CURRICULUM VITAE DAVID BOBIER
EDUCATION
Diploma in Fine Arts – Fanshawe College, London, Ontario
Post Diploma Studies – Cardiff College of Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Masters of Fine Arts – University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
CURRENT ARTISTIC AFFILIATIONS
Professional Artist
VibraFusionLab - Founder and Director/Curator, Thorndale and Hamilton, ON
o'honey collective - with artist Leslie Putnam
London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) – Founder, Board Member, Past Chair
Media Arts Network Ontario (MANO/RAMO) –Member and Accessibility Advisor
blurring the boundaries - Co-Founder and Board Member
ARTISTIC PRACTICE - SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2025-26”Water Elements”, New Adventures In Sound Art, South River, ON and White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON. Sound composition for 10 channel vibrotactile wall installation.
2022 “Erring at King George Festival”, organized by Public Energy and co-presented by Artspace Peterborough and The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario (May, 2022)
2017 Strand Fine Arts, London
2010 Strand Fine Arts, London
2002 “The Paths that Differ”, McIntosh Gallery, London
1998 “The Twain Shall Meet”, Mercer Union, Toronto
1995-96 “Signing On - adopting a cultural perspective”. Catalogue and video publication. Essays by Heather Gibson and Dr. Anita Small (Deaf education and cultural specialists) and Dale Barrett.
Project organized by McIntosh Gallery and toured to Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Thames
Art Gallery and Glenhyrst Art Gallery.
1994 “Another Roadside Attraction”, White Water Gallery, North Bay
1993 Glendon Gallery, Toronto
1992 “Flowers of Wind, Fires of Time”, Artcite, Windsor
1991 “Stop Making Sense(s)”, Obscure, Quebec City
1990 “Winds of Change”, UNB Art Centre. Publication essay by Roslyn Rosenfeld
1989 “Ten Fan Habit And A One Man Band - In Concert”, Owens Art Gallery
1988 “Domestic Effects”, Memorial University Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Acadia
University Art Gallery. Publication.
“ON SITE - The Artist in the Environment”. Outdoor installation organized by Memorial
University Art Gallery
“Newfoundland Sound Symposium ‘88". Sound installation, LSPU Hall. Catalogue
1987 “Recent Stuff”, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton; Musee Madawaska, Edmunston;
Great George Street Gallery, Charlottetown
1985 Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catherines
1984 Forest City Gallery, London
“Eight Exhibitions”, College Park, Toronto
“He’s A Sculpture You Know!”, Artcite, Windsor
1981 London Regional Art Gallery
Two Person
2025 “Untitled (TBD)”, collaboration of VibraFusionLab with Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher. Art Essex-Windsor
“Haptic Voices”, David Bobier and Jim Ruxton (VibraFusionLab). NAISA (New Adventures In Sound Art), South River, ON and White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON
2023-24“Haptic Voices”, David Bobier and Jim Ruxton (VibraFusionLab). InterAccess and Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto; Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice, Hamilton, ON
2019 “body language”, Dani Crosby and David Bobier. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
(October 2019 – January 2020)
2014 “re: inhabit”, o’honey collective (David Bobier and Leslie Putnam), Thames Art Gallery
1990-91 “Elan Vitale: The Comedy of David Bobier and Terry Graff”. Organized by Owens Art Gallery and
toured to Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Aitken Bicentennial Art
Centre. Curated and catalogue essay by Ted Fraser.
Group
2025 “ON::View Revue”, Ellis Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2024 “Voices Embodied”, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Illinios. Curator – Alex Stark
“Love Languages”, Art Essex-Windsor, Windsor, ON. Curator – Julie Rae Tucker
“Wild Alchemy”, Broken Forest Collective. Assembly Hall Gallery, Etobicoke; TIMMINS Museum and National Exhibition Centre; Novah Gallery, North Bay. An O’Honey collaboration.
2022 “Polypores and More”, Broken Forests Collective, High Park installation, Toronto, ON
“Not Born Yesterday, Not Going Away”, CoMotion Festival, Harbourfront. Curated by Alex Bulmer, Sponsored by Nordic Bridges, Toronto, ON
2019-20“VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices In Accessibility, Art and Communication”, Guelph Civic Museum, Guelph, ON
2019 Outliers On Tour’, Tangled Art Gallery. Collaborative work with Christine Negus, Toronto.
“The Other Abilities”, BROEDPLAATS LELY, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March).
2018 “VIBE: transforming ableism through the arts”, Curated exhibition. 4th Space, Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Together 2012, London, UK and VibraFusionLab. Curated by Samuel Thulin and David Bobier.
“Other Energies”, Holding Patterns, ArtSpin. A collaborative installation with Mitchell Akiyama.
Toronto, ON.
“Hear, See, Feel, What” a collaboration between VibraFusionLab and Centre3, Hamilton
featuring Disabled and abled artists. The project was presented in both London and Hamilton simultaneously
2017 “VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices In Accessibility, Art and Communication”, Thames
-2019 Art Gallery, Chatham, ON. Tour venues include VibraFusionLab, London, ON; Centre(3), Hamilton, ON; Vtape.
