EDUCATION
2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Major, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2002
Visual Arts Diploma, Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 – present
Principal, John van der Woude Designs, Kelowna, BC
2009 – 2011
Graphic Designer, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
2007 – 2009
Creative Director, iPerceptions Ltd, Montréal, QC
2007
Digital Photography Youth Teacher, LeBrun Community Centre, Bedford, NS
2004 – 2005
Production Assistant / Graphic Designer, Orca Book Publishers, Victoria, BC
2002
Installation Worker for ‘Chrysalides’ by Fran Benton, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2000 – 2001
Outreach Co-ordinator, Open Space Arts Centre, Victoria, BC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
Collecting Photography, Collecting the World, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB, Canada (group)
ERI5 (Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative: 5), Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (group)
2011
Benched, Streaming Café, Kelowna, BC, Canada
2009
Google Earth, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON, Canada (group)
2008
Flash Foward 2008 Exhibition, Lennox Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (group)

Reshelving Initiative: 3, eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (group)
2007
jen’yoo-in, Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada (group)
BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Competition Exhibition 2007, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, Canada (group)
Make Do: Y Level Exhibition, eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (group)
2006
Power Houses: Canada’s First Ministers, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (solo)

Power Houses: Halifax Regional Municipality’s City Council, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada (solo)
2003
Final Straws, Fifty-fifty Arts Collective, Victoria, BC, Canada (group)
2002
Dear Father, Pandora Street Art Space, Victoria, BC, Canada (group)
Transitions: Camosun College Graduation Show 2002, EC4 Gallery, Victoria, BC, Canada (group)

COLLECTIONS
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, NB
BMO Financial Group’s Corporate Collection, Toronto, ON
Starfish Properties Corporate Collection, Halifax, NS
Also included in numerous other private collections

SELECTED PUBLICITY & CRITICAL REVIEWS
2009
Globe and Mail, Dault, G. M., “Google airport photos attractive and troubling”, 7 November 2009, pR10.
Torontoist, Gould, A. “An Aerial Earth”, 3 November 2009, torontoist.com/2009/11/google_earth_at_gallery_44.php.
Now Toronto Magazine, Sandals, L., “Down to Google Earth”, 18–25 November 2009.
2007
Black Flash Magazine, “Politician in Residence”, Spring/Summer 2009, p64. 
CNW Group, “BMO Names Best Student Artists in Canada”, 14 August 2007. Online.
Halifax Daily News, Lisk, D., “Artist takes ‘Where’s Waldo’ look at airports,” 9 May 2007, p26.
CBC Radio’s Q, 1 May 2007, radio interview.
L’Actualité Magazine, “Premiers Ministres en la Demeure”, 1 April 2007, p19.2006
2006
Maclean’s Magazine, “The Man Behind the House”, 18 December 2006, p70.
CBC.ca Arts Online, “Photo collection of premiers’ homes ‘great Canadiana’”, 18 December 2006. Online.
CBC Newsworld’s Morning News, 18 December 2006, television interview.
The Coast Magazine, “Political Platforms”, 17-23 December 2006, p40.
CBC Nova Scotia’s Evening News, 15 December 2006, television interview.
Halifax Chronicle Herald, “Power houses blend in with surroundings.”10 August 2006, pF6.

AWARDS & GRANTS
2008
Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2008 Award Winner (Canada)
2007
BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Invitational Art Competition Winner—Nova Scotia
2006
British Columbia Arts Council Senior Scholarship
NSCAD University’s Roloff Beny Photography Scholarship
NSCAD University’s Homer Lord Memorial Fund Scholarship
2003
Camosun College’s Jessie Allen Forsyth Memorial — Visual Arts Award of Merit

PUBLICATIONS
2009
Gallery 44’s Google Earth Exhibition Catalogue, essay by Marco Avolio
2008
Magneta Foundation’s Flash Forward 2008 Catalogue
2007
BMO Financial Group: 1st Art! Invitational Art Competition Catalogue, 2003-07
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