More about Marla Hlady
EDUCATION
1990 MFA, York University (Toronto), Faculty of Graduate Studies
1987 BFA (Honours), University of Victoria, Faculty of Fine Arts
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
2011 Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
2011 Oakville Art Galleries, Ontario
2009 Sound Objects, Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, Ontario
Playing Piano, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
2008 Curtain Machine Berlin, site work in Görlizerstrasse 49, Berlin, Germany
Playing Piano, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Playing Piano, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario
Playing Piano, YYZ Artist Outlet, Toronto
2007 Drawing & Sound Objects, Rodman Hall Arts Centre: Brock University, St.Catharines, Ontario
2006 New Drawings and Audio Objects, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
2005 Wilderness Tourist, Canada Quay at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
2004 Marla Hlady, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
2003 She Moves Through The Fair (Pipe Whistle), Durham Art Gallery, (ON)
She Moves Through The Fair (Pipe Whistle) and The Only One My Arms Will Ever Hold, in Collaboration with Calgary Based Composer John Abram, Art Gallery of Calgary, AB
2002 Shelf Works, Neutral Ground, Regina (SASK)
2001 Drawing Sound, The Gallery, University of Toronto
Marla Hlady, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Drawings, 64 Steps Art Gallery, Toronto
2000 Waltzing Matilda, Solo Site Project for Peregrine, Toronto
1999 Drumming Displaced Into Different Sized Jam Jars, Women's Art Resource Centre , Toronto
1998 Marla Hlady, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1997 Shelf Works, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal
1995 Gut Machines, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal
1994 off Roader 1, Installation In Sculpture Court, Genereux Gallery, Toronto
1993 Beauty, Galerie Christiane Chassay, Montreal
1992 Beauty, Koffler Loggia Gallery, The High Junk Series, Toronto
1991 Neutralized Feelings of Apprehension; site work, in Conjunction with Gallery 76 and The Ontario College of Art, Toronto
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Hum installed in silo for Electric Eclectics Festival, Meaford, Ontario
2009 Guilt by Association Doris McCarthy Gallery: University of Toronto, Scarborough, Ontario
NITE RIDE, Artengine, Ottawa, Ontario
VERACITY, Cafka (The Contemporary Art Forum), Kitchener, Ontario
Playing Piano, Sound Bytes: Halifax Festival of Art and Audio, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax.
2008 Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines, Art Gallery of Windsor, Oshawa Art Gallery
2006 Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines, Museum London (ON) and Touring
Du Cote De Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Galerie Rene Blouin, Montreal
The Networked City, Site Work Located In The Hudson’s Bay Department Store Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre In Partnership with The City of Toronto
The Idea of North, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax
2005 In Line, Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto
Cold City Years, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Interactive ’05, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto Convention Centre
The One, NGC 224 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
The Idea of North, Klink and Bank, Reykjavik, Iceland
2004 Mercer Living, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto
Drawing Breath, Verge Gallery, Vancouver
2003 Sobey Art Award 2002 Exhibition , Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art Toronto
Flywheel, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
Take Out, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
2002 Generally, But Not Always, Video Screening, Apexart Gallery, New York
Sobey Art Award 2002 Exhibition, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia , Halifax
Kinematics, York Quay Gallery, Toronto
Generally, But Not Always, Video Screening, Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto
Machine Festive, L’oeil De Poisson, Quebec City
Officina America, Museo Di San Domenico, Imola, Italy
2001 Drawing, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver
1999 My Place Or Your Place, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto
Machines Festives, La Centrale, Montreal
Flywheel, The Nunnery, London, England
Noise Makers, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Canada
1998 KINDERspiel, Angel Gallery, Toronto
Four Views, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
1996 Blink, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
1995 30 Seconds + Title, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1994 Naked State: a Selected View of Toronto Art, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Misrule at The Apollo, 12 Temperence St., Toronto
Empreintes De Robots, La Galerie D'art Du College Edouard-Montpetit, Longueuil, Quebec
1993 Off The Wall, Robert Birch Gallery, Toronto
Young Contemporaries '93, The London Regional Gallery, London, Ontario
1992 Cold City Gallery 1992 Invitational, Cold City Gallery, Toronto
1990 Remove, 25 Morrow Ave, Toronto
AUDIO WORKS, MULTIPLES, PUBLICATIONS, PERFORMANCES
2010 Audiovision, video screening, part of Festival ON.Fire, Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario)
2009 NITE RIDE, Sound Commission for Artengine (artengine.ca/programming/2009/niteride), Ottawa, Ontario
2008 Unlevel, edition of 10 unlevel-able levels for Art Metropole, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Album/Cd Art for Eric Chenaux: Dull Lights, Constellation Records, Montreal
2004 Soundballs #4, edition of 10 Audio-Sculptures, self-published
Soundballs #3 A Performance In Collaboration with Musician/Composer Eric Chenaux and The Tristanos for Rat-Drifting (Monthly Experimental Music Series, Toronto) and Art Metronome, an Art Metropole Event, Harbourfront Theatre, Toronto
Michelle Mcadorey and Eric Chenaux: Love Don’t Change, CD Art for Ratdrifting Record Label, Toronto
Warm Weather, In Collaboration with Eric Chenaux, Commissioned and Performed by Arraymusic Ensemble at The Music Gallery, Toronto) (CD Published by Musicworks, Fall 2005)
2003 Recording Machines, audio work, Charles Street Video Residency, Self- Published Soundcan, edition of 10 Audio-Sculptures, Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
CD Art for The Reveries: Blasé Kisses, Ratdrifting Record Label, Toronto
CD Art for The Guayaveras, Ratdrifting Record Label, Toronto
2002 In Stereo, Audio-Sculpture, unlimited edition, self-published Waltzing Matilda (Artist Page), Collezioni Edge (Italy), Summer/Autumn edition
2000 Macintosh Road Test, edition of 100 Spiral Bound Books, self-published In collaboration with Corinne Carlson and Karen Henderson
Wind-Up #2, edition of 100 Wind-Up Toys, self-published
1996 Wind-Up, edition of 50 Wind-Up Toys, published by Still (#3), Toronto
SELECTED GRANTS, PRIZES, AWARDS
Canada Council for the Arts (B Grant) (2003, 2001, 1999)
Canada Council for the Arts (Travel Grant) (2001, 1999)
Canada Council for the Arts (Project Grant) (1992)
Ontario Arts Council (Grants to Visual Artists: Senior) (2005, 2002, 1999)
Ontario Arts Council (Grant to Visual Artists: Mid-Career) (1998, 1996)
Ontario Arts Council (Exhibition assistance Grant) (2005, 1995,1994, 1993, 1992, 1991)
Toronto Arts Council (2005, 2003)
shortlisted, Sobey Art Award (2002)