Alexandra Bischoff (b. 1991, Amiskwacîwâskahikan/Edmonton, AB) holds a Fine-Arts Diploma from MacEwan University (2012), a BFA in Visual Arts Studio from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2015), and an MFA from Concordia University in Intermedia (2021). Bischoff’s artworks manifest as multimedia installations, sculptures, and writing; their artmaking processes as a whole are based in durational performance. Most recently, Bischoff has been researching family archives and Canada’s homesteading histories to investigate what it means to be a housing-insecure settler on stolen Indigenous land.
ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
alexandrabischoff@live.ca
alexandrabischoff@live.ca
EDUCATION
2018-21 - Concordia University (Montreal, QC) MFA: Intermedia (Video, Performance and Electronic Art) with Great Distinction
2015-12 - Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, BC) BFA: Visual Arts Studio, Undergraduate Class Valedictorian
2012-10 - MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB) Fine Art Diploma with Distinction
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2023 - Get it? Get it? An Exhibition of Bad Jokes, Again (performance), The Vault Gallery (Victoria, BC)
2022 - The Uninvited Project, web (Vancouver, BC)
2022 - Graduating Students' Exhibition (performance), VAV Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2021 - Attempts at Preservation, MFA Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2021 - It’s been a while, FOFA Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2020 - Rereading in the Library, Concordia University Library (Edmonton, AB)
2020 - Open Studio, Banff Centre Studios (Banff, AB)
2019 - Peripheral Hours III: Site of the Not Yet (performance with Ayam Yaldo), Peripheral Hours (Montreal, QC)
2019 - PAB OPEN (performance), Performance Art Bergen at the Grand Terminus Hotel (Bergen, NO)
2019 - RIPA 8 (performance), Darling Foundry (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Maureen IV, Yves Laroche Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Fieldwork 2 (performance), EV Junction, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Fieldwork 1 (performance), Dean's Boardroom, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2018 - Peripheral Hours I (performance), Peripheral Hours (Montreal, QC)
2018 - Château à vendre: L'exposition, Castello Montestrutto Fondazione Scalero (Piemonte, IT)
2018 - eggshells, eggshells and Peep Show Pop-Up (performances), Unit 17 (Vancouver, BC)
2018 - Under One Roof, Can't Complain Gallery (Mississauga, ON)
2018 - IKG Live 2 (performance), Illingsworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, AB)
2018 - Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - SOOT, Unit 17 (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - Happenstance: Senses (performance), Decoy Magazine (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - Hibernaculum (performance), The Works at McCauley (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - Rereading Room: The Vancouver Women's Bookstore, 221A (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - With Subversive Intent, part of the UofA Activist Primer Series, the Ice Box (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - SAD Spells (performance) at the VABF, Vancouver Art Gallery Art Rental & Sales Room (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Lifetime Piling Up, Petite Nuit Blanche (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - Naked State at Bare Oaks, Bare Oaks Naturist Park (Newmarket, ON)
2016 - For the Good Times (performance), Cambie and Cordova Studios (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - IKG Live 1 (performance), Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, AB)
2016 - IRL:URL (performance), James Black Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Small Works (performance), Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Close Reading reading and book launch, Burrard Arts Foundation [curated] (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Frontlines: First Again! Competition, Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Transmutation, The Works International Art & Design Festival: 30th Anniversary (Edmonton, AB)
2015 - Transmutation, The Works at McCauley (Edmonton, AB)
2015 - Over Under Over Under: A Show About Pattern (performance), Redgate Art Society (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - The Show: Emily Carr Graduate Exhibition, ECUAD (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Abstraction, the GRAY Gallery (Edmonton, AB)
2014 - postures for lessness, the Amazing Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Art/Fetish, the Amazing Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
WEB BASED WRITING PROJECTS
2016-17 - Both/And archival research blog (with Anna Tidlund), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
RESIDENCIES
2022 - Long-Term Resident, Similkameen Artist Residency (Keremeos, BC)
2020 - Winter BAiR - Emerging, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB)
2019 - Fieldwork, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2017 - ALIVE Biennale Performance Workshops Mentee (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Naked State at Bare Oaks, produced by Arts Unfold (Toronto, ON)
2016 - N.O.P.E. research group, 221A Artist Run Centre (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Historic Joy Kogawa House Writing Residency (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Writing residency, Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Self-directed residency at The Fantasy Factory (Vancouver, BC)
AWARDS
2020 - BC Arts Council Scholarship (Montreal, QC)
2020 - SSHRC Storytellers Competition (Montreal, QC)
2020 - Research, creation & exploration grant, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Arts Abroad — Travel grant, The Canada Council for the Arts (Montreal, QC to Bergen, NOR)
2019 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Out of Province Fee Remission, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2018 - RBC Artist Development Grant, IKG LIVE 2 performance award (Calgary, AB)
2016 - Frontlines: First Again! Competition 1st Prize, Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - ECUAD Undergraduate Class Valedictorian (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Presidents Media Arts Award Honorable Mention (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Takao Tanabe Scholarship (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Walter Jaager Excellence in Painting Scholarship (Vancouver, BC)
2012 - Jason Lang Scholarship (Edmonton, AB)
2012 - The Loyal Order of the Crocodile Scholarship (Edmonton, AB)
NOMINATIONS
2012 - BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition (Edmonton, AB)
COLLECTIONS
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
SELECTED PRESS
2018 - Ling, Steffanie. “10 Artists Who Work with Text.” Canadian Art, 19 Mar. 2018
2018 - Griffin, Kevin. “Put It in Words: How Writing and Reading by Women Influenced Art in the '70s.” Vancouver Sun, 13 Jan. 2018.
