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| CV | Vincent Trasov |
| 1947 | Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. |
| 1966-68 | Majored in languages (French, German, English) and humanities at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. |
| 1967-68 | Travelled to Australia and New Zealand as seaman aboard German freighter Cap Colorado. |
| 1968 | Invited to USSR as official cultural guest. Visited Moscow, Leningrad, Minsk, Kiev, Yalta and Gurzuf. |
| 1969 | First fire process performances and works. Formed the concept of an “Image Bank” (since 1990 the Morris/Trasov Archive) with Michael Morris. |
| 1971 | Began producing videotapes. |
| 1969-74 | Assumed the identity of Mr. Peanut in exploring identity, persona, anthropomorphism and contemporary mythology. Ran for mayor of Vancouver in 1974 as Mr. Peanut with the support of the artistic community on the following art platform: P for Performance, E for Elegance, A for Art, N for Nonsense, U for Uniqueness and T for Talent. Received 3.4% of the vote. |
| 1973-80 | Co-founder and co-director of Western Front Society, Vancouver. |
| 1981 | Artist-in-Residence, Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD. |
| 1990 | Accessioned Morris/Trasov Archive during artist-in-residency at Banff Centre. |
| 1999 | Selected by the Vancouver Sun as one of the top one hundred British Columbians who (as an artist) shaped the province over the past century. |
| 2005 | Lives and works in Berlin and Vancouver. |
| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 1991 | The Word Paintings, Oboro, Montréal; Plug In, Winnipeg; UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 1992 | The Word Paintings, Gallery 76, Toronto; Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor. |
| 1993 | Strassenbild: Street Painting, Galerie am Pariser Platz, Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin. |
| 1994 | Strassenbild: Street Painting, Abgeordnetenhaus von Berlin, Berlin. |
| 1995 | Berliner Strassennamen im Dritten Reich: Berlin Street Names in the Third Reich>, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. |
| 1997 | Harmony, Winchester Galleries, Victoria. |
| 2001 | The Mr. Peanut Mayoralty Campaign 1974, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 2004 | Histories, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver. |
| Group Exhibitions | |
| 1983 | Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931-1983, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 1986 | Das andere Land: Auslaendische Kuenstler in der Bundesrepublik, Große Orangerie, Schloß Charlottenburg, Berlin. |
| 1991 | Interferenzen: Kunst aus Westberlin 1960-1990, Riga, Latvia. |
| 1994 | Out of America, Amerika Haus, Berlin. 5 Jahre Danach, Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin. |
| 1995 | Werkschau 3: Konzepte-Objekte-Installationen, Neues Kunstquartier Berlin, Berlin. |
| 1996 | International Artists Writing Reading Room, Side Street Projects Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Transient Moments: Vancouver and the Performance Photograph, Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver. |
| 1997 | Gift for India, Gallery Chemould, Max Muller Bhawan and Artists Centre, Bombay. |
| 1999-2001 | Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York (travelling exhibition). |
| 2002 | Looking for Dick, Open Studio, Toronto. |
| 2003 | The Williams Legacy: Contemporary Art of the Pacific Northwest, University of Victoria, Victoria. Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver. In My Solitude, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto. |
| Publications | |
| 1971 | Image Bank Postcard Show. Toronto: Coach House Press. |
| 1972 | International Image Exchange Directory. Vancouver: Talonbooks. |
| 1974 | “Image Bank Directory Issue,” File, no 7. Toronto. |
| 1976 | The Rise and Fall of the Peanut Party. Journal: Twenty Days in November (with John Mitchell). Vancouver: Air. |
| 1977 | Image Bank Postcard Show. Vancouver and New York City: Image Bank. |
| 1978 | “Image Bank Correspondence Issue,” Art Rite, no. 18. New York: Dollar Art Series. |
| 1982 | Berliner Bilder. Berlin: Galerie Ars Viva Edition and Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD. |
| 1982 | Video Narcissus (with Michael Morris). Galerie Ars Edition, Berlin and Berliner Kuenstlerprogramm, DAAD. |
| 1990 | Morris/Trasov Archive tabloid. Banff: Banff Centre and Morris/Trasov Archive. |
| 1991 | The Word Paintings. Vancouver: UBC Fine Arts Gallery. |
