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Curriculum Vitae for Keith Murray
BIOGRAPHY
Keith Murray is a transdisciplinary artist/writer/curator working predominantly with make-up, costume, film, video, new media, as well as through various streams of movement based performance. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Keith is an advocate for developing culture and building community in this place called home. Graduating with a BFA in Media Arts and Digital Technologies from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2004, Keith was the Student Choice Award recipient and Graduation Speaker. Keith has kept a stiletto in the doors of many local arts organizations, and in 2005, EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society nominated Keith for the Calgary Professional Arts Alliance Emerging Artist award. Since 2003, Keith has programmed and created work for Calgary’s Fairy Tales International Queer Film Festival. Keith has screened work as part of the Calgary International Film Festival, as well as at international festivals and conferences. Keith’s animated-dance performance, transcriptions was recently presented through Springboard Dance’s Fluid Motion Arts Festival. A long standing member of the Flat Earth Society, Keith was recently awarded an Honorary membership with the Machine Sex Action Group, for his electro dance convulsions at the Banff centre for the arts. Keith currently works at Quickdraw Animation Society as the Programming Coordinator; he also wears the hat of Festival Director for Quickdraw’s GIRAF independent Animation Festival. Keith just recently returned from Las Vegas a married man/woman, where none other than the King, Elvis performed the ceremony as part of his exhibit “Trannylicious Dishez,” at the grand opening of Harry Mohney’s Erotic Heritage Museum. Spending a dreamy honeymoon in Japan, Keith presented Animations from Calgary at the Hiroshima Animation Biennale, returning home to co-star in local songstress Danielle French’s latest music video. Keith is currently collaborating on a theatre project with the Green Fools, as well as creating new work for his upcoming solo exhibition at TRUCK Contemporary Art Gallery in 2009.
EDUCATION
2004 BFA, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary AB (Media Arts & Digital Technologies)
PROFESSIONAL
upcoming Saturday Morning Queer-toons: A Selection of International LGBT Animations, Fairy Tales International Queer Film Festival, Calgary AB (Curator)
Present
Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary AB(Programming & Communications Coordinator / GIRAF Festival Director: 2007 - present)
Independent Media Arts Alliance (Diversity Committee)
2008
Quickdraw: the Reel Heart of the West, Hiroshima Animation Biennale, Nexus Space, Hiroshima, Japan (Public Presentation)
Fairy Tales International Queer Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB (Awards Jury)
2007
MAC Cosmetics, Calgary AB (Make-Up Artist 2006 - 2007)
Pure Data, Instructor: David McCallum, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, Calgary AB (workshop)
Fairy Tales International Queer Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB(Programming Committee : 2003-2007concsecutively, Board of Directors:2006)
Interactive Screen 0.7: User Friendly is not Enough, Banff Centre New Media Institute, Banff AB(conference)
2006
TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary AB (Programming Coordinator 2004-2006)
Interrarium, Springboard Dance, Facilitators: Istvan Kantor, Ted Robinson, Darren O’donnell, Banff Centre for the Arts,Banff AB (workshop/residency)
Global Queeries, University of Western Ontario, London ON (conference)
Controversy and Censorship in Contemporary Art, EPCOR Performing Arts Centre, Calgary AB (panelist)
Freedom of Canadian Queer Expression, 7th Annual Fairy Tales International Queer Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB (panelist/co-curator)
2005
Meisner Intensive, Instructor: Stacie Harrison, Company of Rogues Actors Studio, Calgary AB (workshop)
6th Annual Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society Conference, Banff AB (conference)
2004
EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society (Facility Coordinator/Production Assistant 2003-2004)
