David Scott Armstrong
Armstrong has focused his work on reproducible technology- its apparatus and residual traces.The ephemeral characteristic of print in its marks and trace, deposited at the edges of perceptibility and communication, are concepts he deals with in his prints.
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Sifted - Speech
22.25 x 15.5 Inches  (paper size)
Mixed Media
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Sifted-Print
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Mixed Media
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Sifted-Sight
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Mixed Media
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Space of Implied Gravity #1
31.5 x 21.25 Inches  (paper size)
Photo-etching, aquatint
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Education
2000 MFA, University of Western Ontario,London, ON
1995 BFA with Distinction, University of Alberta
1989-92 University of Saskatchewan

Grants, Awards

2006/07/08/09
- York University Travel Grant

2005
- Canada Council for the Arts, Creation/ Production Grant, Emerging Artist
- York University Minor Research Grant

1999
- The Jose Luis Barrio-Garay Award, University of Western Ontario.

1998-2000
- Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Western Ontario.
- Special University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario.
- Graduate Tuition Scholarship, University of Western Ontario.

1997
- Purchase Prize Award, “Portland Art Museum International Print Exhibition”,
Portland, Oregon.

1995
- KPMG Award for Excellence in Printmaking, University Of Alberta.
- Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists Summer Scholarship.

1993 - Heinz- Jordan Award, University Of Alberta.



2009
- The Integration of photogravure and digital processes”, invitational week long workshop residency, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Nfld.

2008
- “An Unlikely Image: or, a face becoming unlike itself”, lecture at the UAAC conference, York University, Toronto, ON.
- University of British Columbia, Department of Art History and Visual Art, Vancouver, BC: Lecture.2007 - “Other Than the Book”, lecture at the “Architecture of the Book” Symposium, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Nfld.

2006
- Sheridan College, Department of Art and Art History, Oakville, ON: Lecture.
- University of Alberta, Department of Art and Design, Edmonton, AB: Lecture.

2005
- Self-Directed Residency, Banff Centre

2003
- York University, Department of Visual Art, Toronto, ON: Lecture.

2000
-“Proverb”, a performance of text spoken simultaneously with a video screening of Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr.. The John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario.

1998
- Artist-talk given on my print based art practice. Presented to a 2nd year undergraduate class

Publication

2008
- After the Grave: Language and Materiality in Contemporary Art, guest co-editor of special issue of Visible
Language, Rhode Island School of Design. 112 pp. (co-edited with Patrick Mahon).
Co-author of introductory essay (pp 4-13), author of essays: “Sfumato” (pp 14-27), “Turning, Turner,
Turned” (pp 98-101).
in “Theories of Media and Technology” (MIT 225). The John Labatt Visual Arts Centre, University of
Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Selected Collections
Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Edmonton Art Gallery
Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum
Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists
University of Alberta

Selected Commissions
1997
- SNAP Newsletter: commissioned to produce a print edition of 100 for SNAP’s February
1997 newsletter.

- The SNAP 15th Anniversary Portfolio: commissioned, along with 20 other artists,
to produce a print edition of 40 in celebration of SNAP’s 15th anniversary.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
-“Yokohama 150th International Print Exchange Exhibition, Yokohama Creativecity Centre. Yokohama,
Japan. (curated)

2008
- “Titles 4” (An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Forest City Gallery/Attic Books, London
- “Titles 3” (An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Articule Gallery, Librairie L'écume des Jours,Montreal

2007
- “Titles 2” (An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Art Gallery of University of Massachusetts/ Amherst,Books, Amherst
-“Titles” (An Exhibition of Artist’s Book Works) Balfour Books, Toronto
- Juried group exhibition: 5th Bienniale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres(juried/catalogue)

2006
- “14th Seoul_Space International Print Biennial, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. (juried/catalogue).

2005
- “IVth Novosibirsk International Biennial of Contemporary Graphic Art, Novosibirsk State Art Museum,Novosibirsk, Russia. (curated/catalogue).
- “Work Space”, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada. (group)
- “The Little Prints”, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Canada (group).

2003
- Open Juried Exhibition, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario.
- “Seeing is Believing: Skeptical Print Activity”, HallSpace Gallery, Boston (group).
- Group exhibition, NorthWest Print Council, Portland, Oregon.

2002
-“Choice & Chance”. 1st TrueNorth SNAP International Print Biennial. SNAP Gallery, Edmonton,
Canada. (juried/catalogue).
- “The Handbound Book in Nova Scotia”, The Mary Black Gallery, Halifax, Canada (catalogue).
- “Standing Room Only”, Keyano Art Gallery, Keyano College, Fort McMurray, Canada.
- “From the Archives”, SNAP Print Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.

2001
- “Standing Room Only”, SNAP Print Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.
- “The Mutating Image”. 12th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia (catalogue).

2000
- “The 2nd Tama International Print Exhibition: Canada - Japan”, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue).
- “(S)elves”, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

Exhibiting since 1993  

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
- “crossing, still”, Station Gallery, Whitby, ON, Canada (July-August)

2008
- “And Now, Then Otherwise” (version 3), Malaspina Printmaker’s Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

2007
- “Else-where. (After Turner)”, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

2006
- “And Now, Then Otherwise” (version 2), Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
- “And Now, Then Otherwise” (version 1), SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada.

2000
- The Printer's Devil, ArtLab, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
- Building: or, what do you do with a leaky roof after looking at it for a year?, Open Studio Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1997    
- Filtering Eye, SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Canada