| 1992 | Morris/Trasov Archive Portfolio No. 1: The Search for the Hand of the Spirit. Vancouver: Morris/Trasov Archive and UBC Fine Arts Gallery. |
| 1994 | Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive. Vancouver: Morris/Trasov Archive and UBC Fine Arts Gallery. |
| 1994 | Colour Research: Morris/Trasov Archive. XXII Bienal Internacional de São Paulo. Winnipeg: Plug In Editions. |
| 1999 | How Sad I am Today: The Art of Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School (website). Vancouver: Sharla Sava, Morris/Trasov Archive and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery |
| Zero Hour: Tenth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (website). Vancouver: Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery and the UBC Institute for European Studies. | |
| 2000 | Colour Research 1967-2000 (website). Vancouver: Patrick Chan and Morris/Trasov Archive. |
| 2001 | Ray Johnson: How Sad I am Today. Vancouver: Morris/Trasov Archive and Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. |
| Catalogues | |
| 1979 | Live Art: 1909 to the Present. Edited by Roselee Goldberg. New York: Abrams. |
| 1983 | Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931-1983. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery. |
| 1986 | Das andere Land: Auslaendische Kuenstler in der Bundesrepublik. Berlin: Edition Deplana. |
| 1986 | Buero Berlin: Ein Produktionsbegriff. Berlin: Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. |
| 1991 | Interferenzen:Kunst aus Westberlin 1960-1990. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft fuer bildende Kunst. |
| 1992 | La Collection: Tableau Inaugural. Montreal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. |
| 1993 | Whispered Art History: Twenty Years at the Western Front. Edited by Keith Wallace. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press. |
| 1995 | Werkschau 3: Konzepte-Objekte-Installationen. Berlin: Neues Kunstquartier Berlin. Senatsverwaltung fuer Soziales: Kuenstlerfoerderung. |
| 1995 | “Zwei kanadische Kuenstler in Berlin: Impulse fuer ein unabhaengiges Netzwerk.” Zeitschrift fuer Kulturaustausch 1995/2. Stuttgart: Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen. |
| 1995 | “Erinnerungskarton” from the exhibition 5 Jahre danach. Berlin: Haus am Luetzowplatz. |
| 1997 | “Art and Design,” Magazine Profile No. 54. Guest edited by Michael Petry. London, England. |
| 2000 | Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s. Queens, New York: Queens Museum of Art. |
| 2002 | Golden Streams Artists’ Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s. Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery. |
| Morris/Trasov Archive Exhibitions | |
| 1992 | Morris/Trasov Archive Inaugural Exhibition, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 1994 | Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 1994 | Morris/Trasov Archive Colour Research, XXII Bienal Internacional, São Paulo. |
| 1995 | Morris/Trasov Archive Colour Research, Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg. |
| 1996 | Colour Research: Works from the Morris/Trasov Archive at Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 1997 | Morris/Trasov Archive On Line (e-mail and Internet exhibition), Tang Station, Berlin. |
| 1999 | How Sad I am Today: The Art of Ray Johnson and the New York Correspondence School, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver. |
| Zero Hour: Tenth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Morris/Trasov Archive, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Western Front Society and Goethe-Institute, Vancouver. | |
| 2000 | Gay Chic of the 70s from the Morris/Trasov Archive, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver. |
| 2002 | Golden Streams Artists’ Collaboration and Exchange in the 1970s, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga. |
| Selected Bibliography | |
| 1989 | Karen Henry, “In these Times of Diminishing Visual Returns: the Video Work of Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov,” in Video Guide, vol. 10, no. 1 (March): 3, 18. |
| 1991 | Marcia E. Vetrocq, “Report from Montréal-Modernity and the City,” in Art in America, vol. 79, no. 11 (November). |
| 1992 | Christina Ritchie, “Vincent Trasov: Word Paintings,” in Canadian Art, vol. 9, no. 4 (Winter): 67-68. |
| 1995 | Alison Gillmor, “Bar Everyone,” in Border Crossings, vol. 14, no. 1 (November). |
| 2004 | Robin Laurence, “Trasov’s Nuty Art: Crunchy and Smooth,” in Georgia Straight (July 22). |
| Julia Dault, “Mr. Peanut through the Ages,” in National Post (June 24): B-3. |