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Yannick Desranleau
Born 1978 in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec, Canada. Lives and works in Montreal, Québec, Canada
Chloe Lum
Born 1978 in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Lives and works in Montreal, Québec, Canada

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2012
Landscapes Events Reproducted – Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada. Curator: Christof Migone
2011
La Battue – Artist Proof Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2010
Hoarding Skin – Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009
IBU400 X 2 – Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Seripop – Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England. Curator: Sophie Brown
No Henge – Emporium Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Seripop – Peacock Centre for Contemporary Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
2008
Seripop: Mutations – Spedition am Güterbahnhof, Bremen, Germany
2007
Visual Emetic and Billions of Typos - The Art of Seripop – Manitoba Printmakers Association, Winnipeg, Canada
Seripop – Hellbaard, The Hague, Netherlands
2006
Art of Seripop – Tacheles Kunsthaus, Berlin, Germany
Stuck in a Vortex – Island Arts Center, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Curator: Greg Pizzoli
2005
Driving a Ferrari to our Ultimate Demise – ArtLab, Toronto, Canada
Seripop Exposed – Gallery Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
2004
Riding a Coattail to Heaven – Foundation Gallery, Chicago, USA. Curator: Michael Coleman
2003
Sérigraphie Populaire: Selected Posters 02-03 – Galerie Saw, Ottawa, Canada
Posters by Seripop – Doucette Hall Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, USA

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2011
The Work Ahead of Us: Québec Triennial II – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Partly Excavated – ARPRIM, Montréal, Canada. Joint show with Shawn Reed and Ryan Garbes
2010
28th Baie St-Paul Contemporary Art Symposium, Baie St-Paul, Canada, Curator: Stefan St-Laurent
Street & Studio: From Basquiat to Seripop – Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Curator: Cathérine Hug
Séripop & Paprika – Galerie Anatome, Paris, France
Printervention - Chicago Tourism Center Gallery, Chicago, USA
Excursion sous la terre – ARPRIM, Montréal, Canada. Curators: Arthur Desmarteaux & Allison Moore
2009
People of Print – Here Gallery, Bristol, England
Art & Design Montréal – Société des Arts Technologiques, Montreal, Canada
Gig Posters: the Art of Music Promotion – Kentucky Museum of Arts and Craft, Louisville, USA
2008
Color is the Keyboard – Whipper Snapper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Radar Eyes – Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
2007
We’re Rolling, They’re Hating – Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago and Riviera Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Design it Yourself – Changing Room Gallery, Stirling, Scotland
Séripop and Rob Churm – White Chapel Project Space, London, UK
2006
Territory – Presentation House Gallery / Artspeak Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Curators: Melanie O’Brian and Helga Pakasaar
Dramarama – Kunstcentrum Belgie, Hasselt, Belgium and Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands. Curator: Jelle Crama
2005
Fresh Ink – Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster PA, USA
2004
Bff: Art of Séripop and The Little Friends of Printmaking – The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, USA
2002
Wild in the Streets – City Hall Courtyard Galleries, Baltimore, USA. Curator: Nolen Strals

Interventions, Performances

2010 City of Chicago, USA, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs: Public Installation of If I knew I wouldn't have gone on the Chicago River Walk
2006 TransMediale Festival, Berlin, Germany

Residencies

2009 Northern Print, Newcastle, England
2006-2008 Bongoût, Berlin, Germany
2007 Hellbaard, The Hague, Netherlands
2006, 2007 Rotckop, Antwerpen, Belgium
2006 Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2003 University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, USA

Lectures, Tutorship and Curatorial (selected)

2012
Artist Talk, Sheridan College Faculty of Visual Arts and Design, Oakville, Canada
2011
Roundtable, Du Zine À L’Institution, La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse / Expozine 11, Montreal, Canada
Artist Talk, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
Artist Talk, Alberta Printmakers Association, Calgary, Canada
Artist Talk, Concordia University Printmaking Department, Montreal, Canada
2009
Lecture, Posters, Modernity, Montreal, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art / Northern Print Bienniale, Gateshead, England
Workshop, Peacock Centre for contemporary Art, Aberdeen, Scotland
2008
Co-curators, Radar Eyes, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, USA
2007
Workshop, Tutorial, Martha Street Studio, Manitoba Printmakers Association, Winnipeg, Canada
Artist Talk, University of Manitoba School of Art, Design Department, Winnipeg, Canada
Roundtable, Doing It Outside: Public Art And Interventions, Pop Montreal Art Symposium / McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2004, 2006
Artist Talk, Concordia University, Printmaking Department, Montreal, Canada
2004
Artist Talk, University of North Texas, Department of Design, Denton, USA
Artist Talk, Texas Tech University, Department of Printmaking, Lubbock, USA
2004
The 100 Sided Die, Artist-run coop studios, founding members, Montreal, Canada
2003
Artist Talk, University of Pennsylvania in Edinboro, School of Fine Arts, Edinboro, USA

Awards, Bursaries, Grants

2011 Project Grant, Research and creation, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2011 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2010 Project Grant, Research and creation, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2010 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2009 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2009 Travel Grant, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec
2008 Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2007 Juno Awards, CD/DVD Artwork Design of the Year

Collections (selected)

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, Prints & Drawings permanent collection
Indiana University
Stanford University Art & Architecture Collection
University of California in Santa Cruz

Selected Bibliography

Exhibition Publications

2012 Christof Migone & Yannick Desranleau, Landscapes, Events, Reproducted, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga.

