Patrick Thompson (artist)

Patrick Thompson
Born	August 1978 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Website	http://www.pasystem.org/

Patrick Thompson (Canadian artist b.1978 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) works in made and found material. With his partner Alexa Hatanaka, they collaborate as PA System. Hatanaka and Thompson are founders of Embassy of Imagination (EOI), a multidisciplinary arts initiative for youth based in Cape Dorset( ᑭᙵᐃᑦ, Kinngait), Nunavut.^[1]^[2]

PA System was named on a 2016 list of Canada's 16 greatest art collaborations by Canadian Art Magazine.^[3]

Exhibitions

Solo and group projects

2016 – Lightening Speak: Solo and Collaborative Work by w. Raven Chacon. U of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2016 – Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce Mural, organized by independent and nonprofit art space: 516 ARTS^[4]
2016 – Floe Edge: New art and collaborations from the north, AXENÉO7 Gatineau PQ^[5]
2016 – Gauge: Collaborative film made in Iqaluit, NU, Nuit Blanche at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto, ON and University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM^[3]
2016 – Stanley Aviation, site-specific installations, Denver, CO (PA System)
2016 – Global Pathways School, exterior and interior murals, Chettipalayam, India (PA System)
2016 – Junction, mural, Metrolinx, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2015 – Shibori Sherpa,^[6] Way Home Festival, site specific sculpture installation, Barrie, ON
2015 – The Divadale Project, temporary site specific sculpture installations at 82 Divadale Drive, Toronto
2014 – Larding and Barding: exhibition, w. Alexa Hatanaka, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, CH^[7]
2013 – Au-Delà de cette limite, l'art s'en mêle, with Pascal Paquette Le Labo & Alliance Française, Toronto^[8]
2013 – Saving, Giving and Losing Face, Zai Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2012 – Evoke's Pancake House, Montana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain^[9]
2012 – Mistakism, The Trace Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2011 – Think Tent, Le Labo, Toronto, Ontario ^[10]
2011 – Donnacona, w. Alexa Hatanaka, La Place Forte Gallery, Paris, France

Public work

2017 – Lungs, The Wall to Wall Mural and Culture Festival, Winnipeg, Manitoba^[11]
2015 – Darn Windy, Short Film, CBC: The Collective^[12]
2015 – Jigging Kamiit, mural, Inukjuak, QC (PA System)
2015 – Felled, with Adam Cutts, mural, Ottawa Public Art, Ottawa, ON (PA System)
2015 – Shibori Sherpa, site-specific installation, Wayhome Music and Arts Festival, Burl’s Creek, ON (PA System)
2015 – Walking into the Unknown Tupiq, mural, Burlington Public Art, Burlington, ON (PA System)
2014 – Row, Concordia University, Montreal, QC (PA System)
2014 – SKEIN, mural, with S.T.E.P.S Initiative, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2014 – Expecting, mural, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2014 – Curtain, NXNE, Mirvish Theatre, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2014 – Mine Your Imagination, mural, West Baffin Eskimo Co-op, Cape Dorset, NU (PA System)
2013 – Glenalmond School, mural, Perthshire, Scotland (PA System)
2013 – Happy Anniversary, World Pride 2014, mural, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2013 – Volvo Art Session, Installation, film and book, Zurich, CH (PA System)
2013 – Elders and Youth House, mural, Hall Beach, Nunavut (PA System)
2012 – Amos Waites Park, public murals, with Lakeshore Arts, Toronto, ON (PA System)
2012 – Festival Murales, Escosesa Studio, Barcelona, Spain (PA System)
2012 – Traveller, mural, Xing Ping, China
2012 – Pauloosie Qulitalik, Kingulliit Productions, mural, Igloolik, NU (PA System)
2012 – Canada, National Capital Commission, Canada Day mural, Ottawa, ON

Residencies

2015 – Stanley Aviation Project, Denver, CO
2014 – Articulate Baboon Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2013 – Guanlan International Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China
2012 – Artists in the Park, Beausoleil Island, ON

Awards and grants

2017 – Canada Council for the Arts, New Chapter Grant
2014 – Canada Council for the Arts, Production Grant for Group Film Project ‘Gauge’
2013 – Toronto BIA Mural of the Year
2013 – Guanlan Printmaking Base Biennial Official Selection
2011 – Nanjing Arts Institute Permanent Collection
2011 – Guanlan Printmaking Base Biennial, Short-listed
2008 – BC150 Community Arts Production Grant, BOOM! Oxygen Art Center, Nelson BC
2007 – Schools Without Borders, Support for participation,
2007 – Barcelona Contemporary Arts Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain
2007 – Canadian North, Support for Travel, ALIANAIT FESTIVAL, Iqaluit, Nunavut
2007 – Schools Without Borders, IGNITE Art Festival, Toronto
2003 – Canada Council for the Arts, travel grant recipient

