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Renée Van Halm
born in 1949 in Badhoevedorp, The Netherlands - resides in Vancouver BC
Renée Van Halm was born in the Netherlands and came to Canada as a young child. She has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal, and has lived and worked in Berlin, Germany. Her undergraduate work was completed in printmaking at the then Vancouver School of Art and she received an MFA from Concordia University in Montréal. She is a painter as well as a sculptural installation artist. In addition to over 30 solo exhibitions her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions such asArchitypes in Sydney (2004) and Tokyo (2005); weak thought (1997-98) at the Vancouver Art Gallery and Songs of Experience (1983) at the National Gallery of Canada. Her solo exhibition Dream Home originated at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver and toured Western Canada in 2002 – 2003. Her work has been collected publicly and privately in Canada and internationally. In addition, Van Halm has been involved with many related projects including the founding in 1979 of Mercer Union, an artist run centre in Toronto. She taught for over a decade at York University before joining the faculty of Emily Carr Institute in 1992. Van Halm has an extraordinarily long exhibition history in Canada, the US and in Europe. Her work is represented by Birch Libralato in Toronto and the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver, and she has been a Guest Lecturer all over Canada and in the US.
http://www.reneevanhalm.com
http://www.equinoxgallery.com/artists/bio/renee-van_halm
http://www.ccca.ca/cv/english/vanhalm-cv.html

Rebecca Belmore
born in Upsala Ontario - resides in Vancouver BC
Rebecca Belmore, the Vancouver-based visual and performance artist whose dark humour helped make her an international sensation, won the 2009 Hnatyshyn Foundation Visual Arts Award. She was awarded the $25,000 prize for outstanding achievement by a Canadian artist. Rebecca Belmore is hailed as an inspiration to young First Nations artists (Hnatyshyn Foundation). She creates work about the disenfranchised and marginalized in society, often referencing historical events. She works in sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore attended the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto and is internationally recognized for her performance and installation art. Since 1987, her multi-disciplinary work has addressed history, place and identity through the media of sculpture, installation, video and performance. Belmore was Canada's official representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally including two solo touring exhibitions, The Named and the Unnamed, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2002); and 33 Pieces, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto at Mississauga (2001). Her group exhibitions include Houseguests, Art Gallery of Ontario (2001); Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (1995); Land, Spirit, Power, National Gallery of Canada (1992); and Creation or Death: We Will Win, at the Havana Biennial, Havana Cuba (1991).
http://www.rebeccabelmore.com
http://bcartsnews.blogspot.com/2009/11/artist-rebecca-belmore-wins-hnatyshyn.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/11/09/hnatyshyn-foundation.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2009/11/09/hnatyshyn-foundation.html
http://www.rjhf.com/html/RB09-e.html
http://www.turtleisland.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6966

Pat Service
born 1941 in Port Alberni BC - resides in Vancouver BC
Pat Service has had a prestigious career as a painter and writer. During the 1960s, she studied at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree at the University of British Columbia. After graduating from university, she lived in Eastern Canada, Scotland and Venezuela.Considered one of Canada's foremost landscape artists, Service has painted on location in Canada, Scotland and New York. Once a frequent attendee at the Emma Lake workshops (1980-1991), she first became known for her impressionistic prairie landscapes. More recently, in the 1990s, she participated in the Triangle Artists' Workshops in upstate New York. In recent years, Service simplified the concept of landscape to symbolic depictions of isolated landmarks - such as a cabin, a small group of trees, a dock or boat - against fields of solid colours in brilliant hues. Service has lived in Vancouver, BC and painted full-time since 1972. In 1993, she was awarded the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of Confederation in Canada.
http://www.patservice.com
http://www.dianefarrisgallery.com/artist/service/index.html
http://www.scottgallery.com/patservicecv.htm
http://www.galleries.bc.ca/GRANDFORKS/pat%20service%2009.html
http://www.schultefineart.com/artists_frameset/service_pat.html