5th Annual Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society Conference, Grand Prairie AB (conference)
EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society & Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary AB (Summer Media Arts Camp Coordinator)
Alberta College of Art & Design Students Association (MADT Department Representative: Graduating Committee)
Digital Sugar Cubed, EMMEDIA Screening Room, Calgary AB (curator)
2003
Film as Poetic Imagery, Instructor: Sandi Somers, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary AB (workshop)
Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary AB (archivist/25th Anniversary intern)
Final Cut Pro 4 Advanced, Instructor: Nina Staum, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary AB (workshop)
Basic Film Camera, Instructor: Philip Letourneau, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary AB (workshop)
2002
Painting with Light, Instructor: Brian Batista, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, Calgary AB (workshop)
Alberta College of Art and Design Students Association (Events Manager 2001-2002)
SCREENINGS/EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS
upcoming A Stream of Sand, The Green Fools Theatre Society, Calgary AB (Collaborative Theatre Production)
The Neon God We Made, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary AB (solo exhibition)
Wedding Reception, Carpet and Toast Gallery, Para-M:ST Performative Art Festival Event, Calgary AB (performance)
The SHUT-UP Off, EMMEDIA Production Scholarship Screening. EMMEDIA Screening Room, Calgary AB (screening)
DIY: Do It Yourself, Reel Pride 2008 Queer Film & Video Festival, Winnipeg MB (screening)
Cowboi, Reel Pride 2008 Queer Film & Video Festival, Winnipeg MB (screening)
2008
Trannylicious Dishez Inaugural Exhibition, Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas NV USA (solo exhibition)
Lady In the Tramp, Ming Short Film Festival, Ming Eat Drink, Calgary AB (screening)
I Me Wed, Inaugural Exhibition, Erotic Heritage Museum, Las Vegas NV USA (performance)
2007
DIY: Do It Yourself, Fairies from the Prairies, curated by Matt Salton, Reelout 9 Queer Film & Video Festival, Kingston ON (screening)
Cowboi, Fairies from the Prairies, curated by Matt Salton, Reelout 9 Queer Film & Video Festival, Kingston ON (screening)
transcriptions, E-Merge: Fluid Festival¸Springboard Dance, Vertigo Studio Theatre, Calgary AB (performance)
transliminality, Interrarium Residency, Springboard Dance, the Banff Centre, Banff AB (site-specific installation)
Smoootch, Heartburn: Post-Valentine Fundraiser, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary AB (group exhibition: fundraiser)
2006
Afternoon Delight, Spread the Love: an army of video lovers cannot fail, CAMPER Patch Project, TRUCK Contemporary Art & The Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary AB (screening)
DIY: Do It Yourself, Spread the Love: an army of video lovers cannot fail, CAMPER Patch Project, TRUCK Contemporary Art & The Calgary International Film Festival, Calgary AB (screening)
Cowboi, Echo & Response, curated by Anthea Black, Global Queeries Conference, University of Western Ontario, London ON (screening)
Hoorah!, 20th Anniversary Fundraiser, Stride Gallery, Calgary AB (group exhibition: fundraiser)
WARNING!, Stride Gallery +15 Window Project Space, Calgary AB (solo installation)
Afternoon Delight, 7th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Calgary AB (festival trailer)
2005
Rock Classics, Silencing Critical Art: Fundraiser for the CAE Defense Fund, Tactical Art Coalition & The Alberta College of Art & Design Students Association, Calgary AB (performance)
Comment BOX, M:ST3, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival Media Launch, Broken City, Calgary AB (performance)
Fruit, 6th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Calgary AB (festival trailers)
l'esprit d’escalier, One Minute Happiness Gallery, Calgary AB (solo installation)
2004
The New Testament, 3nd Annual Art-Rageous, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB (installation: group exhibition)
Blue Light, Various Locations, Victoria BC (site-specific guerilla installation)
Apparition of the Blessed Virgin, Pick-Up TRUCK fundraiser, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary AB (group exhibition: fundraiser)
