Debora Alanna

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 ...

A continuous, life long learner, Debora Alanna currently conducts research in VR, 3d printing within the context of the poetics of sculpture at Concordia University.

EDUCATION

1983 – Ontario College of Art - AOCA – 4 yr program (Associate of Ontario College of Art) – Toronto ON.
 Graduate: Experimental Arts.
1996 – ECCAD – Vancouver, BC (part-time) – Sound Design. Professional Practices for Designers & Artists.
1972 -74
 UBC – Vancouver BC – English, Film.
 Banff School of Fine Arts – Banff AB (summer) - Painting, music composition, music for film.
 Vancouver School of Art – Vancouver BC (part-time) - Drawing, painting, metal sculpture.

TRAINING
2010 – Royal Roads University, Collwood BC – Continuing Studies: Certificate. Communication, business writing, leadership, supervisory skills, team building, conflict resolution.
2007– NextEngine/Rapidworks – 12 hrs of on-line tutorials; 3D scanning.
1998 – BCIT (British Columbia Institute of Technology) - 4 Workshops on Multimedia.
1997 – UBC – Continuing Studies – Introduction to Multimedia Workshop.

SOLO Exhibitions

2017– New Spring – works on paper. Edinborgarhusid Isafjodur Iceland. Curator: Elisabet Gunnarsdottir.
2014 –Ozymandias – Ministry of Casual Living Satellite Gallery – Sculpture installation, improve piano. Curator: Aubrey Burke.
2013 – Hybrid (Lava & Light) – Populus Tremula, Akureyri, Iceland – Sculpture, Installation, painting & video. Curator: Kristján Pétur Sigurðsson.
2012 – Everything Else is Winter – Xchanges Gallery, Victoria BC – Paintings, drawings.
2011 – Outside In – Ministry of Casual Living, Victoria BC– Sculpture Installation. Curator: Aubrey Burke.
Hanging out the Laundry – Balcony Gallery, Victoria BC– Sculpture installation. Curator: Christine Clark.
2010 – Revisioning, Auricle – Edmonton AB – Polychrome sculpture – outdoor in–situ installations. Commission.
2008 – Congregation – The State Museum of Art of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan (named for A. Kasteev) – Sculpture Installation. Curator: Yuliya Sorokina. Co–sponsored by the Canadian Embassy.
2007 – Coda – Galerie Aquai Siam Ben 11, Vallauris, France – Sculpture. Curator: Dale Dorosh.
Ebb and Flow – Spiazzi Cultural Association, Venice, Italy – Sculpture. Curator: Gaetano di Gregorio.
Catharsis – Adonis,...