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2003 Conversation at Lockwood, Lockwood Memorial Library, Buffalo, NY, USA

2002 Argument #6(b), Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

2001 Obsessive Behavior 4, Hamilton Artists, Inc., Ontario, Canada

2001 Industrious, Bus Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2000 Argument #5, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada

1997 Spidersense #1, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
 

Selected group exhibitions

2012  Centennial Juried Exhibition, Delaware Museum of Art, DE, USA

2012  Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ, USA

2011 Beyond the Fold, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA, USA

2011 The Journey, Gallery at B543 at the Navy Yard, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2010 Contemporary Art at the G20, International Media Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2010 National Cell Phone, Southeastern Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond    LA, USA

2010 Authentic Visual Voice, Rowan University Gallery, Glassboro, NJ, USA  

2008/09 Hello, High Street Gallery, Glassboro, NJ, USA

2008 Home in Design; Californication, New York , NY, USA

2008 TH&B, Imperial Cotton Centre, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

2007 One Minute Film & Videofestival, Aarau, Switzerland

2007 Particulate, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2007 Particulate, Lump West, Eugene, OR, USA

2007 GFR, Croatia One Minute Film Festival, Pozega, Croatia

2007 International Videofestival Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2007 Naoussa International Short Film Festival, Naoussa, Greece

2007 Short Film Market, Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France

2006 Hart House Installation Collective, Site-specific interventions, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 

2005 Queen Street Garage Sale, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2005 A Garden of Forked Paths, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada            

2003 24/48, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, USA

2003 Grounds for Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, USA

2002 Ampersand, Open Space Artist Run Center, Victoria, BC, Canada

2002 In Western New York 2002, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

2001 Babel, Koffler Centre of the Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada           

2000 You are what you read, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Honors

SUNY Buffalo

Dissertation Fellowship (2003)

President’s Scholarship (2001-03)


ICS

International Sculpture Center Outstanding Graduate Student Award (2003)


Canada Council for the Arts

Emerging Artist Grant (2000, 1998)

Film and Video for Artists Grant (2001)

Mid-career Artists Grant (2002)



Ontario Arts Council

Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2005)

Emerging Artist Grant (2001, 1999)

Exhibition Assistance Grant (2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998)

Mid-career Artist Grant (2005)

Project Grant (1994)



Toronto Arts Council

$5000 Grant to Visual Artists (2004)

$4000 Grant to Visual Artists (2000)