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BIO &
CURRICULUM VITAE

ARTIST BIO

Born in 1984, Brandon Hearty is a multi-disciplinary studio artist who uses augmented reality to animate prints, paintings, and relief sculptures.

 

Hearty lives and works in Calgary, where he completed an MFA from the University of Calgary. In addition to his opportunities to show locally throughout Alberta, Brandon’s work has exhibited elsewhere in Canada, and internationally in the United States and Great Britain.

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Brandon Hearty

B. 1984 Alberta, Canada

Education

2017           Master of Fine Arts, University of Calgary
2017           Student Exchange, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013           Bachelor of Fine Arts, Brigham Young University

2012           Foreign Study, Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead, UK

Solo Exhibitions

2017           Chaotic/Neutral, Emmedia Gallery, Calgary, AB
2016           AVATAR, The Little Gallery, Calgary, AB
2016           The Big House, Taylor Family Digital Library, Calgary, AB
2016           NAHOM, Gallery 621, Calgary, AB
2015           Behavioral Sink, CASA, Lethbridge, Alberta
2013           Non Populus Auditorium Gallery, Provo, Utah

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017           Canada Interlude, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, Edmonton, AB
2017           Crosswalk Menagerie, Stollery Gallery, Edmonton, AB
2017           Apparitions/Between Clarity and Fragmentation, Gallery 621,Calgary, AB
2017           CGP London, – London, UK
2017           WIP Show, Royal College of Art – London, UK
2016           Post Mini Show and Sale The Little Gallery, Calgary, AB
2016           PHOTOREAL Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2016           MFA Group Exhibition, UofC Art Balcony, Calgary, AB
2015           MFA 1st Year Exhibition, The Little Gallery, Calgary, AB
2014           Love and Records, Galt Gardens, Lethbridge, AB
2014           Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2013           Painting on the Edge, Federation of Canadian Artists, Vancouver, BC
2013           This is the Place August, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT
2013           Pride of Place, The Caravan Gallery, Wirral, UK
2013           Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013           Detatch, JKB Room 3123, Provo, UT
2013           Annual Student Show, 2013 B.F. Larsen Main Gallery Provo, UT
2013           Mayhew Show 2013, B.F. Larsen Main Gallery, Provo, UT
2012           Busy Being Born, B.F. Larsen Main Gallery, Provo, UT
2012           Shared Ground, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK
2012           LDS 9th International Art Competition Church History Museum, Salt Lake City, UT

Press & Publications

 

Canada Interlude, Catalogue, The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, January 2018

Calgary Herald, GIRAF: Calgary Artist Brings a New Reality to Animation, Eric Volmers, November 23, 2017

Calgary Metro News, GIRAF Animation Festival Teaches Cinematic Flair and Augmented Reality, November 15, 2017
2017 MFA Graduate Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue, University of Calgary Department of Art, September 2017, p. 22-25
International Painting Annual 4, Exhibition in Print, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, April 2015, p. 90
11th Annual Painting on the Edge, Exhibition Catalogue, Federation of Canadian Artists, August 2013, p. 14
9th Annual Magnitude-7, Print Catalogue, Manifest Creative Research and Drawing Center, vol. 72, June 2013, p. 46
International Art Exhibit Winners Announced, Exhibit Opens, Ensign Magazine vol. 42, #5, May 2012, p. 144

Internships & Residencies


2017           RBC Emerging Artist Apprenticeship Program, The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts Edmonton, AB
2017           Mara/Laing Graduate Student Exchange Programme Residency, The Royal College of Art London, UK
2015           SAAG Education Internship, The Southern Alberta Art Gallery Lethbridge, AB

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