Renée Lear was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
EDUCATION
2006 MFA, Visual Arts, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2000 BFA, New Media, School of Image Arts, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2017 Every Shot from Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” as an Animated GIF, Array Space, Toronto, Canada.
2017 Every Shot from Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” as an Animated GIF, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, USA.
2013 Time not a video, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada.
2012 Transition Practice, Experimental Film Festival Portland, White Box Gallery, Portland, USA.
2011 Lost Signal Saturdays with Renée, Art and Drinks, Toronto, Canada. Video lounge/observia created and curated by John Oswald.
2010 Transition Practice, A Month of Sundays, Multi-discipline Performance Series, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Live Video Mixing, Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works Show, Double Double Land, Toronto, Canada.
2008-09 Lighthouse (The Full Moon Series), Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada.
2007 I Deal Window, Nuit Blanche, Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Darling Window Under Wrap and Darling Window (400 photographs in 13 seconds), A Month of Sundays Multi-discipline Performance Series, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Live Video Mixing, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
2006 Public Window, Public Journal Launch, Magpie, Toronto, Canada.
2006 Lighthouse, Kensington Market, Toronto, Canada.
2004 DJ Tipper Mix, Labyrinth, Toronto, Canada. Live video mixing for UK DJ Tipper.
2004 NuBreed Mix, El Mocambo, Toronto, Canada. Live video mixing for Australian band Nu Breed.
2003 Contingent Rhythms, Studio Exhibit, Ward–Wallace Studios, Toronto, Canada.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Moonstruck, the plumb, Toronto, Canada.
2021 The Jenni House Waltz (Images), Zero Gallery Café, Pokhara, Nepal.
2020 Here You Can Only Gain Respect by Killing Other Men, New Toronto Works Tour presented by Pleasure Dome in partnership with: The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC; Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, SK; Winnipeg Film Group, MB; PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK; Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC; Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Online screening events.
2020 Here You Can Only Gain Respect by Killing Other Men, Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Renée Taking a Sip of Water (Human and Video in Motion), Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada.
2013 Landscape Series, The Wire Edits, The Invisible Monster Chapter 1: Slaves of the Phantom, top left corner one-ninth in Under New Management: Video Rental Store, Access Gallery at: Vancouver; ODD Gallery, Dawson City; New Gallery, Calgary; Third Space Gallery, Saint John; Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia; Union Gallery, Kingston, Canada.
2011-12 Landscape Series, The Wire Edits, Exploding Head Shots, Otters in Three, The Invisible Monster Chapter 1: Slaves of the Phantom, top left corner one-ninth, TV Series, Art and Drinks, Toronto, Canada. Video lounge/observia created and curated by John Oswald.
2011 Commute, Gales Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2008 Cosmopolis, Up Darling 4, Toronto, Canada.
2007 In the Hall of the Mountain King, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Live Video Mixing, Projectionist’s Expo, Adrift, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Window Gazing, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
2006 Augusta Window (sunlight through the trees), Nuit Blanche, 64 Steps Contemporary Art and Design, Toronto, Canada.
2006 Sunset Through Augusta Window, 64 Steps Contemporary Art and Design, Toronto, Canada.
2006 The Invisible Monster Chapter 1: Slaves of the Phantom, top left corner one-ninth, Goldfarb Centre for Fine Arts Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2006 The Invisible Monster Chapter 1: Slaves of the Phantom, top left corner one-ninth, 64 Steps Contemporary Art and Design, Toronto, Canada.
2005 Otters in Three, Goldfarb Center for Fine Arts Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada.
COLLABORATIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY EVENTS, PERFORMANCES & EXHIBITIONS
2021 Psycho Flicker, screened as part of the 12 hour online event -AND- curated by Christof Migone.
2021 Owls, Opera, and a Painted Nettle Plant, Film in Focus, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina and YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada. Online screening and conversation in collaboration with artist and musician Josh Thorpe.
2020 The Titillators Concert Video, Arraymusic, Toronto, Canada. Online event for the Rat-drifting music series.
2019 In the Fire, The Rhubarb Festival, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Toronto, Canada. Video projections with aerial performer Holly Treddenick.
2019 The Jenni House Waltz, Available Light Film Festival, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Canada. Video and dance performance with dancer Aimée Dawn Robinson and live music by Scott Maynard and Sam Gallagher.
2018 Video-Dance Hybrid Improvisations, video and dance performances with dancer Aimée Dawn Robinson at the Jenni House Artist Residency, Whitehorse, Canada.
2018 Bestiary, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Canada. Single-channel videos and video installation with ceramic artist Janet Macpherson.
2017 Every Shot from Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” as an Animated GIF, Array Space, Toronto, Canada. Video presentation with live soundtrack by musician Ryan Driver.
2017 A Canadian Bestiary, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada. Single-channel videos and video installation with ceramic artist Janet Macpherson.
2015 Ramble, SummerWorks Performance Festival, The Theatre Centre, Toronto, Canada. Live video mixing, with dancer Aimée Dawn Robinson and musician Scott Maynard.
2014 Hands-on (Hands) and The Work Edit, Toronto’s Festival of House Culture, Toronto, Canada. Live video mixing and single-channel video projection with musician Justin Haynes.
2014 Grub-a-Dub (feat. Dr. Seuss), Tranzac Club, Toronto, Canada. Food, music and video event with musician Ryan Driver and chef Sam Higgs.
2013 The Ballads Reimagined, Saving Gigi, Toronto, Canada . Video projection installation with musicians Lisa Conway and Isla Craig.