2018 - Gerges, Merray. “Second Take ‘Beginning With the Seventies: GLUT.’” Canadian Art, 2018, pp. 31.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Shearer's Spectral Sleepers.” ReIssue. ed. Casey Wei. Web.
2020 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “saccharine & acerbic (excerpt from an artist book).” low theory 2. ed. Kate Wong. Web.
2019 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Bridget Moser: Prop Comedy and Consumer Anxiety.” FEMME Art Review. ed. Adi Berardini. Web.
2018 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Long CV.” Crying||Laughing (2018): 86-93. Montreal: benni macdonald. Print.
2017 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Usually only temporarily.” LAUGH Magazine 3. (2017): 30-31. Print.
2016 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Tongue in Shape.” Catalogue essay for Sarah Davidson. Scrap Collector at Gam Gallery. 2016. Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra. I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries). Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra and Katherine Neil. "Painting (And) Things." ISSUE 3.4 (2015): 35-39. Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “To my Loving Mother.” Transmutation Anthology. (2015): 10-16. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra. A Casual Gesture. Vancouver: Mina Totino, 2014. 4-10. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra, and Katherine Neil. "GAM VS. VIVO." ISSUE 3.3 (2014): 8-10. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra. "The Taboo of Touch." AFFECTUS 1.1 (2014): 81-87. Print.
2018-21 - Concordia University (Montreal, QC) MFA: Intermedia (Video, Performance and Electronic Art) with Great Distinction
2015-12 - Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, BC) BFA: Visual Arts Studio, Undergraduate Class Valedictorian
2012-10 - MacEwan University (Edmonton, AB) Fine Art Diploma with Distinction
SELECT EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2023 - Get it? Get it? An Exhibition of Bad Jokes, Again (performance), The Vault Gallery (Victoria, BC)
2022 - The Uninvited Project, web (Vancouver, BC)
2022 - Graduating Students' Exhibition (performance), VAV Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2021 - Attempts at Preservation, MFA Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2021 - It’s been a while, FOFA Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2020 - Rereading in the Library, Concordia University Library (Edmonton, AB)
2020 - Open Studio, Banff Centre Studios (Banff, AB)
2019 - Peripheral Hours III: Site of the Not Yet (performance with Ayam Yaldo), Peripheral Hours (Montreal, QC)
2019 - PAB OPEN (performance), Performance Art Bergen at the Grand Terminus Hotel (Bergen, NO)
2019 - RIPA 8 (performance), Darling Foundry (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Maureen IV, Yves Laroche Gallery (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Fieldwork 2 (performance), EV Junction, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Fieldwork 1 (performance), Dean's Boardroom, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2018 - Peripheral Hours I (performance), Peripheral Hours (Montreal, QC)
2018 - Château à vendre: L'exposition, Castello Montestrutto Fondazione Scalero (Piemonte, IT)
2018 - eggshells, eggshells and Peep Show Pop-Up (performances), Unit 17 (Vancouver, BC)
2018 - Under One Roof, Can't Complain Gallery (Mississauga, ON)
2018 - IKG Live 2 (performance), Illingsworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, AB)
2018 - Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - SOOT, Unit 17 (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - Happenstance: Senses (performance), Decoy Magazine (Vancouver, BC)
2017 - Hibernaculum (performance), The Works at McCauley (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - Rereading Room: The Vancouver Women's Bookstore, 221A (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - With Subversive Intent, part of the UofA Activist Primer Series, the Ice Box (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - SAD Spells (performance) at the VABF, Vancouver Art Gallery Art Rental & Sales Room (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Lifetime Piling Up, Petite Nuit Blanche (Edmonton, AB)
2016 - Naked State at Bare Oaks, Bare Oaks Naturist Park (Newmarket, ON)
2016 - For the Good Times (performance), Cambie and Cordova Studios (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - IKG Live 1 (performance), Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, AB)