2017 “Sensorium”, Museum London, London, ON
“Night Sparrow”, Museum London, London, ON
“Deirdre Logue: admiring all we accomplish”, Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto, ON (a collaborative exhibition with VibraFusionLab)
2015 Electric Eclectics Festival, ‘touch~sound~pulse’ installation, Meaford, ON
“Pop Up Shop”, Barton Street site specific media arts exhibition with June Pak, Camille Turner and David Bobier. Curated by Jim Riley, (catalogue), Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON
“Orchestra of the Tactile”, a vibrotactile/sound performance with Marla Hlady, Alison O’Daniel, Gordon Monahan and David Bobier. Music Gallery. Organized by InterAccess and VibraFusionLab. Toronto, ON
2013 “Real or Perceived - David Bobier, Grahame Lynch, Lorette C. Luzajic”, Durham Art Gallery,
Durham, ON
“No Boys With Frogs”, DNA artspace, London, ON “Observations Ongoing: Recent Acquisitions”, Museum London, London, ON
2011 Art Gallery of Windsor Biennial, e-Catalogue, Juried by Ian Baxter&
Nuit Blanche, "Fly By Night", The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (as o'honey collective)
"Cooker Show 4", International Ornamental Metal Museum, TCB Sculpin' Team member
(Ontario), Memphis, Tennesse
2010 Lebel Gallery, University of Windsor (Faculty exhibition)
2006 “Printed Matter: IMAGO, 20 years of contemporary printmaking”, Galerie d’art-Louise-et
Reuben Cohen, Centre Universitaire de Moncton, Moncton, NB
2000-02 “Dust on the Road: Canadian Artists in Dialogue with SAHMAT”, York Quay Gallery,
Toronto; Galleries@Galleria, London; Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver; MIA,
Montreal; Curators: Ron Benner and Patricia Deadman; Amir Ali Alibhai and Peter White. Organized by Hoopoe Curatorial
1994 “Catalyst”, London Regional Art and Historical Museums
1992 “IMPACT: Public Installations by Artists of Atlantic Canada”, Moncton, Curated and publication
essays by Terry Graff and Luc Charette
1991 “New Art Brunswick”, Gallery Connexion and UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, Curated by Michael
Lawlor
1990 “streetsmART”, Halifax. Juried storefront art project with catalogue
1989 “Art Takes All”. Provincial Invitational, former Moncton Library building
1988 “Printed Matter Beyond My Time Frame” Modern Fuel, Kingston and Kitchener/Waterloo Art
Gallery. National juried print exhibition with catalogue
1987 “Innovation: Subject and Technique”, The Gallery, University of Toronto. National juried print
exhibition.
1984 “Southwest ‘44", Art Gallery of Windsor. Juried
1983 “Artcite Public Installations”, University of Windsor. Juried with catalogue
“Painting and Drawing”, Focus Gallery, Detroit. Juried, “Michigan-Ontario 4", Comerica Gallery,
Detroit. Juried
1979 “Eleven London Artists”, The Gallery, Stratford. Invitational with catalogue
1978 “London-Banff Exchange”, Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff
Public Commissions
‘WELCOME HANDS’, East Community Centre Commission
London, Ontario
‘GOOD HANDS’, Tolpuddle Martyr`s Public Art Commission
London and District Labour Council and the City of London
Co-recipient with Leslie Putnam
London, Ontario
Past Shortlisted Public Commissions
‘HELPING HANDS’, Bruce Flowers Sculpture Garden Commission (2022), Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario
‘WELCOME’, Haliburton Forest Public Sculpture Commission (2013), Haliburton, Ontario
‘NEST’, Lansdowne Public Art Competition (2009)
Toronto Transit Commission
Toronto, Ontario
ARTICLES/PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
Eliza Chandler. ‘Haptic Voices’ exhibition. InterAccess and Tangled Art Gallery
Megan MacLauren. ‘Circular Logics: A national survey of artists who build worlds beyond the visible’. Canadian Art. March 23, 2021
Shauna Jean Doherty. ‘VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices in Accessibility, Art and Communication’ touring exhibition.
Justine Walker. ‘David Bobier & VibraFusionLab’. READi 2022-23
OtherAbilities. “Transcommunicator & Scored in Silence – Haptic Room Studies,” 2019.
Ignagni, Esther. “Dispatch: Interview with David Bobier.” Studies in Social Justice 15, no. 2 (2021): 282–87
Sarah Oakley. ‘Vibration Is the Foundation of Life: David Bobier and Accessibility in the Arts’. Centred.ca. July 21, 2024
Kim Sawchuk, Samuel Thulin. ‘An Interview with David Bobier of VibraFusionLab'. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. CJDS10.2 (August 2021)
PERSONAL PRESENTATIONS
2024 ‘Inclusive Technology and the Art of Accessibility’, Making Sense Symposium. University of Ioannina, Greece
2023 ‘Accessible Art and Placemaking’ Roundtable Participant. STEPS Public Art, Toronto, ON
‘Considering vibrotactile access to music’. Sony Music Ltd., Toronto, ON
2022 ‘Creating Community Through Technology and the Arts’, PIVOT Symposium, Cotton Factory, Hamilton, ON
‘Vibrotactility As Access To The Arts’, TWIXTLab: art, anthropology and the everyday. Athens, Greece
‘SYNC Gouter’, CoMotion Festival. Harbourfront, Toronto, ON
‘Vibrotactility As Access To The Arts’, presentation and workshop. SOUND Of Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
‘Digital Disability Dance Project’ weeklong workshop. Propeller Integrated Dance Company, Ottawa, ON
‘ASL and Music for Deaf and Hearing Artists’ Gaitrie Persaud and David Bobier, SOUND Off Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
2021 ‘Digital Practices in Bridging Accessibility, Art and Communication’ workshop. SOUND OFF Deaf Festival, Edmonton, Alberta and Kickstart Disability, Vancouver, BC.
‘Collections and Accessibility’. Ontario Association of Art Galleries panel member.
‘Digital Practices in Bridging Accessibility, Art and Communication’ ENABLE Symposium panel member, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 'Access Is Love and Love Is Complicated’ panel member. Critical Distance Centre for Curators. Toronto, ON.
‘Anxiety In The Art World’, Moderator on panel panel with Deirdre Logue, Christiana Myers, Gloria Swan and Tommy Truong. Inter Access, Toronto.
‘The Other Abilities: An artistic proposition that challenges our perception of ‘dis’-ability’,
Invited presenter. BROEDPLAATS LELY, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March)
2018 ‘Ideas Digital Forum’, Invited panellist. Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa.
‘Accessibility Conference’, University of Guelph. Invited presenter.
Critical Disability Studies Working Group presenter, Canadian Association for Theater Research Conference, Queens University.