2012 I’ll Sit Beside Myself, A Month of Sundays, Multi-discipline Performance Series, Toronto, Canada. Live video/music performance with musician Jennifer Castle.
2011 Rēcord/Rĕcord 2, The Sapphire Room, Peterborough, Canada. Video mixing with DJ Helen M.
2011 Rēcord/Rĕcord 1, Holy Oak Café, Toronto, Canada. Two-channel video projections with DJ Helen M.
2010 Monster Dinner Party: Beast Feast, The Piston, Toronto, Canada. Food, music, and live video event with musician Ryan Driver and chef Sam Higgs.
2008 Exploding Head Shots, Hub 14, Toronto, Canada. Single-channel video projection with musicians Ryan Driver and Justin Haynes.
2008 The Balloons of India, Hub 14, Toronto, Canada. Video mixing performance with musician Ryan Driver.
2008 King Kaboom!, Sun TV television broadcast. Live video projections for Deep Dark United music performance.
2007 In The Mix: Improvised Media Performance Series, Spin Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Video mixing performance with musician Ryan Driver.
2007 Images Festival / Wavelength, Sneaky Dee’s, Toronto, Canada. Live video mixing with musical artists Tinkertoy.
2005 Grub-a-dub, Tranzac Club, Toronto, Canada . Monthly food, music, live video events with musician Ryan Driver and chef Sam Higgs.
2004 Window Array – Percussion Array and Hand Filters, Rat-drifting Experimental Music and Art Series, Arraymusic Studio, Toronto, Canada. Live site-specific video mixing with composer/musician Martin Arnold.
SCREENINGS
2024 Video Art on the Edge, éphémère ~ London experimental film, London, UK.
2023 Every Shot from Dziga Vertov’s “Man with a Movie Camera” as an Animated GIF, Array Experimental Film Festival, Array Space, Toronto, Canada.
2022 This Time You’re Safe, but I’ll Kill You Anyway…Sooner or Later, CRASH Fantastic International Film Festival, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.
2021 This Time You’re Safe, but I’ll Kill You Anyway…Sooner or Later, MOTELX Lisbon International Horror Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, EU.
2020 Here You Can Only Gain Respect by Killing Other Men, New Toronto Works Tour presented by Pleasure Dome in partnership with: The Fifty Fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC on November 18, 2020; Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, SK, Winnipeg Film Group, MB, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, SK on October 28, 2020; Vivo Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, BC on October 16, 2020; Lightbox Film Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA on December 16 – 20, 2020. Online screening events.
2020 Here You Can Only Gain Respect by Killing Other Men, Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works, Toronto, Canada.
2020 Here You Can Only Gain Respect by Killing Other Men, Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, USA.
2019 Summer, official music video for the album Scrappy Art Rock You Can Dance To by Josh Thorpe. Screened at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada.
2017 They Call This Everything and Careless Thoughts, official music videos for the album Careless Thoughts by Ryan Driver (released by Tin Angel Records, UK). Screened at Array Space, Toronto, Canada.
2014 Landscape #10, Reykjavik International Film Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2014 Landscape #10, A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise, music and art festival, Netherlands.
2014 Landscape #12, Powerstation of Art, Shanghai, China.
2012 Landscape #6, #10 & #12, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2012 Landscape #12, The One Minute Awards, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2012 Landscape #7, Canadian Film Centre “A World of Shorts”, NFB, Mediatheque, Toronto, Canada.
2012 Crayola Green, commissioned by Sikkens Foundation and One Minutes Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2011 Landscape #2, Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, England, UK.
2011 Landscape #7, Toronto Urban Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2011 Landscape #7 & #12, The One Minute Series, Amsterdam Museum, deBuren, Brussels, and Centraal Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2010 Commute, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, USA.
2010 Commute, A Month of Sundays, Multi-discipline Performance Series, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Commute, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada.
2010 Commute, Pleasure Dome New Toronto Works Show, Tranzac Club, Toronto, Canada.
2008 Exploding Head Shots, Hub 14, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Mummy Mix, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre, Toronto, Canada.
2007 Otters in Three, Le Téléphone Rouge, Sherbrooke, Canada.
2005 The Kiss, Splice This! Super 8 Film Festival, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, Canada.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHY
2024 (Forthcoming) DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick), Portraits as Portals, Art Windsor Essex, Windsor: videographer and editor of exhibited artwork (July 2024).
2023 DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick), Portraits as Portals, SPG Gallery, York University, Toronto: videographer and editor of exhibited artwork (Sept. 23 – 29, 2023).
2022 DisplayCult (Jennifer Fisher and Jim Drobnick), Portraits as Portals, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston: videographer and editor of exhibited artwork (Nov. 22 – Dec. 4, 2022).
2018 Sugar Brown, live concert video at Dakota Tavern, Toronto: videographer and editor.
2018 Sugar Brown, live concert video at Hugh’s Room, Toronto: videographer and editor.
2018 Bobby Dean Blackburn, live concert video at Hugh’s Room, Toronto: videographer.
2018 Christof Migone, multiple artworks/performances, video documentation: editor.
2017 Marla Hlady’s Momentary at Christie Contemporary, Toronto: videographer of exhibited artwork for video installation; Momentary (Jack Tar Hotel, 3’oclock) video documentation: videographer and editor.
2016 Ontario College of Art University, Through Post-Atomic Eyes at OCADU, Toronto: videographer and editor of all presentations for a two-day conference.