Reviews and interviews

2016 – Gang Up: 16 Great Canadian Art Collaborations, Canadian Art Magazine, June 27, 2016 B Alison Cooey and Daniella Sanader^[3]
2015 – ‘Artwork slated for the excavator draws a crowd’ DesignLines Magazine by Tory Healy^[13]
2015 – CBC Radio Canada National, Cape Dorset Mural Project
2013 – Spectator UK Online ‘Painting the world's walls’ by Claudia Massie
2012 – RTVE Spain, National television news story, Barcelona Spain
2011 – Walls & Frames book, Featured artist, Fine Arts from the Streets, Maximiliano Ruiz
2011 – MISC Magazine, Feature ‘The Future of the Future’
2010 – CBC NORTH, Radio Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, August,
2010 – ELbeit Magazine, Cairo, Egypt
2009 – CBC NORTH, Radio Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, September
2009 – CBC NORTH, Television Interview, Iqaluit, Nunavut, September
2009 – The District Weekly (Cover), What Lies Beneath, Los Angeles California
2009 – Grunion, Downtown and Uptown Gazette, Los Angeles California, “Artwork Feeds
2009 – Off “Mistakeism” - By Julian Bermudez, April 8, 2009
2009 – BOOM! , Oxygen Art Centre, Exhibition Catalogue
2008 – BAC! Babylon 2007, Barcelona Contemporary Art Festival, Exhibition Catalogue, DL B-52822-2007
2007 – Art for Social Change: Mural in Iqaluit, Nunavut with Jonathan Cruz included in multiple presentations by UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Professor, Judy Baca
2006 – Up Until Now, Upper Playground Gallery, Exhibition Catalogue 175 pages, Featured Artist
2006 – Cover, Nelson Daily News, Nelson, British Columbia
2006 – Exit Hinterland (Unfinished), Documentary Film, The Moody Group, Featured
2005 – The Tao of Thompson, Ottawa Xpress, Anita Euteneier, April 7
2003 – The 2nd Rule, digital magazine, Singapore
2003 – CBC National Radio Live from the Singapore Street Festival interview
2002 – Painting Without Permission], featured artist as Evoke, An Ethnological Study of Street Art, Bergin and Garvey, author: Janice Rahn
2002 – Ottawa Citizen, Stealth Artists
2002 – CBC Ottawa Radio , Ottawa Morning, Interview w. S. Lee

Collections

Kitchen Community, Kimbal Musk (Founder Zip2, Board of Directors SpaceX and Tesla Motors)
Kendall, Koenig & Oelsner Attorneys at Law, Boulder, CO
The Designers Club, Zurich CH
Guanlan International Print Base, Guanlan China
Nanjing Arts Institute Permanent Collection

References

↑ Deschamps, Tara (June 24, 2015). "Toronto artists in search of wall for Nunavut teens to paint". Toronto Star.
↑ McKnight, Zoe (July 22, 2015). "These Nunavut Teenage Artists Finished a Massive Toronto Mural". Vice.
1 2 3 Cooley, Alison; Sanader, Daneilla (2016-06-27). "Gang Up: 16 Great Canadian Art Collaborations". Canadian Art.
↑ Suzanne. "Color Sphere". www.516arts.org. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
↑ "AXENÉO7 — Exhibition FROM January 26 TO March 6". AXENÉO7. Retrieved 2 June 2017. Shuvinai Ashoona, Nicole Camphaug, Igah Hainnu, Niore Iqalukjuak, Qavavau Manumie, Sarah McNair-Landry, Raven Chacon, Danny Osborne, PA System (Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson), Erik Boomer, and Eric McNair-Landry, Mona Netser, Mathew Nuqingaq, Nala Peter, Jamasie Pitseolak, Tim Pitsiulak, Tanya Tagaq, Ningeokuluk Teevee and Lavinia Van Heuvelen
↑ "Local design finds a home at WayHome Music + Arts – Toronto Design Offsite Festival". todesignoffsite.com. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
↑ "TheTrace | home". www.thetrace.ch. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
↑ "AU-DELÀ DE CETTE LIMITE, L'ART S'EN MÊLE - Le Labo FR". Le Labo FR (in French). 2013-04-27. Retrieved 2017-05-10.
↑ "Evoke "Evoke´s Pancake House "". Montana Gallery (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-05-10.
↑ "Exhibitions — Patrick Thompson". Akimbo. 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
↑ Beaudette, Teghan (1 September 2016). "Massive murals go up in North End with help from 17-year-old Cape Dorset artist — Synonym Art Consultation plans month of public art mural painting for Wall to Wall". CBC News.
↑ Habib, Jacky (October 12, 2015). "A vision of creativity and resilience in the North, from PA System and Cape Dorset youth". CBC.
↑ "Divadale Project". Designlines. 2015-03-13. Retrieved 2017-05-10.

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