2016 'VibraFusionLab; A Model of Inclusive Arts Practice', International Symposium on Adaptive Technology for Music and Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
'And a great time will be had by all: Envisioning Inclusive Art Practices, Presentations and
Places'. Cripping The Arts Symposium. Organized by Tangled Arts + Disability, Ryerson University,
Toronto
'Envisioning Inclusive Art Practices, Presentations and Places'. DEAFinitions: A Deaf Studies
Conference, Hampshire College, Hampshire, Massachusetts
'creating crip: mad/ crip/ Deaf art practices'. Symposium Inviting Movements: Emerging Critical
Disability & Deaf Perspectives and Practices, Concordia University, Montreal
2015 'New Performance Instrumentation'. In collaboration with Pauline Oliveros and Centre for Deep
Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
'Inclusionary Art Practices Through Adaptive Technologies'. AARCO ‘Artists at the Centre’
Conference, Toronto, ON
'Studies In Sound and Vibration'. TIES (Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium),
New Adventures In Sound Art, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, ON
2014 'in/fuse17'. Noiseborder Ensemble, University of Windsor
'Evolve or Perish'. Media Arts Network Ontario conference. Panel presentation. Ottawa, ON
MECHA KUCHA, InterAccess 30th Anniversary. An evening of 3-minute talks by 30 media arts
Practitioners who have shaped and transformed new media art practices over the last three
decades. DrakeHotel,Toronto
'VibraFusionLab: Innovative centre for arts-based vibrotactile research and creative practice'.
Function Keys Conference: Conference of New Technology and Digital Culture,
Centre3, Hamilton, ON
in/fuse 17: Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, U of Windsor.
2013 'Intersecting Abilities'. COMMON PULSE Arts and Disability Festival. Durham Art Gallery,
Durham, ON
'@Word Hoard'. Art Lab, School of Visual Arts, Western University, London, ON
'The Vibro-Tactile as a Creative Medium'. Ignite London, Aeolian Hall, London, ON
2102 'Vibro-tactile As A Creative Medium'. Ignite London, Aeolian Hall, London, ON
The UnLab, Convergence Centre, University of Western Ontario. Workshop on Vibrational
Creation and Composition with invited regional visual, performance and sound artists and
musicians. London, ON
2011 'Creation Through Vibration'. Subtle Technologies Festival, symposium presentation and
demonstration, Innes Town Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
BOBIER/VIBRAFUSIONLAB PERFORMANCES
2024 “Among the Rocks”, sound installation and performance. La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
2020 “Feeling Sound, Performing Access” sound art performance with Marla Hlady, Ellen Moffat and
Gordon Monahan. Guelph Museums, Guelph, ON
2016 “PULSE”: Audio/Vibrotactile performance, Function Keys Symposium, Centre(3) Print and Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
Long Winter Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 “Orchestra of the Tactile” performance with Marla Hlady, Gordon Monahan, Alison O’Daniel and
David Bobier The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON
“WORDS: through poetry, song, drawing and vibration”, WORDS Festival, Museum London,
London, ON
“Hear Here’ Music Series”, featuring The Haptics of VibraFusionLab (David Bobier, Leslie Putnam, Jordan Cutler), Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2014 Wearable Technology Fashion Show. Hosted by DH MakerBus. Museum London, London, ON.
2013 "Studies in Sound and Vibration". Featuring Dennis Siren, Audio Lodge and Transmorphous Sound
Ensemble. Nuit Blanche, Museum London, London, ON
“Hear Here” Music Series, Forest City Gallery
BOBIER/VIBRAFUSIONLAB PROJECTS
2024-25‘Resident Artists’, Erin Ball and Maxime Beauregard’, circus performance workshops, Hamilton,
ON
‘Resident Artist’, Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher
2024 ‘Haptic Horizons', Resident Artists’, 2 3-week residencies with 8 Deaf, disabled and Indigenous Canadian artists
‘Sync Ignite’ in collaboration with Sync Canada. Toronto, ON and Calgary, Alberta
‘What I: Sprirtuality’, collaborative sound project with Leon Louder. Music Gallery, Toronto
‘Je ne vais pas inonder la mer’, collaborative dance project with Mexican choreographer and performer Sonia Bustos. MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels), Montreal, Quebec
‘This Body of Work: Rendering, Reassembling, and Performing Motherworlds’, collaborative project with The Sense Archives. Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2023 ‘ICONIC+’. National accessArts Centre, Calgary, Alberta
Sweet Labour Art Collective, London, Ontario
‘Marginal Dramaturgies’. Montreal, Ontario
‘Scored In Silence’ a collaborative production with Deaf UK dancer and choreographer Chisato Minamimura. FOLDA Festival of Live Digital Art, Kingston, Ontario
2022-23’This Body of Work’, the senses project, Halifax, NS
‘Senses Cabaret’ Burlesque Performance iwith 5 disabled performance artists. Calgary, Alberta
’Carbon Movements’, The Invisible Practice. Vibrotactile performance with Deaf artist to be presented at SOUND Off Festival 2023. Edmonton, Alberta.
‘Haptic Voices’ tour. Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice, Hamilton, ON; InterAccess,Toronto, ON; Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
‘Digital Disability Dance Network Project’, Propeller Dance. Ottawa, ON
‘Aerial Circus Project with double leg amputee Erin Ball’. Kingston, ON
2022 ‘Speaking Vibrations’, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, ON
2020-22‘Sync Canada’ in collaboration with disabled Managers Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent, UK.
2020 Offering leadership mentoring workshop for D/deaf and disabled artists and arts managers.
‘Migrations’. Collaborative vibrotactile project with Helen Dewhurst, Brighton, UK
‘Defiant Journey’. Collaborative vibrotactile project with disabled cellist Jo-anne Cox, London, UK.
2019-20‘TWEET, TWEET’ with femme du feu. Adding vibrotactile to children’s circus program.
’Blurring the Boundaries’. Sponsored by British Council, Farnham Maltings , and the HighCommission of Canada in the UK. A collaborative project with Drake Music Lab, UK, Charles Matthews, disabled musician Gift Tshuma, Montreal; Propeller Integrated Dance, Ottawa; and Milieux, Concordia University
2018-19’New Conversations’. Sponsored by British Council Canada. Collaboration with Together 2012, London, UK; Milieux, Concordia University
2018-19‘Flourishing’. 7 emerging Canadian Deaf/Disabled artists. Tangled Art Gallery. Independent Curator. Sponsored by Canadian Association for Community Living.
