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September 2012
Forthcoming in the book series MONOGRAPHIE, co-published by Dazibao and VU:
“a collection of indispensable volumes on contemporary image practices in Quebec.”

     
 
March 2012
Coming through the Fog: les rencontres de Matthieu Brouillard et Donigan Cumming
Curated by Erin Silver
FOFA Gallery
Concordia University, Montréal, Québec
March 19 – April 20, 2012

     
 
February 2012
Workshop, École de Photographie de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland,
13-17 February

     
 
November 2011
Pleasure Dome
Splitting the Choir: The Moving Images of Donigan Cumming
Book launch and screening
CineCycle, 129 Spadina Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, November 5: 7:00 pm Book Launch; 8:00 pm Screening.
Program: Fountain (2005), Petit Jésus (1999), Cold Harbor (2003),
Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust (2009), Monument (2008), 3 (2007),
Too Many Things (2010)

     
 
September 2011
Centre Sagamie
Alma, Québec
Artists in Residence
Donigan Cumming and Matthieu Brouillard
September 6 to 9
   
           
 
May 2011
Canadian Film Institute
Retrospective, Part II:
Wednesday, May 11, 7:00pm
Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa
Screening: CUT THE PARROT, WRAP, FOUNTAIN, SHELTER, MONUMENT, TOO MANY THINGS
     
           
 
April 2011
Splitting the Choir: The Moving Images of Donigan Cumming
Edited by Scott Birdwise
Published by the Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa
Essays by: Scott Birdwise, Mireille Bourgeois, Zoë Constantinides, Blake Fitzpatrick, Marcy Goldberg, Mike Hoolboom, Tom McSorley, Solomon Nagler, Craig Rodmore and
Christopher Rohde
Available from CFI
 
         
 
April 2011
Canadian Film Institute
Retrospective, Part I
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas, Ottawa, Canada
Friday, April 29, 7:30pm
Screening: PETIT JESUS, ERRATIC ANGEL, KARAOKE, FOUR STOREYS, MY DINNER WITH WEEGEE, PENCILS, ASHES, MATCHES & DUST
     
           
 
February 2011
Master class, HAUTE ÉCOLE D'ART ET DE DESIGN GENÈVE, Geneva, Switzerland,
11-12 February
     
    Workshop, École de Photographie de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland,
14-18 February
   
           
 
November 2010
Contraste Magazine 4 (Paris, France): portfolio from The Stage      
           
 
Oct/Nov 2010
if only I and Too Many Things in “Selection from Cinema du réel," Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan, 15 October – 14 November      
           
 
October 2010
New Giclée print released from The Stage
   
           
 
Exhibition review: Matthieu Brouillard, "Donigan Cumming: Kincora 2010," in Ciel Variable 86    
           
 
September 2010
Galerie Michel Guimont, Québec (Québec) Canada: inaugural exhibition - new Giclée dyptich released
   
           
 
Too Many Things in “Dislocación,” Bicentenaire de Chili, Santiago, Chile      
           
 
May 2010
Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition
Bearing Witness: Works from the Collection
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
May 8, 2010 - January 3, 2011
     
           
 
April 2010
Too Many Things
Screening in International Competition at Vision du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland.
April 15-21
 
           
    if only I streaming on hotdocs Doc Library site    
           
 
March 2010
Donigan Cumming : preuves nouvelles et choses trouvées
Projections des vidéos que l’artiste a créées depuis 2003
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec
Mecredi 17 mars 2010, à 18 h 30
   
           
 
February 2010
Kincora 2010, une exposition présentée par les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois
et la Cinémathèque québécoise
Foyer Luce-Guilbeault
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec
DU 18 FÉVRIER AU 28 MARS
   
           
    Too Many Things premieres in Montreal at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québecois
Saturday, February 20, 4:00 PM in the Salle Claude Jutra, Cinémathèque québécoise
   
         
 
January 2010
Included in 100 Video Artists / 100 videoartistas, EXIT Publicaciones, Madrid, Spain. Essay by Jean Perret. Spanish/English
 

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November 2009
Installation/Intervention at L’état d’urgence 09
Projection and banners
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
November 25 - 29
   
 
       
 
Fall 2009
Prologue and Epilogue in EXIT Imagen y Cultura / Image & Culture, #35, "Cut and Paste," Madrid, Spain      
           
 
June 2009
Éditions J’ai VU publishes the book Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust / Crayons, cendres, allumettes et poussières in the series “Livres d’artistes” « Constitué de dessins, de photographies, de textes et de soliloques issus de ses films, ce livre dévoile une vibrante mosaïque de l’univers de l’artiste. »
   
 

     
 
May 2009
Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition
The Art of Caring: A Look at Life Through Photography
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisianna, U.S.A.
May 16, 2009 - August 2, 2009
     
           
 
April 2009
Pencils, Ashes, Matches & Dust, a commissioned “film haïku” for Visions du Réel, International Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland
April 23 - April 29
     
           
 
January  2009
Monument, in Territories, part of Spectrum: Shorts, 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

   
           
  January  2009 Established artist’s residency for 2009 at the invitation of PRIM (Productions Réalisations Indépendantes de Montréal) for the production of a video titled Too Many Things.      
           