2016 - IRL:URL (performance), James Black Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Small Works (performance), Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Close Reading reading and book launch, Burrard Arts Foundation [curated] (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Frontlines: First Again! Competition, Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Transmutation, The Works International Art & Design Festival: 30th Anniversary (Edmonton, AB)
2015 - Transmutation, The Works at McCauley (Edmonton, AB)
2015 - Over Under Over Under: A Show About Pattern (performance), Redgate Art Society (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - The Show: Emily Carr Graduate Exhibition, ECUAD (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Abstraction, the GRAY Gallery (Edmonton, AB)
2014 - postures for lessness, the Amazing Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Art/Fetish, the Amazing Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
WEB BASED WRITING PROJECTS
2016-17 - Both/And archival research blog (with Anna Tidlund), Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
RESIDENCIES
2022 - Long-Term Resident, Similkameen Artist Residency (Keremeos, BC)
2020 - Winter BAiR - Emerging, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity (Banff, AB)
2019 - Fieldwork, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2017 - ALIVE Biennale Performance Workshops Mentee (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Naked State at Bare Oaks, produced by Arts Unfold (Toronto, ON)
2016 - N.O.P.E. research group, 221A Artist Run Centre (Vancouver, BC)
2016 - Historic Joy Kogawa House Writing Residency (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - Writing residency, Burrard Arts Foundation (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Self-directed residency at The Fantasy Factory (Vancouver, BC)
AWARDS
2020 - BC Arts Council Scholarship (Montreal, QC)
2020 - SSHRC Storytellers Competition (Montreal, QC)
2020 - Research, creation & exploration grant, Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Arts Abroad — Travel grant, The Canada Council for the Arts (Montreal, QC to Bergen, NOR)
2019 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, SSHRC (Montreal, QC)
2019 - Out of Province Fee Remission, Concordia University (Montreal, QC)
2018 - RBC Artist Development Grant, IKG LIVE 2 performance award (Calgary, AB)
2016 - Frontlines: First Again! Competition 1st Prize, Robert Lynds Gallery (Vancouver, BC)
2015 - ECUAD Undergraduate Class Valedictorian (Vancouver, BC)
2014 - Presidents Media Arts Award Honorable Mention (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Takao Tanabe Scholarship (Vancouver, BC)
2013 - Walter Jaager Excellence in Painting Scholarship (Vancouver, BC)
2012 - Jason Lang Scholarship (Edmonton, AB)
2012 - The Loyal Order of the Crocodile Scholarship (Edmonton, AB)
NOMINATIONS
2012 - BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition (Edmonton, AB)
COLLECTIONS
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
SELECTED PRESS
2018 - Ling, Steffanie. “10 Artists Who Work with Text.” Canadian Art, 19 Mar. 2018
2018 - Griffin, Kevin. “Put It in Words: How Writing and Reading by Women Influenced Art in the '70s.” Vancouver Sun, 13 Jan. 2018.
2018 - Gerges, Merray. “Second Take ‘Beginning With the Seventies: GLUT.’” Canadian Art, 2018, pp. 31.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2021 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Shearer's Spectral Sleepers.” ReIssue. ed. Casey Wei. Web.
2020 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “saccharine & acerbic (excerpt from an artist book).” low theory 2. ed. Kate Wong. Web.
2019 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Bridget Moser: Prop Comedy and Consumer Anxiety.” FEMME Art Review. ed. Adi Berardini. Web.
2018 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Long CV.” Crying||Laughing (2018): 86-93. Montreal: benni macdonald. Print.
2017 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Usually only temporarily.” LAUGH Magazine 3. (2017): 30-31. Print.
2016 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “Tongue in Shape.” Catalogue essay for Sarah Davidson. Scrap Collector at Gam Gallery. 2016. Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra. I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries). Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra and Katherine Neil. "Painting (And) Things." ISSUE 3.4 (2015): 35-39. Print.
2015 - Bischoff, Alexandra. “To my Loving Mother.” Transmutation Anthology. (2015): 10-16. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra. A Casual Gesture. Vancouver: Mina Totino, 2014. 4-10. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra, and Katherine Neil. "GAM VS. VIVO." ISSUE 3.3 (2014): 8-10. Print.
2014 - Bischoff, Alexandra. "The Taboo of Touch." AFFECTUS 1.1 (2014): 81-87. Print.