2011 Marie Fraser & all, La Triennale québécoise 2011: Le travail qui nous attend, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, exhibition catalogue.

2010 Catherine Hug, Thomas Miessgang & all, Street & Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg, exhibition catalogue.

2009 Ed Webb-Ingall, Sophie Brown & all, Seripop/Baltic/Zine, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gateshead, essays and interviews.

Critical Essays, Articles, Interviews

2011
Tammer El-Sheikh, ‘Seripop’, ETC Montréal #92: Folk, p. 13-17, color photos.
Yannick Desranleau, ‘Posters, Modernity, Montreal’, Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music, Alarm Press, Chicago.
Chloe Lum, ‘DIY Posters and their Context in Montreal’, Chromatic: The Crossroads of Color and Music, Alarm Press, Chicago.
2008
Bryn Mooth, ‘Poster Children’, How, no.4, April, pages 54-55.
2007
Kelly Nickie, ‘Eye Poppers’, The Uniter, Winnipeg, October 4, page 14.
2006
Sum Patten and Zio, ‘Sound and vision: Contemporary Show Poster Artists’, Swindle, no.9, pages 98-107.
2005
Alana Coates, ‘Post No Bills’, Maisonneuve, no.17, October/November.
2004
Jeremy Lehrer, ‘The Big Idea Blender’ Print, vol. 58, no.2, March/April, pages 144-146.
Karen E. Steen, ‘Poster Children’, Metropolis, no.11, November 2004, page 72.
Jonathan Durbin, ‘Design: Investigating the art of noise’, Maclean’s, 3 novembre, page 75.
Rupert Bottenberg, ‘Prints and principles’, Mirror, Montreal, vol.19, no,44, April 22 to 28 edition, pages 27, 29.

Reviews

2011 Daniel Baird,’ The Quebec Triennial: Eyes Front’, Canadian Art [http://www.canadianart.ca/online/reviews/2011/10/13/quebec_triennial/], October 13.
Willie Brisco, ‘Montreal's Cerebral Art Scene Gets Its Due at the Quebec Triennial’, ArtInfo.com, November 28.
2009
Irene Revell, ‘On Site: Seripop’, The Wire, September.
Cristal Duhaime and Ali Rahman, ‘Fine Print’, Hour, Montreal, [www.hour.ca/visualarts/ visualarts.aspx?iIDArticle=17734], July 2.

Books

2009
Bruce Willen and Nolen Strals, Lettering & Type: Creating Letters and Designing Typefaces, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 144 pages.
Robert Klaten & Hendrik Hellige, Naïve: Modernism and Folklore in Contemporary Graphic Design, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, p. 164-165, 7 colour photos.
2008
Victor Cheung, Musikgraphics, Victionary, Hong Kong, p. 196-197, 2 colour photos.
Robert Klanten and Hendrik Hellige, Lemon Poppy Seed: Multitasking Creativity, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, pages 144, 148-149, 153, 220, 247.
2007
Robert Klanten and Hendrik Hellige, Illusive 2: Contemporary Illustration and Its Context, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, pages 126, 360.
B. Brumnjak, Kelvin: Colour Today, Die Gestalten Verlag, Berlin, pages 25,123,170.
2006
John Foster, New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century, Rockport Publishers, Beverly MA, pages 154-161.
2004
Paul Grushkin and Dennis King, Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion, Chronicle Books, pages 402-405.

Music, selected projects

AIDS Wolf(Noise Rock group, founding members, with Alexander Moskos) (2003-)
Hamborghinni(Improvisation duo) (2006-)

Discography, selected

2011 AIDS Wolf, Ma vie banale avant-garde, Lovepump United, New York, USA
2010 AIDS Wolf, March To The Sea; Skin Graft Records, St-Louis, USA
2008 AIDS Wolf, Cities of Glass; Skin Graft Records, St-Louis and Lovepump United, New York, USA
2006 AIDS Wolf, The Lovvers LP; Skin Graft Records, St-Louis and Lovepump United, New York,USA

Performances, selected

2011
AIDS Wolf, Vie Banale Tour, USA; 23 dates
AIDS Wolf, OFF Festival, Katowice, Poland
AIDS Wolf, Creepy Teepee, Kunta Hora, Czech Republic
AIDS Wolf, Eastern Europe, 8 dates
2010 AIDS Wolf, March to the Sea Tour, North America; 32 dates
2009 AIDS Wolf, Badass Tour, North America; 39 dates
2008
AIDS Wolf, Cities of Glass Tour, North America; 35 dates
AIDS Wolf, Europe and Israel; 41 dates
AIDS Wolf, Donau Festival, Krems, Austria
2005-2007
AIDS Wolf, multiple international tours, diverse durations