 
November  2008
Trip and Four Storeys, screening in the video program “Metamorphosis”, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey, November, 2008      
           
 
November  2008
Alive,” commissioned artist project in BlackFlash 26.1: The Death Issue      
           
 
November  2008
Untitled, from Kincora (2008), commissioned artist project in Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images. Firoza Elavia, editor. Linda Feesey, curator of art works. Published by Pleasure Dome, Toronto
     
           
 
October 2008
Lecture: Recent Works, Current Thoughts
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, 30 October, 11 am, 2008
     
     
   
 
October 2008
Maquam Press announces the publication of Kincora, a limited edition artist’s book.
Available through Galerie Éric Devlin and donigancumming.com

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October 2008
Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Kincora
La Galerie Éric Devlin, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Opening October 16, 2008
until November 16, 2008

Gallery Tour
   
           
 
October 2008
Monument premieres in Lisbon, Portugal. The work was commissioned by LX Films for "Distance and Proximity", a collection of short films funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, as part of a collective reflection on intercultural subjects.      
           
 
Sept. 2008
Petit Jésus screens as part of Hommage à Claude Forget (1949 - 2008). The film and video communities in Montréal were greatly saddened by the recent death of Claude Forget, a visionary and activist for filmmakers. I am honoured to have my work included in this tribute, “Une sélection de courts métrages chers aux yeux de Claude.” Screenings: Friday, September 19, La Casa Obscura, 20h30; 26-27 September at Vidéographe, as part of Journées de la culture.
     
           
 
Sept. 2008
Work from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition DARKSIDE, Part 1: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
September 6 - November 16, 2008
     
           
 
Sept. 2008
P.O.P. Cinema Festival, A Prayer for Nettie, Karaoke, Petit Jésus, Culture, and My Dinner with Weegee in the program “Body Song”, SPOT-Taipei Film House, Taipei, Taiwan
September 5 - September 26, 2008
     
           
 
July 2008

Selections from Pretty Ribbons in the exhibition Ein Leben lang...
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
July 26 - August 31, 2008

     
           
 
June 2008

Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Ex Votos
Prologue, Epilogue, The Stage and selected videos
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
June 21 - August 10, 2008

     
           
 
May 2008

Work from Reality and Motive in Documentary Photogrpaphy in the exhibition
Photography Centres Worldwide
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Almería, Spain
May 29 - July 31, 2008

     
           
 
May 2008
Launch of Mike Hoolboom’s book of interviews, Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists, including his interview with Donigan Cumming
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 p.m.
     
 

April 2008

Fountain and 3, screening in the program Twisted Tales
Raskolnikow Gallery, Dresden, Germany
April 17, 21:00

Karaoke, screening in the program Dix ans – au présent / Lumière, corps, vitesse
Grande Bibliothèque, Montréal, Québec, Canada
April 18, 20:30

The Stage, Christie’s, Fine Photobooks From An Important Private Collection, auction Thursday 10 April at 10am, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, U.S.A.

   
 
February 2008
3 screening in
Les 26e rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois
February 23, 2008 4:00 PM
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Québec, Canada
     
 
Donigan Cumming: Prologue and Epilogue
Biennale internationale de la Photographie et des Arts visuels de Liège, Belgique
Du 15 février au 30 mars 2008
   
 
January 2008
Solo program of video work (1998-2007)
Petit Jésus, My Dinner with Weegee, A Short Lesson, Wrap, Fountain, 3 (Canadian premier)
Antitube , Quebec City
Screening evening of January 18, 2008, 8:00 PM
   
   
Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Kincora
Galerie Vu, Quebec City
Opening January 18, 2008, 5:00 PM
until February 24, 2008
 
 
December 2007
Karaoke screening as a continuous video projection in "SWITCHER SEX: Video Works from the Teutloff Collection"
Slought Foundation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
December 12 - February 09, 2008
   
           
 