2018 ‘Scored In Silence’, a collaborative new production by Deaf UK dancer and choreograph Chisato Minamimura. Showcased at Brighton Digital Festival and Manchester Science Festival, 2018. Selected for the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival 2019
2016-23’Bodies In Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life’. Project partner and stream co-ordinator. University of Guelph, Guelph and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
2016 Muse Seek Project with Maria Battle. Develop a music education program and audio/vibrotactile studio for National School for the Deaf, Dominican Republic
VibraFusionLab Visiting Artist Program. Hosting Moe Clark, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Moffat, Lindsay Fisher
2015 Array Session #28: The Emoti-Chair, Array Space, Toronto, ON. Presentation of vibrotactile compositions created at VibraFusionLab by Rick Sacks, Brent Lee, Allison Cameron, Gayle Young, Emilie L Lebel, Stephane Vera, Jason Doell, Dennis Siren, Jordan Cutler.
2014 `Contemporary Composers Workshop I`, Vibrational Composition Workshop and Performances.
Gayle Young, Allison Cameron, Brent Lee, Windsor, ON, Dennis Siren, London, ON.
‘Deaf Focus Workshop’, Collaborative project hosting Chisato Minamimura, Deaf Dance
Choreographer, London, UK; SPiLL PROpagation (Tiphaine Girault-Bath) Deaf Performance and
Multi-Media artist, Gatineau, Quebec; Catherine MacKinnon, Director, Toronto international Deaf Film and Arts Festival, Toronto; Julie Chateauvert, Supervisor, New Media Lab, OBORO, Montreal.
`Contemporary Composers Workshop II`, Vibrational Composition Workshop and Performances.
Stephane Vera, Jason Doell, Emilie C. Lebel, Rick Sacks,
VibraFusionLab Visiting Artist Program. Hosting Gordon Monahan, Marla Hlady, Alison O’Daniel
(Hard of Hearing artist, Los Angeles), Ellen Moffat, Chisato Minamimura, (Deaf dance choreographer from London, UK)
2013 VibraFusionLab partnered with Unity Project, Orchestra London and TAD Inc. to provide access
for the Deaf to a unique vibrotactile experience of The Christmas Carol
'Creation Through Vibration', Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival, Workshop on Vibrational Creation and Composition with 6 invited Deaf filmmakers, Innes Town Hall, University of Toronto, ON
KEY ADVISORY ROLES
2023 MAP-TN (Media Arts Presenter & Touring Network) Accessibility Caucus, Media Arts Network Ontario
2022 Dobble Debate to promote discussion and education about dis- and differing abilities.
Lead researchers Nina Czegledy and Lynne Heller, OCADU, Toronto
2018 Selected Presenter, Global Disability Summit, London, UK
2017 British Council Canada Delegate to Unlimited Festival, London, UK
Invited Participant, Canada Council for the Arts – The Arts in a Digital World Summit
2016 ‘Bodies In Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life’ Project. Social Sciences and
-2023 Humanities Research Council grant. College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph and Tangled Arts + Disability. Co-coordinator of Art and Technology Stream. VibraFusionLab is a partner.
2014 Independent Focus Advisory group (invitational) – Strategic Plan 2015-2020 (1 day), Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
Sounding Advisory group (invitational) – Establish criteria for new long-term Equity Funding Program (2 day), Canada Council for the Arts
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Beam Residency, Thessaloniki, Greece 2025 (October)
Canadian Artist Foundation Residency, Château de La Napoule,
France 2024
Monte Azul Residency, André s Cañ as Barahona Fellowship Award
Costa Rica 2024
Tangible Radio Residency, TWIXT Lab, Athens, Greece 2023
Mauser EcoHouse Artist Residency, Costa Rica 2023
Inclusive Media and Design Centre, Ryerson University 2010-2017
Robarts School for the Deaf, London, ON 1999- 2002
Fanshawe College, London, ON 1995
St. Michael's Printshop, St. John`s, NFLD 1990
Newfoundland Sound Symposium, St. John`s, NFLD 1990
GRANTS (Personal and VibraFusionLab)
The Canada Council Cultivate Grant, (1)
Strategic Funds and Initiatives, SEED Grant (1)
Strategic Funds and Initiatives Digital Now (1)
Sector Innovation and Development Grant (5)
Concept to Realization Project Grant (2)
CC-Grand NCE Project Grant (1)
Media Arts Project (4)
Inter Arts Project (1)
Travel Grants to Media Arts Professionals: International Residencies (2)
Visual Arts Project Grant (3)
B/Creation Grant (3)
Atlantic Project Grant (1)
Short Term Grant (1)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2)
In partnership with Inclusive Media and Design Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University
‘Bodies In Translation’, In partnership with College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph, Toronto Metropolitan University and Tangled Arts + Disability
‘Sari-Sari Xchange Project’, In partnership with McMaster University and York University
Ontario Arts Council Visual and Media Arts Project (1)
Media Arts Project (3)
Media Artist Project (2)
Integrated Arts Project (2)
Mid-Career Grant (1)
Arts Education Project Grant (1)
Emerging Artist Grant (1)
Exhibition Assistance Grant (8)
New Brunswick Creation Grant (1)
Arts Board Exhibition Assistance Grant (3)
Travel Grant (3)
British Council Canada – Quebec/UK Connections (1). In partnership with Together 2012, London, UK, Concordia University and Province of Quebec
’New Conversations’ grant. British Council, Farnham Maltings, and the High Commission of Canada in the UK.
Stimuleringsfonds Begroting Grant, Amsterdam, Netherlands. In partnership with Adi Hollander and Public Space With A Roof.
EDUCATION
Diploma in Fine Arts – Fanshawe College, London, Ontario
Post Diploma Studies – Cardiff College of Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Bachelor of Fine Arts – Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Masters of Fine Arts – University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
CURRENT ARTISTIC AFFILIATIONS
Professional Artist
VibraFusionLab - Founder and Director/Curator, Thorndale and Hamilton, ON
o'honey collective - with artist Leslie Putnam
London Ontario Media Arts Association (LOMAA) – Founder, Board Member, Past Chair
Media Arts Network Ontario (MANO/RAMO) –Member and Accessibility Advisor
blurring the boundaries - Co-Founder and Board Member
ARTISTIC PRACTICE - SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2025-26”Water Elements”, New Adventures In Sound Art, South River, ON and White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON. Sound composition for 10 channel vibrotactile wall installation.
