magic for yr true love

curriculum vitae

KIARRA ALBINA
Kiarra.albina@gmail.com

FELLOWSHIPS

2010 NFB/ONF Hothouse 6 Director, The National Film Board, Montreal
2008 NFB/ONF Production/ Study Scholarship, Quickdraw Animation Society, Calgary

EDUCATION

2009 – 2010 Production Intern, Drawn and Quarterly, Montreal, QC (November 2009 – April 2010)
2008 – 2009 Intro 2D, Advanced 2D, Experimental Animation, Quickdraw Animation Society,
Calgary, AB (September 2008 – May 2009)
2003 – 2007 B.F.A. Drawing program, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, AB

EXHIBITION RECORD

2010 
Secret Families, Straw Gallery, Calgary, AB (with Sean Macalister)
Bird House, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show, collaboration with Sean Macalister)
Making it Montreal, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, QC (group show)
Works on Paper, Red Bird Gallery, Montreal, QC (group show)

2009 
Frenzy!, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show)
Painted Moon and River Teeth, EMMedia, Calgary, AB (with Leslie Bell)
Licky Mouth, Arbour Lake Sghool Boron Gallery, Calgary, AB (with Jack Bride)
SPAWN, Arrata Opera Centre, Calgary, AB (group show)
Quadruped, The Fifty Fifty, Victoria, BC (as Quadruped Collective)
Les Voisins, STRIDE +15, International Festival of Animated Objects, Calgary, AB
Little Dreamers, NOUVELLE NOUVELLE, Vancouver, BC (group show)

2008 
The Neon Wilderness, IDEAL, Calgary, AB (mural, four person show)
Petite Enveloppe Urbaine, CRUM, Artcity, Calgary, AB (group show)
Aural Portraits, Choose Yr Own Festival, Calgary, AB (with Samantha Walrod)
Magic For Yr True Love, ARTLIFE, Calgary, AB (solo show)
Charmed Life, ARTSPOT, Calgary, AB (group show)
Film Stock, Bird Dog, Calgary, AB (group show)
Magic For Yr True Love, Arbour Lake Sghool Boron Gallery, Calgary, AB (solo show)
Mayday Mayday, Arbour Lake Sghool, Calgary, AB (group show)

2007 
Pop Culture, EMMedia, Calgary, AB (solo show)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Kiarra Albina’s Baanjo” Calgary Herald, January 20, 2009
Avenue Magazine, 2009
“Bridge Over Coloured Waters” Kitschykoo! Subcultural Lifesyle Magazine, Kait Kucy, August 5, 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Upcoming
Pamela Press NEWSPAPER
Untitled book of drawings, Published by James Whitman

2009
The Eastern Canadian Book of Drawing, Self published with Heather Smith
The Western Canadian Book of Drawing, Self published with Heather Smith

2007 
Magic For Yr True Love, Self published

ILLUSTRATION

Calgary Underground Film Festival
Music Waste, East Vancouver, BC
Flemish Eye/ Jagjaguar, “Women” shirts - Women
Album Cover/Insert, This Old Tape – Braden Funchner
Load Music, Album Cover/ Insert, Brain Heart Guitar – The Dudes

Magazines

Feedback Zine, Calgary, AB
Beatroute, Calgary, AB
Discorder , Vancouver, BC
Kitschykoo!, Calgary, AB
Dandelion, Calgary, AB
Filling Station, Calgary, AB