Sept/Oct. 2007
Donigan Cumming: “Controlled Disturbance
reviewed by Video Librarian
   
           
 
Sept. 2007
Donigan Cumming : “La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar
reviewed by Esse
 
 
August 2007
Men asleep, A dream, Play, A song, screens at RAW: Video Art & Dining, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, New York, 7:30 & 10 PM, August 12, 2007[Premiere]      
           
 
July/Aug/Sept 2007
if only I screening in
« Quelques femmes vues par Raymond Depardon, Chrystel Egal, Donigan Cumming »
l'auditorium Bernard-Pierre Wolff
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
à partir de 16 heures
21 juillet, 5 août, 8 & 29 septembre 2007
     
 

May 2007

Unique annotated copy of The Stage at Christie’s Rare Photobooks auction, May 31  in
the King Street sale-room, London, U.K.

   
   

Cycle « La lettre à l’écran » à la Cinémathèque québécoise
Petit Jésus screens in the program Alchimie du réel
May 30, 2007

     
   

Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Triptyque
[Séquence]
132, rue Racine Est, Chicoutimi, Québec
25 mai à 5 aout, 2007

     
 
April 2007
4e Festival du cinéma de Brive
Rencontres du moyen métrage, Brive, France
Erratic Angel screens in the program « Photographes en mouvement »
April 11 - 16, 2007
     
 
March 2007
Lecture: Created Communities/Fault Lines
Art Gallery of Alberta
2 Sir Winston Churchill Square, Edmonton, Alberta
Thursday, 8 March, 7 pm, 2007
     
 
       
 
February 2007
Donigan Cumming: La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar
Related reviews - Feb. 2007 (french.pdf)


Photos Nouvelles

 


Artpress

    Film Studies Association of Canada 9th Annual Graduate Colloquium
Limits of the Documentary in Canada
Scott Birdwise, Carleton University, “Of Exhaustion and Failure – Bare Life and the
Gesture in Donigan Cumming’s My Dinner with Weegee
Session 6: 11.45 – 1.15, February 18, 2007
   
           
 
January 2007
Release of Giclée print edition of key images from Pretty Ribbons. 2007
Prints Order
DC prints
   
 

Fountain screens at the 20th Stuttgarter Filmwinter 1, Stuttgart, Germany
January 18 - 21, 2007

 
    Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: Episodic
Ace Art Inc.
290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Opening 12 January; artist’s talk 13 January, 2:30 pm
until March 3, 2007
   
cbc review
cbc-review
 
   
 
 
November  2006
Shelter screened in the program Six of One, Half-Dozen of the Other: Images from Canada at Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York, U.S.A., November 18, 2006, 8PM, 2006  
 
 
       
 
Cut the Parrot and Une prière pour Nettie will be presented in the exposition, Acquérir pour grandir at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from November 16, 2006
to April 15, 2007
     
 
       
 
Locke’s Way screened in Against Autobiography, a curated screening and discussion with Steve Reinke, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 13-15, 2006      
 
       
 
Docu-Duster screened in the program Video Burnout at Mix the 19th New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Old Art and Technology Center, New York, New York, U.S.A., November 10, 8PM, 2006    
 
   
 
 
Solo Exhibition
Donigan Cumming: La somme, le sommeil, le cauchemar
Exposition présentée au Centre culturel canadien,
dans le cadre du Mois de la Photo Paris 2006
5 rue de Constantine, 75007 Paris - Du 10 nov. 2006 au 3 fev. 2007
Vernissage le jeudi 9 novembre 2006 , 2006
 
 
 
 
22 October 2006
 
Petit Jésus screened on Mange ta ville, ARTV Montréal - 20 hrs. , 2006
 
 
 
 
 
September 2006
 
The Stage is included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, eds.,
The Photobook: A History, Volume II
(Phaidon, 2006)
 
 
 
 
 
27 July 2006
 
Fountain is screened at Scanners:
The 2006 New York Video Festival, in The Mind/Body Program,
July 27th at 6:00 PM , 2006
 
 
 
 
 
 
14 July 2006
Mike Hoolboom, Interview with Donigan Cumming (20 pages), 2006
 
 
 
 
 
27 June 2006
 
Turtle: an anarchic salon by Michael H Shamberg, Chelsea space,
June 27 - August 5, 2006, London, UK , 2006
 
 
 
 
 
May 2006
 
Kathleen Woodward
"Performing Age, Performing Gender"
National Women's Studies Association Journal
Vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring) - pp.162-189 , 2006
 
 
 
 
May 2006
 
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, U.S.A.
Honorable Mention
Fountain - dir. Donigan Cumming, 2006