2022 “Erring at King George Festival”, organized by Public Energy and co-presented by Artspace Peterborough and The Art Gallery of Peterborough, Peterborough, Ontario (May, 2022)
2017 Strand Fine Arts, London
2010 Strand Fine Arts, London
2002 “The Paths that Differ”, McIntosh Gallery, London
1998 “The Twain Shall Meet”, Mercer Union, Toronto
1995-96 “Signing On - adopting a cultural perspective”. Catalogue and video publication. Essays by Heather Gibson and Dr. Anita Small (Deaf education and cultural specialists) and Dale Barrett.
Project organized by McIntosh Gallery and toured to Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Thames
Art Gallery and Glenhyrst Art Gallery.
1994 “Another Roadside Attraction”, White Water Gallery, North Bay
1993 Glendon Gallery, Toronto
1992 “Flowers of Wind, Fires of Time”, Artcite, Windsor
1991 “Stop Making Sense(s)”, Obscure, Quebec City
1990 “Winds of Change”, UNB Art Centre. Publication essay by Roslyn Rosenfeld
1989 “Ten Fan Habit And A One Man Band - In Concert”, Owens Art Gallery
1988 “Domestic Effects”, Memorial University Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery, Acadia
University Art Gallery. Publication.
“ON SITE - The Artist in the Environment”. Outdoor installation organized by Memorial
University Art Gallery
“Newfoundland Sound Symposium ‘88". Sound installation, LSPU Hall. Catalogue
1987 “Recent Stuff”, Galerie Sans Nom, Moncton; Musee Madawaska, Edmunston;
Great George Street Gallery, Charlottetown
1985 Niagara Artists Centre, St. Catherines
1984 Forest City Gallery, London
“Eight Exhibitions”, College Park, Toronto
“He’s A Sculpture You Know!”, Artcite, Windsor
1981 London Regional Art Gallery
Two Person
2025 “Untitled (TBD)”, collaboration of VibraFusionLab with Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher. Art Essex-Windsor
“Haptic Voices”, David Bobier and Jim Ruxton (VibraFusionLab). NAISA (New Adventures In Sound Art), South River, ON and White Water Gallery, North Bay, ON
2023-24“Haptic Voices”, David Bobier and Jim Ruxton (VibraFusionLab). InterAccess and Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto; Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice, Hamilton, ON
2019 “body language”, Dani Crosby and David Bobier. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, ON
(October 2019 – January 2020)
2014 “re: inhabit”, o’honey collective (David Bobier and Leslie Putnam), Thames Art Gallery
1990-91 “Elan Vitale: The Comedy of David Bobier and Terry Graff”. Organized by Owens Art Gallery and
toured to Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Aitken Bicentennial Art
Centre. Curated and catalogue essay by Ted Fraser.
Group
2025 “ON::View Revue”, Ellis Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2024 “Voices Embodied”, Design Museum of Chicago, Chicago, Illinios. Curator – Alex Stark
“Love Languages”, Art Essex-Windsor, Windsor, ON. Curator – Julie Rae Tucker
“Wild Alchemy”, Broken Forest Collective. Assembly Hall Gallery, Etobicoke; TIMMINS Museum and National Exhibition Centre; Novah Gallery, North Bay. An O’Honey collaboration.
2022 “Polypores and More”, Broken Forests Collective, High Park installation, Toronto, ON
“Not Born Yesterday, Not Going Away”, CoMotion Festival, Harbourfront. Curated by Alex Bulmer, Sponsored by Nordic Bridges, Toronto, ON
2019-20“VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices In Accessibility, Art and Communication”, Guelph Civic Museum, Guelph, ON
2019 Outliers On Tour’, Tangled Art Gallery. Collaborative work with Christine Negus, Toronto.
“The Other Abilities”, BROEDPLAATS LELY, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March).
2018 “VIBE: transforming ableism through the arts”, Curated exhibition. 4th Space, Concordia
University, Montreal, Quebec, Together 2012, London, UK and VibraFusionLab. Curated by Samuel Thulin and David Bobier.
“Other Energies”, Holding Patterns, ArtSpin. A collaborative installation with Mitchell Akiyama.
Toronto, ON.
“Hear, See, Feel, What” a collaboration between VibraFusionLab and Centre3, Hamilton
featuring Disabled and abled artists. The project was presented in both London and Hamilton simultaneously
2017 “VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices In Accessibility, Art and Communication”, Thames
-2019 Art Gallery, Chatham, ON. Tour venues include VibraFusionLab, London, ON; Centre(3), Hamilton, ON; Vtape.