The New Testament, Art on the Installment Plan, First Annual Calgary Underground Film Festival, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary AB (installation: group exhibition)
2003
Sin, Confession, Penance (Student Choice Award Recipient), Full Spectrum: ACAD Graduating Class 2004 Exhibition, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary AB (group exhibition)
Hot Dog, 5th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Globe Cinema, Calgary AB (screening)
Alter-Piece, Super Modern Tragic Beauty Show, Sugar Estate Gallery, Calgary AB (installation: group exhibition)
A Fable, Poetic Imagery, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers Sofa Cinema, Calgary AB (screening)
Cowboi, Curious Logical Development, EMMEDIA Screening Room, Calgary AB (screening)
Cowboi, Stampede Compression Camp Online www.compressioncamp.com, EMMEDIA, Calgary AB (online screening)
Hot Dog, 5th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, The Globe Cinema, Calgary AB (screening)
The Night of the Monkey, Digital Sugar Cubed, EMMEDIA Screening Room, Calgary AB (screening)
2003
Dance, Digital Sugar Cubed, EMMEDIA Screening Room, Calgary AB (screening)
Dance, Light Plays Tricks Film Festival, Kingston ON (screening)
Dance, Trailer for Feature Film: Waking Life, The Uptown Stage & Screen, Calgary, AB (multiple screenings)
Spiral,The Print Show, The Closet Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB (group exhibition)
2002
Untitled, 2nd Annual Art-Rageous, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB (screening)
Ne Plus Ultra, MADT Reel, The Closet Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB (screening)
PRODUCTION / TECHNICIAN / TALENT CREDITS
2008
Time to Kill, Music Video, Dir: Danielle French, Calgary AB (Lead Actor)
MaVA: Media & Visual Art Centre, Documentary, MaVA, Calgary AB (Producer/Director/Editor)
2007
Threads, Multimedia Installation, Creator: Sandra Vida, Calgary AB (Technical Assistance)
Transmission Machine, Performance, Creator: Istvan Kantor, High Performance Rodeo, Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary AB(Video Documentation)
2006
Calgary Arts Scene, Documentary, Calgary Arts Development Authority: Civic Arts Mandate, City Council Proposal, Calgary AB (Producer/Director/Editor)
2006 Official Festival Trailers, 7th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Calgary AB(Writer/Producer/Director/Editor)
Theatre Six Pack, Commercial, Calgary Arts Development Authority, Calgary AB (Producer/Director/Editor)
2005
Official Festival Trailers, 6th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Calgary AB (Writer/Producer/Director/Editor)
Bower, Multimedia Installation, Creator: Sandra Vida, (Production Assistance)
Relations in Gender, Re-Performance, Director: Don Simmons, ‘That 70’s Ho,’ Western Front, Vancouver BC (Performer)
2004
Hank Williams First Nation, Feature film, Director: Aaron Sorensen, Calgary AB (Assistant Editor)
Pyaar Kee Rishtey, Feature film, Director: Sunny Rastin, Calgary AB (Assistant Editor)
2003
The Policeman’s Crime, Dramatic short, Producer & Director: Ryan MacKay, Calgary AB (Editor)
Stampede Compression Camp, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, Calgary AB (Technician, Assistant Editor)
Outing the Body: Back By Popular Demand, Performance, Dee Fontains, Engineered Air Theatre, Calgary AB (Video Documentation)
2002
75th Anniversary Events, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary AB (Documentation / Videographer)
Outing the Body, Performance, Dee Fontains, Engineered Air Theatre, Calgary AB (Video Documentation)
MAKE-UP CREDITS
2008
Time to Kill, Music Video, Dir: Danielle French, Calgary AB (Chief Make-Up)
Markapolooza, Theatre/Performance Event, Dir: Mark Hopkins, One Yellow Rabbit Big Secret Theatre, Calgary AB (Event Body Painting)
Demonika’s Symphony of Horrors, Cabaret Performance, Dir: Danika Challand, The Warehouse, Calgary AB (Performance)
Calgary Juno VIP Lounge, Designer: Erin Dutton, Loke Designs, Calgary AB (Event Make-Up)
The Wedding, Short Film, Dir: Michal Lavi, Lazy Susan Productions, Calgary AB (1st Assistant Make-Up)
Burn, Wearable art by: Kyle Nylund, Art Awearness 2008, Alberta College of Art & Design (Runway & Photo shoot)
Promotional, Photographer: Jasmin Dosanj, Calgary AB (Photo shoot)
Promotional, Imay Hair Studios, Calgary AB (Photo shoot)
