Uprooted / between rocks and a hard place Drawing

Debora Alanna is a Canadian artist with 30+ years of international exhibitions /residency experience. A graduate of Ontario College of Art, her practice has been primarily mixed and intermedia sculpture installations encompassing poetic sensibilities. Challenging material use, she held solo exhibitions in Vancouver’s parallel galleries through 80s, with a solo show, "Light as Material" at the Burnaby Art Gallery in ‘91. Former board member for the Centre for Image and Sound from‘92-‘95, initiated its Art and Industry program, co-creator / adjudicator of the initial grant to fund collaboration between artists and technologists, she was invited to participate in the first digital art exhibition in Vancouver – "Digital Investigations: Differential Space" at the Simon Fraser University Teck Gallery in ‘96. Funded by the Canadian High Commission, she lectured on art and technology through India in the late ‘90s. She was one of the first artists to be invited to explore technology in the UBC Magic Lab. An exhibition in Venice at the Associazione Spiazzi, "Ebb and Flow", simultaneously with the Kazakhstan Venice Biennale contingent brought an invitation to be artist in residence at the A. Kasteev Museum in Almaty, Kazakhstan – the first Canadian to exhibit in their National Gallery in 2008 - "Congregation". Her base in Victoria BC from 2010-2016 enabled multiple solo and group exhibitions and ongoing intermedia collaborations until relocating to Montreal in 2016. Her multimedia and intermedia work has been shown in multiple locations in Canada, Italy, France, India, Spain and Iceland. Her video produced at the Can Serrat residency Spain was projected on Stonehenge. Collaborative work includes intermedia poetry performances at the Eldheimar Volcano Museum, Vestmannaeyjar Iceland, Mengi in Reykjavik and Isafjodur’s Edinborg Cultural Center, developed with the Ny Vor / New Spring team in the Arts Iceland residency and Studio 303 in Montreal, 2016-2017. A portion of "Craig’s Stroke", a sound collaboration with Lance Austin Olsen and John Luna has been published by Elsewhere recordings in New Jersey, January 2019. She is included in the recent Infrequency Editions April 2019 release, “Look at the Mouth that is Looking at You”.