2017 “Sensorium”, Museum London, London, ON
“Night Sparrow”, Museum London, London, ON
“Deirdre Logue: admiring all we accomplish”, Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto, ON (a collaborative exhibition with VibraFusionLab)
2015 Electric Eclectics Festival, ‘touch~sound~pulse’ installation, Meaford, ON
“Pop Up Shop”, Barton Street site specific media arts exhibition with June Pak, Camille Turner and David Bobier. Curated by Jim Riley, (catalogue), Centre[3] for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, ON
“Orchestra of the Tactile”, a vibrotactile/sound performance with Marla Hlady, Alison O’Daniel, Gordon Monahan and David Bobier. Music Gallery. Organized by InterAccess and VibraFusionLab. Toronto, ON
2013 “Real or Perceived - David Bobier, Grahame Lynch, Lorette C. Luzajic”, Durham Art Gallery,
Durham, ON
“No Boys With Frogs”, DNA artspace, London, ON “Observations Ongoing: Recent Acquisitions”, Museum London, London, ON
2011 Art Gallery of Windsor Biennial, e-Catalogue, Juried by Ian Baxter&
Nuit Blanche, "Fly By Night", The Gladstone Hotel, Toronto (as o'honey collective)
"Cooker Show 4", International Ornamental Metal Museum, TCB Sculpin' Team member
(Ontario), Memphis, Tennesse
2010 Lebel Gallery, University of Windsor (Faculty exhibition)
2006 “Printed Matter: IMAGO, 20 years of contemporary printmaking”, Galerie d’art-Louise-et
Reuben Cohen, Centre Universitaire de Moncton, Moncton, NB
2000-02 “Dust on the Road: Canadian Artists in Dialogue with SAHMAT”, York Quay Gallery,
Toronto; Galleries@Galleria, London; Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver; MIA,
Montreal; Curators: Ron Benner and Patricia Deadman; Amir Ali Alibhai and Peter White. Organized by Hoopoe Curatorial
1994 “Catalyst”, London Regional Art and Historical Museums
1992 “IMPACT: Public Installations by Artists of Atlantic Canada”, Moncton, Curated and publication
essays by Terry Graff and Luc Charette
1991 “New Art Brunswick”, Gallery Connexion and UNB Art Centre, Fredericton, Curated by Michael
Lawlor
1990 “streetsmART”, Halifax. Juried storefront art project with catalogue
1989 “Art Takes All”. Provincial Invitational, former Moncton Library building
1988 “Printed Matter Beyond My Time Frame” Modern Fuel, Kingston and Kitchener/Waterloo Art
Gallery. National juried print exhibition with catalogue
1987 “Innovation: Subject and Technique”, The Gallery, University of Toronto. National juried print
exhibition.
1984 “Southwest ‘44", Art Gallery of Windsor. Juried
1983 “Artcite Public Installations”, University of Windsor. Juried with catalogue
“Painting and Drawing”, Focus Gallery, Detroit. Juried, “Michigan-Ontario 4", Comerica Gallery,
Detroit. Juried
1979 “Eleven London Artists”, The Gallery, Stratford. Invitational with catalogue
1978 “London-Banff Exchange”, Peter Whyte Gallery, Banff
Public Commissions
‘WELCOME HANDS’, East Community Centre Commission
London, Ontario
‘GOOD HANDS’, Tolpuddle Martyr`s Public Art Commission
London and District Labour Council and the City of London
Co-recipient with Leslie Putnam
London, Ontario
Past Shortlisted Public Commissions
‘HELPING HANDS’, Bruce Flowers Sculpture Garden Commission (2022), Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario
‘WELCOME’, Haliburton Forest Public Sculpture Commission (2013), Haliburton, Ontario
‘NEST’, Lansdowne Public Art Competition (2009)
Toronto Transit Commission
Toronto, Ontario
ARTICLES/PUBLICATIONS/INTERVIEWS
Eliza Chandler. ‘Haptic Voices’ exhibition. InterAccess and Tangled Art Gallery
Megan MacLauren. ‘Circular Logics: A national survey of artists who build worlds beyond the visible’. Canadian Art. March 23, 2021
Shauna Jean Doherty. ‘VibraFusionLab: Bridging Practices in Accessibility, Art and Communication’ touring exhibition.
Justine Walker. ‘David Bobier & VibraFusionLab’. READi 2022-23
OtherAbilities. “Transcommunicator & Scored in Silence – Haptic Room Studies,” 2019.
Ignagni, Esther. “Dispatch: Interview with David Bobier.” Studies in Social Justice 15, no. 2 (2021): 282–87
Sarah Oakley. ‘Vibration Is the Foundation of Life: David Bobier and Accessibility in the Arts’. Centred.ca. July 21, 2024
Kim Sawchuk, Samuel Thulin. ‘An Interview with David Bobier of VibraFusionLab'. Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. CJDS10.2 (August 2021)
PERSONAL PRESENTATIONS
2024 ‘Inclusive Technology and the Art of Accessibility’, Making Sense Symposium. University of Ioannina, Greece
2023 ‘Accessible Art and Placemaking’ Roundtable Participant. STEPS Public Art, Toronto, ON
‘Considering vibrotactile access to music’. Sony Music Ltd., Toronto, ON
2022 ‘Creating Community Through Technology and the Arts’, PIVOT Symposium, Cotton Factory, Hamilton, ON
‘Vibrotactility As Access To The Arts’, TWIXTLab: art, anthropology and the everyday. Athens, Greece
‘SYNC Gouter’, CoMotion Festival. Harbourfront, Toronto, ON
‘Vibrotactility As Access To The Arts’, presentation and workshop. SOUND Of Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
‘Digital Disability Dance Project’ weeklong workshop. Propeller Integrated Dance Company, Ottawa, ON
‘ASL and Music for Deaf and Hearing Artists’ Gaitrie Persaud and David Bobier, SOUND Off Festival, Edmonton, Alberta
2021 ‘Digital Practices in Bridging Accessibility, Art and Communication’ workshop. SOUND OFF Deaf Festival, Edmonton, Alberta and Kickstart Disability, Vancouver, BC.
‘Collections and Accessibility’. Ontario Association of Art Galleries panel member.
‘Digital Practices in Bridging Accessibility, Art and Communication’ ENABLE Symposium panel member, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario
2019 'Access Is Love and Love Is Complicated’ panel member. Critical Distance Centre for Curators. Toronto, ON.
‘Anxiety In The Art World’, Moderator on panel panel with Deirdre Logue, Christiana Myers, Gloria Swan and Tommy Truong. Inter Access, Toronto.
‘The Other Abilities: An artistic proposition that challenges our perception of ‘dis’-ability’,
Invited presenter. BROEDPLAATS LELY, Amsterdam, Netherlands (March)
2018 ‘Ideas Digital Forum’, Invited panellist. Robert McLaughlin Art Gallery, Oshawa.
‘Accessibility Conference’, University of Guelph. Invited presenter.
Critical Disability Studies Working Group presenter, Canadian Association for Theater Research Conference, Queens University.