Spiritual Journey, Documentary Feature Film, Nur Films, Calgary AB (Chief Make-Up)
Fafi, Special Event, MAC Cosmetics, Calgary AB (Event Body-Painting)
2007
My Day with a Dom, FFWD Magazine Cover Shoot, Photographer: James May (Photo shoot)
Blue Storm, Regional Managers Meetings, MAC Cosmetics, Calgary AB (Event Body-Painting)
Pulse: Calgary Cares 2007, AIDS Calgary Fundraiser, Jack Singer Concert Hall, Calgary AB (Runway)
C-Shock, Special Event, MAC Cosmetics, Calgary AB (Event Body-Painting)
Headdresses ,Wearable art by: Karilynn Thompson, Art Awearness 2007, Alberta College of Art & Design (Runway)
Barbie Loves MAC, Special Event, MAC Cosmetics, Calgary AB (Event Make-Up/Modeling)
SELECTED WRITING
upcoming “The Fig & the Leaf: Trans-gender Censorship in Calgary,” 25 TRUCK Book, TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary AB (Essay for Book)
2007 “A Are Tea – Eph Eye Elle Emm: An Interview with Kelly Egan,” AnswerPrint, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Winter 2007(interview)
2006 “Trans-topian Trajectories Towards Transformation: The Radical Potential of Canadian Queer Expression in the Techno-Social Age,”
Freedom of Canadian Queer Expression, 7th Annual Fairy Tales International Queer Film and Video Festival, Calgary AB(paper)
PRESS
2008 “Transdisciplinary studies: Local artist Keith Murray ravages Las Vegas’s Erotic Museum,” Fast Forward Weekly, Travis Murphy, August 7, 2008 (feature exhibition review)
“Erotic Heritage Museum opens with wild party,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, Doug Elfman, August 4, 2008 (feature exhibition review)
“Bridging the gap between fine art and smut,” Las Vegas Weekly, Jennifer Grafiada, August 7, 2008 (feature exhibition review)
“Embracing Erotic Art: New museum's exhibits, films, sculptures and photos celebrate human sexuality,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, Lynette Curtis Jul. 27, 2008 (feature exhibition review)
“Calgary artist scores big in Vegas: New Erotic Heritage Museum to showcase his work,” Xtra.ca National, Kevin Allen, July 30, 2008 (feature exhibition review)
2006 “Homemade porno, CAMPER sexiness playful and funny,” Fast Forward Weekly, Hugh Graham, October 5, 2006 (feature exhibition review)
“Boundaries of Art – Transgressive Art and Reaction,” Gay Calgary Magazine, Stephen Lock, February 2006, Issue 28 (article)
“Bring down the walls with dialogue,” Calgary Herald, Diana Sherlock, February 4, 2006 (article)
2004 “Keith Murray: Sin, Confession and Penance,” Current Projects: Contemporary Fine Art Review, Jennifer Johnson, April 2004, Issue 5 (review)
GRANTS, AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
2008 The Ming Short Film Festival, Best Silent Film: “Lady in the Tramp,” (award)
EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society, Bars and Tones Scholarship (project/production support)
2006 EMMEDIA Gallery and Production Society, Critical Initiatives (project/production support)
2005 Calgary Professional Arts Alliance, Enbridge Emerging Artist Award Nominee (Nominated by EMMEDIA)
2004 Convocation Co-Speaker: Fine Arts Graduating Class of 2004, Alberta College of Art & Design
Student Choice Award, Media Arts and Digital Technologies, Graduating Class of 2004, Alberta College of Art & Design
2003 Fairy Tales Shoot Me Scholarship, 5th Annual Fairy Tales International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Calgary AB
2001-2004 Jason Lang Scholarship
1998-2000 Rutherford Scholarship
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Member, The New Gallery, Calgary AB
Member, Stride Gallery, Calgary AB
Member, TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary, Calgary AB
Member, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB
Member, Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival, Calgary AB
Member, Springboard Dance, Calgary AB
Producing Member, EMMEDIA Gallery & Production Society, Calgary AB
Member, Decidedly Jazz Dance, Calgary AB
Producing Member, Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary AB
Associate Member, The Flat Earth Society
Associate Member, Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary, AB
Member, Fairy Tales Presentation Society, Calgary AB
Honourary Member, Machine Sex Action Group, Founded by Istvan Kantor
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