2016 'VibraFusionLab; A Model of Inclusive Arts Practice', International Symposium on Adaptive Technology for Music and Art, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
'And a great time will be had by all: Envisioning Inclusive Art Practices, Presentations and
Places'. Cripping The Arts Symposium. Organized by Tangled Arts + Disability, Ryerson University,
Toronto
'Envisioning Inclusive Art Practices, Presentations and Places'. DEAFinitions: A Deaf Studies
Conference, Hampshire College, Hampshire, Massachusetts
'creating crip: mad/ crip/ Deaf art practices'. Symposium Inviting Movements: Emerging Critical
Disability & Deaf Perspectives and Practices, Concordia University, Montreal
2015 'New Performance Instrumentation'. In collaboration with Pauline Oliveros and Centre for Deep
Listening, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
'Inclusionary Art Practices Through Adaptive Technologies'. AARCO ‘Artists at the Centre’
Conference, Toronto, ON
'Studies In Sound and Vibration'. TIES (Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium),
New Adventures In Sound Art, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, ON
2014 'in/fuse17'. Noiseborder Ensemble, University of Windsor
'Evolve or Perish'. Media Arts Network Ontario conference. Panel presentation. Ottawa, ON
MECHA KUCHA, InterAccess 30th Anniversary. An evening of 3-minute talks by 30 media arts
Practitioners who have shaped and transformed new media art practices over the last three
decades. DrakeHotel,Toronto
'VibraFusionLab: Innovative centre for arts-based vibrotactile research and creative practice'.
Function Keys Conference: Conference of New Technology and Digital Culture,
Centre3, Hamilton, ON
in/fuse 17: Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, U of Windsor.
2013 'Intersecting Abilities'. COMMON PULSE Arts and Disability Festival. Durham Art Gallery,
Durham, ON
'@Word Hoard'. Art Lab, School of Visual Arts, Western University, London, ON
'The Vibro-Tactile as a Creative Medium'. Ignite London, Aeolian Hall, London, ON
2102 'Vibro-tactile As A Creative Medium'. Ignite London, Aeolian Hall, London, ON
The UnLab, Convergence Centre, University of Western Ontario. Workshop on Vibrational
Creation and Composition with invited regional visual, performance and sound artists and
musicians. London, ON
2011 'Creation Through Vibration'. Subtle Technologies Festival, symposium presentation and
demonstration, Innes Town Hall, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
BOBIER/VIBRAFUSIONLAB PERFORMANCES
2024 “Among the Rocks”, sound installation and performance. La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu-La Napoule, France
2020 “Feeling Sound, Performing Access” sound art performance with Marla Hlady, Ellen Moffat and
Gordon Monahan. Guelph Museums, Guelph, ON
2016 “PULSE”: Audio/Vibrotactile performance, Function Keys Symposium, Centre(3) Print and Media Centre, Hamilton, ON
Long Winter Festival, Toronto, ON
2015 “Orchestra of the Tactile” performance with Marla Hlady, Gordon Monahan, Alison O’Daniel and
David Bobier The Music Gallery, Toronto, ON
“WORDS: through poetry, song, drawing and vibration”, WORDS Festival, Museum London,
London, ON
“Hear Here’ Music Series”, featuring The Haptics of VibraFusionLab (David Bobier, Leslie Putnam, Jordan Cutler), Forest City Gallery, London, ON
2014 Wearable Technology Fashion Show. Hosted by DH MakerBus. Museum London, London, ON.
2013 "Studies in Sound and Vibration". Featuring Dennis Siren, Audio Lodge and Transmorphous Sound
Ensemble. Nuit Blanche, Museum London, London, ON
“Hear Here” Music Series, Forest City Gallery
BOBIER/VIBRAFUSIONLAB PROJECTS
2024-25‘Resident Artists’, Erin Ball and Maxime Beauregard’, circus performance workshops, Hamilton,
ON
‘Resident Artist’, Indigenous artist Vanessa Dion Fletcher
2024 ‘Haptic Horizons', Resident Artists’, 2 3-week residencies with 8 Deaf, disabled and Indigenous Canadian artists
‘Sync Ignite’ in collaboration with Sync Canada. Toronto, ON and Calgary, Alberta
‘What I: Sprirtuality’, collaborative sound project with Leon Louder. Music Gallery, Toronto
‘Je ne vais pas inonder la mer’, collaborative dance project with Mexican choreographer and performer Sonia Bustos. MAI (Montreal, arts interculturels), Montreal, Quebec
‘This Body of Work: Rendering, Reassembling, and Performing Motherworlds’, collaborative project with The Sense Archives. Bus Stop Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia
2023 ‘ICONIC+’. National accessArts Centre, Calgary, Alberta
Sweet Labour Art Collective, London, Ontario
‘Marginal Dramaturgies’. Montreal, Ontario
‘Scored In Silence’ a collaborative production with Deaf UK dancer and choreographer Chisato Minamimura. FOLDA Festival of Live Digital Art, Kingston, Ontario
2022-23’This Body of Work’, the senses project, Halifax, NS
‘Senses Cabaret’ Burlesque Performance iwith 5 disabled performance artists. Calgary, Alberta
’Carbon Movements’, The Invisible Practice. Vibrotactile performance with Deaf artist to be presented at SOUND Off Festival 2023. Edmonton, Alberta.
‘Haptic Voices’ tour. Centre[3] for Artistic and Social Practice, Hamilton, ON; InterAccess,Toronto, ON; Tangled Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
‘Digital Disability Dance Network Project’, Propeller Dance. Ottawa, ON
‘Aerial Circus Project with double leg amputee Erin Ball’. Kingston, ON
2022 ‘Speaking Vibrations’, Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, ON
2020-22‘Sync Canada’ in collaboration with disabled Managers Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent, UK.
2020 Offering leadership mentoring workshop for D/deaf and disabled artists and arts managers.
‘Migrations’. Collaborative vibrotactile project with Helen Dewhurst, Brighton, UK
‘Defiant Journey’. Collaborative vibrotactile project with disabled cellist Jo-anne Cox, London, UK.
2019-20‘TWEET, TWEET’ with femme du feu. Adding vibrotactile to children’s circus program.
’Blurring the Boundaries’. Sponsored by British Council, Farnham Maltings , and the HighCommission of Canada in the UK. A collaborative project with Drake Music Lab, UK, Charles Matthews, disabled musician Gift Tshuma, Montreal; Propeller Integrated Dance, Ottawa; and Milieux, Concordia University
2018-19’New Conversations’. Sponsored by British Council Canada. Collaboration with Together 2012, London, UK; Milieux, Concordia University
2018-19‘Flourishing’. 7 emerging Canadian Deaf/Disabled artists. Tangled Art Gallery. Independent Curator. Sponsored by Canadian Association for Community Living.
2018 ‘Scored In Silence’, a collaborative new production by Deaf UK dancer and choreograph Chisato Minamimura. Showcased at Brighton Digital Festival and Manchester Science Festival, 2018. Selected for the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival 2019
2016-23’Bodies In Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life’. Project partner and stream co-ordinator. University of Guelph, Guelph and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
2016 Muse Seek Project with Maria Battle. Develop a music education program and audio/vibrotactile studio for National School for the Deaf, Dominican Republic
VibraFusionLab Visiting Artist Program. Hosting Moe Clark, Jesse Stewart, Ellen Moffat, Lindsay Fisher
2015 Array Session #28: The Emoti-Chair, Array Space, Toronto, ON. Presentation of vibrotactile compositions created at VibraFusionLab by Rick Sacks, Brent Lee, Allison Cameron, Gayle Young, Emilie L Lebel, Stephane Vera, Jason Doell, Dennis Siren, Jordan Cutler.
2014 `Contemporary Composers Workshop I`, Vibrational Composition Workshop and Performances.
Gayle Young, Allison Cameron, Brent Lee, Windsor, ON, Dennis Siren, London, ON.
‘Deaf Focus Workshop’, Collaborative project hosting Chisato Minamimura, Deaf Dance
Choreographer, London, UK; SPiLL PROpagation (Tiphaine Girault-Bath) Deaf Performance and
Multi-Media artist, Gatineau, Quebec; Catherine MacKinnon, Director, Toronto international Deaf Film and Arts Festival, Toronto; Julie Chateauvert, Supervisor, New Media Lab, OBORO, Montreal.
`Contemporary Composers Workshop II`, Vibrational Composition Workshop and Performances.
Stephane Vera, Jason Doell, Emilie C. Lebel, Rick Sacks,
VibraFusionLab Visiting Artist Program. Hosting Gordon Monahan, Marla Hlady, Alison O’Daniel
(Hard of Hearing artist, Los Angeles), Ellen Moffat, Chisato Minamimura, (Deaf dance choreographer from London, UK)
2013 VibraFusionLab partnered with Unity Project, Orchestra London and TAD Inc. to provide access
for the Deaf to a unique vibrotactile experience of The Christmas Carol
'Creation Through Vibration', Toronto International Deaf Film and Arts Festival, Workshop on Vibrational Creation and Composition with 6 invited Deaf filmmakers, Innes Town Hall, University of Toronto, ON
KEY ADVISORY ROLES
2023 MAP-TN (Media Arts Presenter & Touring Network) Accessibility Caucus, Media Arts Network Ontario
2022 Dobble Debate to promote discussion and education about dis- and differing abilities.
Lead researchers Nina Czegledy and Lynne Heller, OCADU, Toronto
2018 Selected Presenter, Global Disability Summit, London, UK
2017 British Council Canada Delegate to Unlimited Festival, London, UK
Invited Participant, Canada Council for the Arts – The Arts in a Digital World Summit
2016 ‘Bodies In Translation: Activist Art, Technology and Access to Life’ Project. Social Sciences and
-2023 Humanities Research Council grant. College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph and Tangled Arts + Disability. Co-coordinator of Art and Technology Stream. VibraFusionLab is a partner.
2014 Independent Focus Advisory group (invitational) – Strategic Plan 2015-2020 (1 day), Ontario Arts Council, Toronto
Sounding Advisory group (invitational) – Establish criteria for new long-term Equity Funding Program (2 day), Canada Council for the Arts
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Beam Residency, Thessaloniki, Greece 2025 (October)
Canadian Artist Foundation Residency, Château de La Napoule,
France 2024
Monte Azul Residency, André s Cañ as Barahona Fellowship Award
Costa Rica 2024
Tangible Radio Residency, TWIXT Lab, Athens, Greece 2023
Mauser EcoHouse Artist Residency, Costa Rica 2023
Inclusive Media and Design Centre, Ryerson University 2010-2017
Robarts School for the Deaf, London, ON 1999- 2002
Fanshawe College, London, ON 1995
St. Michael's Printshop, St. John`s, NFLD 1990
Newfoundland Sound Symposium, St. John`s, NFLD 1990
GRANTS (Personal and VibraFusionLab)
The Canada Council Cultivate Grant, (1)
Strategic Funds and Initiatives, SEED Grant (1)
Strategic Funds and Initiatives Digital Now (1)
Sector Innovation and Development Grant (5)
Concept to Realization Project Grant (2)
CC-Grand NCE Project Grant (1)
Media Arts Project (4)
Inter Arts Project (1)
Travel Grants to Media Arts Professionals: International Residencies (2)
Visual Arts Project Grant (3)
B/Creation Grant (3)
Atlantic Project Grant (1)
Short Term Grant (1)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2)
In partnership with Inclusive Media and Design Centre, Toronto Metropolitan University
‘Bodies In Translation’, In partnership with College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph, Toronto Metropolitan University and Tangled Arts + Disability
‘Sari-Sari Xchange Project’, In partnership with McMaster University and York University
Ontario Arts Council Visual and Media Arts Project (1)
Media Arts Project (3)
Media Artist Project (2)
Integrated Arts Project (2)
Mid-Career Grant (1)
Arts Education Project Grant (1)
Emerging Artist Grant (1)
Exhibition Assistance Grant (8)
New Brunswick Creation Grant (1)
Arts Board Exhibition Assistance Grant (3)
Travel Grant (3)
British Council Canada – Quebec/UK Connections (1). In partnership with Together 2012, London, UK, Concordia University and Province of Quebec
’New Conversations’ grant. British Council, Farnham Maltings, and the High Commission of Canada in the UK.
Stimuleringsfonds Begroting Grant, Amsterdam, Netherlands. In partnership with Adi Hollander and Public Space With A Roof.